2 Stat Lines for your Sparty colleagues on Monday
Michigan held MSU to 94 total yards of offense Saturday. This is MSU's lowest total yardage since 1947.
1947: Michigan beat Michigan State College of Agriculture and Applied Science (M.S.C.) 55 - 0 holding them to 56 total yards.
Brian Lewerke's completion % is the worst in the B1G in 20 years.
https://twitter.com/ESPNStatsInfo/status/1053754050594824192
#SpartansWont
October 21st, 2018 at 10:42 AM ^
Michigan also had more penalty yards than MSU total offensive yards.
October 21st, 2018 at 10:44 AM ^
Is that losing with dignity?
October 21st, 2018 at 1:42 PM ^
I was thinking this during the 4th quarter, too.
Lost the game, lost their dignity. Also their logo.
October 21st, 2018 at 10:46 AM ^
I somehow feel insulted.
How did they not have 94 penalty yards?
October 21st, 2018 at 11:04 AM ^
Because we kept retaliating and offsetting their personal fouls.
October 21st, 2018 at 12:57 PM ^
The one where Ruiz had someone on his legs and the MSU player was trying to bend him in half really rankeled.
October 21st, 2018 at 11:58 AM ^
http://www.espn.com/college-football/matchup?gameId=401012884
Michigan dominated this game and is only getting better. We have yet to play a complete game.
October 21st, 2018 at 2:42 PM ^
Saving it for Ohio State.
October 21st, 2018 at 10:43 AM ^
If out of bounds was a receiver, Lewerke was like 20-25.
October 21st, 2018 at 10:48 AM ^
Good belly laugh there. Thanks.
October 21st, 2018 at 10:45 AM ^
Yeah but Lewerke’s shoulder hurt.
October 21st, 2018 at 10:47 AM ^
He can commiserate with Mork - his butt hurts.
October 21st, 2018 at 10:49 AM ^
And now his butt hurts.
October 21st, 2018 at 10:50 AM ^
Hehe, funny that, ya know -- do you recall getting any sympathy from MSU fans when Michigan State beat down, say, RichRod's awful 2008 team at the Big House? Because I sure as hell don't.
October 21st, 2018 at 10:46 AM ^
BTN showed a graphic saying we held them to 11 (!) yards in the 1983 game, a 42-0 destruction.
October 21st, 2018 at 10:51 AM ^
Holy shit. 11 yards? I gotta find video of that game, somewhere. Wow.
October 21st, 2018 at 10:51 AM ^
I was at that game. Their QB was Yarema, I think. They couldn't do anything. But that was back in the days when that was routine.
October 21st, 2018 at 10:57 AM ^
I just looked up MSU's 1983 season. Woof. (But hey, still a win better than our 2008 season).
But they were mostly competitive in all of their other losses that year. What a beatdown -- and, in East Lansing, too.
October 21st, 2018 at 11:17 AM ^
Wow, you were at that game?
A question for you: What was Moses like? He seems nice in the Bible, but what was he really like as a person?
October 21st, 2018 at 3:03 PM ^
They'll never be another rebounder like Moses...
October 21st, 2018 at 10:56 AM ^
Great story about that game: That was George Perles' first year as head coach. When the teams met in East Lansing, Perles met his good friend Bo on the field before the game. Perles said, "I have to tell you Bo, I'm really nervous."
Bo smiled at his friend and replied, "You should be."
Final: Michigan 42 MSU 0
Perles told this story at Bo's funeral.
Here are highlights of that game. Don't know how to embed....
October 21st, 2018 at 11:20 AM ^
WH, to embed: hit the source button, then type <oembed>paste your vid/embed link</oembed> then hit source, then save.
October 21st, 2018 at 12:28 PM ^
And remember, you can always hit preview before hitting save to confirm the post embeds correctly.
October 21st, 2018 at 12:14 PM ^
Harbaugh playing at 20:40
October 21st, 2018 at 1:05 PM ^
That's Jim's career debut.
October 21st, 2018 at 4:59 PM ^
I think that was 111 yards. They said yesterday was the lowest for Michigan state since 1946 or 47.
October 21st, 2018 at 10:46 AM ^
That's amazing that Lewerke was worse than Rutger's two QBs. Almost impossible to believe.
So I guess he gets a negative QBR?
October 21st, 2018 at 11:01 AM ^
It wasn't nearly as bad as Rutgers. They had 8 yards on 2 completions They are probably ignoring Rutgers because they had too few passes. Understandable when the last 5 attempts were all intercepted.
October 21st, 2018 at 11:11 AM ^
The tweet specifies that Lewerke's completion % was the worst with a minimum of 20 pass attempts.
October 21st, 2018 at 10:48 AM ^
And two of Lewerke's completions looked questionable. I'll have to go back and look at them but the commentators were surprised that neither was reviewed. They were pretty fortunate to reach that 94 yard total.
