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The Michigan Insider

Preview: No. 2 Michigan, No. 13 Iowa meet in Big Ten title game

The Michigan Insider

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4.6855 Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Zach Shaw and Steve Lorenz preview the No. 2 Michigan football team's Big Ten title game bout against No. 13 Iowa.

In the episode, we discuss the keys for Michigan's offense going up against a stout Hawkeyes defense. We discuss the Wolverines' balanced receiving attack and ascending offensive line, but also a potential matchup advantage they might have in the run game against Iowa that wasn't present against Ohio State.

In the second half of the episode, we discuss how the Wolverines can avoid funny business when Iowa has the ball. We look at the Hawkeyes' offensive struggles both at quarterback and running back, and how Iowa may try to counter.

Along the way, we make our prop-bet picks for the game, then close the episode with our final thoughts and predictions for the matchup.

Transcript

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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. I'm your host, Zach Shaw. Steve Lorenz here with me. Be sure to listen to our podcast, the Michigan Basketball podcast, the Michigan Recruiting Insider Podcast. They're all in the same spot, so hopefully you find them pretty easily. But wherever you get at your podcasts, feel free to subscribe or follow along.

0:24.3

Pretty much coming out with three, four episodes a week.

0:28.2

So hopefully you can get your fix, whether you listen when you drive to work, do chores,

0:33.8

or I don't know, maybe you don't like the announcers and you want to listen to what we have to say.

0:38.0

Anyways, this episode, we're going to preview Michigan's Big Ten championship matchup against Iowa.

0:45.7

If you want to revisit the Michigan's win over Ohio State, we did an entire hour and 17 minute episode just the other day.

0:56.2

This one, we're turning the page and we are looking at the Wolverines matchup against

1:01.1

the Hawkeyes.

1:02.3

We'll do what we did last week, though.

1:03.8

First half of the episode, we'll look at Michigan's offense, some of the keys,

1:08.2

some of the numbers, and other things to watch.

1:12.4

And then in the second half, we'll do defense, special teams, along with our final

1:16.4

predictions for the game. So Steve, you and I were talking right before we hit record.

1:22.2

Ohio State is probably so far based on everything we've seen this season, the better team

1:26.9

than Iowa.

1:27.6

But where things get interesting is I think Iowa has a significantly better defense.

1:33.4

You know, we'll talk about their offense and some of their woes in a moment.

1:37.6

But this Iowa defense, elite coverage, elite at forcing turnovers, and pretty sound, you know, in terms of tackling,

1:48.1

stopping the run.

1:50.1

It's easy to simply just say, do exactly what you did last week.

1:54.4

But if there was a key or something that you think Michigan really has to, I guess, be very good at on Saturday,

2:03.6

just to secure that they score enough points for victory? What's maybe a key for the

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