Michigan Monday is up
Nothing surprising. Makes light of the offense followed immediately by snark toward BGSU
https://buckeyehuddle.com/2023/09/18/michigan-monday-the-picks-are-in/
September 18th, 2023 at 8:14 PM ^
Rutgers Rivalry Game makes an appearance again.
September 18th, 2023 at 8:30 PM ^
Even Michigan Monday mailed it in this week. Mostly fair takes, as per usual, but seemed to lack energy, which now that I mentioned it is also completely fair for this “game”
September 18th, 2023 at 11:34 PM ^
This game was so boring that the MGoBlog writers could barely make it through their own columns.
September 18th, 2023 at 8:43 PM ^
Good thing his taking umbrage isn't something of value or recruits couldn't ingest this column. Perhaps once the meat of the season arrives we'll finally have more valuable prose. Might not be until the desert course of the season.
September 18th, 2023 at 8:49 PM ^
Special ability to sound super condescending despite two straight ass beatings. Also over on 11 Warriors they’re super confident (like 20+ point win margin) for Domer game. The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
September 18th, 2023 at 9:02 PM ^
ND is probably a paper tiger, but OSU shouldn't be confident about anything from what I've seen. Do they really think they're going to go into South Bend and beat ND by the same amount they beat Indiana?
September 18th, 2023 at 10:21 PM ^
ND will beat them. Soundly.
September 18th, 2023 at 10:22 PM ^
My guess is OSU offensive line is going to get exposed a bit on Saturday and McCord is going to struggle against the best defense he will have seen so far. If OSU wins on Saturday, it is going to be because they were able to run the football. I am very interested to see how this offense does if they get down more than a touchdown. I do think OSU is going to continue to get better as the season progresses so Michigan isn’t going to face the same team that will be playing in South Bend this weekend.
September 19th, 2023 at 12:05 PM ^
No! The football gods favor Michigan. OSU will digress over the season as McCord becomes increasingly shell-shocked. Michigan will already have the B1G East locked up by OSU and the gutless Buckeyes will have quit on Ryan Day and will mail it in as soon as they're hit in the face.
September 19th, 2023 at 4:15 PM ^
Hartman is a LEGIT QB though and OSU's DL has been very underwhelming so far this season. So give a real QB plenty of time to throw and he'll figure it out. Oddly OSU is better that skill positions and ND is better in the trenches. Not sure if ND has a good coach or not, but I think a really solid gameplan wins this game for ND.
September 19th, 2023 at 3:10 PM ^
My only rooting interest is the meteor.
September 18th, 2023 at 9:04 PM ^
"This year’s three-game suspension is now over and he has undoubtedly learned that the crime of burgerlary doesn’t pay."
This is funny, but on Saturday it's, "Go Irish, F Ohio".
September 19th, 2023 at 11:00 AM ^
Never ever go fucking notre shame ever
September 18th, 2023 at 9:17 PM ^
I understand the "Yeah, but Notre Dame" argument. But Youngstown State? I know the Tressel connection, and intrastate stuff.And sure ND, Western Kentucky, and a middling FCS school probably trumps ECU, UNLV, and Bowling Green. But by how much? And especially the performances from UM and OSU?
It's a lazy idea from a (pre 2023) good writer that usually has, IMHO, a rational take on the rivalry. The last 2 years have affected this column to the point of irrelevance.
September 19th, 2023 at 8:30 AM ^
Youngstown State was a late fill in for a game that was scheduled with San Jose State. Not a great jump up, but also not a FCS school.
Western KY is a bowl team every year, probably 8-9 win team. For reference, they smoked the USF team that battled Alabama. They also return the #1 passing offense in the country with a veteran QB and legit WR talent. #2 offense overall last year.
Then there is Notre Dame. You are saying it "probably trumps" the UM schedule to this point....you have to really have some Maize colored glasses to not see that WKU and ND are two opponents on a different level than what you have seen.
I'm all for waiting to let the season play out before jumping to conclusions in the non-conference, but you have to really be stretching to act like ND and WKU wouldn't wipe the floor with your entire non-conference schedule.
September 19th, 2023 at 12:09 PM ^
ND is a given. But let's calm down about setting Western Kentucky on some kind of pedestal above our schedule. The fact of the matter is that the only team on either schedule even capable of giving UM/OSU a game is ND.
September 19th, 2023 at 2:22 PM ^
Agreed that ND is the only quality opponent. But there is indeed a gap between WKU and the other 4 non-con opponents.
Last week's SP+ (I don't have access to post-Week 3 SP+):
- ND #11
- WKU #75
- UNLV #97
- ECU #99
- BG #113
- YSU (FCS #21)
September 19th, 2023 at 5:14 PM ^
Place the top 5 FCS schools into the FBS, and they're probably all above BGSU. That makes YSU #16 in the FCS. Add in the 133(?) Actual FBS schools, and they rank 148.
