Rex Ryan said, after the Bills lost earlier in the year, that Miami had the single best stadium advantage for that reason. Teams on the opposing sidelines face temps 30 degrees hotter, baking in the Miami sun.
I think being able to have regular practices helped tremendously. You cannot discount the value of being able to have complete, full practices, especially when installing game plans.
Over the past two games the Bills have had only one day of regular practice. That might account for Hines not being part of the game plan as well as the vanilla play calling. Hopefully we'll see more in coming weeks.
Congrats on a great Michigan win! I'm a Penn State fan and you guys kicked our butts (not really hard to do with Sean Clifford at QB). I was pulling for the Wolverines to knock OSU off their high horse.