Akron v. Michigan Open Thread

"Don't kid yourself, Timmy.  If he could, that Roo would kill you and everyone you care about."

Student section is packed lol

Geez check out that student section

Wow. Are we going to break 100,000 today?

That might be the worst I've ever seen a student section. It is epically empty

Who to blame? Students? Or having such a crummy game right after a huge one. I will blame students. Rabble rabble richrod years rabble rabble spoiled

Booooooooooo

Look at the student section. This is embarrassing.

Guess there is going to be leftover donuts

BTN courteously not showing the student section very much. Thats probably 15,000 empty seats

I couldn't sell my ticket for today. Market value was probably about $10. Every student knew this was coming.

I tried the Firstrowsports place, but it's not working. Is there an alternative?

No push from the line early

Didnt want the donuts today. Good for them.

It's Yom Kippur, a noon game, and Akron. 

Really Glasgow? Really?

I see we can still hear the "You Suck" chant on the TV even with a 1/3 full student section.

Anyone have the bigten mobile link?

Wow, nice speed Funchess!

Damn, Funchess looked like he was shot out of a cannon!

Well that was nice.

Funchess is a beast.

Devin Funchess can play football

No stopping Funchess.

Yards come in bunches for my man Funchess

Mr Third Down!

Ball to Funchess, touchdown.

Why is Akron even on our schedule???

A lil sluggish looking so far.... but obvious talent gap is obvious

Tickets sold or butts in seat? Sold 108000 Real numbers 101000

that is sick speed and agility coming from a TE!  There are few TEs even in the NFL who can move and burst like that.  (and agreed, no NFL TE blocks nearly as poorly as Devin)

Keep it up; need to get lots of guys lots of snaps today and start getting people experienced for the rest of the run!

Devin. Now lets get ole 98 outta there

They've gotten two first downs. Im mad. 

paid attendance or attendance at the game? it will magically be 100,218 probably

I'm a bit late....wanted to remind everyone to bow your heads for a moment of silence before kickoff.



It's the 1st anniversary of the death of Manti Teo's girlfriend Lennay Kekua.

taking what Mattison is giving.  Need to get some four-man rush here.

Zero rush so far. 

With a four man rush... Finally. Good stunts at the line

Wow we need a pass rush

He got drilled lol

Ouch. That looked painful. 

OOF!

FrankClarkKillShotdotGif

Defense no make me happy. He could've/should've caught that.

not diggin the D so far, but a lot of rotation early

provide scoring updates? I'm in a meeting, on phone... can't read live blog.

Norfleet has to catch the punts better

perhaps soem positive rushing yardage; hope Devin has backed them off with that last display of passing.

Ok, what's wrong with the D? I really expected a step forward this year, but it doesn't really look like it so far this year.

Just saw the student section. Just sad. Better switch from donuts to croissants.

So, Gallon lost is punt return duties because of the two dropped punts, right?

If they were going to stick with him back there, it would especially be a game like today which presents less fear.  Maybe we'll see him next half.

Thanks BTN2Go for not working so I have to stream an inferior quality broadcast.

What in the world. The running game looks terrible. 

Line play. Frustrating.

Christ the OL is getting destroyed by Akron

but still.  No dumb pass here, Devin.

Hutch & Backus!

ungood

Run blocking....woof.

that was close to a safety...wtf devin just throw it away

This is annoying. ..

Sick 20 yard punt there

BRING ON KENNY ALLEN!

Jesus Christ. What a terrible 4 plays. 

What is worse? The run blocking or student section attendance?

D'OH!  21-yd punt

c'mon now boys.  It's the Zips. Focus.

Welp. This is pretty terrible so far.

are you serious with that punt?

I'm loving those shirts they have under the jerseys....you think MDEN will have em later on?

Did the wheels just fall off??

How many shitty punts has Wile had these past few games

Jesus H Christ. What is happening with the O-Line and the running game? We're getting absolutely mauled up front so far.

