If you go out to Espresso Royale, or walk down Main Street to Crazy Wisdom Tea Room, and you happen to stumble on some Michigan fans discussing football, you'll probably hear a lot of scenarios. In Columbus, and East Lansing, and yes, in Happy Valley, too, fans are doing the same. They're talking about who's going to win the Big Ten East, and how it can be done. And you can usually count on somebody in those conversations to throw in the briefest mention of beating Iowa and making the final four.
Meanwhile, this past weekend, if you happened to miss it, was 'Separation Saturday' - a day that ESPN expected would separate the contenders from the pretenders, with match-ups between Florida State and Clemson, LSU and Alabama, and TCU and Oklahoma State.