The "M00N" and 2015 Northwestern

Submitted by team126 on October 4th, 2015 at 7:54 AM

One of the memorable games of 2014 was the "M00N" - not in a good way. Michigan won by an astonishing score of 10-9.

Fast forward to 2015 and the cats are coming to town. They are on a 5 game winning streak and has beaten up a good Stanford team in their dreams, and shut out Jerry Kill's team last week.

It is thus interesting to look back of the M00N, and check out the Northwestern-Minnesota game yesterday.

Their pass D:

2014 M00N: Gardener had a QBR of 6!

2015 Minnesota: Gophers QBs have an average QBR of 7.1!

Their run D:

2014 M00N: Deveon and company ran over 150 yards (Devin's negative run excluded)

2015 Minnesota: Gophers ran a total of 74 yards

Their pass O:

2014 M00N: Siemian had over 270 yards with 2 interceptions to go with that

2015 Minnesota: Thorson had 128 yards but much more efficient and no interception

Their run O:

2014 M00N: 37 yards (negative runs excluded)

2015 Minnesota: 184 yards!

So Northwestern has indeed improved (if the M00N Michigan team and 2015 Minnesota can be used as reference) but they are not world beaters. 2015 Michigan D will probably limit their run to under 100 yards, and also limit their pass to somewhere around 100 yards as well. On the other hand, we cannot do worse than the M00N Michigan team in pass O, and will probably on par or better in the run O.

Limit the interceptions (Yes, Mr. Rudock!) and fumbles, and I see Michigan beats Jumping Pat 31 - 17.

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Michwolverinefreak

October 4th, 2015 at 11:59 AM ^

They theoretically can't win if their offense doesn't score, so Ruddock, just don't throw a pick-6.

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The Dude

October 4th, 2015 at 1:38 PM ^

the worst football game played by two teams. Hopefully it won't be hilariously bad for Michigan this time around.

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The Denarding

October 4th, 2015 at 2:14 PM ^

This is the first year in a long time that I can remember a northwestern defense that was this healthy. They are strong in both the front seven and back four. Its hard to run or throw on them and they are as disiplined in their play as Utah. We will score points but not a ton and the margin of error on execution is extremely low. My big concern is you miss a run fit or lose contain northwestern will take that to the house. This makes hybrid jabrill the most important player in this game.

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