It’s a defensive slobberknocker here in Ann Arbor, with a pair of Michigan field goals and one Dan Conroy miss the difference for Michigan State in a 6-0 halftime deficit.
Conroy missed his sixth field goal of the season, a 38-yarder from the right hash mark that the fifth-year senior pushed wide left after a long MSU drive late in the first half.
Two drives later, Michigan’s Matt Wile drilled a 48-yarder down the middle with 1:07 left before half. Teammate Brendan Gibbons kicked the Wolverines’ other field goal, a 24-yarder, earlier in the second quarter.
Michigan holds a 168-121 edge in total offense. Wolverines QB Denard Robinson has completed 8 of 13 passes for 108 yards, but the Spartans have held him to 17 yards of rushing on 12 carries.
MSU’s offense can’t find running room behind its sixth offensive line combination in eight games. Le’Veon Bell has 11 carries for 31 yards, and QB Andrew Maxwell is 10 of 16 for 96 yards. Michigan’s Jake Ryan sacked Maxwell once and has a team-high six tackles.
Max Bullough leads the Spartans with seven tackles and intercepted Robinson on the last play of the half. And fellow linebacker Denicos Allen has been flying all over the field – he has five tackles, one for a loss, and a pass breakup.
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Roushar had a great series…. Way to go…
7-6 end of the 3rd
Roushar throws to the 3rd string TE on 1st & goal . . . Bell doesn’t get in by a yard. He would have made at least 2 to 3 on the 1st down instead the cluster of an OC throws & we settle for a FG. Please Defense show us why U had all the pre season hype!
Oops – Shoelace for 50 – so much for this D playing well in crutch time.
Well, fudge.
Good game, lousy outcome
Very good game !!!!Spartans looked a lot better than I thought they would.
That just makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
warm & fuzzy – someday Marky’s will drop . . .
I’m sure the thought of that makes you warm and fuzzy inside …
Well my one man fan club pretty clear Dantonio needs to be fired do we fire him tonight or Monday morning I will review. The film and give you detail later son
I don’t think the University hires back employees they have fired before like yourself. Keep dreaming, Chapter 7 boy.
UNLIKE THE Coaches at Arkansas, Coach Dantonio is a moral man of Character who is synergistic with the the President, Board of Trustees, and Athletic Director. To make so even a low IQ-er like you can understand there Bunkie – Coach Dantonio isn’t going anywhere!
Let me know how being homeless and jobless in Idaho is this winter.
The events of today are just now sinking in after reviewing and breaking down the film
It is appalling how many glaring and fundamental coaching mistakes were made. I have always been a big supporter of Coach Dantonio, but I am now starting to question whether MSU made the right decision in 2006. Could we have hired the wrong man?
UNLIKE THE Coaches at Arkansas, Coach Dantonio is a moral man of Character who is synergistic with the the President, Board of Trustees, and Athletic Director. To make so even a low IQ-er like you can understand there Bunkie – Coach Dantonio isn’t going anywhere!
Let me know how being homeless and jobless in Idaho is this winter.
I know a guy in Idaho who might give him a job shoveling snow for food. Wouldn’t want his wife to go hungry because her husband is an idiot.
Defense just can’t hold when it counts. Not their fault as the offense is simply horrible. Not getting a touchdown when we were on the five is pitiful. Dantonio gets exposed by better coaches and now we have Hoke and Meyer in addition to Ferentz and Beiliema above him, as well as the guy at Northwestern.
Gotta score touchdowns. Period.
Here, here. Giving up 4 FG’s SHOULD be enough to win (it’s like 1 of Ben Greens “Quality Starts” in MLB) They showed improvement. but losing 3 starters in the O line is very difficult to over come, I don’t care whom you are.
We win if Conroy hits what was for him in past years – a chip shot. What happened to him over the summer?
I mentored and screwed him up
Why r u here? Move on w/ your life.
Quit your whinin blow hard, the woulda,, coulda shoulda crap is getting old!
Whatever Walmart – when you move out of your parents basement – post it, junior.
yessir, that was the key…
I felt like scrooge from Dicken’s a christmas carol today – I was visited by the ghosts of inexcusable losses to UM past. Looks like my Saturdays just became wide open in the foreseeable future. My questions is – how is Hollis going to pay for his stadium improvements? I sure hope they aren’t expecting to do it w/ season ticket sales next year! As a smarter man than me posted after the Iowa loss – if U treat the fans & the program like it’s professional organization than U need to expect what is coming your way w/ a terribly disappointing season (Unfortunately we can’t hire Prince Fielder in the off season). All the good will MD has built of 4 winning seasons is slipping away rapidly.
This team , 8 games into the season, are playing like a team that is under a new coaching staff rather then under a coaching staff that is going into it’s 6th season. Hard to figure. Should go back to football 101 – This is a touchdown, this is a first down, … adnauseam . Glad I didn’t buy season tickets expecting something special. What a disappointment.
If they don’t become bowl eligible which is a very good possibility – Gholston, Bell, ect. will all declare for the NFL & Maxwell will have a month and a half less of practice time w/ the offense. Next year might be worse.
#1 they aren’t going anywhere,
#2 look at next years schedule.
#3 we are 3 points from being 7-1
#4 IDIT
ah contrair you will have to pay more, the price tag is going up regardless if the stadium is half empty no one cares.
To make so even a low IQ-er like you can understand there Bunkie – Coach Dantonio isn’t going anywhere!
Let me know how being homeless and jobless in Idaho is this winter.
i am devastated..i can’t imagine living in michigan..now i’m glad we don’t play penn state because we would lose to them too and that would put me over the edge..i turned the game off at the beginning of the fourth quarter..i knew what was coming.taking my xanax and going to bed.
Nighty night, I’m sure that the players are very sorry for your devastation.
Time for Dan Roushar to go.
MSU has average a measly 11.25 points in their losses this season.
m go blow i am here because i have a bye this week.
So how long until you have a permanent bye? What 6 weeks? How are you going to pay your creditors back with no job? This 1 is only 2% of what you owe and you are not liable to get one at racom sports that will pay this much, did your little boy get a janitor’s job over at btn, I hear Silverman fired the other one for not causing enough turmoil on this blog.
Keep up the positive attitude there, Bunkie, maybe you can apply for some CARP money.
yes that is my son Nicholas how did you know. now son it is a race to 6-6 Dantonio wants to be 6-6 I want to be 6-6 which team makes it and which team sits home at 5-7 Hogs
beat ole miss and you lose to Wisconsin than hogs are 4-4 and Dantonio 4-5 got to go to work on Old Miss but will break down the Wisconsin game for you next Friday night.
You will never make it to 6-6 , LSU will beat you like a rented mule the last game of the season and Jeff Long will change the locks on your office before Monday morning.
Thanks for that, sometimes smacking around so inept a target jut makes my hair hurt.
Good well fought game, no outrageous ump game screw up, hard fought low scoring game. They happen. Glad these can be competitive games an\
d not blowouts.
Go BLUE!!! GO Green and White!
There are no issues at all in the big picture, this team will win big two out of every three years and struggle while it reloads like . The pattern 08 up 09 down 10,11, up this year down . 13 and 14 up. I am thrilled with that . In the rebuilding years we have to have everything go perfectly due to lack of depth at key positions. I knew there was a 70% chance of what happened happening today but when it was 10-9, I knew we had a 50-50 chance it did not work out
Rousher took a big step forward today put ten points on the board in a big game under pressure