Volunteers Needed - Top 100 Plays of the Championship Season
Hi everyone,
The top-50 plays have been ranked using hundreds of unique fan rankings. Thanks to all that participated :)
The final two polls ranking plays 51-100 however, will not be public. Instead, we will need around 7 more volunteers (we have 13 already) who are willing to spend at least 20 minutes on each ranking, once this weekend, once next weekend. This is for two reasons:
- The list of plays won’t be as easily recognizable anymore, and so we’re trying to eliminate any casual rankers who are unwilling/unable to spend more than a few minutes, which tends to skew/randomize the rankings.
- Trolls (from rivals) have infiltrated the most recent poll.
If you have watched all the games (or highlights) of this season, you're confident in your memory, and you’re willing to spend 20 minutes each of the next two weekends to help out with the consensus rankings, please leave your email in the comments so that I can send you the link to the polls when they are available!
You can also contact [email protected] directly.
As a volunteer, you will be credited in the final video individually. Thank you all!
We will also be posting a reveal of the rankings as a video series via @themichiganpage on Instagram, on top of having a countdown series on here and the final video.
Edit: Just 3 more volunteers needed!
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*not Tennessee Vols fans
All I know is that catch by Roman Wilson in the Rose Bowl has to be pretty high on the list.
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I think this very minor character is a good example of Mike Judge's powers of observation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0FzAbZw0Ps&t=37s
It's from the end of the prior century, but it I think it has relevance to today's political sorting.
If the Orji in the endzone vs Staee isn't #1, we riot
Will Johnson’s interception to kick off the second half is top five I hope. Add the OSU pick as top ten. It’s disappointing that game had little in the way of splash plays.
Which game do you think was lacking in splash plays?
OSU game had:
- Corum TD run after Zinter injury
- Edwards RB pass
- Roman TD
- Will Johnson INT
- Rod Moore INT
- Quinten Johnson murder hit
- Sainristil murder hit
Title game had:
- Edwards TD run 1
- Edwards TD run 2
- Will Johnson INT
- Kenneth Grant eats the team
- Take us home, Blake
- Sainristil INT
- Loveland long catch
Is there somewhere we can view these rankings and a link?
Of all the splash plays that everyone remembers, the Jake Thaw near catastrophic punt muff is epic. If that play ends differently, the season is over and who knows where we would be today as a program....
I don't "believe" in karma, but it felt cosmically justified that Trouble with the Snap went one way and Jake Thaw went the other way
I'm happy with that deal with the universe
That would've easily been worse than Trouble with the Snap and would've scarred the program for years. Decades even. But as the other poster above me said, it did feel like Thaw being able to recover the punt and getting on the right side of the goal line was the cosmos re-balancing the scales of the Michigan football universe and doing us a solid. Kind of like an "Okay we f*****d you a few years back. We'll give you this one back."
If I had to have one and not the other, I take the pain of losing to MSU on a bad snap all day every day over losing to Alabama on a bad snap, but in the Rose Bowl in a CFP SemiFinal with the entire country watching.
What bothers me the most is there was no need to even try to catch the punt. Why are you even fair catching a punt at the 5 yard line. Nothing to gain, everything to lose. Like the whole damn season....
Trolls (from rivals) have infiltrated the most recent poll.
Kenneth Grant chasing down the running back at Penn State might have been the single most important play of the season. That was a game and season changing play.
Might have tilted the earth's axis too.
Was an absolutely remarkable play, but I don't know that it was the most important play or a season-changing play. Game-changing play, maybe, but minus one drive, Penn State's offense couldn't do a single thing all afternoon. Michigan by large had them dead to rights from the first snap. And I believe Penn State scored on that drive (or the next drive) anyway. I'm just not sure that if Kenneth Grant doesn't make that play, that Michigan doesn't still win anyway. If memory serves, this was the game that got Penn State's OC fired.
When I think of season-changing plays, I think of Sainristil breaking up Cade Stover's would be TD that could've brought The Game to within a FG late in the fourth quarter. I don't think this play hits anywhere near that magnitude in terms of season importance.
Still a great play, and an extremely memorable one. I will say that it was probably the most "Holy f**k that came out of nowhere" play of the season. That highlight alone is going to make Kenneth Grant a lot of money in next year's draft. No one on this planet who is as big as Kenneth Grant is should be able to move the way that he does.
Sounds fun! I’m in.
Thank you for this if I had the time on weekends I would help.