Big Time Bounce Back with Blue By Ninety
Justin Roh and Joel Honigford host Blue By 90 Podcast looking at Michigan’s win over Oklahoma and how Michigan looks like the team we thought they’d be in a win against the Sooners.
Justin Roh and Joel Honigford host Blue By 90 Podcast looking at Michigan’s win over Oklahoma and how Michigan looks like the team we thought they’d be in a win against the Sooners.
Iowa brings one of the best statistical defenses in the country to Michigan Stadium, along with a rushing attack built to drag the game into the fourth quarter. This is not a matchup where Michigan needs Bryce Underwood to throw for 300 yards or one running back to take over. It is a game about staying clean, finding enough explosive plays, and making Iowa play from behind.
Michigan opens Big Ten play against an Iowa team built to punish mistakes and make every possession matter. The Wolverines’ offensive progress finally looked real against UTEP, but Saturday will show whether those answers hold up against Phil Parker’s defense.
Michigan survived Western Michigan, but the more useful question now is what from that game actually carries forward. The Wolverines have a much different test coming Saturday against Oklahoma, and a few of the strongest individual performances from Week 1 came at positions Michigan desperately needed to feel better about entering the season.
The most interesting thing Jason Beck said about Bryce Underwood this week had nothing to do with his arm.
It was about what Underwood sees before he throws it.
There are games you win and feel good about. There are games you win and immediately start figuring out what went wrong.
Michigan can put this one firmly in the second category.
Michigan got Iowa-ed.
That is the simplest explanation for how the Wolverines gained 429 yards, averaged 6.3 yards per play, generated six explosive passes and still finished with 19 points.