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Albom: Michigan football officially back, and so is rivalry with MSU

EAST LANSING – There was craziness at the end (again) on a routine play in the final seconds (again) with the ball going the wrong way (again) and the crowd in disbelief (again). Only this time it wasn’t a muffed punt that turned a winner into a loser; it was a two-point conversion try that was fumbled by Michigan State, picked up by Jabrill Peppers, Michigan’s resident Superman, and returned 87 yards for … well, what was it for? Half the crowd didn’t know. Two points? Six points? All they knew was that as Peppers raced down the field, he kept getting faster, and the gap between him and the nearest Spartan grew larger, and as he broke the plane of the end zone by leaning into an imaginary tape, Peppers was The Present and the Spartans and their dominance were The Past.