Michigan’s season sours, the Lions eye a Carolina shootout, and the Red Wings open next

It is Wednesday, it is hump day, so let's talk about what our football teams need to do this weekend to get over the hump

I'm Dustin Fiocca with Detroit Sports Nation, coming to you with your daily rundown on this Wednesday

And how about we start off talking about some football, college football in particular

because my level of care with our college teams at this point is at an all-time low

MSU, they've got Wisconsin. Michigan, they've got Minnesota. Whoop-a-dee-doo. Could not care less. We'll start off with Sparty. We didn't really have expectations for MSU this year. Let's go out there and look competent, give some teams a challenge. They didn't look good against Nebraska. Maybe they'll look good against Wisconsin. Don't care if they do. Don't care if they don't

Michigan, I'm kind of to the same tune right now. They better not have struggles against Minnesota, but who cares if they do at this point because

they squandered a golden opportunity. Michigan set up early in this season for a ride to success

They steal a game against Western. They steal a game against Oklahoma

And here you are. You are a team that is currently undefeated early in the season

Ohio State has a loss. Oregon has a loss. You're set up for success in the Big Ten

And after stealing a couple of games, you get one stolen right back

Iowa steals the win from you in a game you should have won. And it's only your fault because they stole it too

It's only you to blame because you made the announcement. You said hey Iowa I got my wallet here with thousands of dollars I going to leave it unattended You better not take it Well guess what Iowa did just that

They took it. And I'm not blaming the defense. I'm not going to come here and give the defense a hard time for giving up a last second touchdown

I'm going to blame everybody else. I'm going to blame Michigan's offense for not scoring in the red zone

I'm going to blame Michigan's offense for turning the ball over. I'm going to even blame the special teams unit, which has been pretty bad this season

they gave off a kickoff return for a touchdown. That's the reason Michigan lost, because of

unforced errors that Michigan implemented on themselves. It was not the defense. That was

Michigan's game to lose. They did exactly that. So when you had Ohio State and Oregon with losses

on the season, those don't really mean a darn anymore because your loss is a conference loss

You're now behind the eighth ball when you don't have the talent on offense to overcome those odds

So my Michigan hope, my Michigan excitement, it's already pretty much dwindled for this season

It was ugly against Western, but they got a little bit of faith restored in me with Oklahoma

The way they blew that game against Iowa, though, I'm done with this team

You want to get me to buy back in? You got to go out there. You got to beat an Oregon

You got to beat an Ohio State. You got to beat a Big Ten team that's actually good

Because now you're behind the eight ball, and I really don't care about this program until they prove me otherwise

Do want to talk about some NFL now, though. Let's go to the Lions. You've got another primetime game, this one against the Panthers, Sunday night football

And in NFL it a little bit different than college NFL you don need style points College you do I mean I no athlete but if I playing a third grader in a game of pickup basketball

I better win convincingly. That's how college games are when Michigan's playing a team like UTEP

But in the NFL, you have high caliber players on all ends of the spectrum

Good teams, bad teams, doesn't matter. If you make it to that level of play, you got talent

So I don't need to see a stylish win out of the Lions. Would it be good to finally see them get another blowout win

Of course. Carolina, though, that's not the team you're probably going to do it at

You had a blowout, or not a blowout, a shootout, rather, against the Bills

Almost a blowout. You had a shootout against the Saints late in the second half

You had a shootout against the Jets. And the Carolina offense, guys, it's pretty good

They had a really good entertaining game against Cleveland, of all teams, on Sunday this past weekend

I'm not sure many of you watched it, but they had a really good surge in the second half to really come back and almost take that win

Meanwhile, they dominated and put up 30-plus against Atlanta. They put up 30-plus against the Bears, and I think the Bears actually might have a really good defense

So expect another shootout. Expect the Panthers to come out firing and put up a lot of points

It seems like anybody can put up points on our depleted secondary, but you've got to match them on your offense

Our offense is good enough to hang in there with them. I think the Lions get the win, but if you're looking for style points

if you're looking for a blowout win, Sunday night football, probably not the game we're going to see the Lions get it

For me, I just want to see Detroit win this football game, improve to 3 on the season Now I want to kind of fire rapid one more kind of segment here at you on this daily rundown And it not really a whole lot that has to do with our Detroit teams

It's actually a lot to do with other teams throughout the world of sports right now

because a lot's going in right now into this time of the year. Unfortunately, our Detroit team's not joining into the prey

You got the Major League Baseball playoffs taking place yesterday and on to today as well

The wild card rounds of exciting games. We got to see some high scoring games too

The Braves coming back to win it in the bottom of the eighth with a three-run bomb

You saw the White Sox completely dominate. The Astros. And other dominating games, too

Yankees over the Sox. Padres over the Cubs. Fun little Major League Baseball wildcard round

Wish the Tigers were in on it. Also, WNBA, if you follow that, that playoff season is in the mix as well

Minnesota, the first one seed to lose to an eighth seed. Minnesota Lynx losing 2-0 in that series to the New York Liberty

That was fun to watch last night. And finally, start of the hockey season was yesterday

Some very exciting games. Panthers and Hurricanes in one of the most exciting 0-0 games you'll see

That game going to overtime. And another overtime game, the Canucks in Edmonton

What an overtime thriller there. 6-5. Canucks blow a 3-goal lead, but they still come back to win it in OT

Red Wings with their starts of the season on Friday. I'll be at that home opener

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Always like to remind you to do that. And once more, guys, I'm Dustin Fiocco

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