Notable streaks and trends on the schedule
Here's a little midnight snack.
MTSU
Um, we're undefeated against Middle Tennessee St., I guess.
Army
4-game win streak, all at home. Last win was 1962.
Bonus: Service academies
10 straight wins, all at home. None of these 10 are against Army. The streak started in 1968 after losing to Navy in 1967.
@Wisconsin
Haven't won at Wisconsin since 2001 (losses in 2005, 2007, 2009, 2017).
Rutgers
Having bounced back from our 0-1 start, we are now on a 4-game winning streak and have never lost at home. Somehow there was a margin of victory as close as 21 points in there.
Iowa
Mercifully this is not at Iowa (4-game losing streak, last win was in 2005). However, Iowa still has won 5 of the last 6. Iowa's last win at Michigan was in 2010.
@Illinois
4-game win streak. Our last win at Illinois was in 2011. Last loss was in 2009.
@PSU
Home team has won the last three games with 29 points as the closest margin of victory. That was our one loss in the three games.
Notre Dame
Won the last four home games. Notre Dame's last win at Michigan was 2005.
@Maryland
7-0 all time against Maryland...when we're a ranked team. 4 wins in a row currently with 25 points as the closest margin of victory. 2-0 at Maryland all time.
STAEE
Road team has won the last 4. Michigan's last win at home was 2012.
@Indiana
23 wins in a row (38 of the last 39)...I think I counted correctly but who knows.
And that's it. Those are the only notable streaks with this year's opponents. No other streaks I can think of.
Some "last time it happened" items of note that could be reset this year now that we have Speed in Space:
- An individual scored 5 TDs: Ron Johnson in 1968
- UM scored 30 points in a quarter: 31 points in the 4th at Minnesota in 2003
- An individual attempted 50 passes: Chad Henne threw 54 times at OSU in 2004 for some reason that I can't quite place.
The odds that I messed something up are fairly high, so feel free to point it out.
August 28th, 2019 at 11:25 PM ^
Don't write off MTSU. I can't recall any specific instances, but I've heard that can sometimes end poorly.
August 28th, 2019 at 11:31 PM ^
Dude, with our luck, we would match your disappointment, only on the gridiron.
August 29th, 2019 at 6:44 AM ^
Like a 2 seed vs a 15 seed sort of situation?
August 28th, 2019 at 11:36 PM ^
Michigan has never lost to tPOSu in a year when more people from Michigan have traveled to Ohio for vacation than substandard humans(?) from Ohio have traveled to Michigan for vacation.
August 28th, 2019 at 11:56 PM ^
Re Michigan streaks...
August 29th, 2019 at 6:07 AM ^
I have so many questions that I actually don't want to have answered.
August 29th, 2019 at 10:32 AM ^
Is that the Michigan Mile? I'm at work and don't want to click on the link.
August 29th, 2019 at 12:09 AM ^
I think one of Brian's preview posts or someone recently posted the single season passing TD record is 25 at Michigan...and 31 teams had a QB last year beat that mark. I'd say there is a solid chance that record falls this year.
August 29th, 2019 at 12:35 AM ^
Shea got 21 last year in an offense from the stone age so yeah. Easy prediction to make.
August 29th, 2019 at 1:05 AM ^
Lulz this made me laugh...its' sort of true. Good lord he better have 25 to passes...by week 10.
August 29th, 2019 at 2:52 AM ^
That is such an extraordinary statistic. It's an incredible illustration of how quickly the game has changed . . . and perhaps how slow Michigan has been to adapt to that change.
August 29th, 2019 at 3:55 AM ^
Tua had 44 TD passes last season & only threw 80 passes in the 2nd half all year, because he was mostly watching Hurts mop-up.
August 29th, 2019 at 10:26 AM ^
To be fair, Michigan (1991) was murdering teams in conference play with their modern offense, so they didn't throw the ball a lot in the 4th quarter.
If Moeller would've kept his foot on the gas pedal and played for style points, Grbac would've easily eclipsed 30 TDs in only 12 games.
August 29th, 2019 at 12:58 AM ^
For MTSU:
1) U-M has won 6 straight season opening games that were played in AA.
2) U-M is 6-0 all-time against teams with "Blue" in the opponent's nickname. (all Duke)
3) U-M is 2-0 all-time against current C-USA teams (Rice 1999, 2000). I actually find it kind of strange U-M has only played 1 of the current 14 C-USA teams.
4) U-M has won 2 straight August games, and is 6-1 all-time in August games.
5) U-M is 9-0 all-time against teams from Tennessee, when the game is played in AA.
That's all I got.
August 29th, 2019 at 1:14 AM ^
Give that superguide back to WD.
