Total Destruction

David Guralnick, Detroit News 

Everyone knew this was coming and when everyone knows something is going to happen it usually doesn't.  The line even jumped 2 points on Friday as Vegas thought this might happen.  It did on Saturday and Michigan beat its third ranked opponent in a row.   It's hard to put into words the domination as the Wolverines crushed the Nittany Lions on both sides of the ball.   Penn State looked like they didn't have any game plan for Michigan's #1 ranked defense and struggled all day just scoring one late TD.   It was a great win and I don't know about you, but things are starting to feel normal again.

Was the game perfect? It wasn't so we go to the Cheers and Jeers.

Cheers:

• Don "F'ing" Brown 
• Michigan's pass rush 
• +3 in turnovers 
• Higdon another big day! 
• Shea running the offense 
• No rust from the two weeks off 
• Welcome back Tarik and Rashan officially 
• 403 total yards of offense 
• 186 total yards for PSU

Jeers:

• Nordin was slow the to ball all afternoon, which caused a blocked punt 
• Back-up QB McCaffrey's broken collarbone 
• Thought the play calling got way too conservative in the 2nd qtr. 
• 9 penalties for 80 yards 
• No shutout :-(

I feel terrible for Dylan McCaffrey but that is why you don't have Shea in there late with him running the ball.   Hopefully he can heal up and be ready for the bowl game/playoffs.  

Don Brown gets the game ball and I thought the offense and play calling was good at times.   I didn't understand why Michigan kept running into the strength of Penn State's defense so much, which was killing drives in the 2nd and early in the 3rd quarter.    Michigan does have an issue with field goals that they will need to fix.   If that block didn't have so many penalties, that could have been a momentum changer.

The meat of the schedule is now over and the Wolverines will have to keep their focus with a trip to Rutgers and IU at home before they head to a Big Ten East Championship game against Ohio State in Columbus.   Unless MSU can pull an upset in East Lansing next weekend.   :-)

Great win!




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