Q. You guys talked about, or on Monday you talked about how you would like to see the running backs or J.K. touch it more. Both those guys got a lot of work today. Did you guys make any game-plan changes or did you feel like you approached things differently from an offensive perspective this week?
Meyer: Yeah, there was a mandate to make sure those guys touch the ball. The flow of the game also dictated that we were controlling the line of scrimmage on both sides. What happened in other games is when you get behind or it just doesn't dictate it that way. But that was a mandate for me and it was, once again mandates are easy. The execution was outstanding.
Q. You guys lost in 2015 to Michigan State, and then went up to Michigan and ran the ball and blew them out. You came off a loss this year, ran the ball and had a blowout win. Is there something about a loss that gets you guys dedicated back to the run game?
Meyer: We use the term around here quite often, the laser-like focus.
Those two running backs we have are two of our better players.
And that week of practice was all about controlling that line of scrimmage.
And we also -- if you look closely at the way we ran the ball, it was not traditional. The one hit, we haven't run a draw all year, and it was a draw play. And we kept trying to do it as often as we can being in the spread sets.
To answer your question, the focus was there. And like we said,
the mandate was there; let's go do it.
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That was another thing about this game. We didn't just run read option everytime we wanted to run the ball. There were draws. Power sweeps/stretches. Etc. Some actual designed run plays. Similar to how we ran Zeke in the big games in 2014 & 2015...except in the only losses of those seasons
Need moar mandates