Michigan vs. Illinois --- Immediate Reactions

If we win out, I think we're in the best position to get the second BCS birth from the B1G (if such an animal is available this year).  Under that scenario, everyone else in the B1G except the B1G champion and Michigan will have at least three losses.  (We hand Nebraska their third loss, Wiscy and PSU play each other so the loser gets a third loss.  Presuming they don't get a third lose in the reg seasons, MSUs and winner of Wiscy/PSU would meet in BTCG and obviously one of those teams lose).

I don't think there's too much complaining to do about the playcalling at least in the first half.  We were very very close to scoring 30 some points that half, and Denard looked fine up to that point.

Sorry bout any misspellings... We started out shots for Tds..... Then we played shots for anything good for mich.... So denard please stop turning the ball over...defense more Jake Ryan please... And fitz thank you I needed that.

Mattison has done a very good job getting this D to not remember anything Greg Robinson taught them the last 3 years. They will get better. Their jobs the next two weeks: contain Martinez and Miller.

Simply amazing what Mattison has accomplished.

Immediate-reaction: Denard Robinson has lost his confidence and is still by far the better Quarterback. I hope he can recover from his injury and regain his mojo for these last two games.

How about Tay Odoms being our leading receiver today.

Thinks there are 10 B1G teams.

May be the only one who knows what happened to 5 hookers at SMU.

I, too, noticed Gardner's release on that play and I liked it.  Denard may have gunned it in there and who knows where it would of ended up.

defense was awesome for almost the whole game

offense was awesome in the first quarter

where was gallon?  i like seeing odums but gallon gets that endzone pass that went over odums.

where was the triple stack?

yay no duece

try jackson in there when garder's in.  they had a good hookup a couple games back and likely they get the most time together in practice.

straight pass protection seemed to work better than all the tricky play fakes

more t. gordon please

based upon his current play, woolfolk is our #6 and maybe even #7 db (add 1 if carvin was still around).  he's obviously hampered and i'm only noticing him late on plays.

jake ryan.  holy cow don't test the edge on his side.  he needs to pass whatever he's been smoking over to black and clark.

after seeing gardner hit odums in stride, i question the accuracy of drobs depth perception... seriously.  he's pretty good at crosses and slants but is almost always short or long on routes running away from him.

Something I haven't seen in a long and painful three years, at least 8 wins and a defense. I couldn't be happier with what this coaching staff has done!

Would have been a dream with many MNCs attached...alas...