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The Wall Street Journal figures that Michigan had the seventh worst year of any traditional college football program using the following categories: program pedigree, humiliating losses, crushed preseason hopes and off-field embarrassments:

7. The Wolverines seem to deserve a worse ranking than this, given their epically overmatched defense (which ranks 108th of 120 teams nationally) and the way their regular season ended, losing five of their last seven. MICHIGAN's saving grace is that all five of its losses were to respected opponents

With the exception of pedigree, It is hard to see how any of these categories really fit Michigan's season. Yes, we lost badly to OSU, again, but win total was in line with general expectations but we had no off-field embarrass...

Michigan's coach spoke emotionally at a team banquet about a Josh Groban song.

Oh yeah, that. And a photo of the estimable Mr. Groban to boot. Sigh.

Your winner? Texas, easily:

1. Other programs had just one jump-off-the-ledge loss, or merely modest reputations and expectations, but TEXAS' 2010 season covered all the bases. Losses to Iowa State, Baylor and Kansas State ranked them No. 1 in our "humiliating" category, and they didn't rank lower than third in any other.

A pretty funny article (from 7 Dec) with movie titles that align well with this year's bowl games.

My favorite is the Groundhog Day reference: "Ohio State knows the drill: Their alarm clock goes off, they show up at a bowl game and get beaten senseless by an SEC team—only to do it all over again the next season."

Check it out as there are some other good ones too.  The Gator Bowl is more sad that funny from our perspective.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704156304576003591057586716.html?KEYWORDS=everson

interesting study and article, don't know how it shakes out for college.

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so when you say you are watching the football game, you are really watching players standing around with some playing in between.