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Michigan 30, OSU 24.
Michigan opened a couple of hours ago as 4 point favorites with an O/U of 41. osu jumped Michigan to garner the #2 spot behind UGA at #1, Michigan moved to #3 - the same place they had occupied last week in the FCP seeding.
I'm expecting a rock fight type of game with the winner grabbing a closely contested football game something like 23-20. I know most of the key match-ups here so, no need to do a bunch of reading, What I don't know is the injury status of osu's players and I do know M is facing some issues here. osu is +1 on players previously injured that returned to play, the key guy is Emeka Egbuka. He had a big game v. the Gophers in his 3rd game after recovering from a high ankle sprain. M's secondary was exposed by a good passer at Maryland throwing to decent receivers that had good games. Minter played a lot zone man coverage and it wasn't great. Things went better on the back end when Minter brought blitzes. Once M was up by 20, Moore decided to turtle. The results of that call was a final score much closer than it should have been. A poorly executed fundamentally zone coverage got had.
The key for M this game is to fluster Honda McCord by getting pressure on him. If he has time to sit in the pocket he'll hit his receivers at will. Minter is more than capable of designing M's defensive game plan and he has the front end to do that. And that is critical to stopping TreVyon Henderson who had a big game v. Minnesota. I feel pretty good about that happening, not so good about giving up big plays in the passing game.
On M's OL, there are pretty significant problems that right now CRD can exploit and he will. JJ's shaky performance v. the Terps was in large measure due to him getting pressured. He threw a couple of really bad passes under pressure. One intercepted with M netting zero points in the red zone and another into the end zone that should have been. JJ is rumored to be dinged up but there is nothing officially on this. Lots of subs playing new positions at OT are the problem with Terps seeing the issues and blasting past the LT and RT to get to JJ consistently throughout the game.
I'm expecting a rock fight type of game with the winner grabbing a closely contested football game something like 23-20. I know most of the key match-ups here so, no need to do a bunch of reading, What I don't know is the injury status of osu's players and I do know M is facing some issues here. osu is +1 on players previously injured that returned to play, the key guy is Emeka Egbuka. He had a big game v. the Gophers in his 3rd game after recovering from a high ankle sprain. M's secondary was exposed by a good passer at Maryland throwing to decent receivers that had good games. Minter played a lot zone man coverage and it wasn't great. Things went better on the back end when Minter brought blitzes. Once M was up by 20, Moore decided to turtle. The results of that call was a final score much closer than it should have been. A poorly executed fundamentally zone coverage got had.
The key for M this game is to fluster Honda McCord by getting pressure on him. If he has time to sit in the pocket he'll hit his receivers at will. Minter is more than capable of designing M's defensive game plan and he has the front end to do that. And that is critical to stopping TreVyon Henderson who had a big game v. Minnesota. I feel pretty good about that happening, not so good about giving up big plays in the passing game.
On M's OL, there are pretty significant problems that right now CRD can exploit and he will. JJ's shaky performance v. the Terps was in large measure due to him getting pressured. He threw a couple of really bad passes under pressure. One intercepted with M netting zero points in the red zone and another into the end zone that should have been. JJ is rumored to be dinged up but there is nothing officially on this. Lots of subs playing new positions at OT are the problem with Terps seeing the issues and blasting past the LT and RT to get to JJ consistently throughout the game.
Either M wins the biggest game since 2006 or MONEY!!
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