OT: Weekly Football Quiz?
Notre Dame and USC
We have a winning record vs ND for sure.
USC, and maybe a random throwback like University of Chicago or some other school that would have been good in the early days of the program?
Okay, I broke down and looked it up. It is not U of C... good luck guessing.
USC (all those Rose Bowls!)
Oregon (I can think of two ugly losses, assume we haven't played them all that much)
I want to say this was posted a few months ago. Even so, I don't fully remember the answers. I believe it is USC and an Ivy League school (Princeton or Yale?).
This did come up in a WD post and I believe it was USC and Cornell.
USC and Oklahoma?
edit: disregard. didn't read full OP.
Is one University of Chicago?
Also, do you do the weekly trivia on r/cfb?
Here's this week's thread. Michigan has won almost every season, I think, so go do your part.
I am thinking
USC - Rose Bowl losses
Cornell? - due to the neutral site post from WD a few days ago that had Cornell comments sticking in my head. Seems like we lost to them a bazillion times years ago at neutral sites.
USC seems to be a consensus pick.
My other guess, since it isn't obvious, is probably a service academy or Ivy League school that we used to play way back in the day. I'll guess Harvard.
Michigan record book says we've lost 12 to Cornell, but going back year-by-year I only counted 9 losses.
I am all for having a weekly trivia thing on the blog, although I wonder if there is a way to at least make the questions such that it would require some effort for someone to cheat (or questions where cheating would not provide a complete answer), if nothing else. That might be the one downfall of the online age and having these sorts of things, but it does sound like it could be a fun feature.
Cheating is lame. I'm hoping he gets negged into oblivion for cheating. Cheating is for losers. If you cheat, you are in Hugh Freeze's wheelhouse.
I'm pretty sure that Hugh Freeze's wheelhouse is being holier-than-thou while calling various escort services.
and Cornell big red.
I would guess Army and Cornell?
Need to get those teams back on the schedule to kick their butts and put the set the world right again.
Don't give Wisconsin any ideas.
USC because I imagine we've lost to them in the Rose Bowl umpteen times
Cornell because I feel I saw we lost to them a ton of times in WD's neutral site thread and since one team is less obvious, that seems like a good guess
USC and Army?
After the answer was revealed (Cornell?), I went over to Winsipedia (nice resource for the CFB junkie) to look at the records. We've only ever played USC in So Cal. 4-6 on the road versus them isn't bad. Our best game was a 49-0 drubbing at the turn of the century... early 1900s for you whippersnappers. They beat us twice recently by 14 for their biggest margin of victory 28-14 and 32-18.
Utah and Oregon
I scrolled without reading answers so here goes...
One has to be a PAC 12 team...either Washington or USC. I guess I'll say USC.
Then I think the other one might be something like University of Chicago back in the Ye Olde Big Ten Days
USC consistently beat us in the Rose Bowl and then I'm assuming the losing record against either Army or Navy comes from the ore-WWII era when both schools were the Alabama of their time.
and recalling how many times we lost on NY's day, USC of course. I know we have a winning record over our three main rivalries so, along with the others I'll hazard a guess and say one of the service academies in their hey day. I do know Staubach had a career day vs. UM in '64 so I'll go with Navy because I have no idea actually how we've fared against either the cadets or midshipmen on an historical basis.