Statement game.
It has a nice ring to it.
But statement games don’t mean jack if you lose one or two other games on your schedule.
“Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.”
u2015 The Count of Monte Cristo
The good news for the Michigan Wolverines is they’ve been shattered on the rocks this season, they’ve experienced a storm, and they’ve marched right through it.