... hyperbole is fraught with exaggerated language, but Saturday's game certainly evoked the heights of tragedy and lows of despair, a somewhat cruel reminder that the season is still delicate and fragile.

Even during the worst of the Lloyd Carr years, failure merely portended a trip to the Alamo or Outback Bowl and maybe the possibility of some national embarrassment. In that context a 95 yard touchdown is something that can be endured. But for a fleeting moment as the ball settled into Kyle Rudolph's arms, all I could imagine were the worst case scenarios in which Rodriguez would be fired and Michigan sent back to the Dark Ages. It is hard to find anger in that moment; only disillusionment.

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