Worst Game Plan You've ever seen

I had suppressed these memories, CGordini. :(

The two-point conversion in 2013 was a bad choice (the play was fine, calling it again after the time out was just dumb). The gameplan, however, was excellent, one of the finest Borges produced at Michigan, as shown by Michigan's terrific production that day.

 

Denard came in, he was running....Devin came in, he was passing.

I knew it, Michigan knew it, Ohio State knew it, the entire damn stadium knew it.  The worst part is we still should have won the fucking game.

The fact that Devin Gardner was playing on a broken foot might have had something to do with that one. It was the end of the game, Gardner's considerable reserves of grit had been exausted, and he was limited in what he could do by that point.  

bad for our program. Tressel was 6-5 and we should have dominated the game. Carr did not open up the offense until we were down three scores and once he did we moved and scored at will. We were to far behind to catch up. Tressel made good on his bullshit promise and his recruiting class went from 25 to top 5 in weeks. He could have been cooked his 1st year but Carr put his career on a platter. I am still pissed.

This one is hard to top.  I can understand not wanting to throw deep in the rain, but how do you forget to get the ball to the best tailback in the country?

 

For some inexplicable reason OSU’s OC decided to not run the ball eventhough the weather was terrible. Honestly I'm glad it did because they had a good chance to repeat. Plus we got to see MSU get shut out in the playoffs.

Biggest myth in Big Ten history. Zeke didn't have a run longer than two yards before the drive that started inside MSU's 30 yard line following a turnover. The only reason he had success on that drive was because the Spartan dline was gassed from the immediate possession flip. Zeke was hurt going into the game and for the most part played like shit. Including the one drive where he had success running, he was still averaging 2.8 ypc and only had a long of 7 yards. MSU was able to stack the box against JT 'not the rain' Barrett, who threw for 2.9 yards per attempt and 46 total yards.

I agree.  Last year's OSU game against MSU was my first thought as well.

IIRC, Elliott was in the hospital earlier that week with an infection.  I'm guessing that weighed on the play calling. 

For worse game plan ever.

...until he actually started to play like Tom Brady in the 4th quarter. Then it was brilliant. 

stands out.  Michigan played aggressive the entire game and held the lead with less than 5 or 4 minutes less.  Then went to a prevent to allow Troy Frickin Smith to have all day to run and pass, taking up almost the entire time remaining to end up winning the game. 

Any team that runs the prevent defense is pretty much the worse game plan ever. 

That Texas game in '05 was soul crushing for me. All my HS buddies were Texas bandwagoners and Michigan was up 31-21 heading into the fourth quarter before Vince Young went berzerk.

Yeah, that one was brutal. IIRC, Nebraska gave up nearly 300 yards rushing to Wyoming that year. 

Thats the one that sprung to mind as being especially bad and exemplified the worst aspects of the Hoke/Borges regime in which external factors were never taken into account and a certain amount of stubborness over-ruled everything.  It reminded me of the Art Shell Raiders in the mid-90's at the height of the Jeff Hostetler-Tim Brown-James Jett era going to Seattle when the Seahawks were down to their third string cornerbacks and deciding that was the day they were going to establish the run against a D-Line led by Cortez Kennedy.  It's been over twenty years and that still makes me mad.