Notes: 1. Paul replica.  Packing in case I have to give it back to @DaBangStick after the game 2. MiFi.  Just in case. 3. Vintage M logo mints.  Someone in the neighborhood handed these out.  Kids put them in my office. 4. M ring.  Don’t break it out too often. 5. MaraWatch.  Showing East Lansing a little something called style. 6. Meal Tickets.  Love it.  Two tickets, good for 1 hotdog OR brat upstairs.  Drinks are covered, media pays for everything else. 7. Binoculars.  As you can see on the credential, I’m on level 8. 8. HTTV H&H.  Hoops and Hockey edition in tow during the timeouts. 9. Credential and lanyard.   Got the ESPN lanyard when GameDay came a few years ago, good for road games. 10. Sugar Bowl tag.   Almost end of life, my Sugar Bowl bag tag on the backpack. Not shown:  Phone, keys, phone charger, laptop, game face.   Follow MVictors on Twitter

October 31 marks the 110th anniversary of the famed 6-6 tie that inspired your favorite trophy game.   Fifty years after that 1903 game apparently a gent named Osmond Culp challenged his pal Hoiman Young to a $5 wager on the 1953 edition of the Little Brown Jug game.  Culp took our beloved Wolverines…and lost….because the Gophers trounced Bennie Oosterbaan’s crew 22 to zip.   How do I know this? Thanks to this eBay auction, we know about this wager and more specifically, the creative route our man Os took to pay off his wager.   Love it!  (Call me crazy but it seems a little light of the $5, although the seller admits some of the coins have been replaced.)   The bidding on the Jug-inspired payoff starts at $45.00. Follow MVictors on Twitter there, get your Little Brown Jug Lore here.

Continuing an awesome bye week tradition, today WTKA 1050AM will air another game from the Bob Ufer radio archives, this time the 1979 battle against #16 ranked Michigan State played in East Lansing on October 6.   On this day in 1981 we lost the great Ufe. I thought it’d be cool opp to take a look at the 1979 home game program and naturally I chose the IU game.   The theme was heavily focused on celebrating the 100th year of Michigan football:               Wow Commemorative Mirror    Go Moe’s! The family truckster

Via media Relations: U-M Athletics Announces Additions to 2016-18 Football Schedules ANN ARBOR, Mich. – The University of Michigan Athletic Department announced Wednesday (Oct. 23) some additions and changes to the non-conference football schedules for the 2016 through 2018 seasons. The Wolverines have reached agreements with three institutions to play games at Michigan Stadium. Michigan will host Central Florida at the Big House on Sept. 10, 2016, in what will be the first meeting between the two institutions on the gridiron. The Ball State game, originally slated for Sept. 24, 2016, will be played at a future date yet to be determined. Michigan will play three straight home games to open the 2016 season, bookending the Hawaii (Sept. 3) and Colorado (Sept. 17) games around the match-up with Central Florida. The Wolverines will have an open date before starting the nine-game Big Ten Conference schedule. In 2017, the Air Force Academy will make its third trip to Ann Arbor for a Sept. 16 game. The Wolverines have won both previous match-ups against the Cadets at Michigan Stadium, including a 31-25 contest in 2012. Michigan previously announced a Sept. 9 contest with Cincinnati at the Big House, and has one open date left to fill during the 2017 season. The agreement with Air Force also includes a men’s basketball game between…

Steve “Dr. Sap” is back delivering the decals.  Ufer Award is mine this week: OFFENSIVE CHAMPION DEVIN GARDNER – In order to fully appreciate what Gardner did on Saturday, some perspective is needed. Jim Harbaugh was the first Michigan QB to throw for over 300 yards in one game. That happened against Wisconsin, in Madison, in 1986. Some big names have produced some big games and record-setting performances in Michigan Stadium. Guys like Roger Staubach, Bob Griese, Sandy Schwab and Donovan McNabb. Unfortunately, the common thread here is that all of these players were opposing QBs. Devin is my friend and I will love him and squeeze and hold him NEW 98 finally put on a show for the home crowd to see! Denard Robinson’s best two statistical games? At Notre Dame and at Indiana. Tom Brady? At Ohio State. John Navarre? At Iowa and at Minnesota. Heck, even OLD 98 had his best games at Cal and at Ohio!  Great to see Gardner make it happen through the air – especially when the opposing team was daring him to throw by putting 7 or 8 defenders in the box. Lesson learned from last week? I hope so. DEFENSIVE CHAMPION THOMAS GORDON – I was going to go with Blake Countess as I counted three Pass Break Ups in the…