First look: Five questions about Michigan-Ohio State
The Michigan Insider
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🗓️ 25 November 2019
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Rather than dissecting Michigan's 39-14 win over Indiana, we follow Aidan Hutchinson's advice and turn our attention to the Wolverines' upcoming matchup with No. 2 Ohio State. In the first of two preview episodes, we break down five early questions about the matchup.
To begin, we look at Shea Patterson's rapid ascent, and how much he has closed the gap on Justin Fields in recent weeks. We also look at what makes Fields elite, and discuss if there is a way to contain him.
We next look at if Michigan's defense is better-equipped to handle Ryan Day's offense this season than last, and how the Wolverines could contain the Buckeyes.
In the longest component of the show, we break down why Michigan does seem hungrier about this season's matchup, debate whether that matters, look at how Ohio State created such a big gap in the rivalry and how it can ever be closed again.
We close with each of our early keys to the game.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Wolverine 24-7 podcast, your audio source for all things, |
| 0:03.5 | Michigan football, basketball, and recruiting. I'm the host, Zach Shaw. Steve Lorenz here with me. |
| 0:08.1 | And I know normally we do the 247 post-game recap, two key players, four takeaways, seven questions. |
| 0:17.2 | We're going to guess you don't really care. We're going to guess that you have moved on to the Ohio State game. |
| 0:24.7 | Frankly, I mean, Steve pointed this out before the show. |
| 0:27.9 | Aidan Hutchinson even said the team wasn't discussing the game in the locker room. |
| 0:32.3 | They were already moved on to Ohio State. |
| 0:34.1 | And that's not a slight at Indiana. |
| 0:36.7 | I mean, I think Michigan took the |
| 0:37.9 | game seriously. I think they played well. And we'll, we'll talk about it. We'll sprinkle it in. |
| 0:43.2 | But that's just the nature of the beast. This is, this is the game. They literally call it |
| 0:47.3 | capital T, the capital G game. So it's, so we'll do that. What we're going to do in this podcast, we're going to have five early questions. |
| 0:55.2 | So they're not going to be, I mean, we haven't been able to watch. |
| 0:59.7 | Well, Steve's actually watched a few Ohio State games. |
| 1:01.8 | I still have to do kind of my digging, my researching, my film, watching, things like that. |
| 1:07.8 | But I've watched a decent amount. |
| 1:10.2 | So we'll kind of talk about the Michigan |
| 1:12.0 | side of things, a little bit the Ohio State side of things. We'll also have a preview podcast |
| 1:16.2 | on Wednesday. It'll be earlier this week. So keep your eyes and ears peeled for that. But we can |
| 1:22.2 | go ahead and get started. And since I just wrote about him, I think I want to start here. |
| 1:29.1 | First question, has Shea Patterson closed the quarterback gap? |
| 1:34.6 | And so really, you know, you want to look at, there's a lot of different things Ohio State has done well. |
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