Michigan/Rutgers game featuring in Ringer's Blowout Matrix
Pretty funny article in a fairly noneventful (Freeze + hookers aside) offseason. "Is it wrong to score if nobody tries to stop you?"
https://theringer.com/blowout-matrix-lopsided-games-ratings-e27357bbdd7a
Saving money on gunpowder.
"Rutgers is the college football equivalent of the Bulgarian women’s ice hockey team."
It is written.
Rutgers is the college football equivalent of the Bulgarian women’s ice hockey team.
edit: Jinx
I think there should be a contest amongst all the teams on Rutgers schedule this year to see who can be the first to hang 100 on Rutgers. It would be awesome. Going to 2 when up 55, all onside kicks, etc.
If you don't get the ball on the onside kick, do you just let them score on the first play to make sure you get the ball back to your offense quickly, knowing that there's no risk of losing the game?
Nah, knowing Rutgers, they'd be 3-and-out in 35 seconds, misusing time-outs and such, and you'd get the ball back quickly anyway.
If Rutgers goes 5-7, they're gonna put up fucking banners: "WE'RE NOT LAST!!!"
One thing the author did not comment on: some of the games he mentioned took place in international pool-play, where score-differential can ultimately help your team get into the elimination round. So even in a rout, the incentive is there to keep scoring.
I think this weighs in favor of using score-differential in the determination of Big-Ten-East-Champion!
It wasn’t so much running up the score as just plain old running. Is it wrong to score if nobody tries to stop you?
I have never seen such a lopsided game in the trenches in my life. Our offensive line looked like a vintage Stanford line, and our defensive line looked like they were probably committing some sort of war crime.
So it wasn't running up the score; it was just...that...easy.
It makes me sad when we have to refer to vintage Stanford offensive lines, when I went to school in the heyday of UofM offensive line power 89-94.
I just googled the Mgoblog offensive line previews from 2011 to 2014 and it made me even sadder. I know this is a completely dead horse, but we had pro players on most of those lines.
2011 Lewan, Molk, Omameh and Schofield
2012 Lewan, Schofield and Omameh
2013 Lewan, Schofield and Glasgow
2014 Glasgow and Cole
Football really is a team sport and you need at least five guys to make a line.
I'm so thankful for Harbaugh....
I can't argue against Dierdorf, but I actually never watched any of those guys play as i was a toddler. My first Michigan was @Purdue in 1981 as my grandfather had season tickets to Purdue. My grandfather complained that the Michigan fans were also loud, obnoxious and drunk. Purdue knocked off #19 Stanford and #13 Notre Dame before going 5-6 and losing to Michigan at the game I attended. I remember seeing a banner for a nacent ESPN and asking my grandfather if it was a Spanish TV station.
No. It's like a trauma victim thing. My memory has completely blanked it out...
Enjoyable article all the way around.
I disagree with the article author that teams should enjoy blowing out the opponent all the way through the game. You get up by 30-36 or so and you put in your second and third strings. If the other team starts to look like a threat you can bring your first stringers back. I hate teams like old school Nebraska running up the score on 3rd tier opponents. If you schedule tune-up games tune-up your whole team.
against Rutgers
we still kept scoring