Michigan vs. Alabama in ReliaQuest Bowl Showdown & Best Bets

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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.