Where Does Michigan Finish?
December 28th, 2016 at 9:39 AM ^
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December 28th, 2016 at 9:56 AM ^
We know.
But by all means, remind us again. Your narcissism knows no bounds.
December 28th, 2016 at 10:31 AM ^
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December 28th, 2016 at 11:01 AM ^
And you just reminded us of how immature you are. Thanks.
December 28th, 2016 at 11:40 AM ^
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December 28th, 2016 at 11:59 AM ^
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December 28th, 2016 at 9:07 AM ^
Can you?
December 28th, 2016 at 9:15 AM ^
Beat Off.
December 27th, 2016 at 10:39 PM ^
Highest I can see UM finishing is 4th. Thats if everything goes our way. #2 is completely out of the picture and we wouldnt even deserve that being honest.#1 and #2 goes to National Championship game teams. Alabama, OSU, Clemson, Washington, and Penn State are ahead of us
Lets say Washington loses and Penn State loses. Then MAYBE we could be at #4.
The most likely scenario is Washington loses big to Bama, Penn State wins and Michigan wins then Penn State takes the 4th spot and we get the 5th
December 27th, 2016 at 10:53 PM ^
You think Penn State is going to win? I think USC crushes them.
December 28th, 2016 at 12:50 AM ^
PSU will lose. They'll get destroyed like they did vs Michigan.
December 28th, 2016 at 9:18 AM ^
They don't have the defense to keep up with USC. They couldn't even keep up with a still-developing Speight.
Stopping Ohio State's one-dimensional offense at home at night is not the same thing as stopping USC in the Rose Bowl.
December 27th, 2016 at 10:40 PM ^
2 losses by 4 points on the road, 1 in double OT after getting robbed by the officials.
Really an unfortunate situation to not get into the playoff, but no excuses for the egg laid at Iowa in the night game.
I think we are the only team whose 1's could hang with Bama, but their depth would eventually beat us down head to head. Their D-line vs. our O-line would probably be the biggest mismatch on the field.
That said, Harbaugh with a month to prepare a team has worked some magic, as we saw with last year's O-line.
If we beat down FSU and Bama blows everyone out of the water, I think we can jump to #2. We most likely end up #3 though.
December 28th, 2016 at 1:23 AM ^
The second best team in the country. I think we would beat Clemson and Washington. Problem is, nobody (except us) cares that we only lost by 4 points in 2 games on the road. We have TWO losses. Devil's advocate, how can we be the second best team if we lost freaking IOWA...
We can argue all day long. At the end of the day, we blew it against Iowa. The refs stole the osu game. At this point, we play well and win against FSU and it's a great year. We finish top 5 and starting hyping next year's team.
GO BLUE!!
December 27th, 2016 at 10:42 PM ^
Why would we jump OSU who just beat us and Clemson and lost to Alabama? That doesn't make any sense.
Your scenario would have Michigan #3 or #4, IMO.
December 27th, 2016 at 10:50 PM ^
that we beat by 39 points get ranked ahead of us?
We've lost 2 games by a grand total of 4 points. Vegas knows who the 2nd best team in the country is. I expect that if we thump FSU, we will finish at #3, but crazy Bama blowouts could get us to #2.
December 27th, 2016 at 11:00 PM ^
I think that Michigan has a pretty clear path to # 3.....with #2 being a definite possiblity. It's probably best for OSU to beat Clemson in regulation (that pretty much would put Michigan ahead of Clemson), then have Bama thump the Buckeyes.
December 27th, 2016 at 11:04 PM ^
This just doesn't happen.
A team jumping from #6 to #2?
Again, why doesn't OSU get credit for beating Clemson? They're better than FSU.
Just because you lose doesn't mean you have to go down...or do we not remember what happened after we lost to Iowa? Hint, we didn't drop.
December 27th, 2016 at 11:25 PM ^
.....because all "similar" teams also lost that weekend. If Michigan beats FSU by 10+, and OSU loses to whoever (Clemson or Bama) by 10+, Michigan will jump them.
December 27th, 2016 at 11:44 PM ^
Again...you're not counting their win over the #2 team in the country on a neutral field.
Now if they lose outright to Clemson? Sure. We jump them, that makes sense.
But if they beat Clemson and lose to the #1 team in the nation who hasn't lost all year? The chances are slimmer than slim.
They would have 2 losses, 1 to the national champion the other on the road to a top 10 team...they would've beat us head to head...and they would be coming off a victory over the #2 team in the country. This isn't even a question.
I'm not even positive we jump Clemson if OSU beats them and we beat FSU. IMO we should, but there is no certainty.
December 28th, 2016 at 8:47 AM ^
All assuming we win ...
