The last 3.5 hours is the exact reason why you don't schedule a road game in South Bend for your first game of the year. Ask Penn State and Michigan State if they wanted to play a top 15 team on the road for the first game of the year after their week 1 performance?
Michigan played terribly but this loss is on Michigan's Athletic Director. I don't think Michigan would have struggled the same way playing a poor Arkansas team in the Big House today.
Michigan got beat soundly tonight in every aspect of the game. You name it, ND did it better. Michigan fans should have recognized the offensive strategy, which I would have called Denard. They beat Michigan with a running QB and deep 50/50 balls that Michigan didn't catch.
The first half was a comedy of errors. It actually looked like the Michigan Defense was trying to throw the game. They dropped 3 interceptions that were thrown right at them. They would get a stop on 3rd down and then commit a penalty for a first down. The Winovich penalty was a 4 point swing and Michigan's starting safety got to watch the game from the locker room. There was times Gary and Winovich were running into each other behind Wimbush.
Follow me on this math:
Michigan loses the game by 7 points.
Patterson runs out of field goal range - Should have been 3 points
Winovich roughs the passer, ND scores on the next play +4 for ND
Holder drops the snap on a field goal, another missed 3 points.
That is a 6 points Michigan should of had and 4 ND shouldn't. Difference in the game.
The defense finally woke up in the second half but still let ND run out the clock. ND wasn't going to do anything to put the game in jeopardy as they felt Michigan couldn't score on their defense.
The Michigan offense was better then last year but far from great. Shea is a better QB then Michigan has seen in a couple years and it was interesting to see McCaffrety as the second stringer.
The offense line is still bad. Big Jon Runyan was getting run by every ND DE that he saw.
I know Michigan's defense was tired and the Michigan offense needed to get them some rest, but the offense didn't play with any urgency in the second half, being down 2 sores the entire 3rd and 4th quarters.
We saw glimpses of change but not enough for me. I didn't like how Don Brown prepared his team for another running QB and I thought the offense was not aggressive enough at all. Michigan got out coached and out played again. Its damn depressing as its the same shit different season.
from The BIG HOUSE Blog http://mbighouse.blogspot.com/2018/09/fire-warde-manuel.html
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