What I'd like to see: Play the starters but don't put anything on tape and don't let Tettleton get hurt. That means a heavy dose of running backs instead of Tettleton pulling the ball down and diving head-first into linebackers. No trickery with Bates and Brazil. Save the razzle dazzle for Ford Field. If anyone is questionable --especially with leg injuries -- they shouldn't be playing. Strains don't tend to work out well in weather like last night's game.( I was sitting near the ONE heater Ohio had behind the bench and there was a gathering around it like a Depression-era soup kitchen line.)

Again, what I'd like to see.

You have to play it like a regular game. It's still our arch rival. We must win. Have to go 110 percent. No let downs. Must go into MAC Championship full force.

Brian beat me to it.

In 2006, we clinched the MAC East with one game to go and it was against Miami. The only person we held out of the game was our starter at quarterback, Austen Everson, because his knee wasn't 100%. Every one of our other star players (Kalvin, Muncy, Cohen, Mayle, etc.) played, and that was the first win in the streak we have against Miami.

I voted #3...leave no survivors.

I'd keep an eye on the guys who are banged up.  Tettleton did something to his throwing hand; Leftwich got dinged; and a few others, as I recall.  Although beating Fiami is a priority, you don't want to screw things up for Detroit.