LOL @ my predictor, thanks to Michigan absolutely destroying Indiana's defense, it thinks Ohio State will beat Indiana 82-13. And looking at the data, Michigan was just barely off their "best" defensive performance". Indiana got a 2.309 score against Akron (they give up 231% of what Akron normally gives up, adjusted for SoS), which is hilarious because I have never seen a number even close to that bad.

For you guys, it's predicting a 38-33 win.

As said earlier, missed the game because of travel overseas. Just caught the score, looks like IU Got Denarded. Weeeee. Go Blue

I'm pretty sure we'd all take it.


Not to get all Dennis Green but this team is who we thought they were. Improved on offense, flammable on defense. When you have only one (imo) physically dominant defensive player - Mike Martin (Mouton is close) - you'd better be experienced, technically sound, take good angles and tackle well. Michigan's defense is none of those things, although they are definitely improved over last year in technical terms (again this is imo). As frustrating as yesterday's game was for a lot of people, there weren't the massive busts there were a year ago. It was a well executed offensive scheme operating against physically deficient personnel playing conservatively.

Next week presents a totally different challenge. While Sparty could run the same offensive game plan - ball control passing - that Indiana did, they won't. They'll try and pound the ball and rely on Cousins to bail them out when necessary. He's an experienced, above average B10 QB. It will be interesting to see how the defense "holds up" against a traditional power running attack.

This team has run pretty good so far. Other than some stupid penalties and kicking game fail, things have been favorable. When your margin for error is small - when you're trading scores (or like Illinois under Lou Tepper when it was trading punts) - it doesn't take much to tip the game one way or another. I was definitely concerned when Denard fumbled at the 1 and it became a 14-14 game instead of a 21-7 game (remember Illinois last year anyone?). Fortunately Indiana's defense was every bit as terrible as advertised. Let us hope the run good continues.

Football season for the win.

gameday going to alabama

damn you both undefeated teams driving ticket prices up..

o well, gotta find a tailgate with some tv's

early forecast for saturday, 64 and sunny!

rofl @ going to USC/Bama over MSU/UM

well, espn has a big contract with one conference imo.

lol are you kidding me???? how can they go to ****ing alabama/SC? they were just at an alabama game this week and SC sucks...

and florida state vs miami? sweet...two 1 loss teams why not.

seems like there's a pretty strong southern bias.

and Bama/SC isn't even a "rivalry" game....what an absolute joke.

If we win this week gameday will probably choose next week between us and iowa and osu/wisconsin in camp randall.

wait,

the bama/usc game isn't even on the abc/espn family of networks, right?

They'll probably move the LSU/FL game to CBS primetime and put Bama/SC on ESPN... probably

sparty gonna sparty


but seriously, MSU goes 5-1 to start most years, then goes 2-4 vs. real big ten teams and finishes 7-5 a lot. Go look at 2000-2008. that was their recipe.


Sadly, I feel Michigan is going to have the same recipe this year.

Can RichRod and Bill Martin drive down to Ypsilanti during the offseason and offer Ron English 2x his current salary to come back to Michigan and be our D-Coordinator again?

wouldn't help much, not having to play 8 different freshmen in the secondary would.

no thanks. eastern hasn't won under his guidance.

and sure his defense looked great in 06, but it wasn't because of him, it was awesome players.

when you have less talent, you have to make it happen, he didn't

go back and watch UM-Oregon from a few years ago, that was ron english in action

Yeah, english's refusal to put in a nickel package against the spread wasn't exactly great coaching

Both USC and Bama are better than either of MSU and UM, so it's not that much a stretch. I'm just surprised they are going with what I thought was a CBS game.

English burned way too many bridges too. He's been a pretty huge ******* since he left

does wvu have a d-coord we could snag?

and he's still a huge douche

lol @ these comments

Please hire Ron English as DC. I'd love to put up 72 on Michigan.

Casteel was close to coming with RichRod. He's from WV, though, and decided to stay after they promoted Stewart.

But Bama is going to blow USC out?

Speaking of defense,

Why did Michigan switch to the 3-3-5, exactly? Necessity? GERG's call/favorite scheme?