ESPN Michigan Bowl Projection Flub

Submitted by CollegeFootball13 on

Caught this on ESPN in regards to Michigan's bowl projections. Editing seems hard.

Big Blue? John Harbaugh?! I mean, John is heading to Levi's on 10/18, but I doubt that's what they were talking about in a college football bowl projection preview.

Worldwide Leader, indeed.

GO BLUE! Smash some beavers tomorrow.

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CollegeFootball13

September 11th, 2015 at 4:06 PM ^

Oh I'm sorry, on a day where the board has seen posts about parking at a San Diego Chargers game, how much some old track shoes went for in an auction, and a tennis match, THIS is where you draw the line. Let me know where you're tailgating tomorrow and I'll grab you a beer for your troubles.

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Sparkle Motion

September 11th, 2015 at 8:10 PM ^

Yeah I think it was a more common term in the 70s and earlier. I started at UM in late 80s and never heard the term until I met a guy my age who had grown up in Anne Arbor in the 70s. He asked me how I thought Big Blue was going to do and I literally started talking about the prospects for IBM stock



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September 11th, 2015 at 8:33 PM ^

I started going to games in the 60's and I always heard at least some people at games shouting "come on big blue!" in a spontaneous way when we needed to get going or make a stop or something.

I've heard it plenty from old blue's all my life in the stadium. It's not like it's our catch phrase or nick name or our cheer, nobody would say go big blue instead of go blue, but it is a historical fact that it's a phrase or exclamation that's been used over time in Michigan fandom.

There's nothing wrong with it being used correctly in context, not like a chant, let's go big blue, but said in earnest as a  statement, an exhortation, occasionally. Just like you might tell someone "come on big fella!" in the moment, even if his nickname isn't "big fella" and you don't normally call him that as a matter of course.

Go Blue is our thing, but people also say Mighty Michigan (or they used to anyway) sometimes. It's ok. Michigan Stadium was always Michigan Stadium or The Stadium, there was no tradition or history of calling it The Big House, Keith Jackson started that during a broadcast and it caught on and was promoted.

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Muttley

September 12th, 2015 at 1:29 AM ^

as a fragment and two clauses that are independent.

 

  • Is Kentucky going to Silicon Valley? (The football team? The basketball team?  The whole state to be annexed?)  Or maybe IBM is going to relocate from Armond, NY to Silicon Valley?
  • See the link for prognostications about Michigan's bowl destination
  • John Harbaugh is returning to Levi's Stadium when the Ravens play there on October 18th

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Mr. Flood

September 11th, 2015 at 6:38 PM ^

The 2015 Foster Farms Bowl, featuring teams from two of college football’s ‘Power 5’ conferences, will be played at Levi’s Stadium on Saturday evening,December 26th. Kickoff time is 6:15 p.m. [PST]/9:15 p.m. [EST]. The contest will be televised live on ESPN and matches the 4th Pac-12 selection against an upper- echelon Big Ten team.

 

Being in California, I wouldn't mind this 

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