Jordan Kovacs just couldn’t admit it.
Did Kovacs, the Michigan safety and co-captain, and his teammates openly root for Michigan State last week when the Spartans played Nebraska?
Michigan would have benefited from an MSU victory in terms of reaching the Big Ten title game.
Kovacs began to answer in a monotone voice as though he was reading from a prepared script and then started to laugh.
Sure the Wolverines were keeping an eye on the scoreboard.
“In all honesty, obviously it’s tough to block that out,” Kovacs said this week. “But if we want to be the team we want to be, we need to care of our own business. We need to take it one by one and it starts (Saturday) with Northwestern. Whether we’re listening or not (to scores), it doesn’t matter.
“We put ourselves in that situation, so to deal with it, I think we’ve got to take care of what we need to control.”
Michigan has three regular-season games remaining and needs to win out and hope that Nebraska stumbles along the way. If the two teams are tied at the end of the season, Nebraska would get the Big Ten championship game berth because the Cornhuskers beat Michigan, 23-9.
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