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The Michigan Wolverines have owned Rutgers over the past five games but it took three overtimes to win again. As for the Lions, well, it was never close.

Michigan had to switch quarterbacks, go three overtimes and play roughly 4 1/2 hours to avoid the football program's worst start in 53 years. It was worth it.

The Big Ten game Saturday between Maryland and Michigan State has been canceled after a COVID-19 outbreak on the Terrapins resulted in a positive test for coach Michael Locksley.

The Michigan State Spartans' football game against the Maryland Terrapins has been canceled due to COVID-19.

This was a chance for the Wolverines to show the world in prime time that their two straight losses and 1-2 start were merely a fluke, and that the talent Jim Harbaugh so often preaches about is there and with better execution, with early success, they could right the ship. On Saturday night that vessel never had a chance to leave the harbor. Joe Milton threw two first-quarter interceptions, the first of which was a deflection and the second that hit Badgers linebacker Leo Chanel right in the numbers, and while the picks looked very different the result was very much the same as Wisconsin came away with a touchdown.   

This one had a big-game feel to it long before Michigan State and Indiana ever kicked off Saturday in East Lansing, but it had nothing to do with the Spartans.  In another twist of irony that has become the calling card of 2020, these days all eyes are on Tom Allen's 10th ranked Hoosiers, who have cracked the top ten for the first time in 55 years. As football fans around the great state of Michigan learned all too well last week, the hype surrounding Michael Penix Jr. (25-38, 320 yds. 2 TD, 2 Int) and his teammates is well deserved, and Mel Tucker's team wore the legitimacy of that as 7.5 point home dogs against a team they've won four in a row against.

Michigan State University's men's basketball coach Tom Izzo has tested positive for COVID-19, the university announced Monday. 

Inexperience is showing as the Wolverines fall to 1-2 after a 38-21 loss to the Hoosiers.

Playing upon a recent theme, this one was over long before all the votes were even counted.  All week long the Spartans talked about putting the win over Michigan in the rearview mirror and making sure to keep the focus forward heading into Iowa City. But from the Hawkeyes opening drive, it was obvious that this was not the same team that went into Michigan Stadium last weekend and physically dominated the Wolverines in the trenches on both sides of the ball. On Saturday, the defense looked more like wet cardboard as the Hawkeyes plowed over the Spartans with 405 yards of total offense including a methodical ground attack that generated 226 yards rushing.  Conversely, MSU failed to win the battles upfront as the offense sputtered with just 1.9 yards per rush and was forced to throw the ball after falling behind 35-0 at the half.   

ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Outside of Michigan State's football program, few expected the Spartans to beat No. 13 Michigan.

Wow, so I guess we should say job well done and job not so well done after this one.  I wanted to dive right into the roundtable but we will have to wait until tomorrow night.  Here's some of what we will be talking about.

Former Michigan Wolverine football players will be on a Zoom call with fans during the Michigan-Michigan State football game Saturday.

A California man will be sentenced Tuesday for threats he made against the Ohio State football team when the Buckeyes played the University of Michigan Wolverines in 2018.