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Bo Rejects Texa$ A&M | This Week In Michigan Football History (1977, 1981)

This week step back to 1977 on this day 45 years ago, as Bo Schembechler’s third-ranked Wolverines were set for an epic clash in Ann Arbor against fifth-ranked Texas A&M. The battle of top 5 teams was supposed to be one of the most dramatic match-ups of the entire college football season but Michigan did NOT cooperate. U-M crushed the Aggies, but the story didn’t end there. Four years later Bo received a Texas-sized offer to leave Ann Arbor. Here’s how it played out:

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