Iowa Snowflakes: The Defense

Since FEI predicted Iowa would score -1.0 points, this is an obvious failure. Guess there’s always next game.

149 yards, zero points, and each first down felt like a miracle. This defense is insanely talented  - even if Gus and Joel failed to see it. 

3 Peat!

Mikey is the game MVP.

An extraordinarily dominant performance all game. Iowa never got anything going tonight. Set up Michigan’s only 2nd-half touchdown.

Can you imagine how many people got sloshed at that X-Golf because Iowa didn’t score? Utter dominance from this defense. 

Not a surprise, but awesome.

The difference with this defense compared to previous excellent units is how superb they are at producing turnovers. Been a challenge for years across multiple coordinators… and this year they’re getting huge TOs on the regular.

Here’s to many more. 

People just would not shut up about Iowa's defense.

They were the worst defense on the field today.

Best defense in the country.

Big play after big play.  Awesome job.  Michigan Defense to Iowa:

We killed ‘em!!! They had nothing

Our defense > their defense.  Of course.

Get more sacks.  It’s hard to see other teams get to our QB more than we do.  Sacks (and picks) are the next best thing to TDs.  

vs 

No contest

Awesome job overall! The line was killing it tonight, loved all of the great plays from the Edge players.

Defense was awesome once again. It's one of the best I've seen in my years watching Michigan football. Shout-out to all those dudes 

DEFENSE BET!

Mikey should be in the Michigan Hall of Fame, and if UM doesn't have one of those yet, we should start one, just so we can add "Mike Sainristil" to it.

Great to get the shutout. Michigan out defensed IA. This defense wins championships (plural).

They won without Will Johnson so Will should be 100% for the semifinal game.

Sainristil is THE MAN!

Can't beat 13-0 and for the second consecutive time.

Turns out this defense is awesome when the 1s play the whole way. Yeah Iowa sucks but we absolutely rekt them. Barely crossed midfield

Players have only been able to wear Zero for a couple years, but it's up there with 1 & 2, as far as I'm concerned. 

Great game by the defense.

As a unit, the Michigan Defense was fantastic tonight.

No snowflakes here.

This D has to be the catalyst in the CFP, because the offense needs help.  I am hoping we can get both phases working well and finally get a sorely needed post-season win.

Michigan not having to play against Michigan's defense is a far more significant advantage than a dubious method of gathering opponent signals

The Drive for 325 is dead anyway, but I just want to point out that Ferentz the Baby got an extra game to hit it, and made zero additional progress.  Iowa now has 216 points in 13 games, or an average of 16.6 / game.  They’d need 109 points in their bowl game to hit 325.

They were outstanding against a truly pathetic offense.  They needed to create turnovers and they did that.

I've loved watching these guys all year, competition ramps up big time in the playoffs for them.

Defense played well. Even though Iowa offense is one of the worse in the league but still nice to see total domination. Now JH needs to work on the offense if we are going to have a chance for a NC.

This defense exemplifies Mike Sainristil -- they give up zero. Playmakers all over the field. 

When I have watched this defense this season, it's the only one since 1997 where I assume they're just going to shut down every team. In other words, when I watched the 1997 season, I would think to myself, "damn, a first down" when our opponent would dare do something against our D. This defense is that good -- it's probably better because of its ability to generate turnovers.

2016 was probably the closest to this defense, but I don't recall them generating the turnovers. 2006 and 2018 were great, up until OSU.

That said, the defense will have to be even better in the playoffs. With Minter at the helm, I think it can be.

Mike Sainristihl & Mike Barrett equal un unexplained phenomena in the multiverse. They were crystallized precipitation. This is the snowflake thread right? Discuss man…. Where in the fuck is WD? We looked good tonight, in our all-whites!