Rubin Jones is questionable after missing the season opener against Cleveland State with an undisclosed injury.

Justin Pippen is also questionable.

Wake Forest is a 1.5-point favorite, according to ESPN. Tip-off is at 1 p.m., and the game will air on ESPN2

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RIP to the men who lost their lives 49 years ago.

RIP to Gordon Lightfoot as well.

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For those younger people on the board, I want to point to 1984 Michigan football. Michigan went 6-6 that year, when scholly limits were at 95 and Michigan and OSU were dominating the Big Ten. We beat #1 Miami to start the year but Harbaugh got injured and we ended up 6-6. Offense was horrible and we averaged less than 20 points for the year. Why? We had no quarterback. Team was stacked with talent yet Bo had no serviceable QB to step in. The next year, with a healthy QB, we went 10-1. There is hope my friends. Things will get better.

Whether it’s offense, defense, or decisions on players but coaching has cost this team 3 wins; Washington, Illinois, and now Indiana.

UM is now 1-1 on the season after a two point loss to Wake in the Deacon/Wolverines Challenge.

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This clown show of a season will end in a soul crushing 56-10 angry loss in Cbus.

The offense will not score a TD.

Let's start with the D this week. The greatest thing about this defense is they have not shown one bit of quit in their DNA. Again, today, they played well enough to win the game. The D line dominated in the second half. The hitting today was outstanding. We held IU to 20 points. That should be enough.

On the downside, it takes a half for Wink to figure things out.
Overall, the D is pretty good. They are not great like last year, but they are okay.

Special teams: Z is $$. Punting is crap. We can't put two or three good punts in a row together. It hurt us today.
Z may be the MVP for the entire team.

Offense: Well, it's not good. Let's start with personnel choices. The Orji experiment needs to be put to bed. Once in a while, it works, but mostly, it's a waste of plays. It's predictable and disrupts the flow of the game. Donovan Edwards will go down as legendary for his play at Michigan, but this stuff has mismanaged him and Mullings. If they flipped Mullings to DE carries and gave Edwards carries to Mullings, I think this offense would be much better than it's shown. I think Mullings would be a workhorse on any other team. The personal choices and timing of personnel changes have killed momentum over and over.

Play calling: In a word, it's bizarre. It seems like every time we get momentum, this staff takes a chainsaw to it. Bringing in Orji after Warren completes a couple of passes in a row. With the game on the line, we run a trick play where one of our Smurf wideouts ends up being the QB. This week, we get a gift on the seven-yard line, and we telegraph three run plays and end up kicking a FG. The list goes on.

Players: Davis Warren should have played better. When he wasn't running for his life, he missed some throws that could have really made a difference. Unfortunately, most of the night, he was running for his life. The offensive line was crap most of the night. Link and Hinton were beaten on the outside all night, and none of our backs could get to the second level without contact. Our receivers can't win 50/50 balls.

Offensive staff: Top to bottom, a crap show. Kirk is horrible. Serrone, terrible, all of them, terrible.

It is what it is. I don't have answers. I hope Sherrone can figure it out because we are stuck with him for at least one more year. Everyone on his staff should be on notice.

Go Blue!

Lots of issues this year but this one is my biggest concern. We went from having a dominant line to it being a huge weakness. Yes I know we lost a lot from last year but what happened to the development of these guys. Super concerning given our current head coach used to be OL coach . Why is it so bad . We can’t even run the ball anymore.

If Bryce Underwood stated that he would accept UMs NIL offer only if they would mark the yard lines in UM stadium every 5 yards (like LSU), would you approve?

If offering millions of dollars doesn't seem over the top, does this?

You Jar Heads never looked so good!!!

Semper Fi!!!

Indianas last 9 possessions gained 89 yards and two field goals (one set up by an Orji fumble and the other by a 35 yard line drive Doman punt).

It included a pick at the IU 8.

We just wasted one of the most dominant in game stretches of D you could ever ask for.

LSU may not match Michigan's NIL but they have some jewelry apparently.

They played very well. It's obvious what the issue is hence the BU sweepstakes. Just got get to 6 wins. Moore knows he can't win alot games without better QB play. Just got to take our medicine this year. Yep it sucks. We had our chances to win this game. We could of won 4-5 games we lost definitely at least three. Aweful QB play killed us again. Onward.

Today's game really couldn't have gone better for Michigan.

LSU got BLOWN OUT by Alabama.

The atmosphere sucked. The stadium was empty by Q4.

LSU didn't even get in the endzone.

This happened in Year 3 of Brian Kelly.

Massive difference as compared to Year 1 struggles in the Sheronne Moore situation which largely are the product of recruiting issues that predate his tenure.

...and you have this season's version of FSU.

