Michigan 59, Maryland 18: Dress rehearsal for the boogeyman

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There was no amount of big plays that was going to change what Michigan fans had just watched a few hours earlier. Take Michigan’s gaudy margin of victory and double it and it still wouldn’t have moved the line for The Game to less than a touchdown.

But for a game where Michigan just needed to survive and advance, it ended up doing much, much more than t…