Frank Costanza
Co-Inventor of the Man's Bra
Michigan, all day
Michigan opens -4.5
Also bet it immediately. Like Michigan to control both lines of scrimmage
Yeah, should feast.Corum gonna avg 8yds a carry
Early returns are heavy on UW 76%
W. Nixon | 8 | 13 | 31 | 194 | 6.3 | 1 |
T. Rogers | 20 | 9 | 38 | 163 | 4.3 | 0 |
G. Bernard | 4 | 12 | 12 | 39 | 3.3 | 2 |
R. Odunze | 1 | 13 | 2 | 37 | 18.5 | 1 |
J. Polk | 2 | 11 | 3 | 31 | 10.3 | 1 |
R. Newton | 6 | 4 | 5 | 30 | 6.0 | 0 |
S. Adams II | 28 | 4 | 10 | 23 | 2.3 | 1 |
D. Ngata | 21 | 7 | 7 | 23 | 3.3 | 1 |
J. McMillan | 11 | 5 | 2 | 21 | 10.5 | 1 |
J. Westover | 37 | 13 | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 1 |
D. Morris | 5 | 4 | 1 | -5 | -5.0 | 0 |
M. Penix Jr. | 9 | 13 | 29 | -18 | -0.6 | 3 |
Best conference my god
Michigan averages 150 yards passing defense and I think has led 99% of the time.
Washington +4 all day long as Michigan was pretty lucky to escape Alabama. UM celebrating a win against one of the weakest Bama teams of the last 5-10 years. UW stops Blake and it's over. Forcing JJ to throw 30+ pass attempts will result in a disaster as he's grossly overrated IMO. Anyone can look like a stud throwing the ball 15 times a game of which 70% of them are short/screen passes.
I get all the Michigan love...but it seems 4.5 with a team that can throw you to death has a backdoor left wide open. I could definitely see a 31-28 game. Michigan line play and how DeBoer approaches it will be the key. But AA just has dudes...def should be the favorite. Just a fishy number it seems.
And Michigan faced no great QB until yesterday and you could even question how great Milroe is...but he was by far the best on their schedule. McCord had a higher QBR but if he didn't have MHJ, he'd have been average at best.
I don't know....just trying to find reasons to not fall in love with Michigan right off the bat. Maybe I'm overthinking this though.
UW has no pass rush and a subpar rush defense. There’s no reason to think they can simply take the running game away.
VK makes some great points. The main being Pennix couldn’t have been anymore accurate, and he’s facing a superior secondary to Texas, and if UM doesn’t gift away two scoring drives the game shouldn’t be close.
I just find it hard to sustain long drives if there’s nothing over the top and deep with zero threat of a run.
Ever been there BAR? I was there in 2006 for the Texas-USC Natty had was in awe of the setting this venue has. The tailgating was off the charts too.Can we move this one to Pasadena as well?
Might have been mentioned already but I was surprised to hear Penix talk about how predictable the Horns defense was.Michigan and Horns secondary are not in the same zip code. And as we talked Horns have no pass rush.
Will be a different look for Penix, in multiple respects, with UM.
Someone had to have told him to switch to Naysayer after he already sent it to be printed.
It is fair to say that Michigan has not faced a passing game like UW's...but few have in reality. Fair to say UW is a top 3 passing team in the nation? I think so. And the best pass defense they've seen all year was probably Oregon or Texas?
Oregon I think is in the 20-30 rank range. Fair to say UW will have success vs. Michigan and putting up 24 feels like the right range based on past results. Boils down to if we think Michigan offense can be 30+ with relative ease...
Still the most populas on the site.There used to be soo many Ohio St guys here
I’ll give Steed credit, he still comes around
You think Texas should of beat Washington and Oregon in pac championship ?I’m more of an eyes guy and what I saw vs the Bama deep bowl is all I needed to see. Texas secondary isn’t close to UM. And I think both Texas and Oregon were better 3 times and should have won all of those games. I suppose UM could have critical turnover.
You think Texas should of beat Washington and Oregon in pac championship ?
I'm ready to walk right back into looking like a Michigan non believer.It is fair to say that Michigan has not faced a passing game like UW's...but few have in reality. Fair to say UW is a top 3 passing team in the nation? I think so. And the best pass defense they've seen all year was probably Oregon or Texas?
Oregon I think is in the 20-30 rank range. Fair to say UW will have success vs. Michigan and putting up 24 feels like the right range based on past results. Boils down to if we think Michigan offense can be 30+ with relative ease...
I saw that differently....thought they controlled the Texas game and were superior....they out physicalled Oregon the second meeting that is what made me a believer. First game Oregon out physicalled them.Oregon blew the game twice vs UW this year and Texas gifted the game away with 2 fumbles when UW was trying to give the game away yesterday. Haven’t been a fan of UW 2h all season but they’ve gotten by.
That is accurate in general but certainly can point to the elite qb losing in games. Stroud vs bennett last year? Eli manning vs brady lolI'm ready to walk right back into looking like a Michigan non believer.
Contrast of styles. What's more reliable the run game advantage or the elite pass game advantage. To me the largest delta in any matchup in the game is the explosive play ability. I think Washington has had more comparable tests vs the run then Michigan has tests vs the pass. The game prep on a week vs a month is a factor too.
Elite QBs and explosive plays has been what has won this game. Usually higher scoring.