Michigan Hoke and Awry

jiMpossible requested an analysis for M home and road in the Hoke era.

jiMpossible:One thing I'm not sure about:  "Hoke's teams have been bad on the road."
Is this really true?  Isn't it that M has played tougher teams on the
road,
and has lost a few to teams that M is slightly better than (PSU this year,
Iowa a couple years ago,) .  Isn't that just home field advantage?  (If M
had lost to UConn, I wouldn't have been able to explain it any more than
explaining an  Akron loss).

Tell me if I'm wrong.

sarcasMike: jamie mac says they've been down double digits in 11 of 15 road games under Hoke-  that seems like a lot...

jiMpossible: That is a lot, but the final results are what matters.  M has been down a
lot of games, home and away; against better teams and worse.  I think the
home winning streak is putting more emphasis on the road record.  I need
someone (like you) to do a full analysis.  Thanks.

I put together a table of M deficits during Hoke's reign:

Season	Opponent	H/A/N	deficit	W/L	rank at time	final/current
2011	WMU	Home	7	W
2011	Notre Dame	Home	17	W
2011	EMU	Home	3	W
2011	SDSt	Home	NA	W
2011	Minnesota	Home	NA	W
2011	Northwestern	Away	10	W
2011	MSU	Away	14	L	23	11
2011	Purdue	Home	7	W
2011	Iowa	Away	15	L
2011	Illinois	Away	NA	W
2011	Nebraska	Home	NA	W	17	24
2011	OSU	Home	7	W
2011	VaTech	Neutral	3	W	17	21
2012	Alabama	Neutral	31	L	2	1
2012	Air Force	Home	NA	W
2012	Massachusetts	Home	NA	W
2012	Notre Dame	Away	10	L	11	4
2012	Purdue	Away	NA	W
2012	Illinois	Home	NA	W
2012	MSU	Home	1	W
2012	Nebraska	Away	14	L		25
2012	Minnesota	Away	NA	W
2012	Northwestern	Home	10	W	21	17
2012	Iowa	Home	NA	W
2012	OSU	Away	5	L	4	3
2012	South Carolina	Neutral	11	L	11	8
2013	CMU	Home	NA	W
2013	Notre Dame	Home	NA	W	14	24
2013	Akron	Home	3	W
2013	Connecticut	Away	14	W
2013	Minnesota	Home	NA	W
2013	Penn St	Away	11	L
2013	Indiana	Home	7	W
2013	MSU	Away	23	L	24	18
2013	Nebraska	Home
2013	Northwestern	Away
2013	Iowa	Away
2013	OSU	Home
2013	Bowl?	Neutral

M has faced double digit deficits in 12 of Hoke's 34 games. Two of those were at home, eight on the road and two at neutral sites.
Michigan's record in those games is 4-8 in those games (2-0 at home, 2-6 road, 0-2 neutral). It is worth noting that in in 2 of those losses (Bowl with South Carolina and at Penn State) M did come back to take the lead (even double digit lead vs. PSU - ARGGGGGGHHHH!) before losing.

M has trailed in 21 of these 34 games (12-9 in those games). 

I think falling behind by double digits in 35% of your games is not great. Winning a third of those makes it a little better (I would assume that is pretty - good; jiMpossible should follow up on that).

In a totally different era - Bo Schembechler's Wolverines fell behind by double digits 13 times in 21 years... (that is a somewhat educated guess) And I only credit them with one win and one tie in those games.

********UPDATE*****
Added opponents ranking into table. M has faced 10 teams ranked at time of kick off. These games are broken down to 3 at home, 4 on the road and 3 neutral. Only one team unranked at the game time ended up ranked that would add another road ranked team.

So M faced ranked teams in 3 of 18 homes games, 4-5 of 13 road games and 3 of 3 neutral site games. I think it would be safe to say from that data, their home schedule has not been as difficult as their road games.