Despite sharing a state and being separated by approximately 130 miles, the football programs at Michigan and Central Michigan don’t share much of a history with one another.

The Wolverines and Chippewas’ Week 3 game on Saturday, Sept. 13 will be just the fifth football matchup between the schools since 1931, and the first since 2013. The series hasn’t been particularly compelling, either, with Michigan winning each of the previous four matchups by at least 24 points.

Over the past 23 months, though, the two programs have been connected by one of the biggest and undeniably strangest stories in modern college football history.

The saga surrounding a recently completed NCAA investigation into Michigan’s sign-stealing and illicit advanced scouting took one of its more unexpected tu

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