Absolutely there are still plenty of landmines. At Maryland in mid October a week after hosting PSU seems like a prime spot
Big Ten Weekly Awards Offensive POW Miller Moss QB USC 27/36 378 1 TD 0 int Defensive POW Kevin Winston S Penn State 12 tackles, 7 solo Special Teams Martin Bhaghani K UCLA Dominic Zvada K Michigan Freshman of Week Dylan Raiola QB Nebraska 19/27 238 2TD 0 int
According to the Oddshark online database, Michigan has been a 7 point or more underdog at home just 6 times since 1995. Wisconsin 2020 was the last time. The other 5 are all Ohio State (19, 17, 13, 09, 95).
Donovan Edwards ran 11/27 in the Michigan win over Fresno State, but if you use Dbl analytics to subtract out his big plays, he ran 11/27 against Fresno State.
That’s probably going to be a common occurrence for UM until they show any semblance of a passing game OR just fully lean into like an Orji triple option attack
running between the tackles is not edwards thing. someone needs to sit him down and go over average WR vs RB earnings in the league
Seems like passing beyond the line of scrimmage also was a issue for your QBs, but I was saving that material for later this week.
No. This week is for the “I thought Warren showed promise. I think he’ll do well now that nerves of the first start are gone” takes. Next week is for the “wow. Michigan is really fucked on offense” posts. It hurts more if you seem surprised.
New AP: 2 Ohio State (same) 7 Oregon (down 4) 8 Penn State (same) 10 Michigan (down 1) 13 USC (up 10) 21 Iowa (up 4) Nebraska, Washington, and Wisconsin receiving votes. New Coaches: 2 Ohio State (same) 6 Oregon (down 3) 8 Penn State (up 1) 9 Michigan (down 1) 14 USC (up 9) 21 Iowa (up 4) 25 Washington (unranked) Wisconsin, Nebraska, and Maryland receiving votes.
It’s the same as the last couple of years. The QB could potentially break out and show some sophistication or Michigan does what it’s been doing. Lean into their running game and defense. I’m not saying the results are going to be the same but to expect Michigan to be USC doesn’t make sense.
Of course not. But with McCarthy the last couple years you were much better through the air than was shown against Fresno. Granted, it’s week 1. I expect that will improve.
That’s not just due to the fact that it was our QB’s first start. It’s mostly due to our WRs being absolute buns.
I agree with you but the biggest criticism Michigan has had in the recent past is their inability to spread the field. That was McCarthy s biggest knock going in to the draft.
USC-LSU led this weekend’s TV ratings, but the rest of the mediocre slate of Big Ten games didn’t do so well. USC-LSU 8.62 million ND-Texas AM 7.92 Clemson-GA 7.58 Miami-Fl 6.35 ND St-Colorado 4.76 BC-FSU 4.44 Penn State-WVU 2.99 OSU-Akron 2.97 Michigan-Fresno 2.56
The best game on Saturday on paper was WVU / PSU and it went on opposite of Clemson / Georgia. Those were predictable results
Other than UGA-Clemson, A&M-ND, LSU-USC, and Prime, I don't think a lot of week 1 games were of much interest to casuals. Texas-Michigan will crush I'm sure.
CB now here is some data you should track. Your spreadsheets would be way easier to read than this poorly written article
They normally put a nice table in that article with all the ratings for the week. Similar to this (it's top rated of 2023)
Wow. Let’s everyone just laugh at Purdue and how awful that ratio is. Pretty pathetic #Purdue Boilermakers
According to SP+, based on UTEPs power rating they were projected to score only 6 points. You gave up 7. Underperformed