Michigan Game Preview

SuperBigFan69 said:
I get it but players are just like us.

They look ahead, they loaf in practice, they fake being sick to sit out a little bit and so on.

And the coaches are the same way.

I remember being on a staff and one of the coaches was talking about going to the lake or boating, something like that. It was a Wednesday or Thursday and we played a good team that Friday but a super crappy team the next Friday.

Our head coach goes "Perfect timing, right after this game head out to the lake with your family and have fun, we don't need to d!(k around with film and all that stuff for Crappy High coming up"

And sure enough, we won like 70-7 vs Crappy High
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Yeah, some meaningless high school program is exactly like a multimillion dollar D1 college blue blood with an elite head coach.

Same, same.
 
Cornfed said:
This is arguably (we'll see) the toughest game on our schedule until penn st. How cool would it be to come into happy valley undefeated? Sorry, caught me daydreaming again. I know every Big10 game will be a challenge but please oh please let this be the season that nebraska football is...nebraska football again.
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I think USC is better. Michigan is good, but I see 8 or 9 wins from them. USC I believe is a playoff contender.
 
I believe there is a lot of pressure on Rhule and Nebraska to win this game. Nebraska is not going to get a better opportunity to beat the Maize and Blue. UM has a very young QB, line isn't up to usual Michigan standards, a home game, HC suspended. This is a big chance on a national stage to show the program has turned a corner by beating a big money blue blood that recruits better historically. Plus it would quiet some of the talk about Rhule's record against ranked opponents assuming UM gets by CMU.
 
Toe said:
Who's starting the look-alike thread? This is Biff Poggi:

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We're doomed.
 
BigRedBuster said:
My thoughts are, Cincinnati and, to a lessor extent, Akron played with their safeties deep trying to prevent the big pass plays. I'm guessing Michigan will not think they need to do that. So, their safeties will be closer to the line to help in the run game. That should leave them playing more man coverage. Sooooo......this will be the game where we find out really how good our WRs are. Can they make michigan pay for that decision? If so, then our run game should get better as the game goes on as Michigan adjusts to stop our WRs. That should also open up some options for the TEs.
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Frankly, I think you've got it bass-ackwards. Cincinnati had zero respect for our ground game, and rightly so - we only managed a pathetic 3.1ypc despite them sitting in 3-high all night. So why on earth would Michigan think they need to worry about it?
 
Toe said:
Frankly, I think you've got it bass-ackwards. Cincinnati had zero respect for our ground game, and rightly so - we only managed a pathetic 3.1ypc despite them sitting in 3-high all night. So why on earth would Michigan think they need to worry about it?
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Because that's not going to be our season stat by the time we play them.
 
Toe said:
You... think Michigan cares what our ypc against Akron and Houston Christian looks like? 🤨

I doubt they even bother to watch most of the footage from those games.
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I don't think they are going to care much about success rates of whatever we ran in any of the first 3 games. They are going to believe they can play their normal defense against us and win. And....I haven't watched much Michigan Football, but I'm guessing that's not sitting back with 2-3 deep safeties all game.
 
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