Saturday evening’s game between the Michigan Wolverines and the Washington Huskies was supposed to have a different tone to it. As a team that has seen the promised land of the College Football Playoff, the Huskies were supposed to be a statement game on the Wolverines’ schedule. One that the program could point to at the end of the season as a season-defining victory. A game that could propel momentum in Ann Arbor and help make a push into a brutal Big Ten slate.
Instead, the life of this game has been sucked out of it.