Tempo?

Don't give Franklin any ideas.

PSU may be able to go tempo at times, but there's no way they'd be able to keep it up all game. You have to be conditioning yourself in the spring to be running full uptempo in November. And besides, Penn State isn't built for tempo. I'd expect way more from OSU than Penn State.

Not very likely.  They can try to go up tempo, but the teams that excel at it (e.g., Oregon, Indiana, etc.) live and breathe that insane tempo starting at day 1 of fall camp.  It is not just something you can flip the switch on for one game.

expert here.  Credentials - I watch a lot of football and I have played catch with my son on at least 2 occassions.  I don't think PSU will go up tempo that much because I don't really think it fits their personnel.  I think OSU is more likely to tempo us and more equiped to do it.  It would also not surprise me if Harbaugh does it to Penn State now that it would appear that we are on the defensive.  It would be an unexpected move and could possibly puzzle them if they intended to try to tempo us.  He likes to mess with people some times I have noticed.

Apparently PSU is one of the slowest tempo teams in the nation. It might be a little hard to get the whole offense to change that up in such short time.

To answer your question: it would be a disaster if PSU tried to install that in one week. Also I have to disagree that it was all about tempo. Part of it, yes. But I think it had as much to do with our defense scheme being so focused on Sudfeld. Michigan did not look prepared for Howard to go off the way he did.

Harbaugh told me all the strategy around this but I can't tell you.  If I tell you, you would then tell someone else and then PSU and OSU might find out. Why would I tell you this info?  I think Harbaugh and I will just keep it to ourselves.

I, for one, would love to see PSU go up-tempo. If they try to install that in one week, I imagine there would be a slew of mistakes - false starts, missed blocking assignments, wrong routes. All they would do is expose their own lack of defensive depth by giving the ball back to Michigan quickly.

OSU, on the other hand, is fully capable of going up-tempo, though maybe not to the degree that Indiana does it. I fully believe they'll use a similar gameplan, and they're better than Indiana pretty much everywhere on offense. That game could be bad news if Harbaugh and company don't figure out something to paper over the depth issue, and fast.

PSU may go up tempo here and there but since they don't do it often it wouldn't be nearly as effective. I don't see them doing it all that much. OSU on the other hand may, which sort of worries me.

besides tempo was IU completely controlled the first quarter.  UM's defense was on the field for 12 of the first 15 minutes.  Indiana ran something like 40 offensive plays in the first quarter!!  In most games, 40 plays is going to account for anywhere from 1/2 to 2/3's of the total plays an offense will run.  

what they have installed well, first, without taking on additional strategies. I am looking forward to that clown Franklin getting Harbaughed.

installing something over 1-2 weeks or adding more of your teams existing uptempo sets to the game plan differ greatly from "tempo teams" and teams that rep it 12 months a year.  indiana, baylor, oregon, etc install those systems as their base on first day of camp or spring ball and then focus on developing and building upon that system every day throughout the fall - their recruiting, personnel, culture, calls, etc all based on philosophy of playing at faster pace.  totally different than spending a few weeks installing or expanding on exisitng uptempo sets.  and it typically shows during games

I feel like penn state and tempo is an oxymoron

That is like asking if UM could go up tempo last year in week 11.   PSU is just trying to do things correctly on offense at a slow tempo.  And they fail a lot. 

OSU I am sure is going to try to mimic all the things Indiana succeeded at because they have a good coaching staff and players who you know... are good at football.

than Penn State.

how quickly you get to the LOS and snap the ball. Indiana tempos because its part of the way the team runs its offense. You can uptempo any defense by trying to snap the ball before the defense can get properly aligned to force a penalty or take advantage of a matchup or substitution problem at a certain position, which, if Penn State were to do that, would make more sense depending on the situation, down and distance.

Penn State is what it is offensively with the personnel it has to run its game. I don't see adding speedup to its offense as a likely possibility. The reason Indiana was successful is because it executed the plays that it ran.

To answer your question, it may be possible to speed the offense a little bit, but Penn State is literally the slowest offense in the country. They might speed up a little but it won't be close to Indiana.

My understanding is going consistently at tempo requires rearranging the team's entire relationship to it's playbook. 

They can't have someone running in with the play call, so they replace that with the cards and hand signals system. These aren't as complex, so they have to have fewer, simpler, highly-complementary plays and lineups.

Learning this system is more than a week's work for players, developing it is too much for a coach. Yes, to say nothing of the conditioning, having players who can play this way, etc. 

Tempo is great or it f*cks you. You see teams that have done it for a while really master it and it works. On the other hand a lot of others who just try it quickly end up looking like the eagles to start the year. Meaning their defense is on the field teh entire game and it is 3 and out all day.

It really is high risk high reward in many cases. If PSU tried it I think that woudl be great as it would setup michigan well in my opinion. 

Indiana did it with a stud quarterback, top running back, and two legit offensive line NFL prospects. You need players to do insane tempo like they did.

Sort of like when Charlie Cankles Weis implemented the spread after the Michigan losses to App State and Oregon and the first snap of the game sailed over Clausen? It would be stupid for PSU to change its O scheme based on the IU game. So dumb. That said, IU is OSU Lite in terms of talent and I'm sure the coaches in scumtown are looking at ways of getting Elliot the ball like IU did Howard.

Tempo!!

I'm just happy our Tempo isn't the same as last years.  

I went back and analized IU's gama by game statistics. I found out that NOBODY HAS BEEN ABLE TO STOP HOWARD ALL YEAR LONG. MSU and OSU got lucky because Howard was injured in those games. He still gained 78 yards on only 11 carries against MSU. He was well on pace to get over 200 yards even on them. IU has the best OL and arguably 2nd best RB in the Big 10. When you add the fact they wear you down with crazy tempo too... they present an unique running game problem.