Middle Tennessee State Blue Raiders vs Michigan Wolverines

Saturday, August 31 at 7:30 PM ET
Michigan Stadium
Odds???
Oddsmakers opened Michigan as favorites. The spread is currently up to as high as 35 points. My recommendation would be to jump on using the Wolverines ATS.
Middle Tennessee State’s Offense Flounders
I don’t think double digits can be reached by the crime of Middle Tennessee State. Its crime will struggle to substitute starter. His replacement will probably be Asher O’Hara. O’Hara accumulated playing time this past year. Against FIU, he was 9-for-20 for 114 yards and one interception. He conducted more often than he passed. In scrimmages, his numbers cause concern over his precision and ability.
O’Hara will have restricted pass-catchers that are proven available as the Blue Raiders shed their third, second, along with receivers. MTSU does return its leading receiver. But he will have to move against the Lavert Hill of Michigan this past year. Even though Hill receives criticism for not being large size will not be a problem contrary to the 5’9 Lee and Hill will play to his strengths.
Time and relaxation in the pocket may also be hard to come by for O’Hara as the Blue Raiders return two starters, the 38 career starts, from among the poorer summit’s weakest offensive lines that, last year, ranked 87th in percentage of sacks allowed and ranked outside the top 100 in materials and sack rates.
It reloads enough to handle an protection device Even though Michigan line loses some gift. 1 defensive lineman would be Kwity Paye, who is prepared to step up at the end position after filling in frequently for the injured Rashan Gary. He was named the top defensive lineman of the team in matches from Northwestern, Indiana, and Maryland.
Between a inexperienced quarterback who’s also an inept passer, restricted pass-catchers, along with a mostly new offensive line, MTSU’s crime does not appear to be a promising candidate to reach 10 points, that would be the very points it scored for them at a season opener since 2016. The Blue Raiders mustered seven points and six, respectively.
Michigan’s Defense Asserts Itself
To add to the offensive issues of MTSU, I believe Michigan’s defense is sick and tired of hearing . Don Brown doesn’t care. UM’s defensive coordinator has a history of fielding elite defenses after losing a whole lot of highly-talented staff — 2017 being one instance, in which UM’s defense returned starter and permitted 18.8 points a game, while dominating non-elite competition.
Apart from a budding group of defensive linemen such as Paye, expect a large impact to be made by Josh Ross. He has heard enough about the linebacking team shedding Devin Bush. This past year, ross played in all 13 games. While he frequently split time at the linebacker position with Devin Gil, he substituted Bush at linebacker if Bush was injured against Ohio State. Ross owned the place from the team’s bowl game, where he led UM with 11 tackles. On the season, he was with 61 tackles and accrued four tackles for loss and a sack.
Joining him at inside linebacker would likely be Khaleke Hudson, that was a vocal leader in the otherwise lifeless bowl functionality of the team. He is eager to bounce back after last season’s disappointing season. Hudson needing to bounce back this year and be a true leader, the linebacker position is competitive and deep, including multiple men who want to make an impression besides Bush’s place being taken by Ross.
Michigan’s New-Look Offense Enjoys Hot Start
Issue marks usually do exist on crime. The significance of losing right tackle Andrew Stueber gets upset with Jalen Mayfield having been neck-and-neck competitively as earned about equal reps. The Wolverines’ returns four starters from this past year, each of whom were All-Big Ten to some degree. UM’s o-line’s quality is going to be a support to the number of springs looking to meet the place of Chris Evans and deceased Karan Higdon.
The passing attack of michigan is a source of excitement and pessimists are wrong to think that the crime of Michigan will need to endure major modification under fresh offensive coordinator Josh Gattis. Gattis will bring the kind of transformation after the Tide turned running group having a prolific vertical assault to one that he brought to Alabama passing offense.
Gattis’ tempo design utilizes RPOs and emphasizes a marriage between open and pace area. This style matches quarterback Shea Patterson nicely who’ll reestablish the freer playmaking ability he enjoyed in Miss.. He will keep his chemistry with Nico Collins along with freak Donovan Peoples-Jones, who together form the duo at wide receiver in terms of yardage that is joint of the Big Ten.
Tarik Black, that was considered ahead of both of these receivers back into 2017, is healthy (for now). They like a edge from an secondary which lost its top three corners — last year, the ones that obtained experience — plus its ball-hawing safety.
His recipients and patterson will perform the maximum to give Michigan a big enough lead to the baton to quarterback Dylan McCaffrey. He won’t represent a drop-off at all comparative to Patterson. Like when he entered the opener from Notre Dame to proceed the offense downfield in actuality, he looked better than Patterson. Coach Harbaugh expects both quarterbacks to perform .
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