Less than nine months ago, Washington and Michigan met with a national championship on the line in a traditional matchup between the Pac-12 and Big Ten that evoked the history of those two conferences.

Seemingly everything is different from when Michigan claimed its first national title since 1997 with a 34-13 victory over the UW Huskies.

Game of the week No. 10 Michigan (4-1, 2-0) at Washington (3-2, 1-1), Saturday, 7:30 p.m. ET (NBC) It’s a rematch of last year’s national championship game that Michigan won 34-13, but a whole lot has changed in the nine months since.