What’s Your Hottest Take?!

I thought the answer was: 

FUCK OHIO STATE

This hardly felt like the dominant win that the scoreboard makes it look like

The first half turned out to be a shootout. Advantage Buckeyes. OSU had some sustained drives, but Michigan stayed in it with a couple of haymakers.

But make no mistake, the second half was pure domination. 28-3 ain't no joke.

We got the big plays because Ohio played in Cover 0 — and we took advantage of it.  

Not trying to be argumentative, but the defense Ohio State was running was extremely unsound. They loaded the box like they were running the 46 defense or the old Jerry Glanville Grits Blitz. The fact that they were so terrified of Michigan that the basically went "your running game is so dominant that we're just going to play you like you're Air Force" should not be seen as Michigan getting lucky that they hit big plays. They had the big plays because Ohio State went into the game terrified of how to defend Michigan and chose a deeply unsound strategy that left them open to the big plays. Michigan just executed. 

Sounds more like you shut the game off after the first quarter and only paid attention to the box score.

Serious doubts is a given in the land of BPONE.  Doubts don't make your case.  My doubts were about the defense holding OSU to 2 touchdowns (even though they are near last in redzone offense.  I was relatively sure that JJ would have a "good" / effective passing day as Michigan's pass routes have been super simple all year.

Kind of hard to call it luck when you can take away 3 long TDs and still win.  It's not like Michigan was killing clock.

This does qualify as a hot take though.

Yes, you should get negged for that asinine take, but I'm not negging anyone after that win.

OSU essentially played cover zero and cover one. This allowed the pass plays to happen more easily. On the long runs, our OL blasted open holes, their LBs didn't fill well, and DE blazed through and then past the single high safety. I didn't see much luck there at all. I saw a superior OL doing work and then their second level making mistakes.

Illinois actually had a much better defensive scheme -- and effort -- the week before.

I think just the opposite. Between injuries and scheme, Michigan had their bread and butter taken away from them and they found another way. They made plays yesterday that they didn’t need to make up to this point in the season, because they always had Corum to fall back on. It wasn’t luck, it was resilience.

It was by no means luck that those big plays were what the defense was giving them and they went and took them. 
 

I think it's possible that Michigan isn't amazing and Ohio State is even worse. But I don't think you can fluke your way into a 3 TD win. Even if the offense was lucky, the defense was still sound. And honestly, with what we're seeing in other conferences, who really looks good? Georgia deserves the benefit of the doubt, but even they have had games they looked average in (Missouri, Kentucky). We're just used to seeing machines like Alabama of the past, Georgia last year, Clemson with Watson/Lawrence, Urban Meyer coached teams, etc who just plow through college football teams. This year might just be the year of no truly dominant program. 

All I saw was “neg me” so that’s what I did. 

Your getting negged for this because it is the dumbest take I have read yet. OSU went all out to stop the run. Michigan exposed that philosophy because we have playmakers at every position on our team. It would be one thing if we got lucky with 1 or 2 big plays but we had 5. That is not luck. It’s called a game plan and adapting to what the defense is giving you. It’s hard for me to believe you are actually a Michigan fan with how dumb this take is. 

Da Don should have wore a gold sleeve over the cast so he could've been called the kid with the Golden Arm

Not necessarily a hot take but an observation on that punt on 4th and 6.  They were trying for a fake but the Buckeyes didn't know if it was still on after the false start penalty.  The punter was doing the fake "uh oh the ball is being snapped over my head" thing but then when he realized the snap was coming at him and not one of the up men, he had to recover, catch it, and get the kick off.  Ohhhh, if only we could have heard "trouble with the snap!" one more time.

Hard agree. 

This is too correct to be a hot take 

I never understood why I was supposed to be scared of a DC they hired out of the worst defensive conference. 

Congratulations! Your son knows only Michigan dominance in the Game.

First grandchild has never seen Michigan lose to OSU.