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MB, while I agree with your data side of it, if you were a Michigan fan that went through a VERY LONG period of losing to the rival and never finishing the job in games that were competitive(which many weren't), the Edwards 75 yarder would have been more meaningful to you. Yes, the odds to win might have shown in the 90's, but that run... was the moment, Michigan faithful that had been through a long stretch, that they were able to feel the "this is happening!" moment.

I get your perspective, but when you're a team that goes through a period of not shutting the door, it makes plays like that even more powerful when the game is technically not over. Stats say one thing.. living through Tressel and Urban told me that game wasn't over and that TD was big. 

Wow it took 4 pages for this to become a Michigan-Ohio State thread.  Y'all are slipping.

well in fairness it wasn't that til our resident Michigan obsessed Ohio State fan showed up and dropped us a 492 page dissertation on how someone who rips off 50-60+ yard runs in nearly every big game (top 10/CCG/playoff) that he plays in isn't that good.

reminds me a lot of the people who used to say that about Barry Sanders. "Well if you take away 40 yard run in this game or his 60 yard run in this one, or his 80 yard run in this one, he didn't really do anything". Lol.

I hope you're right, but I just don't see a path to that.

I'm thinking 27-16, Texas. Michigan kicks a bunch of FG's but gets a lone TD from either D or ST's out-right scoring or setting up a short field, and it's close into the 4th QTR and then the Michigan D runs out of gas and Texas pulls away.

Im not sure Texas has a between the tackle running option, with their August injuries.  Granted, Im not sure Michigan does either, I think Michigan has the better secondary.  Ultimately, it comes down to me to the fact that Michigan hasnt lost a home game with fans in the stands since 2019.  And they havent lost at home to anyone other than OSU and MSU since Brady Hoke was coach

They need big game Donovan Edwards to show up.

He just might when Walter and Barry are done shaking his hand

Tough to feel confident in the Michigan offense, so the task for the the defense to keep them in the game. Probably going to depend on the secondary, which is a bit inexperienced outside of Will Johnson. Texas likes screens and RPO's and so you have to be pretty sound on the back end in tackling in space.

Jyaire Hill the CB opposite Will Johnson and Zeke Berry the nickel are a bit inexperienced, but both were highly recruited players who are excellent athletes who beat out older more experienced guys in camp for their starting spots. I'm very high on both of them, and both played very well vs Fresno State in their first starts. Whole new challenge and ball game however and a massive step up in talent/competition level with Texas coming to town.

Their safeties are all very experienced. Makari Paige is a senior multi-year starter at strong safety, and a pretty god damn good one. Quentin Johnson at free safety is a 6th year guy who played 350 snaps for them last year and another 300 the year before that. He's very experienced. The backups are Wesley Walker who is another 6th year guy who transferred from Tennessee where he was a starter and Jaden Mangham who is a true junior who transferred from Michigan State where he was a starter and probably the best defensive back on that entire defense.

Rod Moore getting hurt really sucks because he was probably the best free safety in the entire B1G and one of the top handful free safeties in the entire country and a sure-fire NFL draft pick. Poor kid was banged up much of last year and didn't start coming on until the end of the year, there was another level he could've taken his game up this year as a senior.

Do we have to include all the Fielding Yost players, from back before the Civil War?

I know people from Ohio are typically dumb inbred hicks, but the American civil war was fought in the 1860's.

Fielding Yost was the head coach at Michigan in the early 1900's and 1920's.

1860 comes before 1900.