Gucci Mane

August 29th, 2014 at 12:32 AM ^

Well apparently "both teams went on to have successful seasons". But a 4 loss 2007 was far from a success. I'll at least call it a great salvage job, because if we loose that ND game things could have gotten real ugly.

Bando Calrissian

August 29th, 2014 at 12:53 AM ^

The best coaching job Lloyd Carr ever did was turning that 0-2 team with a pretty much one-armed, one-legged quarterback and a banged-up running back into what they ran off in the next eight weeks, not to mention what they put on the field in the Capital One Bowl. Downright miraculous.

LSAClassOf2000

August 29th, 2014 at 6:59 AM ^

It was significant actually that both Michigan and ND were starting the year 0-2 when they met in 2007 as that was the first time this rivalry (soon-to-be former rivalry) had ever happened under those conditions. Of course, we overcame the difficulties of "decided schematic advantage" and sent ND out of town, starting their season 0-3 for only the second time in their history at that point. 

DennisFithian

August 29th, 2014 at 5:36 AM ^

This was the lowest point in michigan football in our life yikes! Well get em next time! Wait. We are actually PLAYING THEM AGAIN?!

ADSellers

August 29th, 2014 at 7:20 AM ^

The decline began earlier with Bo's death. Bo dies, we then lose to OSU in the "1 v. 2" game, lose our bowl game, begin the bext year with losses to App State and Oregon, finish 8-4, hire Rich Rod, and we've never really recovered. The only really bright spot during all of that was beating Urban and Heisman Tebow.

flashOverride

August 29th, 2014 at 7:12 AM ^

The best thing about the rest of the season was I had a lot of MSU and PSU friends who couldn't stop talking shit after Appalachian State. It (sort of) ended once they became teams who lost to the team who lost to Appalachian State. The OSU friends who had been talking...well, that unfortunately was another matter. 

User -not THAT user

August 29th, 2014 at 11:45 AM ^

...correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that gap was a result of Michigan backing out of a game that had been previously scheduled with Hawaii?

That was the year Hawaii went undefeated until a Sugar Bowl beatdown to Georgia.

"If's and but's" being what they are, would Michigan have fared better against Hawaii that year?

Not saying Oregon wouldn't have skinned us the next week anyway, but if he had won against Hawaii instead of losing to App State...ah, what the hell.  Fool's errand.