According to a Detroit Free Press article, Meatchicken was lulled to sleep by playing slow, weak B10 teams (Penn State one of the ones mentioned) and just wasn’t prepared for the southern type speed of duhOSU. My question to the uninformed writer would be is why did Purdue, Penn State and Maryland give Ohio State a hard time?
OSU could have easily had 3 losses going into the Meatchicken game and still would have curbstomped the mighty Wolverines. Many of the B10 teams have close to the amount of speed that OSU has. It’s just that the B10 officials decided to start calling defensive pass interference and defensive holding against the UM DB’s rendering them and Meatchicken’s defense ineffective. In their other B10 matchups UM got away with this tactic. If you hold on and grab the receivers, they can’t get separation, which makes the pass rush more effective as there is more time to get to the QB. Girly Hair was a disappearing act for much of the game. The reporter missed this fact, or ignored it, blaming Meatchicken’s ineptitude on the rest of the B10 teams.
OSU could have easily had 3 losses going into the Meatchicken game and still would have curbstomped the mighty Wolverines. Many of the B10 teams have close to the amount of speed that OSU has. It’s just that the B10 officials decided to start calling defensive pass interference and defensive holding against the UM DB’s rendering them and Meatchicken’s defense ineffective. In their other B10 matchups UM got away with this tactic. If you hold on and grab the receivers, they can’t get separation, which makes the pass rush more effective as there is more time to get to the QB. Girly Hair was a disappearing act for much of the game. The reporter missed this fact, or ignored it, blaming Meatchicken’s ineptitude on the rest of the B10 teams.