What can we take away from the Nebraska game?

my main takeaway is this was a solid win, but not nearly as impressive as we may have thought prior to the game being played or the final score.

NU may not be as good as we thought, but this scoreline is favorable to them, if anything.  They had about 50 yards of offense entering the fourth quarter.

Maybe but in past years we would have screwed this up with unforced errors like penalties and turnovers to make the game closer than it should be. I like that we are finally seeing improvement week after week. It used to sound like a tired cliche from Harbaugh about improving daily but I think they finally have the talent and depth to make it real. 

We held their running backs to 28 yards on the ground...though I’m not even sure if NU has anything at the RB spot. 

Reading the comments is just pure Michigan.

Before the game most people were a little nervous.  Almost all thought the spread was too big.  Michigan comes out and absolutely destroys the opponent and the takeaways are "well opponent sucks who knows".  

Please enjoy the performance.  The fans have a smaller celebration window than the actual coaches and we don't do shit other than bitch.  Please look around college football.  It's a week to week crazy,  weird game...unless your Alabama. 

Nebraska was the #46 team per S&P before this game.  It's early for S&P and the missed game made it worse, but this is pretty encouraging. 

Texas was #43, Ole Miss was #50, Texas Tech was #51.  I'm cherry picking of course, but if we'd obliterated those teams to the same level it would be bigger news. This could be a very positive signal. 

I think that if we played the Notre Dame game this week the outcome would be very different.

Nothing...we need to win November

Good teams destroy bad teams. Yesterday was really encouraging.

Even at home, we don’t get blatant pass interference (Nico Collins, DPJ, Oliver Martin, etc.) and holding (Hutchinson, etc.) calls. 

The offensive line is getting much better, our QB problem is solved...not ready to grade out until after Wisconsin.

The total 180 we've done in 24 hours is pretty funny.  Read Brian's preview again.  

Now consider . . . 56-10.  And it could have easily been worse.  Suddenly everyone is rushing to proclaim that they knew all along that Nebraska was the worst team ever.

I get that we all have PTSD from past seasons, and I'm not predicting championships, but I think we can say that we have a good football team. Whether it's a great team remains to be seen.

Well, it's easy in hindsight to say Nebraska quit, they're a mess etc..but I'm sure they stepped on the field yesterday with the intention of winning the game. It's not like they got blown out in their 2 previous games. They quit because everything went against them, and a lot of the credit for that rests with Michigan.

Nebraska is obviously not a very good team at the moment, but we've looked way worse against 'not very good teams'. Michigan's strength is part of what made Nebraska look so bad. We probably would have won this game last year too but it wouldn't have been this kind of demolition by any means.

I am encouraged by this game. I think we can win 7 of the last 8 without needing any sort of 'miracle'. Doesn't mean we will, but we can.

We’ve done (mostly) what we were supposed to do against three garbage teams and played poorly against the only legit team so far   

Last three games were glorified practices. We needed them (the wins and the practice) badly, but each is worth about a half a W.  

Our effective record is 1.5-1, a little above .500.  Talk to me when we beat a real opponent.  

We didn't manhandle any big ten opponent last year the way we beat up on Nebraska yesterday, not even Rutgers or Minnesota. Nebraska is not good, but we looked terrific. We are staying relatively healthy, I didn't see anyone who looked like they had a serious injury yesterday. Obviously hope we can get solomon back.

But we are on a roll and getting better each game. This team could be 10-2.

That McCaffrey will be the next Michigan QB when Patterson leaves.

I believe it's a cop out to say several players are or have "quit" on Scott Frost.  Announcers talked about that several times yesterday.  Fucking prove it then.  Do you think Nebraska players in their post-game presser would say Michigan made Nebraska look like shit because they quit on their team?  No, it's a new coach, new set of rules, new game plan, etc.  I believe growing pains but to say players aren't buying in and putting in an effort to win the game is total bullshit.

I don't like it.  It really minimizes Michigan's effort and how well we played.  Sure, Nebraska would've kept it close if some players didn't quit on the team.  Uh huh.

Kudos to the OL.  they have been bashed mercilessly on and off the field, including by me.  they appear to improving each week.  hope it continues.  if so, great chance at a special year.

also, this blowout allowed a lot of young guys to play.  holy crap, it appears we have a lot of fast and skilled WRs, a stable of RBs, and no worries at QB depth.

It tells me that the ship is steering in the right direction.  We've seen improvements in every aspect of the team so far; offense,  defense,  special teams,  AND coaching. Have they arrived yet? Don't know,  too early.  Yesterday,  i saw Michigan beat a team down that they were supposed to beat down. In a fashion that they were supposed to. This week will be a good test,  on the road against a not horrible team.  Should be a little tougher than nebraska.  Would like to see a command of the game from start to finish "on the road". 

That was domination all around.  Nebraska is bad, yes, but it’s obvious this team is improving each week.  They are light years ahead of last years team at this time in the season. Remember Purdue to start B1G play last year? O’korn pulled a miracle out of his ass but other than that, M was not good.  This team feels much closer to 2016 than to 2017.

Nebraska was awful, but it was refreshing to see us get off to a fast start. We hit 'em early and often, and the outcome was never in doubt beyond the first two drives. Beautiful!

That Josh Metellus, the player everyone on the board wanted to cut after last season's OSU dropped INT, has really come into his own and is playing great defense.  Yes, I was one of those "bench Metellus" people too.  Glad I'm not the coach.  He's really stepped it up

We demolished Nebraska. They have 5 yards rushing through 3 quarters. Average teams don’t do that, and it’s important for these starters to experience their ability to outright dominate an opponent so they realize what they should be doing every week. The big things I’ve noticed this year are the speed/effort on both sides of the ball, the good ball security by the RBs, and the excellent tackling on this team. Rarely is a guy not stopped by the first man in, which was a huge problem a few years back. Sure we have breakdowns and mental mistakes, but they’re paired with phenomenal play by amazing athletes at every position. This team is very good and ND was a fluke. We should never have opened on the road at ND. 

I take away how lucky we are to have the coach we do, both retroactively to the first three games of his tenure and now, with his ability to calmly hold together the team over the last 18 months and build them to this point.

How do you think this fan base would've reacted to an 0-3 Harbaugh?

And now that all our three star heroes have grown up, Coach can push them hard and ride them straight into Columbus.

O and I'm really glad the Harbaughffence doesn't rely on a running QB, those dudes are getting kilt out there.

Still need some rough edges smoothed out, particularly penalties on defense.  

O-line, while definitely better, still needs to show they can perform like this against a stronger opponent.

BUT... all that being said, there is improvement, and the team is growing.  A far better thing to see than in the Hoke years where the O seemed to regress every game, particularly in his last two seasons.

Higdon is much better than we give him credit for.