Folks, can one of you help me here?

Cut-n-pasted from this morning's Michigan Daily, by Matt Slovin:

After promising improvement on offense, a new-look Wolverines squad delivered with a lopsided 42-13 win over Minnesota last weekend. In order
to remain undefeated, Michigan will need to find more ways to move the ball against one of the best defenses they have faced this season, in the
most hostile environment they will have entered — Penn State’s Beaver Stadium.

It's the emboldened portion I take umbrage with.

Jeez, how bad is Notre Dame's defense, so as to leave that statement true? How good is a defense gashed for 470 yards and 44 points by IU?

With our obviously-improved OL with GG at center, Devin's sure-to-be-improved confidence, the other Devin joining Gallon, Chesson and Dileo
outside, and Fitz running as well as he had been prior to injury---I'll be downright stunned if we don't pile up 400 yards and 31 points...MIN.

Their D looked good against EMU and Kent St, decent against Syracuse and down right bad against UCF and IU.

But it is at PSU, and that is a tough environment.