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No team in college football had a better four-week pass than Michigan, which edged out three conference-ranked opponents. No unit in the game has had better last two games than the Wolverines defense, which seemed more impressive in every game.
Saturday's 42-7 victory over the Penn State, which averaged 41 points per game before coming up against the wall that is Michigan, was to this day the most beautiful statement of the unity of Don Brown. The Nittany Lions' offense, which has been great this season if it is consistent, has been established at 186 yards – including 78 in the fourth quarter – and at 11 first tries. Penn State quarterback Trace McSorley scored just 83 yards and an interception, scoring only the second game since coming on as a Nittany Lions starter in 2016, failing to get a pass of touched.
What Michigan has done against Penn State has been its best effort this season, but that's not surprising. Consider last week: against the United States, the Wolverines won 21 to 7, giving the Spartans 94 yards in total. The previous match, October 13, Wisconsin had only 100 yards against the Michigan D in a 38-13 win over the Wolverines. That's true; In its last three games, Michigan has awarded its opponents, ranked opponents, an average of 126.7 yards and nine points. Starting in the 11th week, this is an 8-1 record and an eight-game winning streak. His only loss is that of week 1 against a team currently ranked No. 4. Michigan arrives – in the Big Ten, where he controls his fate. in the playoff race.
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Will the Wolverines rank among the top four in next week's standings? Regardless of what Notre Dame is doing against Northwestern, Michigan deserves to climb the rankings, not just because No. 1 Alabama and No. 3 LSU are facing each other tonight. Since this defeat against the Irish, the Wolverines have become more and more imposing, declarations after declarations against one of the most ardent ardentes of the country. And his defense seems to be the best of the game.
Saturday's win will only improve its already high number. Michigan has entered the game with the best defense, in terms of yards allowed per game, in the country, and the No. 6 defense. These two averages will be counted after Saturday, when a quarterback who has already fought for the Heisman, McSorley, was beaten by the country's best pass defense. This is where Michigan has made its mark this season, and this against McSorley only highlights that Brown's unit is very real. On the other side of the field, where Michigan's defense against the race is 9th instead of 1, the Wolverines give Penn State 68 yards and 2.31 yards per run.
At the beginning of the season, it was felt that this could be a decisive year for the Wolverines, who had never managed to organize a consistent offensive attack under Jim Harbaugh. In the off season, they landed Shea Patterson, the transfer quarterback of Ole Miss's graduates, to change that perception. And on Saturday, Patterson threw for two touchdowns and the Michigan offense scored 403 yards. This season is the Big Ten's fifth best offensive – not a record, certainly, but more than passable. And yet, that's not the story. Instead, Michigan wins as it has always been, if his faults of previous years had given him a chance. For the rest of the Big Ten – and college football as a whole – it should be a terrifying prospect.
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