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FORMATION NOTES: About 50/50 3-3-5 and 4-2-5, although the former got almost all of the last third of the game when MSU was in a big hole. Early it was mostly a four-man line. MSU's offense looked almost identical to Michigan's, formation-wise, with almost all gun and a lot of 2TE sets. Notably, Michigan was almost all two-high:

I noted about a dozen one-high snaps, some of which were pretty ambiguous. The rest of the game was either two high or Michigan's occasional three-high look (six snaps), which generally plays out as a two high where you don't know which S is coming forward presnap.

SUBSTITUTION NOTES: Completely standard, with Paye/Hutchinson/Danna rotating at DE with Danna a bit behind in snaps, Kemp omnipresent, and Uche/Dwumfour replacing each other with Uche getting a slight majority. Vilain, Upshaw, and Jeter got in late; Chris Hinton had scattered snaps earlier. That appears to be your second-string DL.

McGrone/Glasgow/Hudson at LB; Hill/Gray/Thomas rotation at CB, Metellus/Hawkins at S, Dax Hill got a dozen or so jetpack snaps.

The near-total lack of novelty here is good because it means Michigan is healthy and settled.

[After THE JUMP: OL? more like No, L!]