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00:00And the reigning national champs in Michigan, just a 7-5 football team, but that 7th win,
00:07the most important, the upset for a 4th consecutive season over Ohio State, and a 9-3 Alabama
00:14team, Kev, that was on the doorstep of the college football playoff, will they use that
00:18as motivation to prove their worth here in the Reliant Quest Bowl against the Maize & Blue?
00:22Yeah, Kalen DeBoer has been untouchable when he has extra prep time during his career at
00:28both Washington and even here at Alabama.
00:32He had extra prep going into Georgia, and going into LSU, I think probably their two
00:36best performances of the season, and I imagine he is, it's a weird song to sing though, of
00:44you should be playing in the playoff, let's give it our best in a bowl game, because it's
00:50crushing to know that this team believes, whether you guys do or not, they believe they
00:56belonged in the playoff, many believe they belonged in the playoff, but instead they
01:01are playing in a bowl game.
01:04Again, I don't, that is an interesting tightrope there, motivation-wise, for Kalen DeBoer.
01:10And they're laying 12-and-a-half, it's not like they're laying 4 or 5, I mean this is
01:14a 12-and-a-half, that's a two-touchdown spread that you have to cover, you know, so even
01:19if they're up by 21, you could always potentially get backdoored.
01:24I lean to Michigan just because, again, the weeks of preparation, they're going to look
01:28to get Alabama into this ugly type of game, Alabama wants to push tempo, Jalen, if he
01:34does play, he's going to want to light it up, I understand DeBoer, but again, to your
01:39point, how could you back Alabama, knowing that they should have, or in their mind, should
01:44have been in the college football playoff, you have 3-4 weeks of preparation, you know,
01:50if this was week 12, I'd say yeah, you know, Alabama in a shootout, landslide, no shot,
01:56you know, Michigan wins, but it's a bowl game, I'll take the points just because I think
02:01they'll look to run it and get it into a fourth quarter game.
02:03I just want to say, and you can talk to it more, but to me, Michigan already won their
02:07Super Bowl.
02:08Sure.
02:09Like, this matters way, I think this matters even less to them than it does to Alabama.
02:13Listen, Michigan fell short of expectation, there is no doubt in the first year under
02:17Sharon Moore, but I would not consider this season a failure by any means for the Wolverines.
02:24You still beat Ohio State for a fourth consecutive season.
02:27You got your quarterback of the future in the number one prospect of the 2025 class
02:32in Bryce Underwood, you're good, and you won a national championship a season ago.
02:38I think it is much more of a proven spot for the Crimson Tide than that of the Mays and
02:44Blue.
02:4540 and a half is the total for this game.
02:47Yeah, Michigan and Ohio State played a very low scoring affair in the game, but against
02:52a lot of power conference foes, overs for the Wolverines this year.