Essentials WHAT #4 Michigan (8-0) vs Michigan State(3-4) WHERE Venue By 4M Stadium Piscataway, NJ WHEN 7:30 Eastern THE LINE M –25.5 TELEVISION BTN (Gaudin/Butt) TICKETS From $221. WEATHER partly cloudy, minimal chance of rain minimal wind 70 dropping to mid 60s(!!!) Overview What's the funniest way to say Rutgers? I say "Grubbers" but reasonable minds may disagree. "Ruggers" is good, "Rubturs" better, but "Grubbers" just has that je ne sais quoi, you know? Uh… right. Cable Subscribers are 4-4 thanks to nonconference wins against BC and Temple that came by a total of three points. They outgained Iowa but lost 27-10 thanks to two pick-sixes, got trashed by OSU, outgained Nebraska but lost 14-13, beat Indiana in a "never speak of this again" game, and then got trashed by Minnesota. [After THE JUMP: nice numbers with no backing, also some not nice numbers]
Essentials WHAT #4 Michigan (8-0) vs Michigan State(3-4) WHERE Venue By 4M Stadium Piscataway, NJ WHEN 7:30 Eastern THE LINE M –25.5 TELEVISION BTN (Gaudin/Butt) TICKETS From $221. WEATHER partly cloudy, minimal chance of rain minimal wind 70 dropping to mid 60s(!!!) Overview What's the funniest way to say Rutgers? I say "Grubbers" but reasonable minds may disagree. "Ruggers" is good, "Rubturs" better, but "Grubbers" just has that je ne sais quoi, you know? Uh… right. Cable Subscribers are 4-4 thanks to nonconference wins against BC and Temple that came by a total of three points. They outgained Iowa but lost 27-10 thanks to two pick-sixes, got trashed by OSU, outgained Nebraska but lost 14-13, beat Indiana in a "never speak of this again" game, and then got trashed by Minnesota. [After THE JUMP: nice numbers with no backing, also some not nice numbers]
Michigan football now gets a chance to refresh after an emotional rivalry week (in more ways than one) by playing everyone's favorite punching bag, Rutgers. The Scarlet Knights have a solid defense but today we're looking at the offense which has been, for lack of a better word, godawful. The Film: The Rutgers QB situation greatly constrained my options here. They have been rotating through three players at the QB position this year, Noah Vedral, Evan Simon, and Gavin Wimsatt. Schiano announced this week that Wimsatt will get the start on Saturday against Michigan and the only B1G game that Wimsatt has appeared in was this past weekend against Minnesota. So, Gophers it is. One quick note on the Minnesota-Rutgers game: the powers that be in the world of CFB game replay footage have decided that no one should be able to see this game. The usual sites we use to find copies did not have any. not even the Russians thought it was worthwhile for people to see Minnesota-Rutge
Three and four weeks ago, things felt like they had hit a rock bottom which was a combo platter of the Riley Era with Kevin Cosgrove scheming. A bye week and a win over Indiana later and suddenly we’re in a 6-way tie for 1st place in the West and the defense not only