Bob Wojnowski, Angelique S. Chengelis and Matt Charboneau preview the Michigan vs. Wisconsin and Michigan State vs. Penn State games. The Detroit News
Michigan desperately, achingly, wants to be back. Back from where? Hard to tell. Back to what? Yet to be determined.
But this is it, right? It’s real this time, r-r-right?
Fans’ trepidation is understandable. The Wolverines have been “back” an estimated 39 times since 1997, and yet in that 21-year stretch, they’ve finished with fewer than three losses precisely three times. Now comes the latest gauntlet, recently downgraded to a gaunt gauntlet, but a critical stretch nevertheless.