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WHAT Michigan vs Nebraska
WHERE Memorial Stadium Lincoln, NE
WHEN 7:30 Eastern
THE LINE Michigan -3
TELEVISION ABC (McDonough/Blackledge)
TICKETS exist
WEATHER
cloudy, 80(!) dropping to mid 60s ~0% chance of rain ~10 mph wind
Overview Everyone left Nebraska for dead when they opened the season (a week early!) with one of those nationally televised, season-is-starting, you'll-eat-any-ol-slop, piggy-piggy-wants-some-football games against Illinois and managed to lose it. Illinois then went out and lost to UTSA the next week. Fun! But Nebraska seems kind of decent anyway. They stuck within a touchdown of Oklahoma. Yes, it should be noted that holding Oklahoma to 23 points looks impressive on paper but was largely a function of a very short, eight-possession game in which the final two possessions were about Oklahoma killing the clock instead of trying to score. But also teams that can execute a time-killing underdog strategy like that are necessarily decent. And then they dominated Michigan State, outgaining them nearly two-to-one, before losing on an all-time special teams pratfall. The pratfalls seem baked into the Scott Frost experience at this point, but this is not a team that Michigan should expect to blow out of the water. They're dangerous, especially on Scott Frost Day. [Hit THE JUMP for Everything's good until the special teams coach ruins everything]