An heroic win ........but this kind of football is not sustainable and, it appears, M is without options to generate a passing attack at QB. Moreover, it would be a bad move to pull Orji. He's not getting a lot of help from his receivers and the play calling is still unimaginative although the toolbox is limited so, I don't know. It looked to me like Campbell called a handful of read options for Orji with some success. The threat of him keeping, I think, made the 159 yard performance by Kaliel Mullings possible. I don't know how many of the read options included RPOs, Maybe one. WIll await the UFR.
OTH the defense is phenomenally good but again we're left with the lingering question, how good is the team M just beat. Clearly USC's OL v. this defense was a fatal flaw as USC couldn't keep Moss clean and M "smashed" their way to a win rushing for nearly 300 yards. Moss faced constant pressure, a lot of it with 3 or 4 man rushes. This was attained against a USC defense that repeatedly brought their Ss within 7 yards of the LOS daring Orji to pass. He didn't need to. Both Edwards and Mullings were routinely getting to the second and third levels then beating the Ss.
I was at the game. The heat was intense but so was the sound level from the crowd, AND the stupid stadium sound system. The crowd noise was responsible for several USC false starts and changed the momentum of the game twice. Once after the WIll Johnson pick-six with USC driving Another after Mullings scored the go-ahead TD with 35 second remaining and USC carrying a 97% probability of a win before the Mulling's TD. USC couldn't respond with the crowd noise being deafening and the Michigan D standing tall. Game over.
OTH the defense is phenomenally good but again we're left with the lingering question, how good is the team M just beat. Clearly USC's OL v. this defense was a fatal flaw as USC couldn't keep Moss clean and M "smashed" their way to a win rushing for nearly 300 yards. Moss faced constant pressure, a lot of it with 3 or 4 man rushes. This was attained against a USC defense that repeatedly brought their Ss within 7 yards of the LOS daring Orji to pass. He didn't need to. Both Edwards and Mullings were routinely getting to the second and third levels then beating the Ss.
I was at the game. The heat was intense but so was the sound level from the crowd, AND the stupid stadium sound system. The crowd noise was responsible for several USC false starts and changed the momentum of the game twice. Once after the WIll Johnson pick-six with USC driving Another after Mullings scored the go-ahead TD with 35 second remaining and USC carrying a 97% probability of a win before the Mulling's TD. USC couldn't respond with the crowd noise being deafening and the Michigan D standing tall. Game over.
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