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FORMATION NOTES: Michigan had a ton of two-high, which gets a thorough discussion, and put out their rush packages very, very aggressively. I have 21 plays with no DTs on the field.

A lot of the single high, clear man coverage snaps came late, when Michigan went nuts with the okie packages and whatnot… and then they dropped to zone a lot anyway.

SUBSTITUTION NOTES: Hutchinson/Kemp/Dwumfour/Paye as your four man line, which wasn't that common. Hutchinson and Paye were close to omnipresent until Paye went out; Danna took over all of his snaps and the DTs started getting some passing downs. Prior to that it was Jetpack on passing downs. Mason got some scattered snaps. Also I thought I saw Hinton out there live but not on review?

Hudson/McGrone/Glasgow omnipresent. Uche got about half the snaps, all of them in 3-3-5 or jetpack packages. Michigan did use him as a standup DE in some 4-man fronts from time to time.

Usual Hill/Gray/Thomas rotation at CB. Metellus and Hawkins omnipresent, with Dax Hill getting another couple dozen snaps as a nickelback.

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