Snowflakes, Pre-Game Feelz Edition: how are you feeling about tonight?
In 2015, 2016 and 2018 each day of a big game I felt a combination of excitement, nerves and anticipation. I'm not making any predictions or statements, but this year after Army, before every non-Rutgers/Illinois game I've had the same feelings as 2017 M football: a combo of dread, hope and resignation. Part of me wants to hope that last week was the beginning of an offensive surge and turnaround, but I just can't buy in.
I'm jealous of people that are hopeful and unlike me about the rest of the season. Are there many of you out there? Who's predicting a win tonight?
October 26th, 2019 at 11:22 AM ^
Good.
October 26th, 2019 at 11:23 AM ^
I predict I’m gonna laugh at all the suckers at the game in the freezing rain while I’m buzzed on my warm couch.
October 26th, 2019 at 11:25 AM ^
I like it less given the forecast. I thought Michigan’s offense was about ready to explode. The prospect of a sludge-fart with the game turning on who jumps on a wet football first is not what I had in mind.
October 26th, 2019 at 11:41 AM ^
Cave Man football.
We can do that.
October 26th, 2019 at 11:52 AM ^
*from shotgun
October 26th, 2019 at 2:21 PM ^
Unfortunately, we play with caveman hands; if we can keep from turning the ball over, we got a chance. Also, if we can keep away from giving bomb touchdowns - I believe the Irish did this to us as well - we have a chance. We screw those up, it's going to be stressy and sad.
October 26th, 2019 at 11:41 AM ^
I think a run heavy slug fest favors us tbh. If we can contain their running qb we have a shot.
October 26th, 2019 at 3:50 PM ^
I thought Michigan’s offense was about ready to explode.
...why?
October 26th, 2019 at 11:26 AM ^
Like it doesn’t matter
October 26th, 2019 at 11:26 AM ^
I predict pain for us or them but mostly the 100k that will be at the game
October 26th, 2019 at 11:28 AM ^
I think ND is probably better than us, but I think we are going to find a way to get it done tonight. I hope the home crowd is good and liquored up. I think being at home gives us just enough to win.
October 26th, 2019 at 12:06 PM ^
I say we win only because we have to win a game like this at some point. This trend can't continue indefinitely.
October 26th, 2019 at 11:28 AM ^
I'm surprised how ambivalent I feel. Was in A2 this morning, and it felt nothing like a game day. Nobody around. Student neighborhoods were dead.
It's the day of a Notre Dame game and it seems like no one particularly cares.
October 26th, 2019 at 11:31 AM ^
You got a combo going on. People are generally disappointed in the team, bad weather, weird timing for an ND game. Just a weird set up.
October 26th, 2019 at 12:25 PM ^
Sat AM, night game. Still hung over, shitty weather pre gaming in doors
October 26th, 2019 at 3:02 PM ^
The idea that people are going to stand around drinking in cold rainy weather beginning 10 hours before the game is dumb. Unless the weather is great, nobody starts tailgating more than like 4-5 hours ahead of gametime.
You are just trying to be a downer for no reason.
October 26th, 2019 at 11:30 AM ^
Michigan is going to win out. @ me if you need to haterz! LFG!!!!!!!!!!!!
October 26th, 2019 at 12:13 PM ^
Here’s hoping you’re right
October 26th, 2019 at 4:05 PM ^
Fuck yes. I hate ND too much to be ambivalent about this game regardless of how we've played this year. Tough battle in the trenches, tough weather. We win 14-10.
October 26th, 2019 at 11:33 AM ^
I feel nervous. Losing to the figthings would cause incredible consternation until the game against sparty.
October 26th, 2019 at 11:39 AM ^
At peace...I don't have much confidence in this coaching staff right now but I love this team. Hope for the win but expecting the typical let downs we have seen all year.
October 26th, 2019 at 1:45 PM ^
Yep, coaching staff a weak link.
October 26th, 2019 at 11:39 AM ^
Feeling good! Confident! WIN IT!
October 26th, 2019 at 11:40 AM ^
I just took a poop and I feel marginally better
October 26th, 2019 at 11:44 AM ^
They will announce 110,000.
They will be wrong.
October 26th, 2019 at 11:45 AM ^
The season is effectively over for me so I won't stress about a loss, but a win sure would be fun. Since it's at home I think we've got a shot.
October 26th, 2019 at 11:48 AM ^
"dread, hope, and resignation". Yup. This is pretty much it here.
Watching offenses in CFB roll up and down the field, and we just can't figure it out. And that's with 9 of 11 back on offense.
