Postgame reactions: Where does Michigan go after blowout loss to Texas?
ANN ARBOR – The Michigan Wolverines suffered their first home defeat in more than three seasons on Saturday in a 31-12 drubbing by the Texas Longhorns, the nation’s third-ranked team. Coming off an opener where there was a ton to clean up, it was a performance that did not do a ton to inspire confidence that this is a potential College Football Playoff team.
And right now, that might be the least of their worries. There are issues from top to bottom that needed to be fixed heading into an unforgiving schedule down the stretch.
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The Wolverine’s Anthony Broome and former Michigan defensive lineman Ryan Van Bergen discussed the performance in the aftermath live from Regents Field in Downtown Ann Arbor.
“This game just exposed us for all the different areas where we need to improve,” Van Bergen said. “This team I think has a lot of ability and capacity and potential, but none of that really showed through today. A bad day at the office pretty much all around, except for maybe our kicker and there are things to be learned, but I think we’re on that spectrum of if we are reloading or are we resetting with the new staff and some of the players that we lost.
“I think that this game was a clear answer that this is a real reset button. And for me, that just brings my expectations down a little bit that we’re not going to be playing national championship football in week two of the regular season this year. And it’s not to say that we were supposed to be playing national championship football, but I do think that there was some expectation there. And now I think we kind of got to come back down to reality and realize that.
“This team needs to develop an identity. This team needs to develop an entire offense and a scheme that’s going to be successful. On the defensive side, just because we have the athletes doesn’t mean that we are where we were last year. There are still a lot of games left to be played. There’s a lot of season left to be had. The goals that we may have had at the beginning of the season are still there, but I think we just finally realized just how far away we are from playing the football that we want to play.”
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