Your Early Thoughts on Michigan vs. Nebraska?

I'd add "you'll think about Scott Frost's mom too and enjoy it even MORE" but that sounds pretty peculiar so maybe I'll just link to the salient article: https://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/why-we-don%27t-scott-frost%27s-mom

25 years later and I'm still annoyed by the Mizzou game in 97 - that BS endzone kick that should've been called off. 

Scotty doesn't know. 

Would've enjoyed this much more if Frost were still coach.  Not much point of having an interim coach if there's zero chance they're interested in hiring him.

With a high of 39 predicted for next Saturday and 10-20 MPH winds and a 3:30 stat, will the passing game be a bit iffy?  

Makes you appreciate having Corum and Edwards.

NE is so bad vs the run I think everything will be working on O. UM should dominate the trenches on both sides. Maybe they'll work on the pass, but it won't matter much. NE might make a few plays on O if Casey Thompson is back but even if he is, their mistakes will mount and the game will be well in hand in Q3.

... and in some way or somehow, Nebraska will poop the bed.

Yes. Going to be quadruple layering. I've got a 3X hockey jersey that works well for an outer layer. My wife is going to be miserable though.

NE's D may have difficulty making it slow and agonizing.

Courtesy of the Biff Poggi article today in The Athletic.  It would seem the Michigan coaching staff is actively trying to develop a team as you describe DB:

After Poggi’s St. Frances team went 2-0 against IMG, he told Harbaugh about something he felt had made a difference. “We do something called the ‘East Baltimore Drill’ every day,” Poggi said. In football terms, it was really “Inside Drill,” or Football 101, football in the trenches. Pads popping. No passes. Just a smash-mouth running game. No blitzing. No slanting.

“We do it every day because we know IMG isn’t doing it every day,” Poggi told him. “We know they’re running skelly and parading around their billion-dollar facility.”

When Poggi returned to Ann Arbor last year, he was delighted to learn that Michigan had created the “Beat Ohio Period.” They do it every Tuesday, and there is no more important practice period at Michigan.

“It’s the only time at practice we ever had music and the music amplified things,” Gattis said. “You know immediately when that whistle blew and the music started blaring, it was on. It was the most physical part of any practice that I’ve ever seen. It was, by far, the best thing we did.”

The toughness aspect is huge. For years, word in college football circles was that we could be pushed around, so it's great that we are clearly "playing with that edge", as others have said. It's important, especially against OSU.

Saw it early this morning in Ann Arbor, where it was pretty clear.  Beautiful.  

Is Nebraska really the Midwest though? I thought of it more as part of the Plains region.

I was there for that game as well. That's why I can't really hate Nebraska too much. The way they treat Michigan fans in Lincoln is such a stark contrast to how we're treated in pretty much every other B1G city, where anyone wearing maize and blue is likely to be hit with a beer can (at a minimum). Them Huskers is good folk.

I’m still wet from that ND game

Take solace, he’ll still be salty as hell for the rest of his life.