I was at the Natty as my kid is a Mich grad and like our game it really came down to a couple of plays.
Mich D-line/zone blitz was the key that allowed them to stay in zone on the back end 85 % of the game..
They also did some blitz zone concepts mixed in which made Penix rush throws late in the game.

On the UW end it was really the injury to there stud back who played but was not 100%. But Penix missed on the big throw behind the WR who would have scored. He also had some key drops and the holding penalty on the big throw down the UW sideline called back due to holding was huge.. Like our drive to maybe go up 2 scores were Jalen fumbled.. That holding called stop what could have been a game tying score.

UW like our defense was hit by just a great RB instinctive cut were there D-line over-ed pursued were Edwards just made 2 great bounces. Edwards broke back the same way against Osu last yr on the same play calls..I think Mich by far was the better team and my main point was that Washington game plan was very solid and the score did not indicate how well UW played. There OC did some nice play calls to set up there big shots and had those connected it looks like another overtime ending.

Did not mean to turn this into a Natty title convo as I just wanted to share what I saw in UW up close in the title game.

This post was edited on 1/12/24 at 2:15 pm