How did Michigan quarterback Tate Forcier perform against Ohio State on Saturday?”
Dominant Buckeyes: Ohio State’s 21-10 victory over Michigan gave Jim Tressel an 8-1 clip in “The Game” and marked the Buckeyes’ sixth straight triumph in the heated rivalry. The latest win was never really in doubt despite the close score. Ohio State dominated on the ground, rushing for more than 225 yards for the fifth straight contest, and Tate Forcier continued his erratic play, to be polite, tossing four more interceptions. You hate to fault the true freshman, but as good as he looks sometimes, his mistakes are that much worse. The game, for all intents and purposes, was decided on his first-quarter fumble that Cameron Heyward jumped on for a score.
Three times during his meeting with the media Monday, quarterback Tate Forcier said how important it is to get Michigan’s seniors to a bowl game. “Being a leader of the team, you can never send your seniors out empty handed, and that’s something I don’t want to do,” Forcier said. “A lot of it’s on me, how I play and how I motivate these guys.” With a sieve of a defense and two hobbled running backs, the Michigan football team’s fading bowl hopes hinge largely on how Forcier performs the next two weeks against top-25 teams Wisconsin and Ohio State. If Forcier plays like he did early in the season, when his heroics helped Michigan (5-5, 1-5) to comeback wins over Notre Dame and Indiana, the Wolverines will sneak into a bowl with a .500 or better record. If he plays like he has most of the past month, when youth and inexperience have contributed to turnover problems and inconsistency, Michigan will spend its second straight December at home. Forcier showed signs of snapping out of his Oct
