When Joe Paterno and Penn State joined the Big Ten, they wrote in the contract that they would have bye week prior to playing Michigan. That was a long time ago but for some reason Penn State has that same bye week this year. Bye weeks could be good or bad. It's good if you're beat up and need an extra week to heal your players, it's bad if you're playing well and on a roll.
Penn State is 5-0
Best win is either @ Purdue or @ Auburn. Other wins were against 2 MAC Schools and Northwestern 17-7.
Penn State struggled in the rain in their last game against lowly Northwestern, they turned the ball over 5 times.
Pass for: 251 per (60th)
Rush for: 192 (33rd)
Score points: 34th (61)
Points given up: 14 (13)
It's hard to draw any conclusions with this Penn State team, they traveled to Purdue and won in Week 1 and Auburn which isn't its regular self but still a tough road game. The weather was terrible against NW but they were at home and almost got upset, probably should've.
You can probably draw a few parallels with our beloved Wolverines going into a ranked match-up.
Time to look at the Big Ten Conference.
Really? Stat of the day: Nebraska is tied for 1st in the West.
Iowa 6 Illinois 9 - That is some exciting football!
Rutgers has a better overall record than MSU
Maryland, I thought was making a change and then lost to Purdue at home this week.
- IU fired their OL Coach this weekend
- Rutgers fired their OC
On a side note: I'm intrigued about teams winning after their head coach is fired. Wisconsin blew out Northwestern, Nebraska and GT won 2 in a row, and Arizona State beat Washington.
- Michigan's new Nike Pegasus 39 that has been sold out everywhere, just got restocked on Nike. com.
- Hoping for a Mike Hart update on Jimmy's press conference today. Update from Mike - he is back in A2 and things are trending positively and hopes to rejoin the team soon. Quick Question to Big House Nation: Can Fred Jackson step into the RB coach's role with Mike out? Or does that break the number of NCAA on-field coaches' rule? Update #2: Jimmy answered this question during his press conference, they have received a waiver to allow Coach Jackson to replace Mike until he is healthy enough to return.
- Michigan is going to need Roman Wilson on Saturday, I hope he is out of the protocol.
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Roman Wilson out of protocol? Was he is concussion protocol?
After the "love fest" Sunday .... I must cap if off with a quote from the late Rodney King "Can't we all just get along?!" {{{LOL}}} Yes. if we beat Penn State, we might have something ... maybe time to play seventies hit "Convoy"
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