Four questions for Michigan before Notre Dame test
The Michigan Insider
247Sports, Michigan Football, Michigan Wolverines, Michigan, Michigan athletics, College Football
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🗓️ 24 October 2019
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Previewing the No. 20 Michigan football team's matchup against No. 8 Notre Dame, we look at four key questions we think the Wolverines must answer to come away with the win, then offer our predictions for the game.
First, we look at whether the Michigan offense's solid second-half showing at Penn State is indicative of what's to come, or just a flash in the pan due to the Nittany Lions holding an early lead. In the discussion, we also look at why Shea Patterson and the offensive line improved, and what Notre Dame's defense brings to the table.
We then consider how concerning Michigan's big-play defense is, and if the Wolverines can avoid lapses against a pretty balanced and dangerous Fighting Irish offense. Our final questions center around Michigan's challenge of emotionally bouncing back from a virtual title-eliminating loss, as well as why the Wolverines seem to show up so much better in big home games than big road games.
Finally, we close with our over-under predictions and our final projections for how the game will shake out.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody. |
| 0:01.0 | Welcome to the Wolverine 24-7 podcast, your audio source for all things, Michigan football, basketball, and recruiting. |
| 0:06.6 | I'm your host, Zach Shaw. |
| 0:07.5 | Steve Lorenz here with me talking Michigan, Notre Dame, the Wolverines, a lot of different storylines. |
| 0:14.6 | And at the request of a couple listeners, instead of, we're going to try to shorten that over-unders. |
| 0:19.7 | We love doing the over-unders. |
| 0:21.5 | It's a nice, easy way to get a sense of the match-up. |
| 0:24.3 | But at the same time, you guys come here, |
| 0:26.2 | not to listen to our over-under predictions because we're, like, batting about 600. |
| 0:30.2 | But more so for our analysis. |
| 0:33.1 | Of course, we are both writers at the Michigan Insider on 247Sports.com. So you can reach us and read our stories at the Michiganinsider.com and |
| 0:41.0 | Michigan.247sports.com. |
| 0:43.9 | So lots of storylines this week. |
| 0:45.5 | I picked out four main questions, and I'll have a story maybe digging in a little bit more of the stats and some of the stuff tomorrow. |
| 0:52.1 | But four main questions, Michigan must answer, really, to win, but also to kind of get a |
| 0:59.2 | sense for where the team is at, what are some of the key things to look at in this |
| 1:02.9 | matchup. |
| 1:04.0 | So we've got one offense, one defense, and then two team issues. |
| 1:06.9 | Let's start with the offense. |
| 1:08.2 | And Steve, this is, I'm borrowing this from my colleague Michael |
| 1:11.4 | Spath over at the radio show but is Michigan's offense based on what you saw against |
| 1:16.8 | Penn State and what we know is Michigan's offense going to be better worse or the same |
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