Yikes.  I say give Kenny Allen a try.

Good bye Wile. Didn't Ken Allen boom a 50 harder in the CMU game? He needs to be our punter.

We are in trouble in Big Ten games.

I don't think.  Lotsa muffs this year; someone needs a refresher course at the Space Emperor Academy.

I thought we had good punting; is that Wile? Seen several crap kicks from him so far this year. . . 

the team is just as excited to play Akron as the students were to watch Akron

and there goes the shutout.

Is it too early

punting??? His one punt was longer than Wile's average.

from the exciting night game. Boo night games.

Does anybody know what station has this streaming so I can get it on my iPhone?

Block that kick.

7-3 U-M now.

Sooo....Akron did something. I'm worrying now.

if people could curtail the 'all is lost' comments every time we make one poor play. . . :)

Thanks for blowing the shutout, Wile!

Let's get to running the rock here. 

It looks lil league that Michigan undershirts for the second year.. - with sleeves don't match the jersey.. What is this pee wee football.. Adidas has to do better then this..

7-3 Michigan 2:59 1Q

Terry Bowden is pretty funny to watch on the sideline.

Jeremy Gallon doing Jeremy Gallon things

I wonder when Norfleet will break that long one on a kickoff.

Beautiful run by Fitz. 

Hey, rushing yards!

There we go, just get him some holes.

Can't watch the game. Is it the same five on the OL? Looks like we have negative rushing yards so far. Pretty diappointing.

a nice run due to blocking AND vision by Fitz. it's a miracle

2 in  arow

Is the student section getting any better?

lol, half the OL coudn't find anyone to block on the screen

Is time for Bryant yet?

miller & guards getting beat

How many run plays with 0 or negative yards so far? At least 4 or 5.

End of 1st, 7-3 Michigan.

OK, officially worried we are no better on the OL than last year. Just letting Akron push them into the backfield. This is probably one of the worst starts I could have imagined for this game. Akron. Freaking Akron.

who's starting the "fuck the students" thread

This is the most pathetic display of offensive line play I've watched in a while.

waching Funchess block...couldn't block my sister

Jesus, just watching PbP on phone. Six plays for negative rushing yards!!!

Well Stanford is down 6-0 to Army, it could be worse for all those negative nancy's.  I think Akron will get pounded here is the 2nd quarter.

Miller and GG not keeping up speed wise. Fitz dances a bit much at times as well. I would like to see us throw a deep ball too.

great teams pull this every year. Heck, it seems like every single year OSU almost loses to a cupcake and still ends up 11-1.

concerning that we can't pound the zips. Cant say we're going against a great dline like last week. The oline/dline has been average at best.

...I'm thinking it's time to revise final score predictions given the slow down tactics of Bowden.

M - 28

A - 14

An awful lot of four / five stars in their second years on the lines that can't get any form of push on Akron. This line coaching may be a little suspect.

DG refuses to just throw the ball away

Dang, Devin, stop running south.

WTF?  Gardner spun himself into a virtual sack.

Calm down. We know we can pass every play and score easy. Akron is doing what they should-sell out against the run to keep the game close as long as possible. You're not going to block 10 with 5, but we still want to show that we will run anyway. Relax. We are obviously flat, but this is not indicative of future doom

Teams have caught on to the reverse field from Gardner.

I want to see what Chris Bryant can do.

What. The. Fuck.

What the hell was that?

maybe we DO suck.

D'OH!  Missed FG wide right!

All is lost the streak is over

Oh come on.

This is awful. ..

Efffffff

So so so terrible. So terrible. Ashamed. AKRON.

Musta been thinking about blondes

Play like crap!

Is a f'n embarrassment

Every top team goes through a situation like this: sluggish starts against a bunch of scrubs. Lets also consider too that Akron is playing, quite literally, with nothing to lose. They're one of the worst teams in the FBS. Why not go out and play with reckless abandon?

Aaand there goes Gibbons' streak.