I doubt you can honestly say JH fell in love with his 3rd string qb. It's simply the only guy he has left absent burning a redshirt. 

Ubiquitous blame the refs comment. (2nd half wasn't so bad, but I wish there was some venue in which I could place money on big10 official biased calling in favor of the favored big10 team). 2 nonexistent holding calls vs Um/ rediculous missed block in the back and PI on 3rd down on a good drive resulted in 2 touchdowns that should have been punts and a punt that could have been at least a FG. At a minimum it should reasonably have been 14-0 at half, probably 17-0. Still, you can't win with 3rd place/3rd string in any venue, regardless of defensive strategizing. End of the day to me the loss boils down to that JOK(e) throw to two "wide open" osu safeties, not explicitly the play itself, but as an exampe. Tons of overthrown/missed throws, running into tackles, etc. However with a more experienced UM team returning next year, if the bg10 officiating does not improve vs the apparent underdog next year (even if the calls should go vs UM), we should leave the conference. Sooner or later bad officiating is going to drag down the conference itself (IE playoff committiees are going to say wait a minute, wisconsin really lost to OSU even though the refs called it for them. That was an obvious toutchdown called a non-toutchdown. Therefore neither team makes it in). 

My two solaces are that 1) hopefully UM gets a marginally good SEC team for a bowl game and with good player health in a month and non-big10 refs, just goes to town, and 2) remember all you haters, this was a rebuilding year. UM came in with the what, 127th most senior team in the country? Let's remember that.