Michigan-Penn State recap: Wolverines continue dream season, much to the chagrin of everyone else

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🗓️ 14 November 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Zach Shaw and Alejandro Zuniga break down the Michigan football team's 24-15 win over Penn State, how the Wolverines made a statement to the rest of the country and other thoughts ruminating from the weekend.

They open with a look at Michigan’s offense, which stuck to the ground in the entire second half and controlled the game against arguably the nation’s best run defense. They opine on what the unique game plan says about the Wolverines, Penn State and the rest of Michigan’s season. They next turn to the defense, which continued to look like possibly the nation’s best defense in another largely shutdown performance, and discuss a Nittany Lions offense that has been shut down multiple times this season.

In the final half of the episode, they look at how Michigan overcame a chaotic weekend resulting in its head coach being suspended, and why the Wolverines are becoming – and leaning into — college football’s next great team the rest of the country loves to root against.

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0:00.0	Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Wolverine 24-7 podcast, your audio source for all things, Michigan football, basketball, and recruiting.
0:06.2	I'm your host, Zach Shaw. Alejandro Zuniga here with me. We are at a hotel in suburban Pittsburgh.
0:12.3	Jealous? Regardless. A couple beers deep. We have to say that on the front.
0:17.9	Now every time I'm funny, they're just going to think that's the reason why. But anyway, we're talking Michigan's 24 to 15 win at Penn State. Big win for the Wolverines,
0:27.8	top 10 road win. Decent amount to take in. Pretty impressive performance. For nine weeks, we had talked
0:33.9	about, you know, this team looks really good, but they haven't faced a test. This team is really dominant. They dominate this stat. They're a really well-rounded team,
0:42.4	but they haven't necessarily faced a team where they can kind of prove it at a national championship
0:47.9	caliber level. And I think Saturday they did. Kind of an interesting game. Jim Harbaugh was
0:53.3	sidelined with that three
0:54.3	game suspension, which at some point I think Steve and I will get on and we'll offer some
0:59.7	additional thoughts, but I feel like most of what we've said in the previous episodes still
1:03.3	hold up. So be sure to go listen to those wherever you found this podcast and check those
1:08.3	past episodes out. But regardless, Jim Harbaugh, in a hotel somewhere
1:12.6	in state college, Sharon Moore took over and he won. He got a top 10 win, top 10 road win.
1:19.2	A lot of coaches go their whole careers and make millions of dollars without a top 10
1:23.7	road win. Not naming names, but some do. But also like the actual game was kind of weird because
1:29.9	Michigan, they got a lead with two straight touchdown drives in the, what, late first and then
1:36.3	mid second quarter. And then Penn State made it within five at halftime. And then Michigan added
1:41.4	a field goal early in the second half off of Drew Aller Fumble.
1:45.5	So they were up eight, 17 to 9. And then they just played like they were up by 30. They ran,
1:51.7	but 32 straight times. They did not pass the ball after J.J. McCarthy attempted a pass with
1:57.7	721 to go in the second quarter. So kind of a weird, you know,
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