August 29th, 2019 at 6:10 AM ^
Thanks. I stopped racking my brain for a streak because I had to quit drinking and go to bed.
August 29th, 2019 at 7:41 AM ^
The lack of C-USA opponents is a bit interesting - maybe because of the proximity of so many MAC teams is the reason? As a PSU fan, do they play more C-USA opponents and less MAC opponents?
August 29th, 2019 at 9:00 AM ^
Proximity to MAC teams used to make no difference for over 50 years. Michigan played Western in 1943 and then didn't play a MAC school again until 1995 when we played Miami-Ohio. But even that game was a replacement for Oklahoma State, who dropped us.
By the late 90's, MAC schools were playing ALL the power conference teams and it eventually started becoming the norm for us too. Although lately, it's gone back to kind of a rare thing. 4 of the last 5 years have had no MAC opponents.
August 29th, 2019 at 11:00 AM ^
PSU has played slightly more C-USA teams (5 teams, 9 games) and slightly less MAC teams (9 teams, 29 games) than U-M.
PSU has played Marshall, and has played a number of Florida teams (FAU & FIU now, South Florida & UCF when they were rising up through C-USA and the Big East) in the 2000s for buy games.
There was a period earlier this century where it seemed like U-M was playing one of the Michigan MAC teams yearly, while PSU was playing one of Ohio, Akron or Kent State yearly.
It's interesting: even for the one-off games, geography matters a bit.
August 29th, 2019 at 9:00 AM ^
For #2, shouldn't we include Michigan's 0-0-1 all-time record against the Toronto Varsity Blues?
August 29th, 2019 at 9:26 AM ^
Wow - nice find. Yeah, that should count too. What a nickname!
August 29th, 2019 at 5:52 AM ^
Need a win against Army this year to get back to 0.500 against them all time (this well known, but still worth mentioning).
UM hasn't gone undefeated since 1997.
Let's do both.
August 29th, 2019 at 7:30 AM ^
I believe that is the reason we scheduled them. A win will get us back to 5-5.
Also, Army currently has a 9 game active win streak against FBS opponents.
August 29th, 2019 at 7:58 AM ^
Erroneous! They have a 9 game win streak going but at least one of those wins was over Colgate (Patriot league - FCS)
August 29th, 2019 at 8:53 AM ^
Fine, we'll call it an 8.5 game winning streak. It'll be 0 soon enough.
August 29th, 2019 at 6:27 AM ^
Wow. Navy must have had a decent QB in ‘67...
August 29th, 2019 at 7:02 AM ^
Just a fluke. He probably never did anything notable again after that.
August 29th, 2019 at 8:59 AM ^
That would be John Cartwright, who broke several records that had been set by his predecessor, some guy named Roger Staubach. After playing for Navy, he went on to serve in Vietnam, had a short coaching career, and then became a Baptist pastor.
August 30th, 2019 at 4:03 AM ^
Good one....
August 29th, 2019 at 7:12 AM ^
We haven't beaten Army since 1962.
And people keep obsessing over OSU.
August 29th, 2019 at 7:12 AM ^
We need to beat Army just to tie the series
August 29th, 2019 at 10:33 AM ^
4-5 all-time vs. Army
August 29th, 2019 at 7:13 AM ^
Did OSU get taken off the schedule?
August 29th, 2019 at 7:26 AM ^
No streaks worth mentioning there, my friend. Not that I can recall.
August 29th, 2019 at 7:27 AM ^
We haven't played them since 2011
August 29th, 2019 at 7:43 AM ^
Here's one where someone can share our pain and is relevant on a macro CFB level:
Michigan last beat OSU the same year LSU last beat Alabama (2011).
August 29th, 2019 at 8:48 AM ^
Ummm... Thanks?
August 29th, 2019 at 9:15 AM ^
Pretty solid parallel, actually.
August 29th, 2019 at 9:52 AM ^
The sooner this fanbase comes to grips with, and can talk about, that shit-stain that is our record against OSU in the last 15 years, the quicker the BPONE will go away. Self-destructive cycle y'all got goin on here.
August 29th, 2019 at 10:32 AM ^
The only streak I care about is ending the one at the end of the year.
August 29th, 2019 at 10:48 AM ^
Man, Iowa has had our number as of late.
August 29th, 2019 at 11:36 AM ^
Last time we beat Sparty at home was 2012. I remember that game. UGLY. We kicked 4 field goals in that game including one at the buzzer to beat them 12-10. Their D was legit that year and their O was terrible. That year's team was very much like their team last year. I'm fearful that this year's team might be like their 2013 team and we all know what that team did.
August 29th, 2019 at 12:25 PM ^
Buzzer ? Did you say buzzer? I didn't even hear the buzzer at the end of that game.