night games thread

OSU continues to get STUD DB's because they look for kids with good talent.  That, and making sure their recruits can catch pop ups and ground balls, are good at swimming, and can excel at basketball and dodgeball.  You know...the things that really matter when evaluating a player.

It's called making a commitment to being a National player in college football. 

Guess they haven't really been tested, but this feels like the most talented OSU team yet. Just no let up. Great athletes at 22 spots.

Recruiting*

That may be but with the rules as they currently are set,  there is no way fields should be eligible. 

How many weeks did Harbaugh have to prepare for Florida and the Bowl Game?  How many weeks did he have to prepare this team to play for 2019?  Harbaugh isn't changing anything in 8 weeks.  He has shown he cannot prepare his team to play.  How anyone can overlook that fact is not being objective.  I don't like that fact.  I so wish it wasn't true.  I wish Michigan was steam rolling teams.  Would be my greatest joy.

Pure and simple, Harbaugh hasn't had our team look anything like OSU.  They are a freaking juggernaut.  Their execution is superb.  Their Talent that has been developed and utilized correctly. They recruit at a level beyond us.  Harbaugh doesn't know how to put together a team like OSU.

OSU becomes average if they lose their QB. I’m not hoping he gets hurt, but I’m not praying for his health either. 

Agree. We’re gonna have to learn how to score often and fast. Ball control offense wasn’t working against osu and certainly won’t work this year. Let’s hope our O can improve off this week and keep improving. 

Btw Indiana showed the key to playing MSU is throwing the ball. Not a lot of teams running on MSU but passing to set up the run looks like the key against them. 

This is how every other team / fan in the country thinks of Michigan. 

Yep, unfortunately.

Not only is their talent and coaching superior but we also get the distinction of being their "rival". They prepare for their rival much better than we do as well. 

Sadly I agree. The rivalry is slowly but surely turning into a Little Brown Jug situation where it’s a rivalry in name only. Where one team is so much blatantly better than the other in every aspect of the game year in and year out. Michigan can afford to go independent because so many schools would clamor to get on their schedule.

As long as we have to face OSU every year, as well as be in their same division, Michigan’s never going to even sniff the playoff. I’d rather go the ND route, go undefeated on an easy schedule and get blown out in the semis. At least even you can say you made it and had a chance to play for it all.

they have talent, size, speed... but they are not going to annihilate every team they play.  Look at tonight, Clemson looked vulnerable, against an unranked   I am more dreading OSU fans getting tickets in my section, I'm too old to go to jail.

We were told that about Wisconsin. 

or maybe their players get real coaching?

With all due respect to my beloved team....even well-coached, I don't believe Michigan has the same talent level and depth as OSU. Their O and D line look absolutely ridiculous. 

Super hot take but...if there was a fulcrum moment in Harbaugh's career at Michigan, it was the 2016 game at OSU. Beating OSU, in their house, was the launching pad for recruiting and a national title run. Even with the loss at Iowa, that season should have been the launching pad for improved recruiting and well....yeah...fuck that game.