From the time he became Michigan’s starting quarterback, Wilton Speight kept his eyes on the same thing. New England Patriots star Tom Brady is the standard for quarterbacks across the country. And Speight got to meet him early this season, when Brady visited the Wolverines.
So it energized Speight when he heard Sunday that Michigan was Orange Bowl-bound, facing Florida State on Dec. 30.
“I saw the last Michigan team to go to the Orange Bowl was Tom Brady’s team that went to overtime with Alabama,” Speight said, referring to Brady’s 35-34 win in which he threw for 369 yards and four touchdowns.