Michigan Favored by 29.0 over Nebraska; Other Lines

You mean you’ll take the points?

Lol my bad, I was had just looked at the points for this game before replying to this. Btw the point total is 52 right now if you're interested 

My 2nd game at Michigan Stadium was UM-Navy in 1976.  Michigan “only” led 20-14 at halftime.  Final score was 70-14.

The thing is that you start with a tie; it's zero-zero when you begin. So everyone can have a nervous breakdown right from jump. Then you work outward. You could graph the divergence in scores in different ways, starting with absurd expectations, carried within us--relative talent/skill and--additional variable--execution. But under most circumstances if you're the better squad, the score may--by dint of math and stuff--be closer at halftime than at the end. If you also take into account that any good team adjusts to how the opponent has game-planned after the half, you can probably get to a saner take--there's an arc these things tend to describe. The pot of gold is at the end, not the beginning. 

It's as if everyone wants the games to begin 50-0, with Michigan in the lead. Happily, the other team is playing, too. That's why it's a game. In the old days, sometimes, we actually thought it was fun when we got into a bit of a duel with the other squad. If we lost, we just went to the Washtenaw Dairy and had a donut, mowed the lawn. 

This is why I stay far the f away from this place and the game threads, especially in the first half. Some poor chode who has his mortgage riding telling us we're all gonna die ten minutes in just isn't much fun. 

They're pretty good with Ewers at QB.  Would have beaten Bama if he didn't get hurt in the 2nd quarter and probably wouldn't have lost to Texas Tech either.

This is a classic "what if" season for Texas

The Rutgers-MSU game is kind of an important game for both teams' bowl eligibility as they are both sitting at 4-5 with PSU still left on the schedule for both. I just don't see Rutgers being able to attack MSU's weakness in the secondary and passing defense. Rutgers' defense might be good enough to keep them in the game, but I think MSU is the better team.

Ohio will try and run up the score for style points at the expense of working on their ground game. 

I want MSU to be 6-6 and 7-5 forever. If they go 4-8, they will find the $ to fire Tucker. A 7-5 season every couple of years gives them hope 

Outside of a few skill players, Illinois seemed a bit slow

I didn't watch a second of that game, but losing to MSU at home like that is real bad. That's a bad MSU team minus 8 more players who are suspended. They feel like one of those teams where a Don Brown defense wouldn't let them cross midfield- Big Ten west team with a good run game and not much passing attack. That's what Brown feasted on.

I wasn't very worried about them before and now I'm really not worried about them coming to Ann Arbor. It'll be something like 35-10

Unfortunately MSU bowling is good for UM in the grand CFP scheme of things…