Win out and in

My notes:

1) Stop they cute plays, they work less and less as season goes on. This includes Peppers wildcat. They rush all 11 players when he comes in and shut it down.

2) Not sure why Harbaugh, Mr. Tight End, didn't use his tight ends or his fullbacks much for that matter. Why all the deep balls? Did he lose his playbook?

3) Hurts from Alabama is going to win Heisman, nobody on these 1 loss or 2 loss teams is going to win, so stop all the Heisman talk. 

4) We, along with the other top 4 that lost still can all be in CFP if we win out. If we lose one more game it will be no CFP and no Rose Bowl - hello Tampa.

5) OSU is flawed too, but they have recovered from their loss and are peaking - we need to do this too.

Really ever since the msu game I have doubted our chances to beat osu on the road. Unless we are saving things for them, it seems like this season has come down to us having more talent than most teams and eventually just crushing their spirit. The defense doesn't force a ton of turnovers and our edge defense is not good, stribling is so soft on the perimeter. Osu will run at him all day. Our LB's seem slow, not saying we can't do it, but I really think it's a stretch. We don't seem to use peppers well on offense except for the same 3 sets. It's been a great season for sure, we will need a lot of breaks in Columbus as well as new wrinkles in offensively and defensively to pull off the upset.

good post

 

true

This loss can be one of two things. The best thing that could've happened to this team (see osu last year) or the worst thing that could've happened to us (exposing weaknesses, losing mental focus). I tend to thing the former will happen. Harbaugh will light their asses up in the film room and have the prepared next week and again the week after in the shoe. Use this loss as motivation to get better.

Who cares. No chance were beating OSU.

Just doesn't have the offensive horses to be a title contender. Defense has some liabilities but over all I could see them being good enough for a national title. But our O-Line just isn't  any where near good enough as a whole, we don't have any elite playmakers at the RB or WR spot, and our QB just isn't good enough. Speight is a serviceable QB but put him on a less dominant team and he's a middle of the road player. Guys like Peters and McCaffery will hopefully be the guys to take us to the next level. As far as next year is concerned, as long as I can see good things from our younger players I'll call it a success. We just lose too much to expect anything more than 8 wins.

The alignment of the stars had nothing to do with it. This one is squarely on Harbaugh, his coaches and the players.

The season was completely fucked last night. They'll win next week, but I can see a repeat of last year's game in two weeks.

I have zero confidence in this crew winning in Columbus.

and ridiculous outcome of PSU going to the Big 10 Championship game.  Hard to comprehend that PSU gets to go Big 10 Championship game if they beat Rutgers and Sparty and we lose one more conference game.   Something seems wrong about that.

 

But this may help them be less tight going to OSU than if they were carrying a perfect record into that game. They'll be an underdog, which may change the mind-set.

Then again, I didn't get a lot of sleep and maybe they'd have been underdogs anyway.

We have a good team. But we have built or rep by smashing bad football teams. When we've played teams with some talent it's been a dogfight. Colorado might have even beat us if they didn't lose their QB, Wisky was a dogfight and they were down their best player on D, MSU played us tough, and then Iowa beat us in the lines. Penny State is our best win vs a team with talent. Ow we've played no one with as much talent as we have yet, but that changes in 2 weeks in the road, Ohio has more talent than us and we're going to have to beat them by being tougher and making the right coaching calls and adjustments. Can we beat Ohio? Yes, but it's going to take a mighty effort and we're going to have to her some bounces.

Couldn't agree more. Team came out flat and it cost them the game but we still have everything in front of us. Hopefully this just becomes a wake up call and springs us foward.

Go Blue! Beat Indiana!

We fucked Osu real
Bad on winning east ! Penn state wins out no matter what Osu is screwed and only we can not send Psu to Indy

True statement. UM should be in the same position they were before if they win out. I get that people are upset and I am shocked they lost but holy shit. I fucking love this team and watch every damn game, but I'm glad I don't watch it like the roof jumpers. I couldn't handle it. Just last week this team "could beat Alabama in the playoffs." Just one week and a bad performance later and the Oline stinks, the QB stinks, they have figured out Don Brown's Defense OSU will destroys this team, etc. What about OSUs bad game?

Sometimes i wonder if the guys are worn out by using all their emotions and energy in the first 6-7 games. Same thing last year, we were playing lights out until msu then things started to slowly go down hill. I rather win each game by 20pts and have a more realistic expectatins than have this kind of swing where we cant score more than 13pts.

has been and seems to continue to be. If I were getting ready for UM I would run outside opposite Peppers till they stopped it with any consistency then mix it up with middle at Peppers and out side opposite him. That is the only way to move the ball on the ground against this defense.

Now that there is a shit load of film we are in for a wild ride with Indy and OSU so UM needs to forget this happened at Iowa and get ready for the future. My main concern in the game against OSU is getting the offense to score and score. Wisconsin 14, Iowa 13, could be harbingers that scare the hell out of me. As well as second half performances at MSU, Iowa, Wisconsin, and a couple other that could be attributed to first half totals that would make running the ball more important than scoring.

She said she was too nervous about the outcome to watch.  

On the other hand, she had a dream that we won 40-3.  I'm going with that.

I'm more irritated that we burned our only leeway. Not that we had much, but there was hope that a close loss to OSU could still potentially get us into the playoff. That opportunity is gone. With all the other high profile upsets yesterday if we just did our job and won it would have made that possibility even more of an option. Now we have to play perfectly. Hopefully all the bad juju is burned off in this game.