Begging for an end to historically bad run of turnover margin.

Submitted by mistersuits on November 24th, 2022 at 9:50 PM
  • Since Lloyd Carr retired Michigan is cumulatively -17 in turnover margin vs OSU.
  • As far as I can tell it is the longest active streak between any two P5 teams in the country dating back to 2013 (Michigan +1).
    • I've looked at every other "elite" program: Alabama, Georgia, Oregon, Clemson, Oklahoma, etc. and none of them have turnover margin win-streaks vs *ANY* of their annual opponents as long as OSU's vs UM. I'm talking Bama-Vandy, Georgia-Kentucky, Oregon-Cal, Clemson-NCState.
  • No it's not because OSU good UM bad, because literally every other B1G team (both divisions!!!) has won the turnover battle vs OSU more recently than Michigan, including Rutgers.
  • Every flippin' yakkety sax snap OSU makes miraculously bounces directly back into the arms of the QB/RB.

To win in Columbus this year someone has to put an end to this ridiculous voodoo. For the love of all things maize and blue, regress to the damn mean already.

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November 25th, 2022 at 8:33 AM ^

I wonder how much of that was a result of Michigan playing tense and tight in this game. They were trying to end a decade plus of losing and bad breaks, and when you play tight that naturally makes you more prone to mistakes, whereas OSU has been able to play loose and confident, knowing that even if they are trailing in the fourth quarter, they don’t just think they will win. They know they will and expect to do so. 

Hopefully last year was a positive trend in the right direction, but if Michigan can manage to play a clean game tomorrow and not gift-wrap points to OSU, that will go a long way. 

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