The cause of this loss is patently clear:

1. Decrepit and uncoordinated playcalling, with no logic in substitutions whatever.
2. Horrid passblocking by the OL.
3. Poor passing by Warren.
4. Lack of Separation by the WRs.

That's all.

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Big fan of Moss. Would love to see this happen.

3-2 UM with -8:00 left in 3rd.

Its amazing how quickly and profoundly the most fundamentally sound team in the country became a fundamentals train wreck.

We host Texas and give an elite team the ball THREE times inside our 50 (results in only 10 points). Down 14-3 we throw an interception to give them the ball at the 37. Defense holds, then our all-american tight end sets the ball on the ground unforced. Now 24-3. Ballgame.

Take away those turnovers and what kind of a game is it?

USC we're clinging to a 20-17 lead and on first and ten from our 12. Fumble Edwards. Almost give the game away save for Mullings miraculous run.

Minnesota - We start Minnesota's rally while up 24-3 missing a wide open receiver. Like USC, we barely escape the miscue.

Washington. Hand the game to the Huksies with two fourth quarter turnovers in our own zone the first of which occurs the game is tied 17-17. They convert those own zone turnovers for the 10 decisive points.

Illinois might be the most ridiculous. Halftime score 13-7 Illinois. 3 of those 13 were handed to them on a Tuttle fumble at our 25. Defense held for the field goal.

In the second half their only score came from us giving them a free path to a fake punt that put them at the 16 yard line. Everything else was a stop.

We manage to get a field goal blocked and throw a pick near the goal line.

Finally, in our eighth game of the season we play our first turnover free game of the year and beat State. We repeat against Oregon and despite being down our top two corners are in a fourth quarter game with the number one team in the country.

Its really profound how big an impact turnovers had on this season. This after being elite the previous two years (18 total 22, 23 lowest in the country across those two years).

The difference between knowing how to take care of the ball and not at all knowing how to take care of the ball (plus a free pass fake punt allowed) is what doomed this team from not having a shot at a good season.

Young quarterbacks are one thing....but the Loveland and Edwards' game impacting own zone turnovers? What the heck?

Hope this was a blip and something we never see again under Moore.

After an interception, this offense is pathetic!!!!!!!!

Wolverines fall in Bloomington by five points and are now 5-5 heading into their second bye week of the year.
OFFENSE
WR -- 8 MORRIS
LT -- 78 HINTON
LG -- 68 PRIEBE
C -- 51 CRIPPEN, 62 R. Anderson
RG -- 58 EL-HADI, 56 Giudice
RT – 71 LINK
OL -- 54 Sprague
QB -- 16 WARREN, 10 Orji
RB -- 7 EDWARDS, 28 B. Hall, 20 Mullings
TE -- 18 LOVELAND, 17 Klein
FB/TE -- 44 Bredeson
WR – 12 BELL, 81 O'Leary
WR – 0 S. Morgan, 3 F. Moore

DEFENSE
EDGE -- 0 J. STEWART, 42 Guy
DT -- 55 GRAHAM, 26 Benny
DT -- 78 GRANT, 95 Pierce
EDGE -- 8 D. MOORE, 91 Brandt
LB -- 15 HAUSMANN, 30 Rolder
LB -- 1 BARHAM, 34 Hood
CB -- 10 BERRY, 12 A. Hall
FS -- 28 Q. JOHNSON, 25 Curtis
SS -- 13 W. WALKER, 6 Hillman
NICKEL -- 7 PAIGE, 14 Jones
CB -- 20 HILL

SPECIAL TEAMS
PK -- 96 ZVADA
KO -- 19 DOMAN
P -- 19 DOMAN
LS -- 49 WAGNER
H -- 19 DOMAN
PR -- 8 D. MORRIS, 0 S. Morgan
KR -- 23 J. MARSHALL

Special Teams Contributors: 0 J. Stewart, 1 Barham, 3 F. Moore, 5 Charleston, 6 Hillman, 8 Morris, 10 Berry, 12 A. Hall, 13 W. Walker, 14 Goodwin, 14 Jones, 15 Hausmann, 16 Edmond, 19 Doman, 20 Hill, 20 Mullings, 22 Dunlap, 23 Sullivan, 25 Curtis, 26 Benny, 27 McLaurin, 28 Q. Johnson, 30 Rolder, 34 Franklin, 35 Oden, 39 Taylor, 42 Guy, 42 Hoffman, 44 Hewlett, 49 Wagner, 51 Crippen, 52 Bennett, 55 Efobi, 55 Graham, 56 Giudice, 62 R. Anderson, 68 Priebe, 71 Link, 78 Grant, 83 Z. Marshall, 91 Brandt, 95 Pierce, 96 Zvada
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