Indiana 38, Michigan 21
1. Indiana had 254 passing yards—at halftime. Michael Penix Jr. completed nine passes of 15+ yards on the day.
2. Michigan's defense committed offside penalties on two Indiana touchdowns and at least three other plays, I lost count and so did the live stats.
3. The Hoosiers entered this game 6-for-23 on third down conversions in 2020. They were 9-for-17 this afternoon before kneeling out the clock.
4. IU beat U-M by one more point than they beat Rutgers last week.
5. U-M last lost to IU by double digits in 1959.
6. Ty Fryfogle set a career high with 142 receiving yards and a touchdown on seven receptions.
7. With sacks removed, U-M rushed for 33 yards on 15 carries (2.2 YPC). IU's previous two opponents, Penn State and (once more, for emphasis) Rutgers, ran for 414 yards on 80 carries (5.2 YPC).
8. Iowa beat Michigan State 49-7 this afternoon. The Hawkeyes entered that game 0-2 with losses to Purdue and Northwestern. I don't need to remind you what happened last weekend.
9. This screencap:
10. Jim Harbaugh had a 20-4 record at Michigan heading into the 2016 Ohio State game. He's 28-16 since.
11. The Wolverines are 10-8 dating back to the 2018 OSU game. The margins in those eight losses have been 29, 26, 23, 21, 19, 17, seven, and three points.
Jim Harbaugh, Josh Gattis, and Don Brown need to turn the season around in a way that's hard to foresee right now to avoid facing some very difficult questions about their ability to run this program.
November 7th, 2020 at 6:31 PM ^
Do we really have any way of knowing that Minnesota was JG and the last two games were JH? I don't. It seems to me that the credit/blame should go around equally. Not intended to be an excuse for JH, just that I don't see why Gattis gets credit as a great potential coach based on his record here.
November 7th, 2020 at 8:09 PM ^
I believe most are making this inference based on the type of play calls.
The Minnesota Game: speed in space, actual RPOs with QB reads and stealing plenty of yards on the keeper, screen passes, etc.
The MSU & Indiana Game: run up the middle, run up the middle, pass, punt over and over and over and over again except for a few times where they just throw three 30 yard bombs ina down and still end up punting. The play calling the last two games has Harbaugh written all over it.
November 8th, 2020 at 5:52 AM ^
If you can't see the difference in playcalling between Minn and the last 2 games then we can't help you.
November 8th, 2020 at 2:01 PM ^
The difference is obvious, I'm just questioning why people think that Harbaugh allowed Gattis to call one game and not the last two, even when they weren't going well. I have to believe that there's shared responsibility, good and bad there.
November 7th, 2020 at 4:23 PM ^
There is no bottom to just how bad this season can go from here. May not win another game
November 7th, 2020 at 4:28 PM ^
We need a young up and comer with fire in his belly. Harbaugh doesn’t have it. Maybe PJ Fleck? I know they suck this year, but they were great last year and that dude is fired up about his players. Maybe UM is all he needs. Remember What Lou Holtz did after he left Notre Dame.
November 8th, 2020 at 5:53 AM ^
Stop with the Fleck shit. Fleck got his face caved in by the guy we want to fire. FFS!!
November 7th, 2020 at 4:28 PM ^
It's a systemic problem.
First, everybody cheats in some ways, know it, understand it, accept it.
However, Michigan is too fucking noble and pure of heart to cheat in the ways necessary to attract top talent that can win. Period!
That's why Michigan will never be a championship program. No coaching change alone can fix that.
November 7th, 2020 at 4:46 PM ^
We attract far better talent than Indiana every year.
November 7th, 2020 at 9:03 PM ^
Indiana will never win a championship
November 8th, 2020 at 9:52 AM ^
How are we looking in that department?
November 7th, 2020 at 4:29 PM ^
This is feeling like those seasons where we won the non-conference games, and then lost all the B1G games, except there weren't any non-conference games.
I was thinking 3-4 losses given all our holes and an unproven QB. Now it is hard to see 3 wins.
November 7th, 2020 at 5:19 PM ^
Yup. Harbaugh 10-8 in last 18 games.
He will be under .500 after this season......10-14 ?!!!!...... unless of course, COVID.
It is time for him to go. There really is nothing left to say about it.
1-7 this season ?
10-14 in last 24 games ?!!
November 7th, 2020 at 4:29 PM ^
8 quarters now without a sack. 82 passing attempts, many of them with blitzers, and not one single sack. What a huge bust our defensive playmakers have turned out to be this year.
November 7th, 2020 at 4:47 PM ^
Good thing our defensive system is not based on getting QB sacks.
Wait . . . what?
November 7th, 2020 at 5:33 PM ^
And All American corners
November 7th, 2020 at 8:46 PM ^
Probably 2/3 of the incompletions were due to pressure on the QB. They certainly weren’t due to coverage. You’re not going to get sacks if the QB never needs to come off his first read.
November 7th, 2020 at 4:30 PM ^
We’ll always have...uh...um...that Citrus Bowl against Florida was fun I guess.
November 7th, 2020 at 4:31 PM ^
this coaching staff has effectively run this program. im tired of people saying this program has no direction. it most certainly has diection. straight down. no discipline. no tougjhness.
i wonder what Indiana's coaching staff could do with michogans roster. i bet they could find a way to be competitive
November 7th, 2020 at 4:34 PM ^
It’s over. If Harbaugh loves Michigan he will announce his resignation tomorrow morning.
