Kirthmon F. Dozier Detroit Free Press
Chris Perry and the Wolverines retain high hopes for a bowl game despite two losses.
Michigan still alive
despite two losses
Even after the losses,
Michigan is confident it
will go to a BCS bowl game
By Michael Rosenberg
Knight Ridder Newspapers (KRT)
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — The Michi
gan Wolverines aren't at the top of the
Big Ten standings, but they are as high
as they need to be.
"We control our own destiny,"
Michigan comerback Jeremy LeSueur
said Monday. "Everything comes
through us."
Most of it comes through in the next
two weeks. Purdue and then Michigan
State, the only unbeaten teams in the
Big Ten, are next on Michigan's docket.
No. 10 Purdue plays Saturday at Ann
Arbor, and the Wolverines go to East
Lansing next week.
As LeSueur said, Michigan controls
its Big Ten championship hopes; if the
- Wolverines sweep their last four games,
they will get the conference's automatic
- Bowl Championship Series bid.
* Some Wolverines have acknowl
edged that a 10-2 record and a BCS
berth would be a success and 9-3 a dis
appointment. SIf the Wolverines win
their next two, they will be on top of
the conference with three weeks of
buildup before the season-ender
against Ohio State. If they lose either
one, they must deal with the bitter
disappointment of a season that be
gan with lots of promise.
So this is it Who are the Wolverines?
"You'll define them whether they're
ready to be defined or not," head
coach Lloyd Carr said. ""That's the
way it is. 1 tell our guys don't get excit
ed because you had a good game be
cause the deal is, you're marked.
You're judged every week.
"And that's fine. That's fair. But if
you want to be considered one of
those special teams ... you have to be
willing to do it day in, day out, week
after week."
This week, No. 13 Michigan faces
one of the Big Ten's stingiest defenses
Purdue allows only 14.4 points a
game. If the Wolverines are deter
mined to run the ball or die trying,
they likely will die trying. Purdue al
lows only 66 rushing yards a game,
third best in the country.
And if Michigan looks past Purdue
to Michigan State — which is hard to
imagine, given Purdue's stature —
then the Wolverines are in big trouble.
The Michigan-Michigan State hype
machine is already in gear, which is to
say that fans of each team have begun
trading insults over e-mail.
"You start thinking about other
things, you start to get yourself into
trouble," Carr said. "We're going to
have to play our best game of the year."
(c) 2003, Detroit Free Press. Distributed
by Knight Ridder/Tribune Information
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