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Timing Note: Sorry for the lateness. Blame the young voters, who wouldn't stop coming from the moment the polls opened until they closed (and one guy with the Michigan hat who came after and sadly had to be turned away). I know everybody was just dying to know how our team did against the [checks notes] Rutgers offense. The UFR Glossary lives here.

Substitution Notes: Too much to keep track of as starters were subbed routinely. Morris/Upshaw started but D.Moore was in on 3rd down, and McGregor got the next drive.

Formation Notes: Last year I started noting when positions are swapped with arrows. Here the TE is lined up as an RB and RB is in the slot. I called it "Gun 4w Y->R" and then you can infer from there being a TE (Y) in the name that it's still 11 personnel.

Also a reminder that "ARO" stands for America's Rollout Out. I've shorted "Racecar" to "RC" for Michigan's pass rush package with a DE (Morris or Upshaw) at DT.

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FORMATION NOTES: Rutgers uses a blizzard of different fronts but spends the game in a nickel with said nickel over the slot almost all the time, and then that guy gets nosy in the box almost all of the time.

Here they've shifted their line over to the strength of the formation and the nickel is the littlest LB closes to the center of the field.

SUBSTITUTION NOTES: Usual at QB, obviously. Edwards got more carries earlier than usual; seemed like Corum may have been ill and Michigan was trying to limit his usage. At TE, Schoonmaker went out for a portion of the game and this led to more Loveland snaps. At OL, Persi took over for Hayes. On some goal line snaps Persi went out, El-Hadi came in and Keegan kicked out to tackle. Also El-Hadi got the last drive with the starters when Keegan got dinged.

WR saw more rotation with Wilson out. Walker and Morris both got targets and Anthony was a bigger part of the gameplan. No Clemons.

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