Once again Alabama ends up with a win that looks better on paper than it really was. The good news is that our defense showed up yesterday, but we are one dimensional on offense. Our running game is sound but our passing attack is not consistent. That's ok against ULM but we have a tough run for the next month or so and I don't feel confident at all. Georgia is up next and Chubb is a beast. We shall see. :?
I think we played a BYU team worn down by the three tough games but Bronco Mendenhall was impressed by M: http://www.mlive.com/wolverines/index.ssf/2015/09/byu_shell_shocked_in_loss_to_m.html#incart_most-read_wolverines_article
You should be smiling today, Bobda. Lloyd should be also. I know it's not the same breed, but you get the point.
Bob I think Utah is making Michigan look better every week. At the same time they're making that Sparty win over the Ducks look not so special. Should be quite a battle in 3 weeks.
A lot of really awesome games this past weekend. I couldn't watch them all but ... 1. Irish...did what you do with a team like UMass. Give them their check and send them on their way. 2. Other top teams like Georgia, Ohio State, Mich State, Alabama, all did the same. 3. Texas. OK I couldn't really watch the game, I had it on my phone with my WatchEspn App...so I could keep and eye on it. Plus reading the descriptions. Longhorns found another way to lose a game they should have won, but they were aided by maybe the worst group of refs I've ever seen. It wasn't a single call type of thing, but a game long abomination. Charlie Strong said he'd never seen a holding call on a DL on running play till yesterday. He eventually couldn't take anymore and had words that resulted in penalty being called on him. It was a weird game though, the OSU coach was afraid to let his QB throw the ball late in the game, and our QB who looked really good early on finally got knocked around and wasn't very effective in the 2nd half. Longhorns are looking at 1-5 start ...not good for Charlie Strong. 4. Aggies....OK when Ark went up 21-13 doing it by destroying the Ag front 7 with their OL and RB I figured the Aggies were done. I don't know what happened to ARk after that they were just dominating the middle of the A&M DL. Scott put up that .gif of Dylon Mack destroying some RB last week. This week he was getting destroyed. Then they stopped doing what they were doing and let the Aggies back in the game. Scott will have to explain the use of Kyler Murray. He is electric at times that's for sure, I just don't understand what they are trying to do though. I thought the Aggies had it won though when their kicker lined up to win the game, he looked confident he must have given the "thumbs" up 10 times before missing the FG. They won in OT though. I call is Smash Mouth football defeated by Flash and Dash Football. Catchy eh! I was impressed though with Kyle Allen and his WRs. 5. Utah, those guys just destroyed Oregon in Oregon. Nobody saw that coming. Just like nobody saw UCLA going to Tempe and destroying Arizona. I could see the USC beatdown of ASU coming though. Although when Kessler threw his first pick and then ASU ran it right down and looked like they were going to score...I was thinking.. UPSET! But they fumbled and USC crushed them. So the question for the Pac12 is how good is Utah? Maybe really good. We know they are well coached. 6. look out for the Houston Cougars, Tom Herman seems to have them believing in themselves and playing very well. Could they be the top Group of 5 team when the season ends? Could Happen.
I forgot, I did see some of TCU vs Texas Tech. It truly was sort of a game where they team with the ball last wins the game. That was Tech but there just wasn't enough time, yet they did try the helter skelter multilateral finish and almost pulled it off. I think that if they'd have had a full minute they would have won. TCU is in trouble on defense, they are going to have to outscore everybody to go undefeated. They have been hit by a lot of injuries on defense though, and we know Gary Patterson is a defensive guy. So maybe the guys that they have left will get coached up.
Oh yeah, Harbaugh is ahead of schedule at Michigan. I won't be surprised if they go into the game with Ohio State undefeated.
Terry, I wish I could explain anything Spavital does. I was talking to Kesley while watching the game, and every time we'd hit the redzone I'd say "here comes Cutsey Spavital". We should have had at least one more TD instead of FGs, but his play-calling is completely baffling. We have first and goal from the 8, Carson gashes them for 6 and we line up quickly to run something idiotic... like a slow developing zone-read that gets blown up and lose yards... Kyler comes in... and all he does is have him run keepers. Yeah the kid is fast, but if he NEVER throws... ??? A guy put up a chart of where all the throws have been this year... about 5% were vertical attacks... the rest were outside the numbers and usually short. It wasn't that the reads took the ball to those spots... there were few if any routes that are run anywhere else. When we got behind, and had to move the ball they attacked all of the field and it worked. BTW it wasn't that our DL was getting "destroyed" as you put it. They weren't penetrating like we'd like, but were holding ground. Our LB's had no idea how to defend the stretch play. They would immediately try to rush into a gap, and Collins would stutter step a second and then take it outside if the middle was jammed, or hit the middle if the LB's crashed an outter gap. This was compounded by copious amounts of holding by Arkie. The refs did call it quite a bit... but of course they couldn't get them all... that's just football. Heck, watch the play when Myles causes Allen to fumble. The LT was pulling his jersey so bad you couldn't read his number anymore. <iframe src="https://vine.co/v/expnBaQPHMn/embed/simple" width="600" height="600" frameborder="0"></iframe><script src="https://platform.vine.co/static/scripts/embed.js"></script> If you want to think Arkansas gave it away... that's fine. The Aggies made plays when they had to, and that's what got the W.
Scott, didn't mean to sound like you lucked out or didn't deserve the win..it's football games that seem to be going one way, suddenly aren't and the other team wins. You earned the victory with a great OT stop. You guys are 4-0. My guys are 1-3 and looking at 1-5.
I meant to throw a few comments on the Horns game. I watched a good bit of it. The refs are B12...which usually means good things for the Orange and White :wink: but they are also horrible, so it shouldn't be a surprise if they made some mistakes. The Fightin' Gundy's were trying their best to let you win it, that's for sure. That fumble by their QB when no one was around made you think he'd bet on the Horns! It's a Gundy team... they always do stupid stuff. I wasn't surprised when Heard started losing some gas. He's not giant like Vince was... if he runs a lot and takes shots he's gonna feel it.
:idea: :arrow: - Arizona is in Tucson, not Tempe. - The Wildcats won the 12Pac South last year. - UCLA still looks great, but I blame Mora for getting his two best players injured. Vanderdoes and Jack were his only two-way players. - Oregon simply isn't that good on defense. This could mean than Michigan is for real, while Michigan State is overrated.
Well, they do have the loss to Utah but I agree that they may not lose between now and then. This also kinda answers the question about Utah being good. Oregon finally got the curtain pulled on their crazy defensive scheme and poor coaching. Still, the real story of this game was how badly Utah's defense just stuffed Oregon's offense. We're talking 3 and out after 3 and out. That's the worst beating I've seen an Oregon offense take since before Bellotti. I saw where it was the program's worst loss since 1977. I'm getting old, that was a year after my brother was born and that was a long ass time ago. I watched the Utah game in awe. Games and moments like that very often signal a change that lasts for a while. Rarely, do teams bounce back from that to remain a dominant program. Florida and Miami are the only 2 I can remember taking epic beatdowns and then remaining a dominant force in the game.
Funny that you said that Corey... I asked Kes if this signalled the end of the Oregon Era. He thought it meant the end of their dominance,but they probably wouldn't fall off the map. I tend to think this the beginning of a down spiral. If Chip was still there maybe not but this is a different staff...