Michigan isn't actually 23 points worse than OSU. This score isn't about talent differential. It's about bleah:
(1) Harbaugh clearly wanted to force his team's run first/TOP identity on OSU. It didn't work. And he adapted too slowly to win. The air raid worked once he started, but he wasted 2.5 quarters on run-run-pass beforehand.
(2) Michigan had the nation's best pass rush but only until the Rutgers game. I have no idea what happened. Rashan Gary came back that week. But that can't be it. (I think.) Anyway, Michigan had no pass rush v. the Sc.Knights or Hoosiers, either.
On the few games they pressured Haskins, he was errant as he has been all year. But Michigan was well below average in that.