Washington likely our opponent. Penix has incredible touch. Thoughts?

So a B1G vs B1G championship game.

In the Big Ten, it just means more 🤷‍♂️ 

Should have thrown for the front pylon.  Good game.  

Bring on the huskies.  So excited to play both of these teams next year.

Everything on the line and all you have is a fade.

He said “not today” on the last one

I really like DeBoer, hell of a coach. Cool as a cucumber, runs a fun offense.

Washington survives.  And now you see that their D is not good and we should be very happy.  They will still be a tough opponent.  But if they were to somehow beat Michigan, then they will have by far the national champ with the worst D by far in the playoff era.  Texas has a top ten D and they could have limited our running.  Washington's D is just not very good at all

The bad news

UW Offensive rankings in CFB

1st passing offense 

5th sacks allowed

97th Rushing offense (**not the bad)

Good news 

UW Defense rankings 

90 total defense 

119 passing yards allowed 

37 rushing defense 

either way, Penix, Odunze and their OL are a problem 

Odunze is a beast. Full stop. McElroy (announcer) said he had a better season than Marvin Harrison Jr., and I agree. 

Except for the last 90 seconds of the TX game, very well coached and, like the best coaches, Deboer knows how to scheme to give put his players in the best positions to succeed (as opposed to scheming the way he wants to scheme, regardless of the talent/skills of the players).

That said, they haven’t played great defenses annd aren’t great on defense themselves. 

Hey, Dewey looks all set to defeat Truman. Your thoughts?

Texas came within inches of winning that game.

The post game for the Sugar Bowl is so much more chilled out and subdued than the chaos of the Rose Bowl. 

They won't throw over 400 yards against us. They'll air it out, but our defense is going to feast. We can stop them, they can't stop us.

Both semifinals come down to the last play of the game.  Wow

FanDuel has M at -4.5

Their WRs are as good as any we faced this year, including OSU. Penix when on his game drops uncoverable dimes. They get rid of it quick and love creating single coverage matchups.

Will be a tough game. 

UT and future SEC can bite me 

A traditional Big10 ,PAC10: matchup for all the marbles before everything all goes to h#ll. UW is a tough matchup but Go Blue!

It's amazing to me how their WRs are always so wide open

Penix has a great arm and can make great throws.  I don't know, though, how well that is going to work against the Michigan defense.  After facing a guy who can't throw but runs like crazy now we've got the inverse.

I'm sure Minter will figure it out.  And surely our offense can move the ball against Washington.

Take the over.

Washington hasn't played a competent defense all year. That's my take. It'll be turnover city. 

After seeing him in person a bunch at IU, he is prone to being rattled. Minter needs to dial up some exotic blitzes and we will be fine.

Penix reminds me of Brady. Goes without saying I was hoping for TX to pull that win out. 

Go win gentlemen 

Bargain bin Ohio State (with Stroud). Worse defense by far. Clean up the mistakes and we stuff them in a locker and tell the rest of the CFB world to fuck off and go to hell.

So next year we will have a conference game that will be a national title rematch game...cool

It will be tough game and probably have more points scored. I'd be surprised if we hold Washington under 24 points but I think Michigan can score over 24 points on Washington. More pressure on Penix may not result in over 400 yards of passing.

Mel, I think you can’t just talk about preventing his next eruption, you have to get a good grip on him to prevent him from scoring.

Sorry about any typos. I get too excited.

Actually, Washington seems relatively easy to understand. They're basically Ohio State last year (elite qb, but defense is nothing special). I assume we'll run the OSU defense we practiced most of the year again.

I like our chance with Washington. Our passing D match up well with any passing offense. I bet Michigan can scheme a game plan to focus more on the ground to limit the number of procession by W. then we have a good chance. I suspect we will unleash a lot of TE play next game. And if our special team comes back, we may have adv. there as well.

Penix tends to release the ball very quickly, that can neuturalize our DL pressure. They tends to use a lot of 4 or 5 WR set, I doubt their OL with only 5 players can stop our blitz.

Just don't shot ourselves to our feet. We need to play a clean game next time.

Will be a tough game. Michigan struggles with tempo and cant fall behind early. I think its a fair fight with the location being nowhere near either schoool. Should be fun, Michigan really needs to avoid man coverage against Washington. I think what they did against Milroe (zone) makes sense against Penix as well (although realizing Penix is a lot better). Michigan needs to not get behind early and pound the ball on offense. 

Doesn’t matter who we play. At this point in the season any opponent will be a tough out. Michigan vs Everybody. Just win. Beat Washington.

Penix has never beat Michigan! That won’t change next week 

Do you remember when he was a Hoosier? I do. So does he. It will haunt him for a while... About a week. He will have precious less time next week.

I’m feeling TCU 2022 with a much better QB. People say they aren’t elite in most areas other than QB, but their d flies around and makes plays, their receivers are incredible, and their coaching is incredibly elite. 
 

I hope UM is able to pressure Penix and our secondary can confuse him in some way, but he’s scary good. 
 

I also hope our running game is just too much fort Washington’s Defense. Texas was running well against UW, so I kept Thinking UT would eventually start to lean on UW and keep Penix on the bench, but that didn’t happen because Penix kept throwing darts and ran the score up.