Michigan-Ohio State 2021 preview: Can the Wolverines find a way?
The Michigan Insider
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4.6 • 855 Ratings
🗓️ 24 November 2021
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Zach Shaw and Steve Lorenz preview the title bout matchup between the No. 5 Michigan and No. 3 Ohio State football teams.
We begin by looking at how the Wolverines' offense matches up against the Buckeyes' defense. Shaw outlines a soft spot in Ohio State's coverage that Cade McNamara may be able to exploit. We also preview Michigan's run game, and why it may be able to fare better against the Buckeyes' defensive front than other teams on the Buckeyes' schedule have so far. We also look at some other key factors on the offense.
We then proceed to the strength-vs.-strength matchup between Ohio State's offense and Michigan's defense. We discuss the Buckeyes' underrated run game, elite offensive line play and, of course, how the Wolverines will have to go about defending Ohio State's passing game.
Along the way, we tackle our over-unders, then close with our final thoughts and predictions for the matchup.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Wolverine 24-7 podcast, your audio source for all things, Michigan |
| 0:04.7 | football, basketball, and recruiting. I'm your host, Zach Shaw. Steve Lorenz here with me. |
| 0:09.2 | We are previewing the game in this episode, Michigan versus Ohio State after last night's |
| 0:15.5 | college football playoff rankings. This will indeed be the first top five matchup in Michigan Stadium since 2003. |
| 0:23.9 | So cannot, the stakes really can't get much bigger. |
| 0:27.6 | They really can't. |
| 0:28.4 | I mean, I guess both teams could be undefeated, but 10-1 is pretty darn close. |
| 0:32.2 | And in today's college football, the winner will be a heavy favorite in the Big Ten title game against either |
| 0:40.5 | Iowa, Wisconsin, or I guess there's a small chance Minnesota. The loser is probably going to |
| 0:47.5 | the Rose Bowl. It's kind of kind of in a twist of irony. These two teams are playing for Pasadena, but the loser probably goes to Pasadena, |
| 0:56.2 | not the winner. |
| 0:57.9 | The winner keeps their national title hopes alive, their college football, playoff, |
| 1:01.1 | hopes alive. |
| 1:02.6 | But regardless, this is a, it's a matchup that cannot be overstated. |
| 1:07.1 | So instead of hyping it up over and over, we'll talk about what we think's going to happen you |
| 1:11.8 | know the first half of this episode will be committed to some of the keys on the offense |
| 1:16.5 | offensive side of the ball along with our thoughts on how michigan's offense matches up against |
| 1:21.0 | ohio state's defense the second half of the episode will be michigan's defense versus the |
| 1:25.4 | offense and and our final thoughts and |
| 1:28.5 | predictions for the game. Steve, we can jump right into it. We have our over unders provided by |
| 1:34.4 | our good friend Neil via Zool on our message board over at the Michigan insider.com, |
| 1:38.9 | Michigan.247 sports.com. I am looking, this is my personal opinion, I am looking at this as a game where Michigan, |
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