Unpacking Michigan's loss at Penn State
The Michigan Insider
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4.6 • 855 Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2019
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Ditching our normal format to focus on Michigan's 28-21 loss to No. 6 Penn State, we break down the key questions after the game, grouped under four main categories.
First, we discuss why Saturday's game was the latest in the long line of road issues for Michigan under Jim Harbaugh. We hypothesize why the Wolverines start so slow on the road, and why comebacks can be hard to pull off in raucous environments.
We then look at the relatively impressive comeback and fight that Michigan showed, including a breakdown of which position groups impressed. Of course, we also take a peek at which position groups regressed, and held the Wolverines back from finishing the job.
We take a moment to discuss officiating, whether Jim Harbaugh was right to say there was a disparity and what we would do to clean up officiating in college football.
Closing our podcast, we discuss what Michigan has left to play for this season, what could be considered a successful season, if anything, and what the loss means in terms of the big picture of the Wolverines' program.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody. |
| 0:01.2 | Welcome to the Wolverine 24-7 podcast, your audio source for all things, Michigan football, basketball, and recruiting. |
| 0:06.6 | I'm Joe Zackshaw. |
| 0:07.5 | Steve Lorenz here with me as well. |
| 0:09.6 | And, of course, we got to talk about it. |
| 0:11.7 | We got to talk about Michigan's 28 to 21 loss at Penn State. |
| 0:17.4 | We'll dig into it. |
| 0:18.5 | We're going to ditch our 247 format format trying to think about what the listeners want. |
| 0:22.8 | They probably don't want to hear the game balls. |
| 0:25.2 | And they probably, probably the questions and the takeaways would be rather jumbled anyways. |
| 0:31.1 | So we're just going to jump in. |
| 0:33.1 | We've got five main kind of bigger, broader topics that we're going to discuss, |
| 0:38.3 | and we'll try to bring up everything that we have, every opinion we have about this game in between. |
| 0:45.6 | So we can start with this one. |
| 0:47.6 | And this is, you know, covering Harbaoth's entire tenure at Michigan. |
| 0:53.5 | I've been to almost every game away from Michigan |
| 0:56.4 | Stadium. I think I've missed two Rutgers games, the Dallas, Florida game. That might be it. That |
| 1:03.3 | actually might be the list. And so they are now 16 and 12 away from Michigan Stadium. And I pointed to this stat out before the game that in the first quarter of Michigan's eight at the time, road losses, they were outscored 59 to 6. |
| 1:22.0 | Well, now it's 66 to 6 in eight road losses. |
| 1:25.8 | That's how much they've been outscored by, at the first quarter. |
| 1:29.0 | And really, you know, I think, I think Michigan showed that it could still win in the |
| 1:34.8 | whiteout and it could still win at Beaver Stadium. |
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