2012 Preseason AP Poll: Michigan #8

Im expecting us to look good doing it. I believe that first place vote is the first of many we will receive this year. You should feel that way too if you really believe in what Hoke and the crew are building. Bama is young and this is the most vulnerable they will be all year. We will take advantage of that.

Personally, I'm just hoping UM looks respectable (and cursing Dave Brandon for scheduling this game).

So hold on, we always complain about a lack of quality games in the OoC season, and now that we have a game, it's "Damnit Brandon, why did you schedule this game!"

Not as mushroom-cloudy as I would have predicted, but there are some racist comments about "Poles."

Also, I thought you were being hyperbolic, but nope--both are real topics on the front page and there really are 40 pages trying to solve a simple expression, and from a quick glance at page 1 and page 40, the whole thing is still about trying to calculate the answer.

You don't know how anyone can put together a poll be fore the season starts... yet you go on to say where you think Michigan should be ranked?  I love sparty logic.

Completely agree that is where we should probably be.



I say the real determining factor of the season (low teens or top five) may come down to Denard realizing or not that the 3rd or possibly 2nd option when he drops back is him tucking and running. I can't count the times where we got killed by opposing QBs dropping back, if the first two options aren't open tucking it and running for 11 yards in a 3rd and 8 - think McNab, Prior, Smith, Young, etc. if Denard can realize that he does not have to prove he can pass every time that he drops back. That if the back 7 have to respect him taking off, that it will open everything up. Think about a DB covering a 15 yard out on a 3rd and 8 - Denard starts moving towards the line of scrimmage on that side, if as a DB you realize that he is probably going to take off, that if you don't attack now that he will get 10 yards before you make up the 5 - what do you do? What they will start to do is start cheating up and leaving their coverage, which will then open up some huge plays in the passing game. If Denard does this, it could be a very special season - BIG title, Heisman, and possibly playing for it all.



Now if Denard continues to try to find someone and just throws it up for grabs, we will still have a successful season but not a special one.

Chart.  Including Philadelphia may be a stretch, but Penn State is the closest major BCS team. OSU and Nebraska average is inflated because cannot accurately include NR in the average, but Nebraska's Big Ten average is still higher than their actual rank even without the NRs.

Agreed, the other day I had the nerve to state that we may not have proven yet that we are a top 10 team (still stated that we were low teens) and got marked as trolling.

Some guy who makes one hundred posts (they don't even have to be good posts) can neg every Magnus post they see for any reason without potentially losing the ability to post/vote or having to put their (e)name to it.