Event notice: If you're not going to be in Miami, and you're looking for New Years Eve plans where you can be surrounded by other people who understand the thing about the football, HomeSure Lending is hosting a watch party/NYE celebration at Cultivate Coffee and Tap House. There will be dinner and dessert by Cultivate Kitchen, Side Biscuit Wings & Biscuits, a midnight champagne toast, and drinks. Tickets are $75 or $55 if you're the designated driver. Rule is you have to be vaccinated or have a negative test in the last 24 hours, and masks are required while standing/moving about. Space is limited to ~60 people (half capacity) for safety and so we can all see the screen. Think we have 30 already signed up. Event is subject to cancellation and full refund if we think the covid numbers are too high. Formation Notes: Iowa lined up their FB/2nd TE in a lot of different ways. I mostly treated him as a TE, so this is “Offset 12 SB” meaning offset shotgun with 1 RB and 2TEs, one of them as a “superback.”
Michigan matched this personnel group with 5-2 personnel then had Jaylen Harrell act as a true LB if they flexed the TE. Sometimes Michigan would substitute Harrell for Michael Barrett depending on the down/distance. Substitution Notes: A lot more five-man fronts in this one, though Michigan learned to use a 4-3 (with Barrett) when Iowa went two-TE on passing downs. First three-man DT unit was Hinton-Smith-Jenkins, and second unit was Jeter-Speight-Welschof. Morris came in as a passing downs DT or Hutchinson’s backup. [After THE JUMP: Three! Three plays and out again, ah ah ah!]