After scraping by Purdue and Northwestern, Michigan’s football team went to Maryland on Saturday and left with an emphatic 45-20 victory.

The 18 th -ranked Wolverines’ well-rounded performance comes just before their biggest game of the year. They enter this week’s showdown against No. 1 Ohio State riding a five-game win streak and must make it six for any chance at a College Football Playoff berth.

“It was a complete game,” MLive’s Aaron McMann said on the latest “Wolverine Confidential” podcast. “I think we’ve been talking about this for a few weeks now, whether Michigan could put it together for four quarters. And by and large, they did, really, on both sides of the ball. It was the type of performance you wanted to see going into Ohio State.”

Michigan’s offense totaled 443 yards a

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