Week 9: Best thing you saw...

DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

Great week in college football. Michigan finally beating MSU, being able to run the ball, and beating them on the road. Unreal. Gotta live it. Go Blue!

article in the LSJ about how good Miles Bridges is at basketball

I remember the '90 game at home when MSU upset us, they were un-ranked and we were ranked number 1. Moller went for a 2 point conversion and Howard was tripped in endzone or else he would have made that catch. If it was 1990, this board would be in melt down mode. Even though I think we are a lot better than Sparty, at least we did not let them upset us like they did back in 1990.

Michigan players jumping and shouting "It's great to be a Michigan Wolverine!" after the game.

All pretty tight games in the top ten today with the exception of the Aggies. Gives perspective to M +9.

All pretty tight games in the top ten today with the exception of the Aggies. Gives perspective to M +9.

Honorable mention to 2 and 6.

Here it is. There were 3 undefeated teams that got punched in the mouth on the road today but were still standing at the end. Us 3 plus Bama are the clear top 4. Not sure who is 2, 3 or 4. We probably are 2 or 3 with Clemson as the other.

All the other undefeated lost their road games. Bye Felicias.

Even the top "one loss" teams -- UL and OSU -- were underwhelming in their wins, guven the opponents. (I di give some credit to NU, that guy Carr can play for my team any day.)

Cant wait to see if all 4 of us pull this off. I still feel like Clemson has a loss in them, but instead of benefitting OSU (who will have 2+ losses at end of regular season) it probably will send UL to the #4 seed.

got us 3 points right before the half...Kenny Fucking Allen!

...leaving after the missed field goal

Northwestern hanging with the buckeyes. I think we're going undefeated.

but Jabrill the one actually getting the 2 for UM instead.

De'Veon trucking Riley Bullough on his TD run near the left pylon.  That fired me up to the tune of a lot of F U Riley Bullough shouted at my TV.  

Brock Huard annoyed me many times during the broadcast but he did have a few insightful things to say too - my favorite being on a completed pass by Speight "....the msu safety there......I really dunno what he was doing".    

Speight continues to get better.  Hung in the pocket a couple times and took a hit while delivering a good throw.  

Best thing that I saw was Michigan winning and largely controlling the game. I really think that the team and coaches started taking their foot off the gas in the second half and a lot of the fans are mad, but why did they need to keep emptying the playbook and having unneeded wear on guys if they are up by 20? That doesn't excuse the defense, but offensively they ran the ball a lot and chewed clock. Maybe not the blowout, but the ultimate sign of success for this team is that they didn't need to pour on the gas for the entire game because they were so far and away the better team.
I'm not going to beat my chest before they win games, but winning a game against a rival on the road has to give confidence to this team for the games to come. Just two years ago a win like this would have seemed impossible. Today we saw a team jump a huge hurdle and take the next big step to being a championship team.

Michigan win is wonderful of course. But Tennessee losing to South Carolina is pretty easy on the eyes as well.

So many good things, many of them already mentioned. So as not to repeat (I hope), I enjoyed the many shots of Dantonio muttering to himself and looking totally defeated. Hey Mark, where did all the quips go?

This weekend had a lot of nail biters. osu, clemson, baylor, louisville, nebraska... I havent checked the score yet, but did ND lose to that Miami?

At that moment we could not be beat. He was not going to get caught from behind but when he broke the tape at the goal line and the game was cemented. Was my favorite thing I saw yesterday! The irony of Dantoni saying what comes around goes around in my ears. The Maise and Blue in the stands was a close second personally. Nice day for Wolverines to represent, way to go brothers and sisters in blue!

for like 7 straight plays with goal to go was fantastic.  Peppers was amazing, and it was great to watch the crowd cheer for the "fight" the losing team showed as things have returned to normal.  

Best thing I saw: no top 15 team won in dominant fashion. Clemson shouldn't be jumping us, Nebraska was exposed (but they're still decent), and Louisville barely survived.

We had a closer game than most of us wanted at the end, but it wasn't nearly as close as Nebraska's OT loss or Louisville and Clemson winning at the last minute.

Contrary to best laid plans, I was in the car for the first half.  So I had to listen on Sirius radio, which featured Sparty's homer crew.  Can tell 'ya, they're not Ufer-quality.  Aside from the obvious bias (which was very diffcult to listen to), they couldn't describe the game for shit.  When Hill got his unsporting conduct, I thought he came to the pile 5 seconds late and destroyed the guy when everyone was getting up.  When McDowell got his call, They were ripping the refs for not calling Cole, even muttering that they know who rules the B1G (intimating the refs giving UM an obvious call).  When Speight completed that bomb to Darboh after evading the hit, it sounded like he threw it while being dragged down and it only went for 10.  Those guys were awful.

So, with that setup, the best thing I saw was the DVR showing me just how in control Michigan was in that first half.  The icing was hearing "DOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMM", which did not come across on the radio at all!  That was an AWESOME way to rep, travelers - congrats and upvotes to all of you!!!

And Speight picking up where he left off last week was fantastic, especially considering the circumstances - on the road in a real rivalry game.  

Lots of great games yesterday, as always in CFB.  But I was happiest to see Wisconsin finally get that close win over a top 10 team.  Took 'em three tries, but they got it!

One last thing I'll say, which will probably get me downvotes...  I'll say nice job to Sparty for actually showing up and not quiting.  They were thoroughly outplayed all day, yet they played hard.  As much as I don't like them, I can appreciate a team that plays hard...  

Saw so many great things, -Msu fans leaving after missed fg -Hearing spartan stadium with loud go blue in 4q -darbo great grabs -speight being composed on on the money -peppers 2 pt run back But my clear best thing was, Kenny Allen 3 for 3

Busted out the train in a non-goal line situation and got another huge play. I love it.

of separation between himself and the rest of the players on the field in his beautiful, athletic, and studly 90 yard sprint after recovering the fumble on MSU's completely irrational 2 point conversion attempt before reaching the goal line, dipping his head at the imaginary tape to finish the play with style.   Speight's terrific one mistake performance in the face of all the heat Sparty could bring on hm.  Darboh's best game ever as a wide receiver.

Speight being slightly, dare I say, Brady-esque in the pocket.

He looked back early and knew he could have jogged to the end zone and even taunted the opponent with how easy it was. Instead he went as fast as he could to the finish as if to say, this is who we are, this is how we do it at Michigan, no matter the opponent or situation. 100% all the time. That was transcendent.