Hillsdale (with an 's' so not like the Back to the Future II/III housing development) is a small, DII private school nestled in rural south-central Michigan. If you take Michigan Avenue out of Ypsi and stay on it past the cottage lakes and US 127, you'll find the turn-off for it. It's small, expensive, teaches a classical liberal education (you learn Greek and stuff), and has a deep political party alignment that dates back to abolitionism. Average GPA and test scores of incoming freshmen are on par with Michigan. Things they're proud of: never accepting a tax dollar, sending a greater percentage of their student body to the Civil War than everyone but West Point, sending a desegregated ROTC unit to WWI, graduation rates (96%) that even Schlissel would be impressed with, and a popular publication (2.7 million readers) that gets quoted a lot on internet message boards.

You probably know them from that school with the 18-year-old mayor whom this was based on:

How This Works:

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 Time:

I stopped doing these after September because football got depressing. You know what's not depressing?

This Week's Game:

Hillsdale at Michigan in a competition of basketball prowess, Crisler Arena, 2pm Saturday.

And on the Line:

Two tickets to the Maryland game. The football game. Sorry if that's depressing.

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. The algorithm is going to downvote anyone who mentions politics in this thread. No, pointing out that a school is bent toward a political party when that school advertises that fact as its main selling point is not politics. The algorithm tried to be cool by not pointing out that pretty much every bit of material Hillsdale puts out to promote their school also tacitly rips on Michigan in some way. This is not the algorithm. It gave up on being that long ago.