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Newsstand: Michigan at Michigan State kickoff time revealed

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The Michigan Wolverines and Michigan State Spartans will play in primetime for the fourth straight season, it was announced Saturday night.

The Big Ten, exercising the 6-day window, elected not to set times for next weekend’s games when Week 9 games were scheduled to be announced on Monday. After pondering it, the annual battle for the Paul Bunyan Trophy will be a 7:30 p.m. ET kickoff on NBC from Spartan Stadium in East Lansing.

Michigan sits at 5-2 and 3-1 in Big Ten play, while Michigan State is 0-4 in conference and losers of four-straight games. A loss to the Wolverines on Saturday would be the fourth-straight in the series for MSU. U-M is coming off a 24-7 win over Washington, while the Spartans went to No. 3 Indiana and lost 38-13.

After Michigan’s win, head coach Sherrone Moore said he was already itching to watch the MSU film.

“We got a lot of football left to play,” Moore said in his postgame press conference. We know we got a big game next week that I’ve already got my mind on right now.

“I have to give myself 24 hours, gotta give ourselves 24 hours, but I find myself wanting to go to the building and go watch the film on them right now. … Just proud, proud of the team, proud of the players.”

No Vegas line is currently set for the in-state rivalry tilt.

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Michigan quote of the day

“What a win. It’s fun. That was a fun win, a fun win to be a part of. Our players, we talked in the locker room. We talked after the game at USC about just being all in and trusting each other, trusting the process. And we had some tough conversations throughout the week, offensively, defensively, of what we need to do and how we need to adjust and how we need to play better. And the response by our coaches, one, our offensive coordinator, our defensive coordinator, our offensive staff, defensive staff was outstanding. But more importantly, our players, our players played with their hair on fire, played with detail, played with great fundamentals. And I’m just really proud of our kids, man, really, really proud of our kids and how they played.”

– Michigan head coach Sherrone Moore on the win over Washington

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