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Michigan vs. Michigan State football rivalry won't bite

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Back in 1986, Jamie Morris was on the ground, at the bottom of the pile, as Michigan played against Michigan State.

“Playing against Michigan State is an all-out fight,” said Morris, the Michigan running back from 1984-87.

Morris saw a foot, so he tried to bite it.

Only one problem.

It was his own ankle.

“I bit my damn self,” Morris said, earlier this week. “Yes, I did.”

If nothing else, that sums up the Michigan-Michigan State football rivalry.

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The intensity. The attitude. And the ankle-biting ferocity.