0 4B - November 1, 2010 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com THE QUICK BREAKDOWN 0 MAIZE GAUGE The Michig SPREAD-O-METER an Daily football writers break down the weekend's stats that don't show up in the box score. The Spread-o-Meter measures the success of quarterbacks, the Rod-o-Meter emotional (positive or negative) Rich Rodriguez was following the game and the Hype-o-Meter measures the fans' performance. vW"v 0 3/4 Denards Think about Michigan football games like a tennis match: the Wolverine offense has to hold serve and assume the defense will allow a touchdown or a field goal on every drive. The offense played well (31 points, 423 yards), but its serve was broken too many times. ROD-O-METER 1/ At the press conference after the game on Saturday, Michigan coach Rich Rodriguez acted like you'd expect 4 after a loss like the one his team suffered: disappointed, Rich Rods sad, but mostly frustrated. In fact, the coach said the word "frustrated" six separate times in eight minutes. HYPE-0-METER The Happy Valley crowd was early and loud Saturday, 4with students outside the gates six hours before the eight Big Houses o'clock game. Deemed a "white-out," the only time the sea of white was remotely quiet was during Michigan's brief comeback at the beginning of the fourth quarter. 0 LOOKING GOOD FEELING BLUE PLAY OF THE GAME ARIEL BoND/Daily ARI L BOND aily SOPHOMORE QUARTERBACK DENARD ROBINSON DEFENSIVE COORDINATOR GREG ROBINSON Robinson returned to his usual stellar self on You know, the bad one. Despite the luxury of the Saturday, accounting for 381 total yards and | bye week, Robinson's defense never gave the team a four touchdowns, with a notable absence of | chance to win. The unit gave up 435 yards to Penn interceptions. The quarterback led a Michigan State, which was starting third-string walk-on comeback in the fourth quarter that brought the quarterback Matthew McGloin. McGloin threw for Wolverines to within a touchdown after being 250 yards and a touchdown with no interceptions down 38-17 in the third quarter. It wasn't enough, against Michigan's revamped but very young but the big day for Robinson may at least keep secondary. To make matters worse for Robinson, him in the conversation for the Heisman Trophy. the only meaningful stop the Michigan defense Robinson's 191 rushing yards were enough to made was after Rich Rodriguez practically shoved preserve his spot as the top rusher in the nation. him aside and addressed the defense himself. NOTABLE QUOTABLE "When you're playing someone like Michigan, who has someone like Denard Robinson, the object of the game is to keep him off the field." - Penn State sophomore quarterback Matthew McGloin after the game THE MICHIGAN DAILY TOP 10 POLL Each week, Daily sports staffers fill out ballots, with first place votes receiving 10 points, second-place votes receiving nine, and so on. On 3rd and 10, with under two minutes remaining in the first half and the ball on the 20-yard line, Michigan blitzed its front seven on a Penn State pass play. Senior wide receiver Graham Zug lined up in the slot and ran a route to the front of the endzone in front of Michigan safety Ray Vinopal, who was making his first career start. Nittany Lions quar- terback Matt McGloin hit Zug for the touchdown to put Penn State up 28-10 with 1:02 remaining in the first half. The Nittany Lions converted 10-of-16 third downs. 1. OREGON: The Ducks beat USC and LaMichael James rushed for 239 yards to creep ever closer to Denard. 2. AUBURN: The Tigers throttled the Ole Miss D, racking up 51 points on the Rebels. 3. ALABAMA: Bye week for Alabama and some much- needed rest for the weary Crimson Tide. 6. NEBRASKA: Missouri joined the ranks of the one- loss teams as the Huskers prevailed. 7. UTAH: Air Force gave the Utes a good game but Utah beatthe Falcons on their home turf. 8. LSU: The Tigers had a bye week, and a loss to the L number two team inthe poll is nothing to be ashamed of. 0I :1 4. BOISE STATE: The Broncos obliterated Louisiana Tech on Tuesday bythe score of 49-20. Nx- A 9. WISCONSIN: Another team with a bye, another team stays where they are. The Badgers rest. 5. TCU: UNLV never had a chance against the Horned Frogs, who blew out the Runnin' Rebels 48-6. 10. OHIO STATE: The Bucks trounced the Gophers 52-10. , Pryor had 222 yards passing and three total TD's. STAFF PICKS The Daily football writers do their best to predict, against the spread, what Nicole happens in the 2010 football season. Auerbach Michigan (-3) at Penn State Michigan No.1 Auburn (-7.5) at Mississippi Auburn No. 2 Oregon t-7) at USC Oregon No. 4 TCU (-35) at UNLV TCU No. 5 Michigan State (+4.5) vs. No.18 Iowa Michigan State No. 6 Missouri (+6) at No.14 Nebraska Nebraska No. 8 Utah (-5) at Air Force Utah No. 9 Oklahoma (-24) at Colorado Oklahoma No.11 Ohio State (-26) at Minnesota Ohio State No.13 Stanford (-7) at Washington Stanford No.15 Arizona (-8.5) at UCLA UCLA No. 16 Florida State (-4) at NC State Florida State No.17 Oklahoma State (-4) at Kansas State Kansas State No.19 Arkansas (-21.5) vs. Vanderbilt Arkansas No. 20 South Carolina (-17) vs. Tennessee South Carolina No. 21 Mississippi State (-7) vs. Kentucky Kentucky No. 22 Miami (Fla.) (-14) at Virginia Miami (Fla.) No. 24 Nevada (-24) vs. Utah State Nevada No. 25 Baylor (+9) vs. Texas Texas Purdue (+14) at Illinois Illinois Northwestern (-3) at Indiana Northwestern Last week 11-5-3 Overall 101-66-7 - r Ryan Kartje Tim Rohan Joe Stapleton Michigan Michigan Michigan Michigan Auburn Oregon UNLV Iowa Missouri Utah Oklahoma Ohio State Stanford Arizona Florida State Oklahoma State Arkansas South Carolina Kentucky Miami (Fla.) Nevada Baylor Illinois Northwestern 9-7-3 89-78-7 Michigan Auburn Oregon TCU IaIowa Nebraska Air Force Oklahoma Ohio State Washington Arizona Florida State Oklahoma State Arkansas South Carolina Carolina Kentucky Miami (Fla.) Nevada Baylor Purdue Indiana 8-8-3 88-79-7 Michigan Auburn USC TCU Michigan State Nebraska Utah Oklahoma Ohio State Stanford Arizona Florida State Kansas State Arkansas South Carolina Mississippi State Miami (Fla.) Nevada Texas Illinois Northwestern 9-7-3 95-72-7 Lee Quakenbush Men's Glee Club President Michigan Auburn Oregon TCU Michigan State Nebraska Utah Colorado Ohio State Stanford Arizona Florida State Oklahoma State Arkansas South Carolina Kentucky Miami (Fla.) Nevada Texas Illinois Northwestern 10-6-3 46-31-5 I I I ' 4