OK, here’s where the Wolverines show whether they’re real, or not. They’ll be playing the number two team (sorry, no permalink, but it’s Notre Dame) in the nation next Saturday. They’re perennially overrated during past opening seasons, but in this one, so far, they haven’t been.

We’ll see if that motivates them. More importantly, we’ll see if it motivates Lloyd Carr, whose job may be in trouble in the same way that John Cooper‘s was…