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Formation Notes: Double Eagle.

This was called 245 Split and if I added a letter that’s the gap with a down LB. 245 Split A.

And they also ran a 404 Tite front with a pinched DE, which I called 4-3 Tite.

Continuing with my convention of naming their 11 personnel formations by the position of the H (slot) receiver—”Gun Wk” for in the slot weakside, etc.—when he lines up inside I’ll call out the gap. So this is Gun Str B (H receiver is in the B gap of the TE’s side).

Substitution Notes: A lot of movement at guard. Filiaga got the start at LG and rotated with Keegan until Zinter left at the end of the 1st Q. Zinter came back at the end of the 2nd Q when Filiaga went out (after stepping on McNamara), and it was Barnhart & Zinter until halftime, then Keegan and Barnhart until Keegan went out, then Barnhart and Filiaga, then Filiaga got re-hurt late and it was Barnhart and Atteberry.

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Formation Notes: I did the best I could with Fox’s weird angles.

Note that they are playing with a nickel SAM who’s well inside the slot receiver. I just called that a 4-3 Over front with 2-4-5 personnel. My nomenclature for Wisconsin’s fronts was as follows:

• Nose: Middle lineman when they have three on the field.
• DT: The two DEs who are regular DTs in their 2-4-5 package.
• DE: An OLB in their 2-4-5 package who lined up like Hutchinson et al.
• OLB: An OLB standing up who’s not acting like a DE.

Also I used names for their two ILBs because they are both stars and that seemed pretty relevant when something happened with them. Speaking of names, this is Gun Trips FB Unbalanced.

Michigan also debuted some tempo, which I’m going to denote with by the time on the playclock when the snap, example: “Tempo(29).”

Substitution Notes: Starters most of the way except they used McCarthy after halftime. Also Keegan came out for Filiaga for the 3rd drive, Filiaga messed up a backside block, and it was Keegan again until late in the 3rd Q, then Filiaga replaced Zinter for the last drive I charted. TrueBlueinTexas has been keeping track.

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