Michigan 78, Rutgers 0 Comment Count

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Rutgers punted 16 times tonight, surpassing the 1938 University of Chicago team for the second-most by a Michigan opponent in a single game.*

The University of Chicago abolished their football program in 1939.

Win with cruelty.

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*Ohio State, with 21, is the record-holder thanks to the ludicrous 1950 Snow Bowl.

Comments

Bando Calrissian

October 8th, 2016 at 11:29 PM ^

It really makes my night that the records set today are up there with when Michigan drove UChicago's program into the ground. They were basically fielding a high school team by then.

1VaBlue1

October 8th, 2016 at 11:35 PM ^

The funnest thing was watching Ash take his beating.  He knew it was coming, and he knew there was nothing he could do to slow it down.  He knew what Jim MF Harbaugh was going to do...  I just loved it!

CoverZero

October 9th, 2016 at 12:16 AM ^

His team was so poorly coached.  I have never seen a Michigan opponent so overmatched.  The looked disorganized on offense, out of position and sloppy tackling on defense. 

Ash appears to be in over his head as a Head Coach in my opinion.

Johnny10er

October 8th, 2016 at 11:54 PM ^

I'm not a fan of the use of nuclear weapons. But if anything on the football field could ever be compared to dropping an A bomb on a city, this was it.
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MaizeMN

October 9th, 2016 at 12:20 AM ^

MICHIGAN should have knelt on the last XP and left the score at 77-0. Then they could've given the game ball to Grant Newsome and told him that it was for him.

MaizeAndBlueWahoo

October 9th, 2016 at 10:49 AM ^

You know the funny thing is though?  Harbaugh didn't really do anything to run up the score.  The one two-point conversion, they spotted a tendency and exploited it, when the game was still in doubt in a technical sense, and then never did it again even though the tendency was still there.  The starters sat almost the whole second half.  O'Korn and Morris combined to throw the ball three times, all in the third quarter.

All we did in the second half was have our backups run the ball and we still scored five touchdowns on them, which itself would be considered a blowout.

WolverineHistorian

October 9th, 2016 at 1:52 AM ^

What did everyone think of the 2 point conversion? Last year when we went for 2, we kind of figured it was because Rutgers players went full Spartan and started pounding their chests and talking shit going into the tunnel at halftime despite being down 35-17. But this...was more random. Like Harbaigh just did it for the hell of it. Maybe this will be a new tradition. Give Rutgers the finger by giving them a 2 point conversion to suck on for the rest of the year.