Latest AP Poll: Michigan Unranked
October 13th, 2013 at 1:16 PM ^
October 13th, 2013 at 1:30 PM ^
I hear this every year lol. It's a Michigan football "thing".
October 13th, 2013 at 1:47 PM ^
October 13th, 2013 at 2:26 PM ^
I agree with that but my issue is how much these guys are being coached up. Hoke is a great recruiter but I can't honestly say some of the top talent we've pulled in is being coached up as well they should be. Looking at other teams around the country, they have younger guys playing at a high level. How can our O-linemen get mauled by Akron? I dont expect us to be worldbeaters at this point but something is wrong when Akron/Uconns are pushing us around.
October 13th, 2013 at 2:43 PM ^
He only has 2 recruiting classes on campus. Other teams around the country do not have amount of young players playing significant roles that we do. its one thing to lean on freshmen or sophmore WRs or DBs. Its quite another to do it with O-lineman and D-lineman.
October 13th, 2013 at 3:05 PM ^
our young talented offensive linemen (not including future top 5 NFL draft, All B1G) can't perform at a level to win battles against Akron and UConn? That's concerning.
October 13th, 2013 at 3:12 PM ^
October 13th, 2013 at 3:20 PM ^
extend beyond the offensive line (although thats where we are the worst). Everyone critiized RR for not adjusting to the personnel he has. How is that any different for Hoke/Borges in theird third year? Hoke's game management has been shotty since 2011 season. Never once did I question Hoke's abilities and frankly I'm not one to say "Fire Hoke" as I think he needs another year. However, Funk/Borges are not good by any means. They get paid millions and fair/not fair, you get held accountable for results.
October 13th, 2013 at 4:21 PM ^
There really isn't a position group on the team playing poorly outside of the OL (unless you count QB, which would be hard to argue with). Fewer mistakes from DG and we're undefeated and looking good.
I don't mind Hoke's game management save a few things here and there. I agree with you that Borges needs to be held accountable and I think he needs to be shown the door. I've had patience with him and that's all gone now.
Your HC is always going to be either a defense or offense oriented guy, and whichever he is, he needs an A+ coordinator for the other. We don't have that. We need a Mattison-level OC for this to go as well as we want it to.
October 13th, 2013 at 4:43 PM ^
I agree with this and thats why to your point, we need to have an offensive coordinator who can hold his own. Borges resume isn't all that impressive. That said, i don't know who would be a good OC to hire.
As far as position groups go, I'd put RB as questionable. To be fair some of it is on OL, but is it 100% on the line? I don't know. On the defense, DL and LB are OK - still seeing missed tackles something Hoke preaches so I would expect this to be better than it is. Secondary in my opinion is a weak link. No position group stands out at me as a strength of this team that other teams will have a hard time gameplanning against.
October 13th, 2013 at 2:27 PM ^
We're Next Year's Team!!
And always will be.
October 13th, 2013 at 4:39 PM ^
how is the Oline going to be better losing Lewan and Schofield?
We will have a shaky oline, no proven RB, and no proven WR's next year except maybe Funchess.
October 13th, 2013 at 1:21 PM ^
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October 13th, 2013 at 1:28 PM ^
Fuck this CFB season. I'm done.
October 13th, 2013 at 2:44 PM ^
October 13th, 2013 at 3:15 PM ^
They lost the season opener at #3 Clemson and had like half the team injured yesterday. They are easily the most impressive two loss team right now. I don't know why Texas Tech is ranked higher than Northern Illinois, but whatever. I guess Texas Tech is located close enough to SEC territory that they must be good.
Rankings are dumb to me right now.
October 13th, 2013 at 3:36 PM ^
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October 13th, 2013 at 3:17 PM ^
Snyder and crew just wanted to get rid of Rich Rod and restore Michigan to their rightful place of conservative offense and prevent defenses.
October 13th, 2013 at 1:50 PM ^
- Others receiving votes: Michigan 118, Nebraska 94,
- Michigan State 69, Utah 47, Notre Dame 39,
- Oregon State 21, UCF 19, Texas 16, Northwestern 7,
- Arizona State 7, Houston 3, Rutgers 1
26. Michigan
27. Nebraska
28. Staee
29. Utah
30. ND
If we win next week over Ind. and a team or two above us lose, we may squeak back into the top 25.
October 13th, 2013 at 1:55 PM ^
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October 13th, 2013 at 2:10 PM ^
The real loser in this poll is OSU. They don't play one highly ranked team all year.
October 13th, 2013 at 2:30 PM ^
They never deserved to be considered for the NC anyway. We're just saving everybody time.
October 13th, 2013 at 3:25 PM ^
October 13th, 2013 at 2:19 PM ^
Well, if you're curious and like numbers, here's how the votes shook out:
16th - 1 vote
18th - 2 votes
19th - 1 vote
20th - 3 votes
21st - 3 votes
22nd - 5 votes
23rd - 6 votes
24th - 4 votes
25th - 6 votes
Unranked - 29 votes
Among those who did rank Michigan, the average position was 22.19, which is 4.76 places lower than the average position last week. For all the 438 votes cast with Michigan on a ballot, our average position on the year is 16.406, down almost 0.5 from last week. Anyway you slice it, quite the tumble.
October 13th, 2013 at 2:40 PM ^
October 13th, 2013 at 2:31 PM ^
Don't worry, we'll fix that.
October 13th, 2013 at 3:50 PM ^
October 13th, 2013 at 3:52 PM ^
We're not playing like a top 25 team. The win-loss ratio is about to get much worse come November.
October 13th, 2013 at 4:41 PM ^
isn't getting enough love
October 13th, 2013 at 5:11 PM ^
or maybe even Indiana. We turn the ball over more than anyone in the conference, we CANNOT run the ball except for Gardner when a play breaks down. And Gardner accuracy is seriously questionable. Every year since RR arrived, we hear, 'this team is young, wait until 20xx...' Earlier this year we heard this team is young, wait until 2015 and we'll be great. Every class looks great on paper, but they aren't developing into the 'great' teams or players we're told to wait for.
I see 7-5 or 8-4 at best and OSU will be the class of the conference for athe next two years. They keep reloading like Bama and we keep re-building. Sparty has a much better defense and Indiana has a better offense. We are at best middle of the division.
October 13th, 2013 at 5:41 PM ^
about "middle" of the division
October 13th, 2013 at 6:08 PM ^
Vegas has Michigan anywhere from a 10.5 to 12 point favourite against Indiana. Guessing they know a lot more than you do.
October 13th, 2013 at 6:44 PM ^
unless you are rated high early and maintain it. Otherwise, who cares, you are just an also-ran.
Next week, the BCS rankings come out, and they'll change the other rankings based on the outcome of the Fla State-Clemson game.
Does anyone really care whether Nebraska is ranked ahead of Michigan or that MSU hasn't been ranked, when its defense is seemingly the best in the country, but it hasn't played any ranked opponent outside of ND, which it lost to and Michigan beat by 11.
I know this, Michigan will struggle with every team it plays this season, uless something changes. They have no shot at beating MSU in EL unless they upgrade their attitude about succeeding on the road, and playing with an edge and grit. Because the Spartans will be out for blood and they will try to knock them out. That's just the way it is.