October 21st, 2018 at 10:52 AM ^
Most of that was the backup QB in garbage time.
October 21st, 2018 at 10:54 AM ^
They had 5 yards of total offense on that garbage time drive so that’s not really true
October 21st, 2018 at 10:59 AM ^
51% of the MSU yardage yesterday (194 yards total) was accomplished via Michigan penalties. Think about that for a sec.
October 21st, 2018 at 3:08 PM ^
5 of their 11 first downs were from penalties
October 21st, 2018 at 11:06 AM ^
Michigan had a late hit for 15 yards, a defensive holding, 2 PI's (I think there were 2?) and a 12 men on the field penalty on that drive, which started at the MSU 13 yard line. MSU's QB had a 9 yard completion and MSU got 10 yards on the play where the late hit took place.
October 21st, 2018 at 10:59 AM ^
That drive was all Michigan penalties. The announcers certainly acted like their qb was actually moving the offense. But our penalties were.
October 21st, 2018 at 11:06 AM ^
I'm not talking about that last drive. The first was a slant pass in the second quarter where the receiver made a spectacular catch at first but seemed to lose control just before hitting the ground. The second was in the third quarter which looked like it could have gone either way. I know it's splitting hairs but the commentators said both should have been reviewed.
October 21st, 2018 at 11:11 AM ^
The first pass was one to Heyward that he pulled in with one hand but on the way down absolutely let it bounce on the turf right front of the refs. For some reason that easy called a catch.
October 21st, 2018 at 11:04 AM ^
The Don Brown defense went to EL and put on a clinic in ass kicking. Total and absolute beatdown.
The destruction wrought by a Fully Weaponized Death Star.
October 21st, 2018 at 11:07 AM ^
#spartanswilt
October 21st, 2018 at 11:07 AM ^
#spartanswilt
October 21st, 2018 at 11:09 AM ^
Lewerke also want 2/14 against Maryland last year, which is a worse completion percentage as well. That's why the whole dark horse Heisman talk cracked me up about him - he has these absolute stinkers in him.
October 21st, 2018 at 11:53 AM ^
I don't know where to put this comment, but I am curious as to why on the fumbled punt that included two MSU penalties for holding and an illegal block in the back, the penalties would be wiped off because Michigan recovered the fumble. If there had been no change in possession from the punt, one of the penalties would have been enforced at the end of the play from either the spot of the foul with no change in possession or from the field position at which the receiving team was down by contact.
But the calls were both wiped out apparently because of the fumble, and Michigan wasn't even consulted in making this choice. This is typically the case when a penalty is obvious on a play in which the outcome of the play is more advantageous to the penalty beneficiary than the result of the penalty, say, a first down or touchdown on offense or a TFL on defense that negates a markoff that gives the offense another chance to replay the down.
In this case, the penalties weren't dead ball fouls. They occurred during the playing action that ended with a fumbled change of possession. So, why wouldn't the penalty yardage be added on at the end of the play? I understand the connection between a dead ball markoff (after the play was over unsportsmanlike or personal foul, such as a roughing penalty) and a playing action foul. Teams are super penalized when their actions are deemed unsportsmanlike under the rules, and multiple calls can be enforced at once. But if you are flagged for two blocking violations on one play why does change of possession negate those violations?
After the announcement, the referee went over to the Michigan sideline to confer with Harbaugh who seemed mystified by the action. No one on the broadcast questioned it, so I am assuming that a penalty is apparently negated by a change of possession play. That just doesn't seem like the correct administration of the call, unless the rule is you get the ball or you get the penalty, but not both.
October 21st, 2018 at 12:14 PM ^
The penalties probably occured before the fumble. I do believe that matters.
October 21st, 2018 at 1:15 PM ^
Correct. To accept the penalties, Michigan would have had to give up the ball, because they occurred before the change of possession.
It’s similar to how you decline offensive holding if you get an interception on the play.
You are free to think it’s a silly rule, but the officials got it right.
October 21st, 2018 at 11:13 AM ^
And they had more yards playing Red Rover than football.
October 21st, 2018 at 11:14 AM ^
The reply to that tweet pointing out that MSU gaining more yards on their “walk” than they did all game was gold.
October 21st, 2018 at 11:17 AM ^
Pride comes before the fall
Late for practice, you don't play in the game, which they didn't it seems like
We apologize for the cruelty inflicted upon MSU thru a stake in the heart of MSU fans
Michigan just got a big timeout for whipping upon little brother. Punishment? Have to watch fucking Purdue game for a week.
October 21st, 2018 at 11:20 AM ^
Lewerke's stat line is worst in big 10 with minimum 20 attempts. Thats a pretty big qualifier, as it knocks out last week's Rutger Stats.