Turnovers and Winning
So far this year M has:
2 games with a + TOM and won both (UConn & ND)
5 games with a -0- TOM and we have 4 wins (UMass, BGSU, Ind, Purdue) and 1 loss (Penn State)
3 games with a - TOM and we have 1 win (Illini) and 2 losses (MSU and Iowa).
Most of our TOs are caused by inexperience at the QB position. But, TOs are really variable and these last 2 games can go either way.
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November 15th, 2010 at 1:14 PM ^
The turnovers have gotten slightly out of hand. I hope a "regression to the mean" is in order... and by mean i mean whatever value that is favorable to Michigan.
November 15th, 2010 at 1:20 PM ^
As of late, our turnovers and winning are mutually inclusive. Keep our d on the field!!
/sarcasm extreme
November 15th, 2010 at 1:30 PM ^
I am looking forward to Denard, yet again, during the offseason taping his eyes open and cramming football into them 25 hours a day. The offense will roll with Junior Denard Robinson at the helm.
I can't even imagine how good a Senior Denard Robinson is going to be. Watch out Bama!
November 15th, 2010 at 1:58 PM ^
IIRC, the juggernaut OK teams used to win NC's with tons of turnovers and penalties. Of course, that was in the days when they gave 115 schollies and only the "elite" teams got on TV, but they were able to beat a lot of teams on talent alone.
During preseason predictions, I commented often that Michigan didn't have to improve a lot to simply take care of business against MSU, Purdue, and Illinois, and that alone would get them to eight games. I was unable to foresee that MSU would actually be almost as good as their instate media shills predicted this year, but Michigan has improved just enough to be better than the lower echelon teams.
Consquently, they are sitting at seven. The main question to me is whether or not they can spring one upset the next two games, or even (gasp) two. Turnovers will mean a lot the last two games, because Michigan doesn't have the same amount of talent as Wiscy or OSU yet and will have to play near-perfect games to win.
I think they will get one of the last two. I also think it would be obvious to all which one I prefer it to be.
November 15th, 2010 at 2:04 PM ^
Yup, M has not had an upset win for RRs entire tenure (the 2008 win against Wsky was when Wsky went 7-6 -- not a very good team that year).
November 15th, 2010 at 2:37 PM ^
2008 Wisconsin and Minnesota qualify as upsets - they each won seven games to our three. They just weren't top-notch teams. We haven't beaten the latter . . . yet.
November 15th, 2010 at 8:37 PM ^
We should be able to stay in both of the last two games, provided that turnover number is in our favor. Wisc. may have a post-blowout letdown.