i guess ari wasserman gets a tag now because he has the worst take of all time

FORMATION NOTES: MSU was a very basic 4-3 even, as they have been forever.

Aside from pass rush exotics, this was the whole game. They would occasionally slide the line to the run strength, and they'd put a nickel on the field for passing downs. They ran a lot of the Dantonio-vintage double-A gap twist blitz from the linebackers; this was about their only gambit on the day.

SUBSTITUTION NOTES: Nothing unusual. WR/TE snaps, as per usual:

• Cornelius Johnson: 50
• Roman Wilson: 43
• Colston Loveland & AJ Barner: 37
• Tyler Morris: 35
• Semaj Morgan: 21
• Max Bredeson: 9.

Morris and Morgan both got a bunch of snaps in Tuttle time. This was a bit of deviation from recent games, where Barner was your #1 snap recipient; my assumption is that Michigan felt like MSU's LB crew was vulnerable to approximately everything when passing and leaned slightly more towards three-wide sets. Only slightly, because Harbaugh.

[After THE JUMP: a beatdown]