What Would the PSU and Wisconsin Players Say Comparing UM to OSU?

They would say that Michigan is a complete, dominant team while Ohio State = Barrett.

If you can take away Barrett (or make him take away himself), you will win.  The rest of Ohio State is good, but not phenomenal.

If anything happens to Barrett or his head goes south, they are toast.

 

Only flaw was FG unit.

Doesn't matter..Michigan has to bring their A game into Columbus..OSU will be hungry and ready to fight, we will too.

Beat Staee

My wet blanket moment and then I'll go back to celebrating their loss.

Both Wisconsin and PSU had bye weeks before playing OSU at home in a night game...in back to back weeks. You had to figure they would both play much better. Still picked OSU to win both, but I'm glad they lost last night...but still fuck Penn State. God, I'm all over the place.

I've said it before - if OSU's offense consists of Barrett getting his yards on scrambles and broken plays, I'm okay with that.  That's no way to win a 4-quarter game.  I really think that Brown needs to sell out to stop the running game while watching the underneath, quick hitting passes.  Keep the short stuff and hand-offs under control, and you've contained OSU.  Their WRs won't beat Lewis and Stribling very often.  And I'll play the numbers game that Barrett won't hit them when (if) they do...

Looking ahead, I see a repeat with Wisconsin in the B1G Championship game.  That won't be any easier...  

We must beat both msu and osu's ass this year. I'm tired of their shit. OSU fans already saying, "it's okay, we'll just curb stop little Michigan at the end of the year anyways." Screw them, let's start by kicking states ass next week!

Hard to say really....OSU seems to fall apart with bad weather. First MSU last year and now PSU this year. I hope it's freezing rain in Ohio when we play them.

Better weather and I think they roll PSU. Hard to draw too many conclusions from last night.

That one team should have scored even more points while the other team should have scored less.

Their players would probably comment that Michigan is more physical, harder to predict each snap and is harder to defend against

What's notable to me
Is that like so many other coaches, as Urbz lost his top assistants he's lost key developers of their talent. Happened to Stoops, Urbz at FL, Bowden, Dantonio. Feeling pretty lucky we have Harbaugh. He just goes out and gets himself a Don Brown.

OSU was willing to put Barrett in more harm's way (i.e. running Qback carries) against Wisc.  Against this team he seemed to be a lot more in "preservation mode".

That doesn't specifically address the content of this thread though.

 

to OSU's cheerleaders.

...was interviewed on BTN last week after he went off on Maryland, and was asked about his performance and the team's improving performance. His first comment was, "We'll, we played a REALLY good Michigan team a few weeks ago and have improved since then."

Any concern that Illinois was able to shut down the Pepcat package pretty thoroughly? I was surprised at how predictable those plays seemed.

The Meyer O is same as Rich Rod's but always with better talent while at Florida and on Columbus. Relies on superior athletes to be successful.

Both are spread-to-run offenses that utilize the QB as a runner to gain a numerical advantage over defenses. But the similarities pretty much stop there. Rich Rod's offense is based on outside zone; he recruits lighter, more athletic OL who can step around defenders and reach block them. He tries to outflank defenses and attack the edges with speed. Meyer's offense is based on inside (or "tight") zone, and thus relies on more physical OL and double-teams to open running lanes. Both schemes require a dual-threat QB but otherwise the personnel you'd want for RR's scheme (which emphasizes speed) is pretty different from what you'd want for Meyer's (which emphasizes power).