Watched the Michigan at Michigan St game. First off, I had no dog in the fight, but there were some really generous calls for the Spartans.
A called Spartan fumble recovered for a Michigan TD on the field was overturned via replay was wrong. Another huge one was Spartan RB fumbling out of the back of the end zone as he’s crossing the goal line, should have been a touchback, but was a Spartan TD instead.
Anyway, Michigan St’s offense is clever. What they do is a lot of hurry up, very quick snap, no substitution, run or pass plays with the same personnel offense, and it repeatedly exposed Michigan’s personnel.
The game winning drive, Michigan had 3 offside/illegal sub penalties.
Another example was in obvious passing situations, Michigan would sub in a nickel or dime package and Michigan St would convert, then quickly snap the ball, so no defensive substitutions could happen and run the ball with Walker, with a poor run stopping defense on the field.
On Spartan RB 8 yd TD, the previous play was a 4th and 1 deep throw conversion, the defense literally wasn’t even close to being set, guys standing up, confused, substitutions running onto the field, etc. Unsurprisingly, they ran the play AWAY from the Michigan side of the field, so the substituting defenders that are out of position are useless.
Likewise, if it was obvious running situation, Michigan would sub in the bigger guys, Michigan St would convert and immediately snap the ball and pass the next down, again catching Michigan with in the wrong personnel.
There were also 2 very aggressive 4th down and short, deep throws that converted in man to man coverage. It was gutsy and it worked.
The game winning drive, Michigan had 3 offside/illegal sub penalties.
Point is: you’ve got to deal with WRs Nailor and Reed who seem legit, Walker who can break tons of tackles and a very clever offense.
We will need to score 28+ to have a chance, Michigan St is going to put up some points. Michigan’s DE’s did get to the QB, the Spartan LT got beat a couple times.
FYI they’ve put up 37+ for 5 games and 31, 23 and 20 the others.
A called Spartan fumble recovered for a Michigan TD on the field was overturned via replay was wrong. Another huge one was Spartan RB fumbling out of the back of the end zone as he’s crossing the goal line, should have been a touchback, but was a Spartan TD instead.
Anyway, Michigan St’s offense is clever. What they do is a lot of hurry up, very quick snap, no substitution, run or pass plays with the same personnel offense, and it repeatedly exposed Michigan’s personnel.
The game winning drive, Michigan had 3 offside/illegal sub penalties.
Another example was in obvious passing situations, Michigan would sub in a nickel or dime package and Michigan St would convert, then quickly snap the ball, so no defensive substitutions could happen and run the ball with Walker, with a poor run stopping defense on the field.
On Spartan RB 8 yd TD, the previous play was a 4th and 1 deep throw conversion, the defense literally wasn’t even close to being set, guys standing up, confused, substitutions running onto the field, etc. Unsurprisingly, they ran the play AWAY from the Michigan side of the field, so the substituting defenders that are out of position are useless.
Likewise, if it was obvious running situation, Michigan would sub in the bigger guys, Michigan St would convert and immediately snap the ball and pass the next down, again catching Michigan with in the wrong personnel.
There were also 2 very aggressive 4th down and short, deep throws that converted in man to man coverage. It was gutsy and it worked.
The game winning drive, Michigan had 3 offside/illegal sub penalties.
Point is: you’ve got to deal with WRs Nailor and Reed who seem legit, Walker who can break tons of tackles and a very clever offense.
We will need to score 28+ to have a chance, Michigan St is going to put up some points. Michigan’s DE’s did get to the QB, the Spartan LT got beat a couple times.
FYI they’ve put up 37+ for 5 games and 31, 23 and 20 the others.