College Game Day coming to Ann Arbor this weekend
October 7th, 2018 at 4:03 PM ^
what is michigan's record with them there?
October 7th, 2018 at 4:20 PM ^
8-3
Wins: 1997 Colorado, 1999 ND, 2000 Wisky, 2002 Washington, 2003 ND, 2003 OSU, 2011 ND, 2013 ND.
Losses: 1994 PSU, 2007 OSU, 2015 MSU
October 7th, 2018 at 5:17 PM ^
+ 2018 @ ND?
October 7th, 2018 at 5:21 PM ^
He means home games.
October 7th, 2018 at 5:26 PM ^
Got it, wasn't critically thinking
October 7th, 2018 at 10:25 PM ^
That’s a lot. I think I was at everyone of them.
Are you sure OSU 1997 wasn’t one?
October 8th, 2018 at 12:16 AM ^
Nope, they went to Florida-Florida State. They'd already done two M games, the Colorado opener and MSU in East Lansing. Weirdly, they ended up at four UF games that year.
Going through the list of locations, I completely forgot that campus Gamedays weren't a weekly occurrence until the early 2000s. There we stretches in the mid-90s with three weeks in between travel shows.
October 8th, 2018 at 10:00 AM ^
I could have swore they went to Penn State for the Judgment Day game. That was such a magical day yet I'm not 100% sure about this little fact.
October 8th, 2018 at 10:22 AM ^
Nope, FSU-UNC. #2 vs #5. They didn’t do a road show on the 1st, and had done UM—MSU the week before that.
October 8th, 2018 at 9:20 PM ^
No College Game Day, but they did have Beno Cook go to Penn State for Judgement Day. He had a broadcast desk there and they would do live cut-ins.
We Michigan fans gave him hell after the game during one of the live cut-ins. He told us all that he would vote us #1 to calm us down.
It worked . . . we yelled out sarcastically "We love you, Beno" during the next cut-in.
October 8th, 2018 at 10:15 AM ^
Here's a shot from the 97 Colorado game...
October 7th, 2018 at 4:21 PM ^
I think it’s like 10-1 with game day in Ann Arbor
October 7th, 2018 at 4:04 PM ^
Pretty darn awesome. Hopefully the weather is decent.
October 7th, 2018 at 4:14 PM ^
Supposed to be chilly. Low of 34 and high of 51 at the moment on Saturday. So probably 40 degrees at kickoff if I had to guess
October 7th, 2018 at 4:15 PM ^
Pretty chilly.
Perfect time for Michigan to have a big victory for national perception.
October 7th, 2018 at 4:23 PM ^
Perfect. It IS October in Michigan, after all. I just want it to be DRY. Can we haz dry?
October 7th, 2018 at 4:58 PM ^
The weather network shows 40% chance of showers Saturday night currently. So I say, 60% chance it will be dry! Fingers crossed.
October 7th, 2018 at 4:04 PM ^
Wow did not expect that
October 7th, 2018 at 4:05 PM ^
I figured we'd have a decent shot if Florida beat LSU. Pretty cool!
October 7th, 2018 at 4:28 PM ^
This very likely does mean GameDay won't be in town for PSU @ Michigan on 3-November, however. They usually don't do repeat visits in a year.
I also see this as a sign that ABC is planning on Notre Dame @ Northwestern as their prime-time game on 3-November. They may even put GameDay there (if not Alabama @ LSU). If ABC does put ND in Prime-Time, that probably means PSU @ Michigan will be during the day on FOX.
A bit of speculation there, but reading some tea-leaves.
October 7th, 2018 at 4:34 PM ^
I'll take some Joel Klatt commentary over just about anyone these days!
October 7th, 2018 at 4:49 PM ^
No doubt. He’s about the only guy I enjoy listening too. Knows the players and does great in game analysis. Feel like too many commentators don’t even know the names of players
October 7th, 2018 at 4:59 PM ^
This is completely my own opinion, but it feels like Klatt's tone is very passionate about the players. I'll take him on Saturday everyday Saturday.
October 7th, 2018 at 6:58 PM ^
“That is a penalty from Mars”
October 7th, 2018 at 5:16 PM ^
I don't think that is how it works. I thought FOX now has the first choice for games during the season with the new TV contract for first-tier rights. And I don't believe there is anything in the contract that prevents both games being at night on different networks. It may not be at night, but I don't believe it will be for any of the reasons you listed. I think the bigger hurdle may be how the Big Ten handles November conference games. I think any night game time in November that is not set before the season has to be agreed to by all parties (network, conference, and the institutions), but the process is still pretty opaque. The new TV contracts have ceded some of the control the institutions had on night games, especially in November, as the new contracts have more night games written into them than in the past. The Big Ten has now gone from having to provide 9 night games per season in the old contract to having to provide 19-21 night games per season in the new contracts.
