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Scheduling Note: I apologize for the lateness of this. My prime UFR charting/writing time is on Tuesday but I worked an election (which is a 5am to 10pm commitment plus setup the evening before) this week and only had a quarter charted when it was time to go do that. PSU should be on time.

UFR GLOSSARY is here.

FORMATION NOTES: More even fronts today than usual, which made the OTs' lives hell but did open up some running lanes inside. Also when Michigan went up to 7 guys with their Split! formation I just called it Split 7 instead of identifying gaps where the LBs lined up.

Their other pass-rush formation is this Odd front with a 0-tech nose, two 7-tech DEs, and Harrell a stand-up blitzer that they debuted late against Nebraska. Since nobody has a better name for it I'm calling it Crable, because "Ojemudia at Harrison" is too obscure of a reference.

SUBSTITUTION NOTES: Michigan spent the whole game in nickel personnel, treating various backup Purdue TEs/2nd RBs etc. as receivers. Air Raid offense was used for tryouts at CB, as Will, Wallace, Walker, and Waller. In the 2nd half they went a couple of drives with Sainristil at CB and McBurrows at nickel. Jenkins came out as soon as they were up a comfortable margin, with Benny getting a lot more snaps than previous games. The rest was the usual rotation.

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FORMATION NOTES: As promised, Purdue was a 5 man line at all times, usually backed by man to man and the deepest safety:

There are ten guys on the screen for Purdue because the FS is not on the screen. Purdue did deviate from this sometimes; a couple run plays saw the FS at ~12 yards and activated on run plays. The five man line was near-ubiquitious, with just a few passing downs deviating.

SUBSTITUTION NOTES: The usual everywhere except the skill positions. Skill positions:

• Barner: 61 snaps (of 71)
• Johnson: 60
• Wilson: 53
• Edwards: 36
• Corum: 33
• Loveland: 30
• Morris: 22
• Bredeson: 22
• Morgan: 13
• Jones: 10
• Mullings: 8
• Clemons: 4

Corum had a significant lead on Edwards in the first three quarters, and then Edwards made up the ground. Loveland relatively marginalized in a game where Michigan was more wideout-heavy than they had been. I have a theory about this: Michigan wanted to play a game where they were pass-forward because there's a nonzero chance they're going to have to be against PSU and/or OSU.

[After THE JUMP: some wobbles and frustrations but also 41 points.]