ESPN's Mike Greenberg and Paul Finebaum Just Picked Michigan to Win

he is pierre mcquire's twin..... two dicks, four ears, two sports

The Finebaum thing is such a transparent ploy.

if we win - “I called it; OSU is over rated”

if we lose - “Harbaugh is over rated and a choke artist who can’t get his teams to perform how they should in the big games”

either way he remains a douche bag

You shut your whore mouth 

Losing does not mean laying an egg. Did we lay an egg in 2016? Or 2017? Or whatever the hell year Devin Gardner broke his foot (2013?)  seriously get a grip. 

Not sure why you have been negged for this comment....Ohio State owns us...until we actually see a Michigan Team beat an Ohio State again...I find all of this false bravado and optimism on here ridiculous.  Good Michigan teams lose to good Ohio State teams, good Michigan teams lose to bad Ohio State teams.  The only thing we have on our side is Ohio State is so good this year that this game is actually meaningless to them (with respect to the National championship picture)...win or lose they are still going to spank Wisconsin or Minnesota in the BIG Championship and go on go the College Football Playoff.  Maybe we can catch them at home looking ahead, but more likely we are in for the annual reminder of the gap between Ohio State and Michigan on the football field.

This is exactly right. Also, if Michigan wins it’s easier for Finebaum to argue Alabama should get into the CFP over OSU. 

This. Anyone picking Michigan this year is either A) a Michigan homer or B) someone who dislikes Michigan but wants to say they think Michigan will win so after the game they can say "Harbaugh just can't get it done. Look, I picked Michigan to win the game, but Harbaugh just continues to have let downs against rivals"

It's the same old song and dance. Beat OSU and end the cycle. 

Yep. Picking OSU is soooo obvious that elitist douchebags like Finebaum need to look original in their analysis. A perfect hedge. They are either a genius for going “against the crowd”, or they get to go back to bashing Harbaugh. They win either way.

I always thought they just overstated it. 

You can rep plays/looks you want to run vs OSU all year without labeling that part of practice. 

Here is a cool story bro....

my high school had whooped our rival for years when I was young, then beat us 3 years in a row when I got to high school.

The summer before my senior year we started learning three packages of plays we were saving for Turpin. We lined up in “Tank” with 3 TE’s on the field in the second series of the game and you could hear the confusion on the defense. We scored on the first play.

 We easily beat them that week, and then pulled out a 3 point victory in the first round of the playoffs that year against them (beat them at their place twice).

I would imagine OSU has a similar feeling each year, and it’s honestly an amazing high. 

Last year isn't that surprising though, Michigan was favored by Vegas and looked like the better team (OSU had been blown out at Purdue and beat Maryland 52-51 in OT).

I think I'm a prisoner of the moment here but if Michigan beats OSU on Saturday it will be worth the last 4 years of agonizing defeat, in my opinion.

If Michigan wins, the OSU fan base will say the game didn't matter because they had the title game clinched beforehand and they just "didn't want to get anybody injured." watch it happen

That's what 20 years of dominance does. OSU has a massive psychological advantage in this rivalry. Possibly just as important, if not moreso, as any talent advantage they might have. 

Now obviously, fans aren't the ones playing the game, but OSU could be down 28-0 heading into the fourth quarter and their team will still believe that not only is it possible that they could come back and win, but that they will come back and win. To them, they can't lose this game because the concept of losing doesn't exist. 

I'm not holding my breath for a win on Saturday, and in fact I will assume the opposite happens. But if somehow....someway....it actually happens, I think you would see a return to balance in the rivalry sooner rather than later. Not dominance by Michigan, but balance between both programs. So much of OSU's dominance in this rivalry is purely that psychological factor, which gets bigger and bigger with every passing year that Michigan loses. Beat them on Saturday, when they're #1 in America, and that puts a massive dent in that psychological advantage. In their absolute confidence in winning this game. In fact, it could be shattered entirely. Ryan Day would have to go back to Columbus and face the hellacious firestorm that is the OSU fanbase and explain how he could possibly lose that game. He'd be crucified by the local media, all the students and young alums who have grown up knowing nothing but winning in this rivalry, and all the pressure would be on him and his team all offseason to return the favor the following November. 

The entire Michigan program could exhale a huge sigh of relief and know that they can win this game when its not Luke Fickell coaching the team as an interim. 

They literally have no other life.  Plus they know they can come to Ann Arbor and enjoy a much safer atmosphere than anyone from Michigan can expect in Columbus.  (This directly from someone who lives there).

The lowest common denominator in Ohio is so low... that when some clever OSU fans kept removing the "m" from a hotel sign (The Graduate Hotel Columbus) instead of maybe putting a security camera on the sign and charging someone with vandalism.. the hotel manager just agreed to not replace the "m".  I mean can anything be more stupid?

Agreed . . . just a horrible show.  Would rather watch paint Dey.