EDIT: I missed that ABC/ESPN used one of their picks on Notre Dame-Northwestern before the season so that is set, but the game time was not set before the season which takes some of the control away from the network. I think you are right that FOX will exercise their pick on PSU-Michigan, but it is still possible one, both or neither are at night.
October 7th, 2018 at 11:15 PM ^
Gotta think they'll be going to Austin for WVU at Texas on Nov. 3, right?
Barring significant upsets in the next couple weeks, that should be a top 8ish matchup.
October 8th, 2018 at 9:25 PM ^
We must have Penn State at night. It's a moral imperative.
October 7th, 2018 at 4:06 PM ^
So I read the comments on twitter. It's nice that developmentally disabled people have a social media platform that only they are allowed to post on.
October 7th, 2018 at 4:09 PM ^
So, you just got on Twitter.
October 7th, 2018 at 4:17 PM ^
Twitter is where rational thought goes to die
October 7th, 2018 at 4:24 PM ^
Oh yeah? Well, I'm going to reply with a bumper sticker logic meme that is totally funny but entirely unrelated to your point but gets lots of likes and retweets.
October 7th, 2018 at 4:38 PM ^
Aren't you also supposed to threaten me, while hiding behind a fake name in a city far away???
October 7th, 2018 at 4:45 PM ^
How do you sleep at night!?!?
October 7th, 2018 at 6:39 PM ^
It doesn't. Too busy feeding.
October 7th, 2018 at 4:23 PM ^
Easy my friend. Some of us have developmentally disabled kids/family members.
October 7th, 2018 at 4:29 PM ^
Me too. I'm pretty sure they survived the comparison. You let me know how your family members turn out.
If both are unscathed I think we can conclude that calling people who think they are not mentally challenged mentally challenged causes no harm.
October 7th, 2018 at 4:45 PM ^
I have a developmentally disabled daughter. Thankfully, that has not precluded me from seeing a joke without getting all mad. Steel in that spine, friend.
October 7th, 2018 at 9:34 PM ^
The best part is that the insult has been updated to include the proper sensitivity.
The Michigan difference....
October 7th, 2018 at 4:28 PM ^
Twitter gives you a taste of what it would be like to read people's thoughts...thank God we can't
October 7th, 2018 at 4:34 PM ^
Be careful, Twitter might “react” and a Yahoo news article will be born.
October 7th, 2018 at 5:21 PM ^
That's not a nice thing to say about MSU alumni.
October 7th, 2018 at 4:08 PM ^
Let's gooooooooo!
October 7th, 2018 at 4:31 PM ^
Where we goin? I'm kinda hungry.
October 7th, 2018 at 4:36 PM ^
Hungry Howie's!
October 7th, 2018 at 6:13 PM ^
I'm in. Wise to start the weeklong tailgate with some heavy food.
October 7th, 2018 at 4:13 PM ^
Wonder if Harbaugh will show up on set like everyone else, or just do his usual five minute sitdown interview at Glick.
October 7th, 2018 at 4:37 PM ^
He'll probably show up, provide a few socially awkward moments. But that's ok.
I'm hoping for some good signs with Urban or Morks face on them.
October 7th, 2018 at 7:02 PM ^
I think he genuinely doesn’t like that stuff. It is the athletic coach version of “small talk” and it is clear he is not that kind of person. I don’t think Harbaugh intends to be awkward, or make other people uncomfortable in those situations, I think he is just really really uncomfortable himself.
October 7th, 2018 at 9:21 PM ^
Harbaugh is very comfortable in his own skin, and extremely intelligent. It's just that he has to talk in platitudes and generalities with every single person he interacts with that isn't a part of the program. That gets annoying/boring after awhile, especially since everyone who is a fan of the program probably wants to talk to him about things he can't talk about.
It really isolates you from the rest of the population, but there's a few million reasons why I think he's ok with it. It's just part of life/what happens when you get really good at what you do.
October 8th, 2018 at 12:22 AM ^
It's funny, though, how every single other coach can speak in complete sentences and non-cliches, and Harbaugh trips over basic questions, as he did this week with "what does Homecoming mean to you?"
The guy is an alum. He's not going to give away a scheme secret by talking about how great it is for the university community to come home and celebrate their alma mater, maybe talk for a little bit about how much it meant for him to come back to a place that meant a lot to him. Instead, he produced some weird, disjointed two-sentence word vomit that boiled down to "there's no better words in the English language than coming and home."
I don't know. This guy's a great football coach, but he's a massive enigma when it comes to the very important public relations aspects of his job. If you're getting paid as much as he is to be an ambassador of the university, you should be able to express himself, well, a lot better than he does.