Weather will make fumbling more likely, and we know all about that.
October 26th, 2019 at 12:00 PM ^
We dominated the second half last week in one of the toughest environments in college football against a top 10 team (really only top 15 in my opinion). If the refs had not spotted PSU a 14 point halftime lead, the better team would have won. We lost, there are no moral victories looking backward.
But if you didn't see a huge shift in the team's play and progress on offense last week, particularly the way they came back in the second half, then you are only looking at the outcome, and not the on field play.
October 26th, 2019 at 12:12 PM ^
Hoping you're right. My confidence is just as low as back in the Hoke / RR years.
Pretty sad that one of my thoughts is "Gee, I hope the refs manage to call a fair game."
October 26th, 2019 at 1:41 PM ^
I thought Brian said it was more Ped State's ineptness than what we did in the second half.
October 26th, 2019 at 11:52 AM ^
Still in a 'prove it to me' mode...although, the offense last week made me a little more hopeful. Every time I get hopeful, JH and the team put me back where I belong...wishing my kids would see a glimpse of the Michigan football I grew up with. I try telling them we were the best program in the country, up there with the elite. But, they've never seen it consistently, and my oldest is 18.
October 26th, 2019 at 11:56 AM ^
We win big. Last week proved this team has a spine (coming back on the road/outplaying PSU in the White Out despite getting screwed and making mistakes), the program still has some momentum, and JMFH is still in there.
I think we run the table. We win tonight by 17 points, and go into the MSU and OSU games super confident.
Before last week, I thought we were screwed, as I saw no progress on offense the entire year. Things finally clicked last week, and Harbaugh was not delusional when saying the offense was "close" . He is by no means perfect, but I think Harbaugh has seen enough football to know that the difference between being shitty, ok, good, and elite is a combination of talent and then the little things (execution, timing, confidence). We have the talent. The rest is starting to come together.
October 26th, 2019 at 12:01 PM ^
If Michigan's offense can continue the upward trend started in the last game and hold onto the damn ball then we win comfortably (by a TD minimum). The rain and a wet ball is the X factor. If we get loose with the football then it'll be sphincter clenching time.
October 26th, 2019 at 12:02 PM ^
Not confident but not total BPONE either.
October 26th, 2019 at 12:18 PM ^
Sober, but I'll be ready for the game.
October 26th, 2019 at 12:24 PM ^
Will be taking my family to do halloween things. Not gonna spend 3 hours watching Mich and ND try to fuck a football in a monsoon. Especially a the game is meaningless
I hope the team wins and the moral victor crowd is vindicated after a quarter and a half of competence. But i doubt it
October 26th, 2019 at 1:17 PM ^
But Halloween is 5 days away
October 26th, 2019 at 12:27 PM ^
Can somebody get a dick
October 26th, 2019 at 2:22 PM ^
Asking for a friend?
October 26th, 2019 at 12:31 PM ^
Cold and wet and drunk and confident.
October 26th, 2019 at 12:44 PM ^
Better after seeing the Penn State game. Michigan was the better team for 3 quarters of that game, even if it was a loss.
But I can't help thinking that a rainy day and a team that fumbles the ball a lot isn't a good combination. BPONE.
October 26th, 2019 at 12:47 PM ^
Get out of your own head and just hope the team plays well tonight. Enjoy the sense of anxiety that comes along with not knowing the outcome of a sporting event. That's what makes it truly exciting.
October 26th, 2019 at 1:24 PM ^
Its not whether you win or lose, its how you play the game. Said no winner ever
October 26th, 2019 at 12:50 PM ^
I’m on vacation in Hawaii and have a sail planned from 12 to 4, so I’m feeling pretty sanguine about this afternoon...
October 26th, 2019 at 2:24 PM ^
I'm vacationing in the white trash Riviera so relative to one another we're having an equally sweet time.
October 26th, 2019 at 12:56 PM ^
I feel the same way I do about almost every Michigan game. Hopeful that this will be the game our head coach decides the point of offense is to score points. Resigned to the fact that his insistence on playing with one hand tied behind our back will require a perfect game from us or multiple mistakes from ND to win.
October 26th, 2019 at 1:16 PM ^
Shit weather and a not great running game... not so optimistic.
October 26th, 2019 at 1:43 PM ^
Will no doubt be running into a stacked box most of the night.
October 26th, 2019 at 1:18 PM ^
Sad that AA is a ghost town by the sounds of it. Iowa City would never be like that for a game of this magnitude, weather be damned.
October 26th, 2019 at 1:47 PM ^
R U Steve Clarke's wife