Our contest with the eponymous functionality returns.

How this works again:

1. Readers predict the final score of a designated game by placing a guess in the comments, preferably in the format of [M score][hyphen][Opp score], for example "41-30" or "35-31 Michigan", or "28-24 Go Blue", or "38-34 Gardner FTW!" or "38-0" etc.
2. The three guys who read this part holler at people who post in a different format
3. First person (by timestamp) to post a particular score has it.
4. If you got it right, I contact you for an address by your MGoBlog account email, and you give me some time to get that to you.
5. If nobody got it right we push it to next week or let it go.
6. Brian voices displeasure at the puns in the headlines.

About Last Week:

Didn't happen and exactly nobody minded.

This Week's Game:

As we wave farewell to this rivalry that has meant so much less to one of us than playing Purdue a lot, we could remember the times we shared, the preposterous 4-point wins, highlight packages to the tune of Benny Hill, that photo of Crable, and the astounding leaps we made to reach all of those impossible footballs and conclusions.

Instead, we choose to commemorate this final meeting with that thing they misspelled on the cups. So long, Fig Things. May you shake down as much thunder from the sky as you do bird poop.

Always and forever.

And on the Line…

This 24" x 32" print by renowned portrait artist (and namesake/godson of Bennie Oosterbaan) Ben McCready. From left: Carter, Harmon, Chappuis, Bennie, Kramer, Desmond. Plus some configurations of the stadium. Ace and I already have ours in our "offices."

And one for Mott: If you'd rather skip guessing the score and just get one, Ben has this available as a limited 24x32 edition at an MGoBlog discount of $100 ($25 off), or get the 18" x 24" open edition for $50. For every print sold Ben said he will donate an extra print of that size to a patient at C.S. Mott Children's Hospital, in the buyer's name.

Fine print: One entry per user. First user to choose a set of scores wins, determined by the timestamp of your entry (for my ease I prefer if you don't post it as a reply to another person's score--if you do it won't help or hurt you). Deadline for entries is 24 hours before the start of the game. MGoEmployees and Moderators exempt from winning. We did not invent the algorithm. The algorithm consistently finds Jesus. The algorithm killed Jeeves. The algorithm is banned in China. The algorithm cheated. No algorithm demonstrates as much class and commitment to education as much as The Algorithm does when their student athletes are committing academic fraud. The algorithm blames Jeeves.This is not the algorithm. It just thinks it is.