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UFR GLOSSARY is here. FORMATION NOTES: There's no way for me show them all. Here's Eagle Zero: SUBSTITUTION NOTES: Slight tightening of the rotations. Graham and Derrick Moore had the most snaps of the DL, with Jenkins, Grant, Stewart, Harrell out there about half the time, McGregor a bit less, a couple drives of Benny and Goode. LBs were mostly Colson and Barrett, with a dozen snaps for Hausmann in place of Colson and two disastrous snaps for Jimmy Rolder. Rod Moore went the whole way...

Scheduling Note: I apologize for the lateness of this. My prime UFR charting/writing time is on Tuesday but I worked an election (which is a 5am to 10pm commitment plus setup the evening before) this week and only had a quarter charted when it was time to go do that. PSU should be on time. UFR GLOSSARY is here. FORMATION NOTES: More even fronts today than usual, which made the OTs' lives hell but did open up some running lanes inside. Also when Michigan went up to 7 guys with their Split! f...

In Week 2 against UNLV Michigan tried to run Stretch (aka Outside Zone) as their primary counter to Duo, their base running play. It didn't work. The problem with that is if your base running play is inside the tackles you still need something you can run well that goes outside of the tackles. Otherwise your Duo runs are just going to get swallowed up. This sounds pretty basic. But what kind of outside run could look like Duo/Inside Zone? And how can you spot it? Let's look. [After THE...

Previously: Bowling Green Offense  Wednesday we covered Bowling Green's offense, today we take a look at their defense. Last season this unit was among the very worst in college football, ranking 125th in SP+. In their first two games, the team allowed 34 points and 389 yards to Liberty and 15 points and 325 yards to Eastern Illinois. Not good, but nothing catastrophic yet. Now they get a chance to take on Michigan.  The Film: Much like the offense, we only have one option here. Eastern...

Previously: Bowling Green Offense  Wednesday we covered Bowling Green's offense, today we take a look at their defense. Last season this unit was among the very worst in college football, ranking 125th in SP+. In their first two games, the team allowed 34 points and 389 yards to Liberty and 15 points and 325 yards to Eastern Illinois. Not good, but nothing catastrophic yet. Now they get a chance to take on Michigan.  The Film: Much like the offense, we only have one option here. Eastern...

After two nonconference games against teams not expected to finish in the top 25 in run defense, Michigan's running game hasn't produced the way we expected. You'd figure with two of the best three running backs in the country, three starters back from the two-time Joe (Sherrone) Moore-winning offensive line supplemented by two of the position's top transfers, and the hottest quarterback in the country, the Michigan run game should be steamrolling opponents. They're not....

Fuller This is a companion piece to last week's refresher on inside zone, Michigan's new base play. Outside Zone, also known as the Zone Stretch, is one of two very common complementary plays to IZ, because the technique for the offense isn't very different, but the way the defense has to defend it is (the other complementary play is Power-O, Michigan's extremely nominal base play the last few years). OZ Resources: Smart Football, Roll Bama Roll, FishDuck (Oregon), BTSC (Stee...

I get asked every year to break down some of the Eagles’ main concepts, so here you go. Using Logan Radke’s Eagles’ offensive manual to make this easier, I wanted to go and look at what makes the...