SUNDAY THOUGHTS: Several Michigan football thoughts heading down the stretch

Several Michigan football thoughts heading down the stretch … writing in the car on the way home from Happy Valley. Borton driving, a little bit of snow … Christmas music is on a few stations already— two years ago on the way home from a late November venue, I convinced him when the song ‘Silver and Gold’ came on that Burl Ives was still alive and the third oldest man alive, 114 years old.

You’d think after 24 years on the road he’d have me figured out by now …

But anyway … great win. We’ll have more in Monday’s film review about some of the detailed things we saw, but they were fortunate to get out of that first quarter only down 3-0. Franklin should have taken the points on the fake field goal. He was talking about it as though they’d have scored with a better pass to the kicker, but Dax Hill and a few others were closing on him. I don’t think he gets there.

It’s a game of four to six plays, as Franklin said, and you’ve got to pick your spots. If he kicks that and the wind doesn’t take the kicker’s other miss, we’re talking about a totally different game.

That wind caught the second one like it was a balloon in a hurricane. Crazy.

And that wind was something else. We asked Cade McNamara in the postgame about it, but he never makes excuses. That kid is a warrior. Folks can disparage him all they want, but he’s a winner. Michigan would be undefeated right now if he’d played the entire game against Michigan State like he did Saturday vs. PSU.

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