AP Top 25 Takeaways: USC and Michigan play instant Big Ten classic, realizing dream of realignment
The 11th-ranked Trojans and 18th-ranked Wolverines played a regular-season game for the first time in 66 years and it was an instant Big Ten classic. With no functional passing game, Michigan mashed and dashed to a 27-24 come-from-behind victory at the Big House against its new conference rival from the West Coast.