5th Quarter Consensus: Badgers win third straight

It’s kinda crazy that we were only separated by three points after nine games. Nice prediction this week.

Readers should know that we actually do come up with them completely independently!

As for my accuracy this week, I think a lot of people underestimated how truly awful Michigan’s defense is, but how proficient their offense is.

They were recruiting poorly on defense even before Lloyd Carr retired, and Rich Rodriguez has basically acted like a highly-paid offensive coordinator to this point in his tenure at UM.

At the same time, the Wolverines did come into this game with the highest-scoring offense in the Big Ten. People lost sight of that because of how many games they have lost.

Given both of these pieces of information, I predicted something close to a shootout. I figured the Badgers wouldn’t be stopped offensively, having put up ridiculous numbers against much better defenses. Yet I knew Michigan would score points, because they have in almost every game.

Next week’s game at Northwestern will be tough to figure.