1. How will the offensive line hold up? This is something to keep an eye on the rest of the season. Blake Treadwell is only anticipated to miss this game, however, Jared McGaha is expected to miss all games up to the Michigan game. Travis Jackson is in at center and was the starter all pre-season until an ankle injure pushed Blake in there. Perhaps Travis will represent... A New Hope...... If we suffer another injury, it could be the season. Look for the offensive line to show up. Or at least hope they do. A lot of the break down against ND seemed to be from lack of reps, lack of experience, this needs to stop immediately.
2. Establishing the run? Dan Roushar said hes going to stick with what MSU is for the rest of the year. No more unnecessary flea flickers, no more unnecessary wild cat, no more having one guard on one side of the center and the rest of the line on the other. If anything an offensive lineup like that would hurt such a young line. Keep it simple. Lets run the ball up the middle, have some bumps to the outside as well a pitch outside and get some screen passes going. We should out match CMU all over the place. Lets get in and win.
3. Can we win the turnover battle? This is something we excelled at when we won the Big Ten Title. Last week we had some costly fumbles and failed to score when getting the ball off a turnover. Let's pressure the QB, and get some interceptions and then punch it in. Look for MSU to do that.
CMU was just dominated by WMU and everything that I have read about CMU is that this is not their strongest team, certainly not the level of team that beat us two years ago. (i hate typing that)
Prediction: 34-10 MSU. I do not see this being close at any point. Except before the game starts.
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