Looking ahead to the next game

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Mike Riley got his first win at Nebraska today over a power 5 team.

2-4 Nebraska bombed Minnesota on the road, 48-25.

Nebraska led 38-14 late in the game before Minnesota got some points and yards in garbage time. 

Minnesota's defense was supposed to be the best unit on their team and they got shredded today, allowing nearly 500 yards of total offense and 48 points to a team that scored just 13 against Illinois and 20 against Wisconsin. 

They rushed for 65 yards on 26 attempts as a team. Leidner had 301 through the air, but those numbers are inflated by Minnesota's opening drive where they took a 7-0 lead on a passing TD and when they were in garbage time. 

Michigan has won the last 15 meetings in Minneapolis. 

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Tater

October 17th, 2015 at 11:04 PM ^

I wonder if Harbaugh is going to get fined by the Big Ten for his comment about the team overcoming "calls that were made and calls that weren't made?"  I think his comments were perfect.  He admitted that Michigan goofed up and acknowledged the terrible officiating without making it too blatant.

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You Only Live Twice

October 17th, 2015 at 11:08 PM ^

Why should he get fined?  Officiating didn't do its job.  When is anyone going to tackle that elephant in the room?  When the officials have to try that hard to keep the higher ranked team in the damn game... we overcame crap call after crap call only to throw it away at the end, of course we have to get where none of this shit matters but it does matter, and officals should be there to officiate, not influence the outcome of the game.

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Coldwater

October 17th, 2015 at 10:55 PM ^

With the bye week coming, the team and the fans just have to sit and stew in this mire. Nothing to do but shake your head at the thought of the dropped punt snap.

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alum96

October 17th, 2015 at 11:00 PM ^

I think we know the pattern for 2015 UM.  All the run based teams with weak QBs are right up our alley.   That is Minnesota.

We saw even with MSU they could not run on us (nor us on them).  So with those offenses we are not in danger of a team pulling ahead of us by more than a TD ever and we can play our vanilla offense and keep Jake from having to do anything daring. 

When the opposing team has a real QB (MSU, Utah, OSU, maybe Indiana, maybe PSU) we might have issues and can't do the things we want.  But Indiana has a HS defense.  PSU's D is going to present the same challenges MSU's did but with a better back 4.  They have guys like Nassib and Zettle up front and we saw today our OL is fine vs "good on paper but average in reality" defenses like Minn and NW but when playing a host of 4 star talent they are not super awesome.  That is what PSU has.  So its going to be a struggle to get our offense going vs PSU as they present similar problems as tonight but with a better secondary.   But Hack at this point is not Cook.  But road game instead of home game.

Minn is a poor man's NW - we will smack them around all day.  As we will with rutgers - they have a decent QB at least and Carroo so they'll get some pts but that defense sucks. Indiana I think our DL will get more pressure on the QB then happened tonight vs MSU and we will be able to run on them all day so our normal offense can function.

So that leaves @PSU and OSU as the only 2 danger games left.  So we are tracking to 8,9,10 regular season wins based on how we do with those 2.  Pretty much on par with expectations or a bit ahead. 

In 2016, let us pray O'Korn is 2013 O'Korn and not 2014 O'Korn.... or Gentry is ready next year because I am sick of offenses where the QB can't complete passes on the regular over 12 yds.

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