2021 indiana

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1. Offense

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Brian vs tweeting as a personal battle, Seth has become dangerously optimistic. False starts make first few drives extremely difficult. Penn State's passing defense has been lights out, Michigan has been the closest to Ohio State in creating passing yards against Penn State. Only two carries for Donovan Edwards, this was Hassan Haskins' game. How is Michigan not successful at short yardage? Missed Blake Corum in some situations. 

[The rest of the writeup and the player after THE JUMP]

The Sponsors

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THE VIDEO

[After THE JUMP: the player and what we said]

Formation Notes: Michigan didn’t have much respect for Indiana’s passing game. I called this Michigan formation “4-4 C” because Barrett is hanging out as a 4th LB in the C gap. The IU formation went in as Pistol 2TE Twins Covered. You’ll note it’s unbalanced (the TE next to the RT is covered and an ineligible receiver). They used that look, from Pistol, Gun, Empty, or Offset, a lot since QB Power is their base play.

Personnel was sometimes included in the OForm, e.g. “Empty 023” means zero RBs, 2 TEs and 3 WRs.

Substitution Notes: Michigan had Barrett at—for lack of a better term—Viper for much of this game, with Hill moving back to safety and Moten on the bench. Morris got a lot of the snaps at…well we have to call it Anchor. For nickel situations they went back to Hill in the slot and Ojabo at DE, so I’ve used 4-3 as the D-Pack for Barrett in the slot and 4-2-5 for Dax. User trueblueintexas has been keeping track of snap counts. I’m going to start including his numbers in the chart.

[After THE JUMP: Indiana does not want it in the face.]