Rutgers under Greg Schiano is profoundly annoying. They throw weird stuff at you on offense and they try and deliver a bone-crushing tackle at every opportunity and stretch the rules of late hits as far as possible on defense. If you're a highly ranked team like Michigan, they treat it like the Super Bowl. If you decide the game doesn't matter, they will outwork you and make it interesting for as long as they can. Michigan treated the first half like it didn't matter and Rutgers pulled out all the stops to make the game interesting. Then Michigan decided to play at full force and the second half was a bloodbath. From the thousand foot view, this game looked uncompetitive, a routine blowout. But that understates the profound amount of annoyance it caused the viewers on the Michigan side. Either way, a win is a win. For the first while, this looked like a blowout all the way. Michigan got their first drive going with a 35 yard JJ McCarthy completion to Ronnie Bell, advan
Full Album Links: Michigan vs Rutgers Football 11-5-22 (Paul Sherman) | Flickr Michigan vs Rutgers Football 11-5-22 (David Wilcomes) | Flickr I've been to Rutgers twice, once in 2016 and once in 2018. That was enough for me. No matter how many incredible Michigan games I cover or experience, that 2016 game will always have a place in my heart in the top 10 sporting events I've ever attended. But too much time at SHI Stadium is like spending too much time in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone and the amount of unexploded cannon powder that my body may have been exposed to has reached its limit, any more could have detrimental health impacts. And for all that, Paul Sherman and David Wilcomes have our undying thanks for picking up the mantle this weekend and covering this game. Run. Puke. Repeat. [David Wilcomes]Not only were they exposed to cannon-fire in an open field, they had to go through whatever that STUPID RIDICULOUS RUTGERS LIGHT SHOW THING WAS that started before touchdown