Hopefully I’ll get two victories over them this year.

the Rex Ryan model, has become woefully obsolete, having been deciphered and eviscerated by offensive coordinators at the college and NFL levels alike. As we saw repeatedly at Notre Dame, there are some basic concepts that are fundamentally unsound and can be easily exploited, especially in lining up against the run.

But it’s also been exposed in the passing game. Initially, Ryan had some real success pressuring and confusing QBs, who were mainly taking deeper drops and running for their lives against the exotic and unfamiliar blitz packages that Ryan was dialing up. But as the shift to shorter drops and quicker timing patterns has taken hold, the scheme has proven increasingly vulnerable, as those blitzes now routinely fail to get home and the back of the defense is left to burn.

And to top it all off, it’s notoriously complicated and impedes players from being decisive and playing fast.

Why anyone would hire VanGorder at this point is a mystery. Yet, after that disastrous stint at Louisville last year, he has somehow resurfaced as DC at Bowling Green. Wow.

in today's game.

(assuming that Ryan's scheme is derived from his father Buddy's famous defense)

However, this scheme was the perfect foil to Michigan's 2014 offense, which was equally backwards and outdated, and brought us one truly glorious night in South Bend...

Scott Loeffler was the offensive coordinator on that staff. That is how Brian VanGorder came by his current job at Bowling Green, where Loeffler is now in his first season as head coach.

That Gene Chizik would think to hire the worst defensive coordinator and one of the worst offensive coordinators in college football, further shows what a transcendent talent Cam Newton was at Auburn with Chizik.