Tale of Two Programs: Michigan vs. Ohio State

In a brutal but well-documented analysis/demolition of Ohio State’s strategic buffoonery versus USC, Chris Brown of Smart Football sums up what he labels a “cancer” of a problem with OSU’s offense.

Jim Tressel is a dinosaur, and like all dinosaurs, not like for this world. And if I was the multi-talented Terrelle Pryor, stuck in the straitjacket of the OSU offense, I’d be thinking long and hard about where I might transfer to.The piece is RTWT-worthy, and deadly accurate. USC outcoached Ohio State in every aspect of the game, and not by small margins, either.

Color Michigan fans’ perspective a particularly rosy shade today as they wake up to find themselves attached to a program with not only a viable quarterback, but also an unexpected win over a hated rival on national television. Doubt-clouds, be gone, via MGoBlog:

Mr. Cook does make the careful qualifications that yes, this is game two, and yes, this is all a bit rash, but all-in-all Michigan’s transformation from year one to year two is positive, dramatic, and apparently systemic. Daps all around, even for Notre Dame, who Maize and Blue believes is fielding their best team in a long, long time.