Michigan 45, OSU 23.

[lineygoblue]

I can't remember two lopsided UM victories back to back in this series - ever (and I watched pretty much the entire Bo-Woody era). What you are seeing is just modern day football.
I mean think about it. UM lost their starting C and they get a Rimington Award finalist in the transfer window.....
What should have been a weakness going into the season turned out to be an improvement over last season.
Just a different era entirely.

Good point. When you consider some of the yahoos that Michigan has gotten thru the portal, this one is a nice change. A good one that really helped the team.

[edindetroit]

No rematch, osu doesn’t deserve to get in after that asswhooping.

1. UGA
2. Michigan
3. TCU
4. USC

Thats what I’d like to see.

Nailed it.

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[Jeff Buchanan]

Stolen from Mgoboard. Roman Wilson is a budding videographer and made this 8 minute YouTube video after the game Saturday. Pretty cool stuff. I liked Cornelius Johnson's "interview." Would have never taken him for the shyness he displays.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZoqTIrfCoA

[Tom W]

I can't remember two lopsided UM victories back to back in this series - ever (and I watched pretty much the entire Bo-Woody era). What you are seeing is just modern day football.
I mean think about it. UM lost their starting C and they get a Rimington Award finalist in the transfer window.....
What should have been a weakness going into the season turned out to be an improvement over last season.
Just a different era entirely.

The closest thing that I can come up with was '95 and '96. But those were Michigan teams that had underperformed all season and, thus, were playing with house money.

Sure, you can blame Cooper for those shockers, but at least he didn't cry about how painful it was to lose the first time and then come up with an even more idiotic defensive gameplan like the one that CRD fielded yesterday.

[Mike]

The sun was in Stroud’s eyes.

[lineygoblue]

I always thought the team took charter buses to Columbus when they played there. Nope,.. a chartered flight.

Jeff- you probably should have put in a disclaimer to these ohioans... there's several scenes in that video they won't like at all.

I'm sure the 'flag' thing is going to be at the forefront of their ire.

They have an entire song about how much they hate Michigan. They should be able to handle seeing a flag on their field.

[JRB]

Watching the replay now, it's pretty obvious that this play didn't go as designed. Watch the reaction of the up-back after the snap-- he was clearly expecting something else to happen.

[Jeff Buchanan]

Agree with the writer's assessment that the first snap was to take an intentional 5 yard penalty. I'm assuming that was to aid in downing a punt inside the 10. While day may have put in a fake punt on the second alignment that was just as stupid as the decision to punt on 4th and 6. If that was the case, why would you take an intentional 5y penalty to make it 4th and 11 rather than 4th and 6?

The punter is definitely aligned for a soccer type punt. M has an advantage on the weak side of the formation with 3 defenders at the LOS facing 2 blockers. An osu defender starts to the weak side at the snap to even hats. He could be a lead blocker if that's the punter's path to run, oh about 17yards for the first. That's insane. If day greenlighted a fake punt option, the punter quickly decides that's not going to work and options to punt - M's outside defender had already beat his blocker and was heading to the punter. If he tries to run it, he will at least get tied up, maybe tackled for a loss or have maybe 10+ yards to go for the first. Meanwhile, the rest of the M defense sees the fake punt, runs to the ball and crushes the punter.

day isn't that stupid to take a 5y penalty with the intent of then attempting a fake punt, well, I guess he could be. Whatever, there was no way the punter was going to run 17 yards for the first, he knew it made the correct decision to punt. Harbaugh's comment of being "incredibly lucky" on that play was more likely that the punt didn't get downed inside the 10 less likely that he was talking about a fake punt not working.

[Hannibal]

The merciless unforgiving Jim is back, and I love it!


"Harbaugh was asked if he had any issues with players planting the flag at midfield after the game. "I want to get that flag," he says. "I want to get that flag and put it in our museum."

In 2009, Harbaugh embarrassed Pete Carroll 55-28. After scoring an extra touchdown in garbage time, Harbaugh was confronted by Pete Carroll at the post game handshake. Pete Carroll asked him -- "what's your deal?" Harbaugh replied -- "what's your deal"?

The day that Harbaugh was hired, I was praying for a "What's your deal?" game. Almost eight years after the press conference where he was introduced, we finally got our Harbaugh signature win. And he did it without our best players on both sides of the ball (Morris, Corum).

is the Dark Age finally over? I don't know. We have been teased with false hope multiple times in the past 22 years. But it feels pretty real now. Two straight wins over OSU -- I never imagined that we would beat them two times this decade, much less back-to-back, and by 15 and then 22 points. The first undefeated 12-0 season in 25 years and one of only two undefeated, untied teams since the 1980s.

