When the Michigan Wolverines and Washington Huskies take the field Saturday for the second time this calendar year, it will be with considerably less fanfare then their first matchup.
In January, the Wolverines and Huskies squared off at NRG Stadium in Houston, Texas, to determine college football's national champion. This weekend, it will be a clash between one program looking to keep pace in the expanded college football playoff rate (Michigan, which saw its streak of 23 consecutive home victories snapped by Texas in Week 2) and another simply looking to find their footing (Washington, which has lost two of its past three outings).