November 7th, 2020 at 4:35 PM ^
Our defense is so shitty that nobody has had time to point out how shitty our return game is. Giles Jackson reminds me of our 2008 special teams and Martavius Odoms.
Boneheaded Special Teams is another hallmark of a poorly coached team. I have never seen a bad coach with good special teams. RichRod's were garbage, Hoke's were garbage, Harbaugh's were good for a year or two, but now they are terrible again.
November 7th, 2020 at 4:44 PM ^
Very good point about special teams.
Another sign of a poorly-coached team is coming out flat at the start of each game. Michigan has done this in all three games so far.
November 7th, 2020 at 4:36 PM ^
Warde won't fire Harbaugh, short of a major off-the-field fiasco.
However, I wouldn't put it past Harbaugh to step down after the season if this thing really crates to 2-7 levels, especially of there's a historic ass-hammering at the hands of OSU, something like 77-10 or so. At this point, I'm not ruling that possibility out, by a long shot.
November 7th, 2020 at 4:50 PM ^
Oh come on. That won't happen, you're just throwing shit against the walls.
We'll never score 10 points.
November 7th, 2020 at 4:59 PM ^
Hey. I'm trying to be optimistic here!
November 7th, 2020 at 4:37 PM ^
Who’s got it better than us?
November 7th, 2020 at 4:38 PM ^
Everybody.
November 7th, 2020 at 4:37 PM ^
We already know the answer.
I recorded the game and watched it in 20 mins so at least I didn’t waste my day!
November 7th, 2020 at 4:41 PM ^
Recorded 2 weeks in a row. Watched...zero minutes.
November 7th, 2020 at 4:38 PM ^
ENNUI OTTERS
November 7th, 2020 at 4:38 PM ^
Most would think that Donald Trump and Jim Harbaugh had bad days today. But neither did. Trump thinks he still won the election and Harbaugh thinks nothing is wrong.
November 7th, 2020 at 4:44 PM ^
Trump has approximately 71 million more supporters than Harbaugh
November 7th, 2020 at 4:52 PM ^
Well Trump does know how to work the refs.
November 7th, 2020 at 4:41 PM ^
This was the death knell for the Harbaugh era. A loss to OSU guarantees it.
November 7th, 2020 at 4:42 PM ^
A loss?! keeping it to 3 td’s would be great.
November 7th, 2020 at 4:42 PM ^
I would've accepted this loss...BARELY...if we beat MSU last week like we should have.
November 7th, 2020 at 4:42 PM ^
Last week now looks like the beginning of the end. Unless they magically turn around and go undefeated the rest of the year, it’s over. This is not the same Michigan since even last year. IU is good but not THAT good. The MSu loss in retrospect is even more unforgivable than it seemed in the moment. I just didn’t expect a Harbaugh coaches team to look completely unprepared and undisciplined like that. Glaring weaknesses, roster issues, sure. But these last two weeks go WELL beyond that. This looks like a team that doesn’t even care (I know that’s feelingsball, but however you explain it they lacked fire). So why should I care?
November 7th, 2020 at 4:50 PM ^
I paid attention during the first quarter, then basically didn’t look at the TV for more than a second here or there after. Put some music on the headphones and spent the rest of the game reading my joyous Twitter timeline.
That’s the quickest I’ve checked out of a Michigan game in 40+ years of being a fan. I’m at the Hoke phase now. I can’t stand seeing the coaches on the sideline. I’ll always turn the games on, but, this year especially, won’t be sticking around to watch a tire fire.
November 7th, 2020 at 4:51 PM ^
Ace, you’re entirely delusional if you think for even one second that Harbaugh is even remotely capable of turning this around.
They should’ve been fired before they left Hoisier stadium today.
November 7th, 2020 at 5:49 PM ^
This JH can’t turn it around for sure. The JH that was hired and used to act like a maniac or acted like he cared at all prob could. That’s the conundrum. Where in the fuck did 2015 JH go?
November 7th, 2020 at 4:53 PM ^
Ace, there are so many other things you could have pointed out, I don't blame you for saying fuck it, I'm tired of pointing out pathetic shit!
November 7th, 2020 at 5:01 PM ^
In August, we thought we weren't even going to have a season.
Turns out we were right.
November 7th, 2020 at 5:05 PM ^
Let’s hire urban Meyer.
November 7th, 2020 at 6:48 PM ^
I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I would get onboard with this 100%
November 7th, 2020 at 5:12 PM ^
This is a bad dream. Lets take the rest of season off.
November 7th, 2020 at 5:19 PM ^
That 2016 OSU game was Harbaugh’s crossroads for his program. Harbaugh was Harbaugh in those days. Fiery, passionate, and just willing to do whatever it took to get Michigan to where it needed to be. He just seemed so full of life.
Had he won that game, I think this program is in a far different place today than it is right now. But that game broke him, and while it seemed like he might’ve made a resurgence in 2018, OSU reminded us that was all a mirage.
I have no inside knowledge here, this is strictly speculation on my part, but I just think Harbaugh is going through the motions at this point. He just seems so lifeless compared to how he was in 2015-16. And that rubs off on the team.
November 7th, 2020 at 5:42 PM ^
Then if he really loves Michigan, he steps down after this season and gives back the contract money to the athletic department
November 7th, 2020 at 5:30 PM ^
Now Maryland is beating Penn State by 21 at half. Guess the battle for the basement of the B1G east is now between Rutgers and Michigan.
November 7th, 2020 at 5:35 PM ^
This has been an amazing Saturday. November 7, 2020. Buyackasah!!!!!! Indiana-schmindiana... Thank god we can record a game now so not to waste more than an hour on it.
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