Or will the defense carry the Buckeyes in one of the most highly-anticipated editions of The Game since 2006?
Long projected as a loss by the advanced stats in the first-ever matchup between Jim Harbaugh and Urban Meyer, The Game is finally here and the narrow-underdog Buckeyes will try and prove the numbers wrong. The margin was always narrow for Michigan both in Vegas and by the advanced stats, but it helps the Wolverines that the game is in Ann Arbor this year.
Michigan's presumed advantages appear to be in efficient run and pass defense and potentially against the Ohio State pass defense, but how do those advantages hold up against the advanced stats?