The UM offense has been a bit of an issue before Speight went down. The OL going into the season was a bit of a liability and tonite it got exposed. To expect an offense to match score for score with a less than elite OL and a backup QB is an unrealistic expectation.
The defense faced a top-shelf offense and it got exposed. Prior to this game who had they faced that was a top quartile offense? As of today, PSU is #16 in the nation in scoring offense. Prior to that, the UM defense had not faced a balanced offense (Airforce cant pass the ball so meh) who was ranked in the top 50... IU coming in at #88 was the next best offense the UM defense had faced.
PSU played its A+ game at home, at night. If that happened then realistically UM had no shot at beating PSU.
Personally, I think PSU is going to be running into a buzz saw in Columbus.... but I guess we'll see about that next weekend.
Come on now, complaining about penalties..... there were a total of 7 called in the entire game. Its not like they flagged UM a dozen times with most of them being phantom calls...
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The UM offense has been a bit of an issue before Speight went down. The OL going into the season was a bit of a liability and tonite it got exposed. To expect an offense to match score for score with a less than elite OL and a backup QB is an unrealistic expectation.
The defense faced a top-shelf offense and it got exposed. Prior to this game who had they faced that was a top quartile offense? As of today, PSU is #16 in the nation in scoring offense. Prior to that, the UM defense had not faced a balanced offense (Airforce cant pass the ball so meh) who was ranked in the top 50... IU coming in at #88 was the next best offense the UM defense had faced.
PSU played its A+ game at home, at night. If that happened then realistically UM had no shot at beating PSU.
Personally, I think PSU is going to be running into a buzz saw in Columbus.... but I guess we'll see about that next weekend.
Come on now, complaining about penalties..... there were a total of 7 called in the entire game. Its not like they flagged UM a dozen times with most of them being phantom calls...
PSU was the #2 ranked team and played like it