Michigan-Nebraska preview: Can the Wolverines win at Nebraska, start 6-0?
The Michigan Insider
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4.6 • 855 Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2021
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we preview the No. 9 Michigan football team's road trip to Nebraska, offering our keys the the game and our predictions for the contest.
Looking at the keys to the game, we first discuss the challenges and opportunities facing the Wolverines' defense. We discuss Adrian Martinez, his big-play abilities, Michigan's potential against a dual-threat quarterback and other threats Nebraska poses on offense. We then identify where Michigan matches up well, looking at the Wolverines improvements in the pass rush and in coverage. We then look at keys for Michigan's offense, the the challenges the Cornhuskers' improved defense presents.
In the second half of the episode, we do our weekly prop best for the Wolverines' offense, defense and special teams. We conclude with our final thoughts and score prediction for the game.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Wolverine 24-7 podcast, your audio source for all things, |
| 0:04.0 | Michigan football, basketball, and recruiting. I'm your host, Zach Shaw. Steve Lorenz here with me, |
| 0:09.6 | previewing Michigan's road trip at Nebraska. There'll be lots of preview stories over at |
| 0:15.7 | the Michiganinsider.com, Michigan.247 sports.com to come in the next couple days. |
| 0:21.7 | Myself and Josh Newkirk will be live on the scene in Lincoln, providing you updates |
| 0:25.5 | at the exact same website. |
| 0:27.6 | And we'll, of course, we'll have a postgame podcast episode as well, given it's a night |
| 0:32.2 | game, probably Sunday morning, Sunday afternoon. |
| 0:36.1 | But regardless, this episode, we're going to look at keys to the game. |
| 0:40.4 | Some other storylines from this week in practice. |
| 0:43.2 | We'll do our over-under predictions. |
| 0:44.9 | And then our final thoughts on this matchup. |
| 0:48.7 | So Steve, just to get things started, I have to think the biggest key to this game in terms of a strength of Nebraska |
| 0:56.6 | that Michigan must be mindful of is Adrian Martinez, |
| 1:04.7 | you know, very, very experienced and very talented quarterback. |
| 1:09.6 | I mean, he was the starter when they played three years ago in 2018. |
| 1:14.6 | I think that was actually his first road start even. |
| 1:16.9 | But anyway, he's still starting. |
| 1:20.0 | Great dual threat guy. |
| 1:21.6 | And what stands out to me about him is I think he can decide at any time he wants to run. |
| 1:29.2 | And it will work. |
| 1:33.1 | You know, there are some dual threat quarterbacks or mobile quarterbacks who, |
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