Michigan Football hits 500 all-time conference wins

Submitted by Wolverine Devotee on

Michigan's 20-10 win over Indiana yesterday was the 500th conference victory in program history.

After yesterday's win, Michigan is 498-201-18 in all-time in the B1G.

It was discovered that we were in a conference prior to the B1G in 1896. I made a thread on it last December and got it confirmed. We competed in the Northwestern Intercollegiate Athletic Association from 1892-1893--a 4-team conference consisting of Michigan, Minnesota, Northwestern and Wisconsin--and compiled a record of 2-4-0 before the league folded after 1893.

That puts our all-time conference record at 500-205-18. 

Wasn't mentioned anywhere but when updating the SuperGuide this morning, I realized we hit a milestone.

 

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trueblueintexas

November 20th, 2016 at 11:52 PM ^

Clearly Warde needs to get Michigan to leave the B1G and reform the Northwestern Intercollegiate Athletic Association until Michigan has at least a .500 record. Boom, Brandon scheduling theory.

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Mr. Elbel

November 20th, 2016 at 11:55 PM ^

so does the B1G championship game count as a B1G game officially? If we win our next two games, will that be 500 B1G wins or do we have to wait until next season since the championship game is i guess technically the postseason.

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Mr. Elbel

November 21st, 2016 at 12:46 AM ^

yeah, no. this is actually a fairly cool stat that I'd have no idea about without this thread but am glad that I know it now that I do. thanks WD. as for the troll, you can just stop drinking and go to bed (I'm actually going to bed myself, but I never started drinking so...).

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Mr. Elbel

November 21st, 2016 at 12:50 AM ^

welp, I was with you until you started talking shit at random Internet people. just leave it at "I have a job" and call it good. dude posting a message board after midnight (I'm assuming) about wasting time and being irresponsible is laughable. the high road actually works in your favor here. now you're arguing about something that doesn't matter. see how this works?

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C-Bar

November 21st, 2016 at 2:23 AM ^

i also thought it was a neat little thing to be informed of and am glad the,OP shared it. I can see may not be everyone's cup of tea but not getting why if someone doesnt like these they dont just skip reading it. Seems theres no shortage of cannibalizing unpleasantness around anyway in places like rcmb...

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MGoGrendel

November 21st, 2016 at 8:55 AM ^

Quick Google gives us this:

http://www.cleveland.com/datacentral/index.ssf/2008/10/alltime_big_ten_…

As of 2013, Michigan had 479 wins and OSU had 472, according to th Ohio based link above.  

Michigan gets 9 more in '14 & '15 whle OSU gets 15 more.  Michigan leads 488 to 487 going into this season.

As of today, Michigan leads 495 to 494 going into The Game.

The math doesn't jive with WD's numbers.. but we are still #1 all time.

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Heywood_Jablome

November 21st, 2016 at 9:52 AM ^

How is it even possible teams were able to travel to play these games? This was right around the time the first "cars" were even invented and 10 years before the first plane.  I can't imagine having to travel to Minnesota. Would take you 2 weeks.

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