Previewing Michigan's road test at Indiana
The Michigan Insider
247Sports, Michigan Football, Michigan Wolverines, Michigan, Michigan athletics, College Football
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🗓️ 21 November 2019
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Looking at the No. 12 Michigan football team’s matchup at Indiana, we break down three key questions about the game before diving into our predictions.
First, we discuss what level of awareness eliminates a contest being a “trap game,” and what Indiana has done to potentially vault out of that category with its best season in 25 years. We explore why Michigan has struggled against the Hoosiers this season, as well as what the Wolverines had to say about Indiana this week in press conferences and what it means.
We also look at the game on both sides of the ball. When it comes to Michigan’s defense, we revisit last season’s struggles, and why the Wolverines’ woes against Indiana were and once again can be a precursor to their matchup against Ohio State. We break down our viewpoint of why the Hoosiers’ offense is better than past seasons, and look at why Michigan’s defense might be better equipped anyways.
On Michigan’s offensive side of the ball, we try to play coach and outline what our game plan against Indiana’s improved defense would be. Shaw explains why he isn’t sold on the Hoosiers’ defense, while the conversation shifts to what the best-case scenario is for the Wolverines.
We close with our weekly over-under predictions looking at ll components of Saturday’s game, along with a final score prediction 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 football, basketball, and recruiting. |
| 0:06.4 | I'm your host, Zach Shaw. Steve Lorenz is here with me, and we are talking Michigan versus Indiana. |
| 0:12.8 | We'll take place Saturday at 3.30. Lots of preview content already up. Plenty more coming throughout the week. |
| 0:18.9 | Check it all out at the Michiganinsider.com and Michigan.247 sports.com. |
| 0:23.4 | Won't want to miss it, but as we do for most of these preview podcasts, we're doing three |
| 0:27.8 | kind of, not key questions, but roughly three key questions. |
| 0:31.9 | And then we have our over-unders and final predictions at the end of the show. |
| 0:36.7 | And Steve, the main storyline, I got to say, if I hear another person call Indiana a trap |
| 0:43.9 | game, I will lose my mind. |
| 0:46.5 | I, you know, that's like the old trope is that Indiana always plays Michigan Close. |
| 0:52.8 | I mean, you know how we joke about how sometimes a player can be so underrated that they're properly rated? |
| 0:59.1 | Like, they get called underrated so much that they're properly rated. |
| 1:03.5 | I feel like that's happening with Indiana. |
| 1:05.6 | You know, they're one, they're having their best season in 25 years. |
| 1:09.0 | They made the AP poll for the first time since 1994. |
| 1:14.4 | But at the same time, you know, talking to the players, talking to the coaches, |
| 1:19.5 | like they've talked more about Indiana than they have, you know, |
| 1:23.5 | sometimes when they play Maryland or Rutgers or Middle Tennessee or in Illinois, |
| 1:30.7 | you kind of get vague discussion about the team. |
| 1:34.9 | I almost feel like Indiana being good is the best thing that could have happened to Michigan |
| 1:38.4 | because, you know, it's wedged between two rivalry games. |
| 1:42.3 | It's on the road. |
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