Nebraska fans hope this really is the bottom

ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- The fans wedged into the top corner of Michigan Stadium Saturday afternoon, the ones who traveled double-digit hours to sit with their backs pressed against the Big House's outer wall at the end of the red-colored stripe that rimmed the southern side of the place, didn't react at all when the Wolverines' Donovan Peoples-Jones reached the end zone.

Not many of them flinched or winced even once while Peoples-Jones slipped, spun and flipped his way through their Cornhuskers for a 60-yard score that was really only surprising in that Michigan had creatively found yet another way to tie together the shoelaces of a haphazard Nebraska team. They had reached acceptance.

By then it…