Michigan Football: The good, bad and ugly from Peach Bowl loss

The Bad:  Conservative offense and QB mistakes

There were a lot of bad things in this loss, so it was hard to narrow it down to just a few but one of the worst things was the same-old approach on offense from Harbaugh and Hamilton.

Collins, Peoples-Jones, Gentry and Black will all play in the NFL. Patterson probably will too even as a backup. Then why doesn’t Michigan spread teams out and force opponents into some single coverage or zones? Do many teams have guys who can cover those four guys man-to-man? I don’t think so, especially if you have a back like Evans or Turner who can catch.

Instead, without its best running Karan Higdon who sat out to prep for the draft and normal starting right tackle, Juwann Bushell-Beatty, Michigan ran on first down seven of the first 11 times. They also didn’t start throwing regularly until the Gators lead was 17. Harbaugh also refused to give the ball more the best running back.

Turner is clearly better than Evans, who got stuffed (20 yards on seven carries) and Tru Wilson — so why didn’t he get 20 carries? Then maybe the running game would have done better than 77 yards on 30 attempts.

Florida got seven plays of 28 yards or more from seven different players. Michigan football got two. The only other over 20 came on Patterson’s 21-yard run on the first play of the game.

After how poorly the offense looked against the Buckeyes, some changes should have been in order. Instead, Harbaugh was conservative like usual and Patterson blew any hope Michigan had with two interceptions.