Michigan starting quarterback Brandon Peters is currently in concussion protocol following a hit that he received Saturday at Wisconsin. Meeting with the media for his weekly Monday press conference, Wolverines head coach Jim Harbaugh revealed the news, which puts Peters’ availability for Saturday’s game against Ohio State up in the air.
Ohio State head coach Urban Meyer met with the media on Monday to look back briefly at Saturday’s win over Illinois, but mostly to look forward to Saturday’s battle in Ann Arbor against the Michigan Wolverines. Here are the highlights.
Let’s just get this out of the way, there is nothing that can be learned from a game against this Illinois team one week before the Buckeyes play Michigan. But since we kind of always have to learn something after a game, we will soldier on because that’s just what we do. So what did we learn from Ohio State’s 52-14 win over Illinois?
Ohio State has opened up as 13-point favorites for next Saturday’s game at Michigan. 5Dimes.com installed the Buckeyes at that number, which then quickly jumped to -13.5 for the Buckeyes. Ohio State was a 5-point favorite in last year’s double-overtime classic between the No. 2 Buckeyes and No. 3 Wolverines.
♪ It’s the most won-der-ful time of the year ♪ … Michigan Week. To even type it conjures up memories, legacies, failures, and successes. Moments upon moments. Stories become legends, legends become shrines. There is nothing like it. Even your acid reflux has acid reflux. Thanks to Michigan’s loss to Wisconsin and Ohio State’s win…
ESPN’s Darren Rovell tweeted out a full look at the alternate uniforms Ohio State will wear when they play Michigan on November 25. It is essentially the road version of the alternate uniforms they wore against Penn State.
Michigan (7-2, 4-2) hosted Minnesota (4-5, 1-5) this past Saturday night and left the Gophers’ greasy, grimy guts strewn all over the Michigan Stadium field. The Wolverines walked away with a dominating 33-10 win to keep their Big Ten title hopes alive. Any time Michigan faces a team that cannot throw the ball, the ending is never in doubt.
Not to put too much pressure on redshirt freshman quarterback Brandon Peters, but he may have just salvaged 2017 for the Wolverines and saved Michigan’s 2018 season entirely. Due to a largely ineffective performance by starter John O’Korn in the first half, Peters entered Saturday’s game against Rutgers with 7:01 remaining in the…
