#5 Michigan vs #1 team in New Jersey Rutgers 7:30 BTN

NewPhoneWhoDis said:
Holy Hell -- good thing I stopped watching. 52-17? We hammered them in the 2nd half.
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It was a far better game in the 2nd half, once all the stupid things were out of the way. Rutgers couldn't keep getting every 50/50 ball they lobbed up in the air.
 
PeoplesChicken said:
exactly
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Over 45 on that game had to have been the lock of the century. I said to my buddies who I was watching games and drinking with that they need to jump on that since Michigan was gonna score over 45 by themselves. Nobody listens to me, and I’m a pussy since I’m only 100 bucks richer
 
Sgt Brutus said:
This dude was basically having a parade that the Bucks struggled at NW and then disappeared as soon as UM was struggling with Rutgers.

@PeoplesChicken imagine being down at half to Rutgers and it wasn’t even windy!?
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windy? As in "inclement weather"?


If you are referring to me as having a parade, I was far from the only one celebrating that. And If I were the bandwagon fan I am reported to be, then why would I make critical comments about my team in the game thread?
 
PeoplesChicken said:
windy? As in "inclement weather"?


If you are referring to me as having a parade, I was far from the only one celebrating that. And If I were the bandwagon fan I am reported to be, then why would I make critical comments about my team in the game thread?
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It was a bad look for both teams. Ohio State has the excuse of a large part of their offense being shut down by 30 mph winds and Michigan dominated the second half.
 
fishinabarrel said:
Pissed off. The team was playing like crap.
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Here is the difference -- Michigan was dominating the 1st half. We had run for 125 yards, while Rutgers had 1 yard on the ground. We had 14 1st downs to 4 1st downs.

Rutgers blocked a punt for a TD, Michigan missed two FGs. Michigan had almost 250 yards of offense in the 1st half. The game had the same look as the PSU game. Michigan dominated the play on the field, but a turnover for a TD skewed the scoreboard.

In both those games -- UM continue the domination in the 2nd half, outscoring Penn State and Rutgers 63-3.
 
NewPhoneWhoDis said:
Here is the difference -- Michigan was dominating the 1st half. We had run for 125 yards, while Rutgers had 1 yard on the ground. We had 14 1st downs to 4 1st downs.

Rutgers blocked a punt for a TD, Michigan missed two FGs. Michigan had almost 250 yards of offense in the 1st half. The game had the same look as the PSU game. Michigan dominated the play on the field, but a turnover for a TD skewed the scoreboard.

In both those games -- UM continue the domination in the 2nd half, outscoring Penn State and Rutgers 63-3.
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Dominating so much they were losing...
 
NewPhoneWhoDis said:
Here is the difference -- Michigan was dominating the 1st half. We had run for 125 yards, while Rutgers had 1 yard on the ground. We had 14 1st downs to 4 1st downs.

Rutgers blocked a punt for a TD, Michigan missed two FGs. Michigan had almost 250 yards of offense in the 1st half. The game had the same look as the PSU game. Michigan dominated the play on the field, but a turnover for a TD skewed the scoreboard.

In both those games -- UM continue the domination in the 2nd half, outscoring Penn State and Rutgers 63-3.
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Dominating on paper but they couldn't finish to dominate on the score board.

As I said in the other thread, Michigan absolutely cannot have a clunker of a 1st half against Ohio State on the scoreboard like they have had in most of their B1G games so far.

It's easy to come out and overwhelm a Rutgers and Indiana in the 2nd half. They don't want to be playing from behind against us.
 
It’s cute that Ohio State fans just can’t accept the fact that Jim Harbaugh OWNS Ryan Day
 
osubuckeye89 said:
Dominating on paper but they couldn't finish to dominate on the score board.

As I said in the other thread, Michigan absolutely cannot have a clunker of a 1st half against Ohio State on the scoreboard like they have had in most of their B1G games so far.

It's easy to come out and overwhelm a Rutgers and Indiana in the 2nd half. They don't want to be playing from behind against us.
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The other game wasn't indiana -- it was Penn State. They had every bounce in the 1st half against us. We still won 41-17 and outgained them 567- 263 for the game.

I agree -- UM doesn't want to be playing from behind against OSU, but I like our offense this year, way more than our offense last year. So we will see how it goes. The ONLY thing UM is missing is the deep threat. If our admins didn't screw the team over and not let Xavier Worthy enroll early over a high school credit -- We would have an unbelievable offense. Instead, Worthy goes to Texas, who they allow him to enroll immediately. Our administration is the football teams biggest enemy.
 
NewPhoneWhoDis said:
The other game wasn't indiana -- it was Penn State. They had every bounce in the 1st half against us. We still won 41-17 and outgained them 567- 263 for the game.

I agree -- UM doesn't want to be playing from behind against OSU, but I like our offense this year, way more than our offense last year. So we will see how it goes. The ONLY thing UM is missing is the deep threat. If our admins didn't screw the team over and not let Xavier Worthy enroll early over a high school credit -- We would have an unbelievable offense. Instead, Worthy goes to Texas, who they allow him to enroll immediately. Our administration is the football teams biggest enemy.
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Michigan did struggle in the 1st half with Indiana (tied)

and Maryland (only up 17-13)

and Sparty (only up 13-7)

as well.

You can talk about dominating statistically all you want but the scoreboard is what really matters.

Of course they ended up fairly easily winning those games by dominating the 2nd half. But teams like that tend to get overwhelmed by better teams as the game rolls on more. It's a lot harder to recover from a rough 1st half against upper level teams.
 
osubuckeye89 said:
Michigan did struggle in the 1st half with Indiana (tied)

and Maryland (only up 17-13)

and Sparty (only up 13-7)

as well.

You can talk about dominating statistically all you want but the scoreboard is what really matters.

Of course they ended up fairly easily winning those games by dominating the 2nd half. But teams like that tend to get overwhelmed by better teams as the game rolls on more. It's a lot harder to recover from a rough 1st half against upper level teams.
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The scoreboard does matter, but the statistics are much more telling on how a game played out, unless a team dominates and pulls their starters late in the game.

Michigan outgained Indiana 470-226.
Michigan outgained Michigan State 443-251

Even Maryland -- we outgained them by 100, but the score looks closer because they had an 80 yard drive and got a 2 point conversion in the closing seconds, when UM went to a prevent type defense . Same with Iowa -- 75 yard drive in the final minute to make it look closer than it was.

Everyone is going to have games where things don't go right, but NW has one of the worst offenses in college football and their defense isn't much better.
 
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