Welcome on into the wolverine.com podcast. Clayton Safie here with Anthony Broome and Chris Ballas,

week six for Michigan football, previewing Michigan against Indiana, second straight road game for the Wolverines.

The 5 and 0 number four in the country, Michigan Wolverines. Indiana coming in three and two.

They've lost their last two games to Cincinnati and Nebraska. They got wins over Illinois, Idaho, and Western Kentucky. Illinois went a little controversial there with a call at the end of the game. And that would that would have done a lot for Illinois, who looks like a very good team. Let's break down the Hoosers, kind of what we expect from Michigan.

I do expect this to be a little bit of a different type of game from last week and a little

easier environment to play in, I guess I would say as well.

A lot of Michigan fans usually make the trip down there.

Let's start with the Michigan offense that did a really good job I thought last week of

executing the game plan, taking what was there.

The offensive line was spectacular.

They really rode Blake Corum as they have all season long, but especially in these last two games.

He was stellar, capped it off with a late touchdown.

What do we expect out of this Michigan offense against an Indiana defense that is not good

against the pass?

They've been better against the run, but still not great.

I feel like this is the game where we may see Michigan open it up a little bit more,

and they probably should too.

Indiana has given up a bunch of big plays, 27 of 20 plus yards. is, you know, in the hundreds, I believe in the country, or 95. So we're looking at an opportunity here for the Michigan offense to kind of, you know, make a little bit of a statement after doing what they needed to do the last two weeks. Yeah, I had somebody in comments, I think, on Sunday say, why is Bells always so worried about explosive plays, blah, blah, blah, blah, because it's easier if you score in one play once in a while or two plays than going 13, 14 plays on a drive. And you know what? Against a defense like Indiana's, you have an opportunity to do that and start using some of those receivers, make them feel good about themselves, right, rather than just blocking all the time and give them some opportunities because there are some guys there that are getting a little bit of antsy. So you win the game first and foremost, and I have no complaints about the game playing against Iowa. I thought it was fantastic. We asked Mike Hart yesterday about that offensive line. You guys saw his face light up, man. He just said, awesome.

You know what?

And he's not one of those guys that's going to tell you it's good if it's not. It's outstanding. So those guys did a great job. I do expect, I think by my calculation, guys, is it what, 61-39 run to pass this year, which I think is even more than last year, if I'm not mistaken. and we'll have to look at that.

Yeah, so I want to see that closer to 50-50 in this game,

and I want to see them because... which I think is even more than last year, if I'm not mistaken. And we'll have to look at that.

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