Brian Cook wrote up a great game column a few years ago describing the tendency of Michigan fans to go into Doom mode when a game starts to not go our way. He called it the Black Pit of Negative Expectations (BPONE). I have been in the BPONE since about 2007, with a couple of brief respites at the beginning of each new coach's era. I have been so fucking thirsty for a big, season ending win against OSU and from 2004 to 2019 we didn't get a single one of those -- not counting the unimpressive 2011 win against the Luke Fickell interim squad. Thanks to the BPONE, I can't fully enjoy non-OSU wins -- even really impressive ones like our blowout of Notre Dame a few years ago. Maybe it's time to finally come out of the BPONE.

In the past 20 years, Michigan has been outcoached repeatedly in The Game. This weekend, OSU fans experienced what we experienced in 2004, 2006, 2015, 2018, and 2019 -- when our teams were an utter embarrassment and stunk up the entire field. It now seems like a real rivalry again. Maybe I can hope for 50/50 odds in The Game this decade. I'd take 33/67 odds pretty happily. At least if we fall behind 10-0 next year, I know that they can right the ship.

I wish that I knew why it took Harbaugh so damn long to finally build the program. But he did. After going into a pit from 2017 through 2020. Those first five dookies against OSU should be counted as part of his legacy, but now that legacy includes back-to-back wins over Top 5 OSU -- one of them with big injury issues. This weekend, he will likely add back-to-back B1G titles to that legacy. I'm not quite ready to sell out and let myself by optimistic and hopeful and predict a big win for UM this weekend. But I'm pretty close.

[THE_WIZARD_]

Y'all have hope. The last time you were undefeated you ended up #2 though.

[CGVT]

Agree with the writer's assessment that the first snap was to take an intentional 5 yard penalty. I'm assuming that was to aid in downing a punt inside the 10. While day may have put in a fake punt on the second alignment that was just as stupid as the decision to punt on 4th and 6. If that was the case, why would you take an intentional 5y penalty to make it 4th and 11 rather than 4th and 6?

The punter is definitely aligned for a soccer type punt. M has an advantage on the weak side of the formation with 3 defenders at the LOS facing 2 blockers. An osu defender starts to the weak side at the snap to even hats. He could be a lead blocker if that's the punter's path to run, oh about 17yards for the first. That's insane. If day greenlighted a fake punt option, the punter quickly decides that's not going to work and options to punt - M's outside defender had already beat his blocker and was heading to the punter. If he tries to run it, he will at least get tied up, maybe tackled for a loss or have maybe 10+ yards to go for the first. Meanwhile, the rest of the M defense sees the fake punt, runs to the ball and crushes the punter.

day isn't that stupid to take a 5y penalty with the intent of then attempting a fake punt, well, I guess he could be. Whatever, there was no way the punter was going to run 17 yards for the first, he knew it made the correct decision to punt. Harbaugh's comment of being "incredibly lucky" on that play was more likely that the punt didn't get downed inside the 10 less likely that he was talking about a fake punt not working.

Didn't you read what Harbaugh said? They practiced for it and were "ready" for it, but none of the players on the field recognized the personnel package that OSU had on the field to run it. It was a botched fake for sure. M was lucky that the OSU long snapper fucked up and snapped it to the wrong guy. It would have been a huge gainer

It wasn't designed for the punter to run 17 yds. It was designed for one of the blocking backs to get the snap and run to the left. If you look at the video, the O line was run blocking and all of the up backs went to the left.

[Mike]

Right. If the center had snapped it to #34, Henning is the only Michigan player who would have had a shot at him. It probably would have gone for a TD.

[Tom W]

The punter is definitely aligned for a soccer type punt. M has an advantage on the weak side of the formation with 3 defenders at the LOS facing 2 blockers. An osu defender starts to the weak side at the snap to even hats. He could be a lead blocker if that's the punter's path to run, oh about 17yards for the first. That's insane. If day greenlighted a fake punt option, the punter quickly decides that's not going to work and options to punt - M's outside defender had already beat his blocker and was heading to the punter. If he tries to run it, he will at least get tied up, maybe tackled for a loss or have maybe 10+ yards to go for the first. Meanwhile, the rest of the M defense sees the fake punt, runs to the ball and crushes the punter.

day isn't that stupid to take a 5y penalty with the intent of then attempting a fake punt, well, I guess he could be. Whatever, there was no way the punter was going to run 17 yards for the first, he knew it made the correct decision to punt. Harbaugh's comment of being "incredibly lucky" on that play was more likely that the punt didn't get downed inside the 10 less likely that he was talking about a fake punt not working.

It doesn't look like it was the punter's job to get the snap. He looks to be moving to the right and the snap was probably intended to go to #34 with the intent to take it to the vast green space to the left. The 5 yards wouldn't have really mattered since there was nobody there to stop the runner.

LOL - they couldn't even get that right.. screw them.

[Hannibal]

So OSU fucked up. Good. How many times did we fuck up against them the past 20 years? It's nice to see the other side teeth gnashing for a change.

[Mike]

And the commentary from Klatt before that play was how Ohio State was playing very tight. Could feel the tension in the crowd, etc.