Obviously these numbers are made up. But I feel they're close enough. Using those numbers, the avg for OSU is 78. Mich is 103. A sizeable gap, indeed. But then look at how each team performed against those schools. And the ND game hasn't even happened yet.
September 19th, 2023 at 5:02 PM ^
Hawaii led the world in passing yardage for a solid decade. They lost a ton of shootouts. Mike Leach, RIP, made his living on having 500 ypg passing attacks. An awesome passing attack does not a good team make. Especially against teams with a semblance of a secondary.
They can win 8-9 games a year playing in the Sun Belt, MAC, Non-ACC GO5, conference.(lolACC.) Believe it or not, I was not wearing glasses of any color tint. I defaulted to OSU having a harder OOC schedule. I was pointing out that telhe difference between the 2 wasn't nearly the gap that it looks like on paper.
September 19th, 2023 at 3:06 PM ^
Rational has given way to pretension with extra smarm.
September 18th, 2023 at 10:38 PM ^
Gerdeman's snark has felt contrived over these past few years. It's like he wants to condescend but not really sure about it.
I can think of between 23 and 45 reasons for this...
September 18th, 2023 at 10:45 PM ^
It's interesting they criticize the running game by eliminating the longest runs and lament that the rest were only 4+ ypc. Like, if they were 3 ypc and one long one, fine. But high 4s is, while not great, also not bad. And the big ones do, contrary to buckeye beliefs, still count.
September 18th, 2023 at 11:12 PM ^
especially the 75-yard and 85-yard runs.
September 18th, 2023 at 11:16 PM ^
I didn’t read the column, but people who remove runs from stats are stupid. That’s how the game goes. You get 3 or 4 yards a bunch of times, then you get 50 yards.
September 19th, 2023 at 5:44 AM ^
Watch a Lions game with Barry Sanders. Negative yards are as common as a four yarders. Yet, he was amazing
September 18th, 2023 at 11:54 PM ^
Removing the longest run (as they are often the result of a defense bust) and simple math of total yards divided by (number of carries - 1) is a quick and easy calculation during the games to get an idea of what is happening. The median rush is probably a better one, to get an idea of consistency and what you can really expect.
September 19th, 2023 at 1:01 AM ^
Yea I get that - but it's most useful when it's like "oh they slogged out 2 ypc other than that 50 harder." 4 ypc in total would be below average. 4.3 and 4.8 ypc when taking away the longs is...not really a slog. It's not great, but it's definitely closer to good then bad. And when one of the longs is 11, it looks pretty damn decent.
September 19th, 2023 at 1:03 AM ^
When you remove the longest run, since they're often the result of a defensive bust it should also be accompanied by removing the shortest. Not necessarily speaking of this game, but if you have an RB break an 80 yarder that can easily be attributed to a defensive lapse; there may be a -6 yard run that occurred due to a botched snap or what have you.
September 19th, 2023 at 4:29 PM ^
I would agree with you (although one fluke 80 yarder is more likely to throw off your averages than one 6 yard loss), but if you are merely watching on TV (or at the stadium) you don't normally have access to full game stats of all individual carries, you are likely only to shown Yards, Carries, YPC, Longest run, and maybe TDs. I haven't seen "shortest run" posted anywhere.
It's just a crude "rule of thumb" measurement to give you a slightly better view of what's going on. A back with one 80 or 90 yard run and then a bunch of one or two or lost yardage runs might arguably have speed, but maybe not as valuable on who consistently get 4 to 7 yards a run (and occasionally something longer) and multiple 30 yarders and three TDs. Yes, we want to see HR speed, but probably more importantly, we want to see backs who can get the yardage needed consistently (and don't turn the ball over).
September 18th, 2023 at 11:00 PM ^
Michigan Monday writing is down … hill since we started dominating the game the last two years.
September 18th, 2023 at 11:56 PM ^
It can't be as enjoyable an undertaking as it was when OSU was almost guaranteed a win every year.
September 19th, 2023 at 12:03 AM ^
Right, maybe that depression is showing through in the writing.
September 19th, 2023 at 7:06 AM ^
Any article that references Kelly Kapowski gets an upvote from me
September 19th, 2023 at 7:33 AM ^
Bless their little hearts but these guys are not worth listening to. They try but they are as pathologically jaded as any other silly partisan fans.
September 19th, 2023 at 2:27 PM ^
The Falcons turned those four turnovers into six points. Had Michigan just turned the ball over 18 more times, Bowling Green would have probably won.
I lol'd thinking about the reality that BG could've turned 22 turnovers into ~32+ points and snuck away with a win.
Would've only taken 22 TOs. LOL
September 20th, 2023 at 1:21 AM ^
I thought this part was quite hilarious:
"The entire story with this game now comes down to whether or not this was just a bored and overconfident quarterback. I think there is merit to that thought, but what this performance has done is let everyone know that while JJ McCarthy may complete 87% of his passes 60% of the time, he’s still liable to leave a few gifts on your front porch just like last year.
But that doesn’t mean you can rely on it. Because as we’ve also seen, he will beat your ass like you took a swing at his dog."