How great was the 1985 Michigan Defense?
October 26th, 2016 at 11:24 PM ^
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October 26th, 2016 at 10:44 PM ^
or just 8.1 PPG allowed. They managed this in spite of not having standout athleticism that the 1997 (Woodson) and 2016 (Peppers) units had. Of course, with a shutout this Saturday, the current team can match that achievement.
October 27th, 2016 at 12:06 AM ^
I thought Mike Hammerstein was outstanding.
October 26th, 2016 at 11:00 PM ^
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October 26th, 2016 at 11:07 PM ^
Damn you.
October 27th, 2016 at 12:14 AM ^
...it was the 3-3 tie at Illinois that ended up hurting Michigan.
If Michigan had won the road game comfortably, Michigan would have won a split National Championship with Oklahoma who beat #1 undefeated PSU in the Orange Bowl. Oklahoma and Michigan would have been 11-1.
October 26th, 2016 at 11:09 PM ^
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October 26th, 2016 at 11:59 PM ^
Chuck Long and Iowa offense in check. I was a bit disappointed in the Michigan offense. A very conservative called game plan. If the offense would have played better than we beat Iowa.
October 27th, 2016 at 12:34 AM ^
Hard to believe nobody has brought in Bill Connolly's 1985 season in review yet. To be fair, they aren't always perfect (he'll leave out some important events here and there), but IMO the season in review series he did this summer is one of the best college football historical documents I have ever read.
And his numbers loooooved Michigan in 1985. By S&P+ they were his #1 team, over Oklahoma. He ranked the defense number one, getting a 6.3 score on S&P+ (Oklahoma was #2 with a 9.3). The team rated, per S&P+ numbers, as the 11th best team of the 1980s period (mostly behind a bunch of Nebraska and FSU teams that didn't win either) and in that decade only Florida State produced a better defensive number, with a 6.0 in 1980. (1980 decade in review, Link).
According to sports reference, our strength of schedule was second in the nation, too. One of the ones that got away.
October 27th, 2016 at 9:56 AM ^
Watching this video made me miss the maize pants.
October 27th, 2016 at 11:15 AM ^
October 27th, 2016 at 12:14 PM ^
On Jan. 2, AP and UPI voters awarded 11-1 Oklahoma the national championship. Michigan finished No. 2 in both polls. One AP voter even put the Wolverines No. 1. In its next issue, based on some formula devised by Allen Barra and George Ignatin, Inside Sport magazine raised Michigan to No. 1 over Oklahoma in its final rankings, in part because the Wolverines’ “average opponent was a full touchdown a game tougher” than the Sooners’. Jeff Sagarin’s computer rankings in USA Today also placed Michigan and Oklahoma 1-2.
October 27th, 2016 at 2:23 PM ^
Shouldn't Iowa have beaten Michigan by an even wider margin? Thought they had a TD stolen from them by an incompetent call.
October 27th, 2016 at 8:12 PM ^
I recall a near interception by Brad Cochran when the Wolverines led 10-9.