FORMATION NOTES: The UFR Glossary is here and you may want to brush up because DeBoer made me bring out rare formations like a true under-center Single-Wing, and weird notations like Z->Y means the WR and TE have switches spots. This is the Go Go setup (aka Single-Wing RB) that UNLV was running way back in September. I put covered players in parentheses, but Washington also managed to get away with some illegal formations where nobody was covered, in which case I just put a question mark in there, e.g. Go Go Right (?). "Hide H" was a trick where Rome Odunze hid out at tight end and got M to align in a mismatch. That's him trying not to be noticed as the H-back on the top of the formation (where all the Michigan players are pointing). I'm using "Flex" for a TE split out wide for a 2x2 set. "Demi" means the TE isn't tight but neither is he in the slot (see #37 on the left). Also we were treated to a skycam version of this game, so I can pro
I was born where the thumb meets the index finger. In my 38+ years of life, about 20 of which have been in the college football equivalent of 1940s Berlin, Germany, I have endured. There is no going back.
THE ESSENTIALS WHAT #91 Michigan (7-14, 2-8 B10) vs #105 Rutgers (10-10, 2-7 B10) WHERE Crisler Center Ann Arbor, MI WHEN Saturday, 4:00 PM THE LINE Kenpom: MICHIGAN-5 Torvik: MICHIGAN-6 TELEVISION BTN (link) THE OVERVIEW Here's what I learned from the 2021 football team: To experience the best, it's worth sticking around for the worst. The football nadir was probably different for everyone, but it probably came at some point in 2020 between Ricky White torching the Michigan secondary and falling behind by 17 at Rutgers. Whether it happened for you during a rote destruction at the hands of Michael Penix, or it was when all of the critical 2021-'22 recruits came to town just to watch Wisconsin blow us out from the Brown Jug, somewhere in there I'm betting you decided the Harbaugh era was going to end in a sad "Well we tried." As it turned out, for many reasons, that football season wasn't real. Vincent Gray and Gemon Green overcame The Worst Cornerback
I wrote one of these eleven years ago, when Michigan basketball took on Louisville in Atlanta. It never saw the light of day because Michigan did not win that game, but it was titled the same thing. I had largely opted out of the great grim period before John Beilein was hired and so the post had undertones of apology to those who did not, those hardy folks who stuck it out through Ellerbe and Amaker.