Michigan 42, Iowa 3 -- 2021 Big Ten Football Champions!

[WM Wolverine]

Iowa offense is offensive.... They get the ball first, almost a good thing with this field position game.

[CGVT]

14-3 at the half. Michigan survives losing the field position battle for most of the second quarter, but this has turned into Iowa's sort of game-- an ugly slog.

Yep. Lost the field position battle and played Iowa's game the entire first half. Still up two scores. Control the field position in the second half and Michigan will win going away. More of what we saw in the first half and it will be dicey.

[Hannibal]

Stop making dumb mistakes like extending Iowa drives with penalties and fair catches at the three yard line and we win this one going away.

Also -- play a QB who can hit wide open receivers instead of the guy who never keeps on the option and is averaging 3.5 yards per pass attempt because he can't hit wide open receivers.

[lineygoblue]

This is a Ferentz specialty. He's plenty happy to play field position for now, and stay within striking range. Then, he'll try and steal it at the end. I doubt that he's upset with his team right now.

That said, M should be up about 28-3 right now.

[Cody_Russell]

M’s defense is LONG overdue for a forced turnover. Come on! All I’m asking for is one…

Solid half. I can complain, but up 11 at half is a good thing.
vs Rutgers and Nebraska, M came out and struggled in the 2nd half. Hopefully they learned something and it’s more like vs Wisconsin or vs OSU.

[Fraquar]

This is a Ferentz specialty. He's plenty happy to play field position for now, and stay within striking range. Then, he'll try and steal it at the end. I doubt that he's upset with his team right now.

That said, M should be up about 28-3 right now.

This right here. The scary part of it all.

[Hannibal]

This is a Ferentz specialty. He's plenty happy to play field position for now, and stay within striking range. Then, he'll try and steal it at the end. I doubt that he's upset with his team right now.

That said, M should be up about 28-3 right now.

This. That's what makes it so goddamn frustrating. Iowa hung around against Penn State and Nebraska and stole it in the 4th quarter. So far they are on schedule to do the same tonight.

[iam416]

JFC

[lineygoblue]

Well, Michigan is certainly capable of making Ferentz's strategy fail miserably. Michigan holds a huge advantage on offense with their speed, and defensively, they've been stout. The problem is the crummy field position.

Key early in the 2nd half will be to stick a 3 and out on them in their first posession. If M can come out of that with decent field position, maybe they can put together a decent scoring drive.

[Fraquar]

Michigan needs to smack these corn feds in the mouth = plain and simple.
If they can't do that - they got serious problems.

[BadWolf]

Drop pass defense. X2.

[BadWolf]

Fuck.

[Tom W]

Fox makes a baby announcement for their “all American Girl”.. Seriously??

[BadWolf]

Stop is a stop.

[Hannibal]

Nice three and out to start the half. Still nothing to worry about with Iowa if they can't get it to their FBs and TEs in the passing game.