"This game can't linger," Franklin said.

Franklin is channeling himself. Last season he lost to Michigan and then something similar because they were getting ready to go to "The Big House" to play Ohio State. He was still thinking of Michigan. Ohio State plays in the Horseshoe, Michigan plays in the Big House. He can't let this one linger as he goes back to the Big Bath House at Lasch next week to play Minnesota, getting a rare respite from his usual back-to-back gantlet of Michigan and OSU.