ROSE BOWL REPORT

As much as this has been a Rose Bowl trip for Price, it’s also a recruiting trip. Forty-four players on the Cougar roster are from California.

“I’ve made home visits the last three nights,” Price said after Tuesday’s practice. “I’m not saying there’s not a lot of recruits in Colfax or Pullman . . . “

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Michigan has not won a national title since the 1948 season, but its 755 victories are more than any other Division I program. Also, with their 11-0 record this season, the Wolverines passed Notre Dame to become first in all-time winning percentage at .753.

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It may be time to update Michigan’s fight song, which goes “Hail! to the victors valiant. Hail! to the conqu’ring heroes. Hail! Hail! to Michigan, the champions of the West.”

The West?

When the words were first sung in 1899, Michigan was still considered a western university.