Michigan-Wisconsin preview: Can the Wolverines pass their first road test of the year?
The Michigan Insider
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🗓️ 30 September 2021
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
We preview the Michigan football team's first road test of the season at Wisconsin, looking at the keys to the game for the Wolverines and making our predictions for the matchup.
We begin by looking at what Michigan's offense needs to do to have success. We discuss how concerned Wolverine fans should be about Wisconsin's nation-leading run defense, especially coupled with the run game's struggles against Rutgers. We also look at Michigan's contentious passing game, and offer our thoughts on how the Wolverines can improve their success through the air against the Badgers.
We then look at the other side of the ball. We assess how much Michigan's defensive front has narrowed the gap from last season's matchup, particularly in its ability to stop the run. We also look at Graham Mertz's struggles as Wisconsin's quarterback, and how the Wolverines can capitalize.
In the second segment of the episode, we make our weekly prop-bet predictions, and deliver our final thoughts on how Saturday's game will go.
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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 Lawrence, here with me. |
| 0:08.9 | Read all of our preview stories over at the Michiganinsider.com, Michigan.247 sports.com. |
| 0:14.3 | We've got statistical previews. We've talked to Wisconsin's beatwriters. |
| 0:18.1 | We've talked about some of the key storylines leading into this game on |
| 0:21.9 | Michigan's end. The game, of course, is the Wolverines are set to take on Wisconsin at Camp Randall |
| 0:27.7 | Stadium in Madison this weekend. Forecast is lots of rain. Luckily, it doesn't rain the press |
| 0:35.2 | box. That's where I'll be. But anyways, in this episode, |
| 0:37.9 | we'll talk about keys to the game for Michigan on both sides of the ball. And then we'll do our |
| 0:42.5 | over-under predictions and offer you a glimpse at what we think is going to happen this weekend. |
| 0:48.8 | So, Steve, I'm going to go ahead and get the ball rolling because I think there is one very obvious |
| 0:53.9 | key to this game, |
| 0:55.3 | and that is Michigan's number five ranked rushing offense in the country. |
| 0:59.1 | It's going up against Wisconsin's number one ranked run defense in the country. |
| 1:04.5 | The badgers are allowing just 23 rushing yards per game. |
| 1:09.3 | And some of that is sacks and negative rushing plays by, |
| 1:12.6 | you know, some quarterbacks. But, you know, Notre Dame, I think last week, just two rushing |
| 1:17.9 | yards on 31 carries. They're a team that typically runs the ball quite well. Penn State's, |
| 1:24.9 | I think they had 50 rushing yards on 20-something carries. |
| 1:30.1 | Another team that at least over the past six, seven years, has been a pretty good team at running the football. |
| 1:38.5 | So, Steve, I'll get your thoughts first on this. |
| 1:42.7 | What do you make of this matchup is it's a strength-first-strength matchup. |
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