So I watched a 20-minute highlight of Michigan-MSU. It showed every punt and many of the third downs, so obviously paints a certain picture.
But coming out of it I have to ask, why am I that impressed by Michigan again? Like that defense is super good, but it also just murdered two offenses. whose top end quality I’m not particularly convinced of. The offense looked OK, occasionally good. But I didn’t come away saying that’s anything but the best team in the conference by default.
Obviously Ohio State has the uglyer loss, but it’s under performing pieces seem talented enough to bounce back. Michigan seems like a team that played your standard Michigan State big game, but just held its own on the margins where the Spartans usually make things weird.( this is even the case with my favorite statistical system having them at number four)