WATCH: Michigan vs. MSU postgame reactions – Wolverines show fight in rivalrly win
ANN ARBOR – The Michigan Wolverines moved to 5-3 (3-2 in Big Ten play) on the season with a much-needed 24-17 victory over the visiting Michigan State Spartans on Saturday night.
It is the first three-game win streak in the series since the program won six in a row from 2002-07, and the first time a first-year coach, in this case Sherrone Moore, has beaten the Spartans since Bennie Oosterbaan in 1948.
Michigan’s season had been teetering coming off a pair of road losses to Washington and Illinois, but the team fought through it and played a game without any turnovers or penalties to keep the Paul Bunyan Trophy in Ann Arbor and send the Spartans home hanging their heads.
TheWolverine.com’s Anthony Broome and former Michigan defensive lineman Ryan Van Bergen discuss the 24-17 win over Michigan State, including offensive and defensive takeaways, game balls, your questions and more.
“I was optimistic,” Van Bergen said to start the program. “But the way that we performed to this point in the season, I thought there was a chance that Michigan State could bully us. And I was kind of concerned about that. And first series, two series, first quarter didn’t go our way. But after that, I feel like you saw this team show some fight and show some spunk show some no quit.
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“And that’s something I’ve been worried about with the trajectory that this team has been on is it’d be easy to fold up shop. It’s easy to get individual, especially in today’s landscape with how college football is structured. And you saw the guys in the winged helmets playing their balls off to win a game.
“And to me, there’s a ton of stuff that you’d like to see that we do better clean up and have go differently. But at the end of the day, the win is the biggest thing. And I’m proud of these guys for going and getting that.”
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