Alright so New Years weekend Michigan wins, PSU, Washington lose we would move up to number 4. lets say Clemson get's woodshed'd we could possibly be number 3 (especially against a team that we 'lost' to in OT) or even OSU gets whomped, at worst we would be number 4.
the next week lets say Bama wins convincingly over OSU, like by 16-17 ... you're saying there is no shot that the number 3 team jumps in front of them to number 2?
Not trying to be a douche but has the loser of the NC game ever finished 2nd in the rankings?
December 27th, 2016 at 11:38 PM ^
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December 27th, 2016 at 11:51 PM ^
If we had beat them head-to-head...no question. But you can't fault them for losing what would be an additional game that Michigan doesn't play to the undefeated national champions.
Okay, I give in, I suppose if OSU loses 0-100 and Michigan wins 100-0 then we'll be #2.
I'm trying to be realistic. Realistically they beat us, they would've beaten Clemson which some of you are forgetting, so basically they're losing an additional game we're not even playing in to #1 undefeated Alabama.
If we won head-to-head, I'd say yeah...maybe a 42-21 type Bama win drops them below Michigan. But there's no way since they beat us. Basically even if it's a close decision, the close decision always goes to head-to-head.
By putting OSU over PSU and PSU over Michigan, they're saying it wasn't close enough that head-to-head outweighed everything else.
December 28th, 2016 at 7:47 AM ^
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December 27th, 2016 at 11:02 PM ^
OSU lost to PSU and they're ranked WAY ahead of them.
This is an opinion, so I'm not going to argue...but your logic in forming your opinion is flawed.
And it especially doesn't make sense because you're not giving OSU credit in your scenario for beating Clemson...a team that is much better than FSU rankings wise.
I don't see any way OSU could be in the national championship, lose to an undefeated team by however many points...and drop lower than 2 after just beating #3 Clemson.
None of this matters anyway, finishing #2 or #3 means nothing. Just beat FSU and let everything else take care of itself. But you can't bring up PSU over us when we won and not bring up OSU over PSU when PSU won. You can't give us credit for an FSU win and not count OSU's win over Clemson in your scenario.
December 28th, 2016 at 9:10 AM ^
Maybe your logic is flawed. Did that occur to you?
December 28th, 2016 at 12:41 PM ^
It may be lawed, yet it is clear. The argument that OSU drops past Michigan by losing in the NC game (by any amount) is neither clear nor unflawed.
There is no way that Michigan gets rated ahead of a team that wins at least one round of the NC playoffs. No. Way.
December 27th, 2016 at 10:45 PM ^
December 27th, 2016 at 11:30 PM ^
Miami Gardens, Florida!
December 28th, 2016 at 11:49 AM ^
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If either Clemson or OSU lose badly as well, we could go as high as 3, but we won't crack 2.
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December 27th, 2016 at 10:52 PM ^
December 27th, 2016 at 10:55 PM ^
I hate to be "that guy" but it doesn't matter where we finish. We could finish 2,3,4 etc and it wouldn't mean a thing. Sorry to be so negative but these are my feelings. Watch the downvotes in 3, 2, 1...
December 27th, 2016 at 11:08 PM ^
I wasn't gonna downvote you until you asked for one
December 27th, 2016 at 11:33 PM ^
In honor of Carrie Fisher and Rogue One....
December 27th, 2016 at 10:59 PM ^
If we win, I imagine we can find ourselves in the 4-5 spot in the final rankings, which to me is fine, truth be told. I don't foresee being able to crack the ceiling of #4, but then a lot depends on how the playoffs and Rose Bowl go, I would think.
In any case, we can argue about the usefulness of the ranking, but we can get sone decent momentum program-wise from a strong finish.
December 27th, 2016 at 11:01 PM ^
December 27th, 2016 at 11:05 PM ^
December 27th, 2016 at 11:08 PM ^
seminole body, looking forward to september, 2017 with an EUTM.
December 27th, 2016 at 11:10 PM ^
I would care less about final ranking at this point. the performance vs FSU would speak itself. I hope we can beat FSU soundly and everybody is healthy after the game. Then a few high profile recruits left on the board commit us. That's more meaningful than a meaningless ranking.
I don't even know why nthose rankings exist any more. They are useless. The worst is coach poll, they could have been abandoned even in BCS era. Those coaches watch no game every week.
December 28th, 2016 at 3:08 AM ^
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December 27th, 2016 at 11:16 PM ^
Brazilian girls
December 27th, 2016 at 11:23 PM ^
I meant it like that, but not like THAT.
December 27th, 2016 at 11:17 PM ^
December 27th, 2016 at 11:29 PM ^
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December 27th, 2016 at 11:33 PM ^
probably would be 4th with a win
December 27th, 2016 at 11:34 PM ^
Maybe #4. We might be able to leapfrog one playoff team. Expecting us to leapfrog three playoff teams is silly.
December 28th, 2016 at 11:48 AM ^
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