Best thing you saw: Week 12
The day had the potential for far more chaos than it delivered. And today further proved what I bet many of us already know, that if the B1G gets a team in the playoff, whoever it is will likely be brutally exposed in the semis, as it has the last two years. Nice work Delaney.
There were still many good games and some cool things to see.
Non-M: While I liked the USC trickery on the punt return, K-St-OKSt had fun fireworks, and Utah-UW is entertaining to the end, the class demonstrated at the end of the Navy-ND game was fantastic and the best thing I saw - after a tough, well-played game. The ND players joined the Navy team in front of their fans and stood with them for their alma mater, and the Navy players returned the gesture. Total class, and a reminder that these kids all respect each other far more than some fans of opposing teams respect one another. These young men are often worthy role models.
M: Say what you want, but until Peters left the game, best thing I saw was that Michigan was the better team. And I don't think it was close. Call it bad luck or bad calls, but three plays contributed to a 21-point swing - the nudge / trip / stumble of Ambry on the punt return where he otherwise would have been in perfect position to prevent a return, the TD/non-TD catch by DPJ, and the phantom DPI that kept a key W drive alive when a punt had been forced. It's clear we lack depth, but if that's news to anyone here, you don't know this team that well. This team is still very talented and has shown growth every week. And we will have depth going into next year - at every position. I came away disappointed in how the breaks, and the final score, went - not how the game was played or coached.
What was the best you saw today?
November 19th, 2017 at 2:05 AM ^
November 19th, 2017 at 3:21 AM ^
Washington's rivals Oregon should get the award for lamest thing in Week 12 with their knock off turnover chain
November 19th, 2017 at 2:15 AM ^
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November 19th, 2017 at 2:59 AM ^
Guaranteed good time. And a strangely human obsession...
November 19th, 2017 at 3:10 AM ^
Otherwise I will rescind my upvote if they were digital boobs
November 19th, 2017 at 4:45 AM ^
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November 19th, 2017 at 2:55 AM ^
...this season can't end soon enough....
major disappointment,
ready to start fresh
although could be just as tough..
rough Away games: ND, NW, MSU and OSU
November 19th, 2017 at 3:02 AM ^
November 19th, 2017 at 3:19 AM ^
It's a road game under Harbaugh. Even if Michigan has superior talent to ND, self-inflicted wounds and inexplicable shit will happen thus making the game a lot harder than it should be.
November 19th, 2017 at 9:44 AM ^
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November 19th, 2017 at 6:31 AM ^
DPJ, and domination by our defensive line. It's gonna be a monster.
November 19th, 2017 at 9:39 AM ^
kids + wife
after wisc scored the 2nd TD i had that bad feeling, like many of you/us, and decided to get to work. mucked out the hen house with some of my sons. that was as much bad smell and actual scat as i wanted to observe. watching the rest of the 2nd half would've been worse.
EDIT: that reads more negative than i mean it. i am not down on the team. i am bummed about the loss and the way that it happend: just enough injuries, bad calls, TD's taken away, missed tackles to have it slip out of our grasp.
November 19th, 2017 at 8:14 AM ^
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November 19th, 2017 at 9:10 AM ^
was the best thing I saw Saturday. Some chemistry and confidence building between DPJ and Peters. Excellent defense until they seemed to tire after Peters knocked out, yielding only to Hornibrooks exceptional thread the needle type throws.
Noting Nebraska put 44 on PSU honorable mention.
November 19th, 2017 at 8:47 AM ^
the hockey team went 1 - 1
at least won a game
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November 19th, 2017 at 1:26 PM ^
This would be a good year for the Big Ten to sit out the Playoff.
It has been 3 years since the Big Ten has scored even a single point in the Playoff.
The last thing we need is another Big Ten team to get exposed. They will stop inviting us.
Don't be fooled, politics plays a role in the CFP selection committee. They want to rotate the conferences that get left out. They want to be able to say that they consider all the conferences equally.
Only the SEC and the Big Ten have yet to be left out of the Playoff. Sooner or later, it's going to be the Big Ten's turn to be left out. Hell, if the SEC were ever to give them a decent reason, they would even leave them out.
It works to Michigan's advantage if a year that we are not in the hunt anyway is a year that the Big Ten gets left out.
November 19th, 2017 at 1:38 PM ^
that was A LOT of extra revenue for the conference.
As you said, politics matter --- I do think the committee will find a reason to leave the B1G out of the playoffs if they can (e.g., Wisconsin losing a game). Also, wouldn't expect the B1G to field more than 2 teams in the NY6 Bowls. They'll find a way to spread them out.