Dave Brandon pitched Ohio State and Michigan not playing every year. Really

Andrew Weber-USA TODAY SportsJohn U Bacon's deep autopsy of the Dave Brandon era at Michigan is over. Here's what we learned.

When I tweeted that I was excited to get my advance copy of John U Bacon's newest book, "Endzone, the rise, fall and return of Michigan football", the response I got from Ohio State fans was, predictably, less than positive.

"Return of Michigan football? Seems awfully premature to write a book about that before the play a single game this season. Typical Michigan hubris," was a pretty common theme in my mentions and elsewhere on social media, and if I'm being honest, when I first heard about the book, I might have thought something a little similar.

But this book is not…