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9/9/2023 – Michigan 35, UNLV 7 – 2-0 I thought about copying and pasting last week's column and seeing if anyone noticed. It would have various references to ECU instead of UNLV, but acronyms are acronyms and maybe it would slide by. The accounting of JJ McCarthy's incompletions would be off by one and factually inaccurate, sure. I was banking on the nuclear glow coming off of McCarthy's arm obliterating all detail and leaving nothing but a crater of Buddhism (but fun!). I could have gotten away with it, I'm sure. The pattern of this game was the pattern of the other ga...

Another week, another overmatched opponent that Michigan completely manhandled. Last week it was East Carolina, this week it was the UNLV Rebels. Over the course of four quarters, Michigan steamrolled UNLV and new head coach Barry Odom, using overwhelming pizzaz on the defensive line to demolish the Rebels' pass protection and run blocking over and over again, while JJ McCarthy was again nearly perfect through the air. Michigan logged five sacks as a team, McCarthy was 22/25 for 278 yards for 2 TDs and 0 INTs, the Maize & Blue outgained the (other) Scarlet & Gray 492-229, and won ...

UFR Glossary: Familiarize yourself with all the jargon here. Substitution Notes: There were many subs (it was crazy) so we need to bullet this game. Your starters were McGregor, Jenkins, Graham, and Harrell; Colson and Barrett; Paige, Sabb, Sainristil, Harris and Wallace. Paige left as soon as the outcome was little in doubt. Hausmann rotated at both LB spots. Second team DL was Moore, Goode, Grant, and Stewart. TJ Guy got in first as a 5-2 edge but the Harrell/McGregor/Moore/Stewart got the majority of snaps. At DT, the pattern I'm getting is Grant is a nose, but Benny and Goode can be e...

9/2/2023– Michigan 30, East Carolina 3 – 1-0 Well, here we go. The best kind of thing to take from a game against a solid G5 program that's just turned over the vast majority of their personnel is one that is opponent-invariant, and the most opponent-invariant thing in football is quarterbacks dropping dimes. This space has long maintained that if the offensive executes perfectly, they just get to win. Via that lens the most important development from the opener is the prevalence of "nice try, I win" plays. ECU had some moments of excellent coverage that just did not matter....