100% waste of time

[Patrick Barron]

UPDATE: A version of this published without the 2nd half of it and I didn't notice because I posted then ran out to pick up the kids.

A conversation in the last MGoPodcast on Rayshaun Benny's weird number (26) got me thinking that nobody has really put into words what certain jersey numbers mean in college football. I started working on a guide to what various numbers mean on various types of players, but 100 numbers is quite the undertaking, so I thought in the meantime I'd nerd out with some of the information I've picked up about jersey number assignment at Michigan.

[After THE JUMP: Max nerd]
My life, when written, will read better than it lived. [Bryan Fuller]

Formation Notes: Michigan didn’t have much respect for Indiana’s passing game. I called this Michigan formation “4-4 C” because Barrett is hanging out as a 4th LB in the C gap. The IU formation went in as Pistol 2TE Twins Covered. You’ll note it’s unbalanced (the TE next to the RT is covered and an ineligible receiver). They used that look, from Pistol, Gun, Empty, or Offset, a lot since QB Power is their base play.

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Personnel was sometimes included in the OForm, e.g. “Empty 023” means zero RBs, 2 TEs and 3 WRs.

Substitution Notes: Michigan had Barrett at—for lack of a better term—Viper for much of this game, with Hill moving back to safety and Moten on the bench. Morris got a lot of the snaps at…well we have to call it Anchor. For nickel situations they went back to Hill in the slot and Ojabo at DE, so I’ve used 4-3 as the D-Pack for Barrett in the slot and 4-2-5 for Dax. User trueblueintexas has been keeping track of snap counts. I’m going to start including his numbers in the chart.

[After THE JUMP: Indiana does not want it in the face.]

He caught it. [Patrick Barron]

BOOOOOOK: The Kickstarter for HTTV 2021 ends this week. This year you can customize which rewards you want. Also I had to write way more of it than usual, which means the Lord of the Rings references start on like Page 6. Consume!

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FORMATION NO—Wait, is this a joke?

No. Let’s get through it.

Why?

I needed the data for HTTV—both the UFR data and snap counts. Also completeness.

So you are going to UFR the defense against Penn State too?

Lol hell no.

FORMATION NOTES: I called this MSU’s 4-2-5 Eagle. They used it almost every 3rd and long. Note the FS is bailing at the snap—that happened a lot.

MSU 3-2-6 eagle

This was 4-2-5 Wide 9:

MSU UFR wide 9

Because the DE is in a wide 9.

SUBSTITUTION NOTES: Line was Hayes-Filiaga-Vastardis-Stueber-Mayfield until they lost Mayfield at the beginning of the last drive and he was replaced by Barnhart. Honigford got 9 snaps as a TE—Eubanks returned and passed All after the latter had another drop. Mason was used as both tight end and fullback. Charbonnet got the most snaps of the RBs with Evans, Corum, and Haskins splitting the backup share, plays with 2 RBs and the Haskinscat they used twice in goal line situations. Cornelius Johnson and Roman Wilson got more time than Sainristil outside. Bell was in the slot when Jackson was not.

Also I accidentally uploaded a bunch of the clips without sound, sorry.

[After THE JUMP: When you refuse to run with your QB the WILL’s gonna have a good time.]