ANN ARBOR -- The talk outside of Schembechler Hall last week centered around one thing and one thing only.
Public perception had rendered Michigan's offense a bunch of hype. All the improvement, changes and additions had been for naught after a season-opening loss to Notre Dame.
Don Brown's defense, most assumed, would figure itself out. The offense was just a bad sequel.
The Wolverines did their best to kill that narrative Saturday with a 49-3 rout of Western Michigan at Michigan Stadium, a game in which they totaled 451 yards of offense and ran away with early on.