A win is a win, however ....

[St. Joe Blue 3]

...that wasn't nearly the result I expected and wanted.

Clearly the better team ... but we need to bury teams like that.

But that 2 point PAT play just made up for a bit of it!

 

[Reality Man]

Road game, against rival, against Dantonio. Think Auburn is going to fight like hell against Alabama?

It was closer than the game indicated but it's hard getting a monkey off your back.



RM

 

[GoBlue_since1985]

...that wasn't nearly the result I expected and wanted.

Clearly the better team ... but we need to bury teams like that.

But that 2 point PAT play just made up for a bit of it!

I was hoping for a much larger margin in the score to but I'll take what I can get.
I dunno which game was more stressful, this one or the wisci game.

 

[Reality Man]

This one by a mile.

 

[detroitjohn]

We were most concerned about Speight's play on first big road game as starter, big win. Beside the closer than reality score, it was what I wanted

 

[ArrowheadBlue]

Whisky had 160 in total offense. MooU had that by halftime. I was impressed with red zone defense (until the end) but surprised by the ease of passing on the #1 defense in the nation.

Rivalry game or not the defense was exposed.

 

[GoBlue_since1985]

Whisky had 160 in total offense. MooU had that by halftime. I was impressed with red zone defense (until the end) but surprised by the ease of passing on the #1 defense in the nation.

Rivalry game or not the defense was exposed.

Secondary definitely didn't play like expected.
Hopefully they correct.

 

[Doneoett]

We played our D+/C game and still held a 20 point lead. I don't think practice will be too much fun this week.
Speight looked good today and the Goal line defense was great. I don't think the Defense was exposed just not as good today as it has been but a win is a win. If Clemson wins tonight I think we will drop to 3 in the polls.

 

[jemblue]

First hostile road environment of the season, and also the first on natural grass (which can be a bigger transition than people think). I would have liked to have finished the game off sooner but whatever. You're going to have games like this in a championship season.

 

[GoBlue_since1985]

Those assholes(msu) didn't have paul bunyan out on the field for UM to grab and celebrate with. They delivered it to the locker room.
I guess seeing us take it away would have been to painful.

 

[michigangoblue999]

Those assholes(msu) didn't have paul bunyan out on the field for UM to grab and celebrate with. They delivered it to the locker room.
I guess seeing us take it away would have been to painful.

That makes it even better. Those butt-hurt tools, lol.

 

[tarun262]

Anything can happen in a rivalry game. Remember a few years back when OSU was favored by 20+ points and we went for a 2 point conversion to almost beat them? I generally think you can not take much from rivalry games as anything can happen. Bottom line is - Sparty played really hard until the last second that is impressive and kudos to Dantonio for coaching that. I think we on the other hand backed off a bit - especially our O-line and secondary in the 4th quarter. We need to put teams like this away.

 

[Jake_from_state_farm]

We played our D+/C game and still held a 20 point lead. I don't think practice will be too much fun this week.
Speight looked good today and the Goal line defense was great. I don't think the Defense was exposed just not as good today as it has been but a win is a win. If Clemson wins tonight I think we will drop to 3 in the polls.

I don't "think" we will drop in the polls. It's not like it went to overtime! Huge rivalry game where sparty won 7 of last 8! They took care of business in the first half

 

[JP2Blue]

30-10 and Harbaugh shut the offense down.
Problem is the defense wasn't anything special today. However, unable to put them away is on coach.

 

[jemblue]

Those assholes(msu) didn't have paul bunyan out on the field for UM to grab and celebrate with. They delivered it to the locker room.
I guess seeing us take it away would have been to painful.

That's the convention. MSU parades it around the field but U-M keeps it it the locker room. For them, this is the Super Bowl. For us, it's a rivalry but we've got bigger ambitions.

 

[BigHouseBallin]

Coaches played not to lose after the Speight interception.. Everything went Sparty's way to keep this game from getting out of hand. I hope the coaches and players got it out of there system now because I don't want to ever see them playing not to lose again..