Lots of rumors about the Sparty locker room being divided. Upperclassmen vs. the younger guys.
4 out of the 5 losses have been by multiple scores, 3 of those at home! MSU struggled with Furman. Think about that.
There is nothing pointing to the idea that MSU can rally the troops this week.
It's going to be a blood bath.
There's a percentage of our fans who are either too young to know or too forgetful to remember what it is like to have a dominant University of Michigan football team. For those of us who saw a good portion of 2006, 1997, 1988, 1985, 1980, much of the 70s, we know that we have this year a once-per-decade team that is capable of destroying most of their opponents and beating all of them.
MSU on the other hand is saddled by the loss of too many players developed in a system football program, the lack of "next up" players for key positions, and a coaching staff that is beginning to look a bit over their heads when it comes to tactics and strategy.
Every advantage goes to UM in this game, perhaps aside from FGs, and we should be very confident in our ability to handle and soundly defeat MSU. To dither and doubt is failing to see what is plainly before you, this is a great team, with outstanding coaches, who are on a mission to dispense with a hated foe. I expect UM to play a 1997 UM vs PSU type of game, 60 minutes of carpet bombing a rival that has talked and forgotten far too much for their own good. We have business to take care of on Saturday, I believe this team and their coaches intend to see it through with devastating results for Sparty.
I don't have any psychological angst about beating MSU, they've had better teams and coaches for most of the 2008-2014 years. We now have that advantage, I'm confident our victory will be decisive and unambiguous. For those that are wringing their hands, welcome to a new epoch of UM football, you're playing Hoke and Rodriguez reels in your heads. Erase them, those men and their teams are history.
