Purdue Links: Preview, The Podcast, FFFF Offense (chart), FFFF Defense (chart). If you're in or around Ann Arbor, the Game Watch party's at Venue. Something's been missing from Michigan gamedays since the free programs ceased being economically viable: scientific gameday predictions that are not at all preordained by the strictures of a column in which one writer takes a positive tack and the other a negative one… something like Punt-Counterpunt. PUNT By Bryan MacKenzie@Bry Mac This day felt like it might never actually come. No, I don’t mean a Big Ten Championship Game appearance. Michigan did that last year. Nor do I mean a College Football Playoff bid. Michigan did THAT last year as well. Nothing that happened this year is particularly novel… which is the point. For the first time since the late Cooper Era at the end of the last century it is plausible, if not outright true, that Michigan has truly surpassed Ohio State as a program. Which means it is the firs