Michigan Monday: Peach Bowl Preview

Michigan fans are in a bit of a pickle tonight watching the Peach Bowl.  Two rivals are playing each other for right to be named The National Champion of Peaches.  The first year of the 12 team playoffs lead by Michigan's often confused AD Warde Manuel has worked to perfection as the #7 seed is taking on the #8 seed.  Neither team played in a conference championship game and neither would have been in the traditional 4 team playoff.  

ND is known for their lock down man to man defense.  OSU's offense is known to be a huge man to man beater.  Tennessee and Oregon both thought they were smarter than Michigan and didn't follow the game plan the Wolverines used to beat the Buckeyes, both got blown out.   Texas did follow the plan and made it a game, until it wasn't late.  

Ohio State has the better team but we know they can sometimes lose their minds.  Maybe it's the Michigan helmets but the Irish is going to try to frustrate the Buckeyes tonight and win a close game.  I think ND is the lesser of two evils.  

A few words on the Detroit Lions.  At the end of day that never was a Super Bowl defense with the injuries they had.  Someone was going to expose that defense and it happened to be Washington.  With that said, I thought Ben Johnson called a terrible game.  In a drive where you need a TD, you let the player with the worst judgement on the team, throw a pass?  The trick plays are fun in the regular season, but play good sound football in the playoffs.  Terrible decision.  That play would give me second thoughts about hiring him as a head coach.  You don't need those plays when you were getting pretty much anything you wanted on offense.  It's also the playoffs.  The pass play on the goal line where Goff fumbled was also a terrible call.   Run it!!  Happy for Mikey and his 2 picks, just wish it came against a different team. 

• Michigan Basketball got back to their winning ways after a terrible loss to Minnesota last week.  Northwestern has a solid team and took the favored Wolverines into OT.  The game lasted forever but Michigan got the W.  Vlad went for over 30 again. 

• No feedback yet on how the visit with 5 star OT Ty Haywood went this weekend.  I wonder if he will announce on signing day. 

• Cade transfers to East Tennessee State, I guess he got a waiver for his 20th year in college.   Let's review his decision to leave Michigan:  Lead a historically bad offense for the Hawkeyes, had 2 knee surgeries, suffered a bad concussion. and then loses his starting job.  If he stayed, he would have a National Championship and startered last season.   Thank you, Cade for what you did for Michigan Football and helping Michigan win a Big Ten Championship. 

• Mason Graham has a younger brother Carson that plays football and just finished his Freshman season at 6'2 230.  I don't care if the kid can play or not (I'm betting he can!), give him a scholarship! That would be 2 gifts from the football gods!