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Formation Notes: Northwestern still goes back to the Superback (a TE lined up as a FB in the shotgun) so I called that Gun SB. Michigan’s formation is a Nickel Wide AA (two LBs in the A gaps). Nothing else that we haven’t seen before. Substitution Notes: Julius Welschof made the DT rotation, which kind of goes Hinton-Smith, Jenkins-Morris, Jeter-Welschof, Speight-George, but with Morris as a DT/OLB swingman. Ojabo again got the majority of OLB snaps, with Morris backing up Hutchinson for a few plays and Harrell next in line for Ojabo. Colson started at WLB but after his screen adventures t...

Formation Notes: Northwestern kept their safeties down all day so the “Hi” metric is doing more work than normal. I started giving safeties +0.5 in the box if they got within 8 yards within a second after the snap, and +1 in the box if they got closer than that. Michigan had a formation where the slot receiver and tight end switched spots. When they did this I denoted it with “Flip” then the position headers, so this is Gun YH Flip. Substitution Notes: Filiaga (RG) and Barnhart (LG) went all day for injured Keegan and Zinter. Just one snap for McCarthy until Michigan had a comfortable ...

Formation Notes: Double Eagle. This was called 245 Split and if I added a letter that’s the gap with a down LB. 245 Split A. And they also ran a 404 Tite front with a pinched DE, which I called 4-3 Tite. Continuing with my convention of naming their 11 personnel formations by the position of the H (slot) receiver—”Gun Wk” for in the slot weakside, etc.—when he lines up inside I’ll call out the gap. So this is Gun Str B (H receiver is in the B gap of the TE’s side). Substitution Notes: A lot of movement at guard. Filiaga got the start at LG and rotated with Keegan until Zinter lef...

Formation Notes: Double Eagle. This was called 245 Split and if I added a letter that’s the gap with a down LB. 245 Split A. And they also ran a 404 Tite front with a pinched DE, which I called 4-3 Tite. Continuing with my convention of naming their 11 personnel formations by the position of the H (slot) receiver—”Gun Wk” for in the slot weakside, etc.—when he lines up inside I’ll call out the gap. So this is Gun Str B (H receiver is in the B gap of the TE’s side). Substitution Notes: A lot of movement at guard. Filiaga got the start at LG and rotated with Keegan until Zinter lef...