The Irish are 3-0 for the first time in a decade so let the hype machine begin! With the Michigan night game approaching, we can expect expectations to go through the roof this week. So before we start the "third year" coach stories and national championship speculation, let's just count to ten and take a deep breath. . .
OK, NOW let's dream about running the table and playing in the BCS championship game. Isn't it nice to at least be able to dream about it for a moment? Been a while. Oh yeah, in other news USC LOST! That was fun to hear being out here in Trojan land.
OK, so what conclusions can we draw from the Irish performance last night? Our line play is pretty solid both ways. Dline simply shut down the Spartan run game and MSU pretty much never crossed the 50. Think about that,wow. Teo was flying all over the place. Corners were OK but once again we did not face a great QB. Oline was solid against a very good defense and though we did not run effectively most of the game we did end up with 122 yards and wore them down late. Cierre Wood looked good in his return. Golson was not spectacular but 178 yards and the receivers (Toma and Jones) stepped up nicely when MSU doubled Eifert all night. Man, Eifert had zero catches and we won handily. EG made a nice run for the second TD also and generally made good choices including throwing a few away. Kicking game was the best it has been in a long time. And how about NO TURNOVERS.
All in all a great all around team effort and particularly nice to see us win a hard hitting game against a top ten team. We were in control pretty much the whole game. I am getting pretty excited.
So next week it is time to settle the score with those Wolverines. We are on a roll and if we avoid the press clippings I think we may win comfortably.
Go Irish! Beat Wolverines!
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