U-M is #13 on Big Game Boomer's Best-in-21st-Century programs
Take his opinion with a grain of salt. This is interesting and encouraging though to me seeing a person from no dog in the Big Ten rank us this high (and above MSU, who checked in at #18). Among the programs ranked ahead of us, only Oregon hasn't won a national title yet. Here's the rankings up until where we are out of 25 total on the list:
1. Bama
2. Ohio State
3. LSU
4. Oklahoma
5. Clemson
6. Florida (think they're too high now)
7. USC
8. Florida State
9. Auburn
10. Georgia
11. Texas
12. Oregon
13. Michigan
https://twitter.com/BigGameBoomer/status/1532743888250843137
Boomer is a troll and a click-bait attention whore
OK Boomer.
I used to look at a photo like this and think, 'Old guy.'
Now I look at a guy like that and say I wish I still had hair and was that young.
OP: Why should I care what "Big Game Boomer" thinks? Serious question.
Because you’re here?
Who the fuck is Big Game Boomer?
Logged in to say the same thing. You got me covered. Checking out.
Yeah I never heard of her either. Must have a giant can.
That being said - hard to disagree with top 5 with maybe some nitpik positioning. After that a precipitous drop. M doesn't belong in top 15. Wisky does. Since 2000 we are essentially tied at 17 with Miami in W% and at 18 in W's with Okie Lite. Wisky is #9 in both.
Sure. I would love to avoid Michigan, Penn State, OSU and MSU many years in 21st century and still be ahead of Michigan and MSU. For that matter, Iowa has a better claim than Wisconsin.
Your mom.
I assumed it was Boomer Esiason, but I guess not
So the best team that didn’t win a national title, cool.
Also, Miami should be ahead of Michigan.
The Miami team that’s been irrelevant for the past 15 years?
What does boomer think about beer prices? Inquiring minds need to know...
Is Boomer the one with all of the "Past Posts"?
List seems pretty fair honestly. Looking at this list also reminds me of how many other great programs had some serious down/mediocre years. (USC, Texas, Auburn, Florida, FSU, and even LSU) We just can’t seem to win any NC’s which bumped a lot of these programs up.
I am surprised Notre Dame isn’t higher after the Brian Kelly years, but they did have some stinkers for much of the early 2000’s.
It is interesting seeing the top programs. Aside from OSU and OU, all the other programs have had several years where they weren’t even Top 25 teams.
I was going to write something similar but was afraid I'd vomit all over my keyboard while typing it out.
One of the bigger troll accounts on Twitter. This means less than nothing.
Yet here you are…
When lots of people talk about really insignificant things, it makes those otherwise insignificant things significant. Pointing out the initial insignificance is not what makes those insignificant things significant.
Anybody calling themselves “Big Game Boomer” is guaranteed to be a yammering jackass.
42-27
59-51-6
sorry HT, your favorite buckeyes still play second fiddle to the winningest program of all time
You must be a history major. Get real, junior. Most of our glory days were before your dad was born.
😂
42-27 is fresh in my memory. I had a blast going to school at Michigan when we beat osu regularly, kind of like the most recent game. osu is good and all, but i love my wolverines - the winningest. Your team just can’t seem to catch up with our head to head wins, B1G championships, or national championships. Keep trying though. Go blue!
So, you don't appreciate the consistency over a century and yet maintain the highest academic excellence? I can name a few universities that could not keep up and have to drop off to keep the academic excellence. There is a reason UM and ND should be proud of what they have done.
Having said that, M-OSU goes in cycles. I wouldn't be surprised if M rips off a decade long dominance starting last year.
My $.25
1. Bama
2. Ohio
3. OU
4a. Clemson
4b. LSU
6. UGA
7. Oregon
8. UF
9. Auburn
10. Wisky
11. Utah
12. USC
13. TX
14. TCU
15. BSU
16. Va Tech
17. FSU
18. M
19. ND
20. OSU
21. PSU
22. Miami
23. MSU
24. Iowa
25. BYU
I'm sorry, but shouldn't #2 be Xhix?
Until OSU files a lawsuit to bump M behind O in alphabets, I would be OK with Ohio rather than stooping down to their level
Whisky? BYU? TCU? Come on. If you would have put ND ahead of UM, that is justifiable. At least they went to NC game. None of those other three times did much except for a few years. I will say that TCU was robbed a spot in one of those years.
I would have both USC and Florida higher than Clemson, with USC the highest among all three.
Clemson has two recent national titles but it is fair to say they were nothing special at all for the bulk of this century (up to that 2013 Orange Bowl season win vs Ohio state).
USC and Florida have had some nothing special years too, but not quite of the same duration. Even then, Florida has been to 3 NYD6 bowls the last 4 years (this is fairly under the radar but true!) winning 2 and USC has a recent Rose Bowl win too. Clemson certainly was doing nothing if that sort from 2000-2012. And man, did they both have a few years of ELITE teams in there too.
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After the top 7 Georgia I’d have at 8 ahead of FSU and Auburn. Texas I’d have ahead of Auburn too. Notre Dame ahead of Michigan - both ahead of Wisconsin and MSU. Michigan has less overall wins than Wisconsin but definitely has had more “very good or better teams.”
1. Michigan
2. Cheaters
3. Cheaters
4. Cheaters
5. Cheaters
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Without looking at records since 2013, I couldn't make an informed comment about this at all, and then--what are the criteria? Too often, lists like this are just tossed off to elicit hits.
I guess, having said all that, that I am tickled we are so high up the list? It hasn't been a super-productive period, at least not in terms of division or other championships, even bowl wins.
For 2022, if the Big Ten champion is in the playoffs, then the next highest ranked conference team goes to the Rose Bowl.
Boomer's prediction for 2022 has Ohio State in the playoffs, and Minnesota in the Rose Bowl.
That means he thinks Minnesota will be higher ranked than MSU, PSU, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Michigan.
He has Michigan in the Citrus Bowl against Tennessee, and MSU in the Orange Bowl against Wake Forest.
What kind of eternal hell is playing an SEC school in Florida every single year?
Objection hearsay!
sustained.