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That was an ugly 2nd half for any UW fan to watch, starting with roughing the snapper. I've seen that called against UW twice now.

What I feel is happening at Michigan is a based on the offense, not the Defense.

How many years/ times have we read all of your glowing reports about their defense being number on, all The shiny statistics ( you see what I did there Dudekd), only to have it not work down the stretch, and in the biggest games.

The difference now is, there is an offense that;
- doesn’t put them in bad positions
- keeps the ball for defense to rest,
- puts points on the board so Brown can play with house money and get super aggressive.

And it is not because the offense is explosive, which it is AT TIMES.
It is because it has balance. Having the read option threat is HUGE.  Kudos to Harbaugh for letting his other coaches have some say in the offense.

I truly think this could be a CFP caliber team, if they get and stay healthy and continue to expand Patterson’s spread playbook.

What’s missing?

Solid RBs.  Check
Great defense.  check
Ability to pass.   Check
QB who doesn’t throw picks. Check

I understand protecting players from needless injuries, but I think we've gone too far.

It's football, with helmets and pads

we have had a penalty called unnecessary roughness for a few decades.  If someone is being too rough with the long snapper, that can be called.  Touching the snapper shouldn't be a penalty

I think that since they are specialized, typically scrawny players, just like a punter, that the rule is meant to treat them just like a punter. Would you recommend doing away with "running into" and "roughing" the punter as penalties, too? And instead turn it into an unnecessary roughness judgment call? Maybe that'd be better, but I'm not convinced.

What game was the other call? My brother didn’t know it was a thing and I was trying to explain that I saw it in another Wisconsin game earlier this year.

That all comes in back-to-back drives of a tight game. If UW's defense is last year's unit, that can come out in the wash. Against a better team on the road when the tackling/discipline are hit and miss, it turns a maybe competitive game into a blowout.

Bonus play was Hornibrook putting a third down pass too far out in front of Davis on third down, then punting from the 43 down 14 with less than 18 minutes left. Didn't help that a second-team All-American lineman got walked into the QB's lap by a fifth-year reserve tackle.