Sunday afternoon’s bowl announcements severed the last flimsy thread of Michigan’s championship hopes in 2016. The obvious initial reaction was disappointment.
It didn’t take long, though, for the Wolverines to start hunting for motivation. The group message that includes many of the team’s upperclassmen and starters quickly determined that a meeting with Florida State in the Capital One Orange Bowl would be their chance to prove that they were still one of the country’s top teams despite losing two of their final three regular season games.