This is the look of a team that didn't want to come back out after halftime.
November 28th, 2021 at 9:56 PM ^
Loved the big uglies rushing in there to back their guy and looking like they were gonna eat that asshole for breakfast.
November 28th, 2021 at 9:12 PM ^
As someone who sat in the stands for the great upset of OSU in1969, I can't remember a time I've been more proud of our Wolverines. Go Blue!
November 28th, 2021 at 9:16 PM ^
I love everything about this.
November 28th, 2021 at 9:17 PM ^
That's awesome.
November 28th, 2021 at 9:20 PM ^
What a difference a year makes. I remember in that one game last year when Jim had to tell guys to get off their ass and get pumped up when Henning made that big play.
November 28th, 2021 at 9:22 PM ^
This win just keeps on getting better and better.
November 28th, 2021 at 9:36 PM ^
The strength of the wolf is the pack.
November 28th, 2021 at 9:39 PM ^
Wait, so now we can have a "Karsen Barnhart Epic Double Bird of the Week"?
As bummed as that OSU team looked, wish we could have punched in that second drive (got greedy, should have given to Haskins). That Buckeye squad might have collapsed completely down tow TDs halfway through the 1Q.
November 28th, 2021 at 9:44 PM ^
Even down by one at halftime, Ohio State did not seem psychologically put together to get through this game at all, almost as if they imploded inside at the first moment of real adversity for them, which of course came rather early and was then repeatedly compounded. That's not the team that people in the national media hype, but that's the team we in fact received on the field in Ann Arbor. It was fun to watch them run about completely frazzled for once really.
November 28th, 2021 at 10:40 PM ^
The only thing all of the high 4- and 5-star players on this OSU team have ever known is a lot of smoke blown up their asses about how great they are, starting in high school. The recruiting process magnifies this glorification, and it's hard for kids who are 18-20 to keep their heads from getting swelled. It's inevitable that they start believing all the hype, and that's the origin of what happened yesterday.
November 28th, 2021 at 11:19 PM ^
Eh. I see their problems mostly being Ryan Day and their defensive coaches. They were so convinced their offense would drop 100 that they had no real adjustment to what the defense was doing. Same with their defense.
November 29th, 2021 at 1:19 AM ^
They had schematic issues for sure, but that's not all of what happened yesterday. As somebody on 11W said, "we could have put 14 in the box and they could have told us what was coming, and Haskins would still be running."
That was a win by submission. There's not much you can do to help schematically once your players have tapped out. (Their defense I mean. Their offense kept working; their defense had had enough.)
November 28th, 2021 at 9:51 PM ^
That sound when the wall of Michigan players arrives... man.
Buckeyes looked like they were running away.
In the second half, they played like it.
Touchdown.
Touchdown.
Touchdown.
Touchdown!
November 28th, 2021 at 9:51 PM ^
Wow what a contrast. OSU looked like they wanted to go home. Michigan looked like they didn’t even want halftime. Just take OSU back on the field and continue the ass whipping
November 28th, 2021 at 9:53 PM ^
I fucking love it! Only up by 1 and this team is like hurry the fuck up and get this halftime over, we fixing to beat that ass when y’all get back on the field!
Side note, too bad that OSU slappy ref from 2016 couldn’t have tripped and got stepped on around 85 times or so.
November 28th, 2021 at 9:57 PM ^
I wonder if it riled up OSU where they had a harder time concentrating on what the coaches were saying for adjustments.
November 28th, 2021 at 10:01 PM ^
Coming out at half it just felt like this team wanted the fight at every step. I can’t say osu didn’t want the fight but it sure felt like they were just expecting it to happen for them.
November 28th, 2021 at 10:08 PM ^
The way our team reacted to that scuffle after the JJ run compared to the way they did…showed that we were going to pull it off. We were fired up by it, they were defeated by it.
November 28th, 2021 at 10:39 PM ^
Yep, I was so glad to see every wolverine on the field was not having it! I got real excited when the entire offense came over and not only was ready for the fight they evicted the buckeyes around!
November 28th, 2021 at 10:17 PM ^
OSU was not on the same level mentally. Talk like this can easily get overblown; body language doesn’t say as much as people want it to say, etc. But OSU made mistakes, errors. Did stuff that was clearly not all plugged in. Just started the podcast and Brian is marveling at it.
And so maybe they didn’t always exactly play to their potential. And I say:
So what. This is the first time we have had a high stakes OSU game at home since 2003. Every year that we’ve come into the game with a chance to win something since, it has been at OSU against an elite OSU team. 06, 16, and 18 in particular. Every year our team peaked, they were at a peak and at home.
This year our team peaked. Had the game at home. Came out confident, ready to play.
OSU was taken off guard.
They didn’t totally melt down. Stroud played well. Their receivers were great as usual.
But they entered the cauldron against a better team and it threw them off.
November 28th, 2021 at 10:52 PM ^
The mental game is just as important as the X's and O's, if not more so. It doesn't make the win any less.
November 28th, 2021 at 11:10 PM ^
Not one iota less.
November 28th, 2021 at 11:22 PM ^
They've beaten us on autopilot before and clearly expected to do so again. Day didn't prepare them for a smash mouth street fight because he expected an easy walkover.
November 28th, 2021 at 10:18 PM ^
Fuckin awesome
November 28th, 2021 at 10:37 PM ^
What is really amazing, is that we were still out hit by a UFC team that didn’t even play. That has to burn the fan base.
November 28th, 2021 at 10:53 PM ^
Typical sore losers in the comments. Cry about "class" as if your entire team and fanbase has any.
November 28th, 2021 at 10:56 PM ^
Now THAT is a level of enthusiasm now known to mankind. M looked like they knew a beat down was about to be completed.
Cade and coach are right, this team is just built different. Love to see it.
November 28th, 2021 at 11:13 PM ^
The entire team played and acted exactly like real Wolverines in the wild. Relentless. Scary. Smart. Mean …..and looking for “fights”.
The boys didn’t give a shit about the past, and for sure didn’t give a f%#* about anyone in-front of them. They were pissed off and it was glorious.
Thing if beauty
November 28th, 2021 at 11:22 PM ^
Enthusiasm unknown to mankind!
November 29th, 2021 at 2:00 AM ^
Holy shit, that is fucking amazing
November 29th, 2021 at 2:00 AM ^
Holy shit, that is fucking amazing