Week 4: Best thing you saw...

Submitted by mi93 on
While Louisville may have the most John Hancock of signature wins so far this year, it may be hard to argue against next week's opponent as having the best resume. Bucky's manhandling of Sparty is probably the best thing I saw this week as far as an entire game is concerned (though some good ones are still ongoing). Bucky is for realz. But this week, the best thing I saw was the reminder of the youth, exuberance, and joy with which #5 plays the game. Peppers dancing. Peppers' anguish as he stumbled toward the goal line on the first punt return. And the best of all, late second quarter, lined up to Speight's right in a two HB set, going in motion to the right, and as he glides down the line, motioning to the DB with just his fingers, telling the DB "yeah, you'd better come check me," on a play where he was a decoy. The joy of football as presented by Jabril Peppers was the best thing I saw today. How 'bout you?

UMinSF

September 25th, 2016 at 12:50 AM ^

Of non-UM games:

Colorado - Oregon game was wildly entertaining. Two amazing TD catches by CO receivers originally ruled incomplete, huge comeback by Oregon, CO re-taking the lead then intercepting last-gasp attempt by Oregon.

Any team wearing uniforms as ridiculous as Oregon's did not deserve to win.

Wisky dismantling Sparty - fun to watch.

ND losing to....Duke?  Reminiscent of front-butt Weis years.

Last play of LSU-Auburn - Hatter's magic runs out.

College football is great!

 

UMinSF

September 25th, 2016 at 1:38 AM ^

Arizona's QB Dawkins just made an incredible play.

315 lb guy had him completely engulfed, and somehow he got away, alllllmost stepped OOB, then fired a 50-yd strike an inch over the safety's hand.

AZ just scored to tie game with Washington with :17 left. OT here we come - wow.

BursleyBaitsBus

September 25th, 2016 at 1:32 AM ^

Everyone used to think David Shaw was just riding out Harbaugh's coattails... Seems Helfrich is actually the one riding out Chip Kelly's. 

First time Oregon has lost back to back since 2007 I believe. Ouch. 

BLHoke

September 25th, 2016 at 1:01 AM ^

1. 326 yards and 6 TDs by 5 different backs & aside from the FB GL plunge, no back averaged less than 6.7 YPC and all topped 50 yards. Hopefully quieting the masses, at lead for a week.
2. Jourdan/Taco
3. MSU implosion
4. ND losing at home to Duke
5. Colorado proving that last weeks 3 score win was an impressive showing against a tough opponent that's going to give a lot of teams fits and is probably better than LSU, MSU, ND & Texas.




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Mr. Yost

September 25th, 2016 at 1:01 AM ^

 
 
  1. Michigan OL dominate the LOS in the run game
  2. Wisky put its nuts on Sparty's forehead and Sparty do nothing about it
  3. Duke knock off Kelly at HOME
  4. Stanford drive down the field FTW
  5. Harbaugh support his players who are finding their way through this period where social issues in our country have come to the forefront of conversation, media, etc. (no politics here...I just like that Harbaugh understands he coaches 18-22 year olds who are literally figuring out who they are, what they believe in, and what they stand for...and he's supporting them in their journey whether he or anyone agrees with it or not)

AmayzNblue

September 25th, 2016 at 1:18 AM ^

I was at the UT-Florida game today. Best thing was watching an amazing comeback, energized crowd and breaking an 11 year streak of losses to Tennessee's most hated rival (unfortunately, we can relate to that). Wish I could post pictures, but this blog doesn't seem to support that feature.




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AmayzNblue

September 25th, 2016 at 7:50 AM ^

Thanks. I do most all posting and reading on here from my phone. I actually love this blog and the UM community discussions on here much more than the other sites I've visited. Greater level of humor and maturity on this forum. I got some great pics of Neyland as a checkerboard, but I'm a little too lazy to get to a computer to share. It was an amazing game to visit.




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Monkey House

September 25th, 2016 at 1:23 AM ^

I'm still not sold on Wisconsin. they have 2 quality wins, but we don't know how good msu or lsu are. obviously Wisconsin will be Michigan's toughest test so far, but I'm holding judgment on all team till about week 7.

teldar

September 25th, 2016 at 10:08 AM ^

I don't like the 'we don't know yet...' but it's still true at this point. I feel like there are still a lot of question marks out there as far as who is actually great. I can say that FSU's defense is probably terrible. And LSU's offensive show of the staff should be canned... But is MSU actually any good? How good is Wisconsin? Clemson? Alabama's not been impressive to my mind. Colorado? Lots of questions.

7words

September 25th, 2016 at 10:57 AM ^

I"d say Wisconsins defense is legit.  I didn't watch the game and assumed from the score that Wiscy dominated on both sides.  But then i saw that one touchdown came from a scoop and score fumble, one came on a 5 yard TD drive and another came from like a 25 yard TD.  I'd have to guess our game next week will probably be a lower scoring affair.  I think our D can handle their offense and we'll need to stay away from turnovers when we have the ball.  That was definitely the difference in the Wisky/MSU game.  

ska4punkkid

September 25th, 2016 at 2:03 AM ^

Besides a Michigan win?

Asu vs Cal in Tempe. Over/under was 85.5 and the two teams had combined for 85 points when there was 50 sec left. Cal was attempting an onside kick as they were down by 3. One figures asu would recover and take knees to run out clock, preserving the under by a half point. Instead the onside kick goes awry and the ASU player returns it for a touchdown!! Haha! First time I have ever seen an onside kick returned for a TD

rice4114

September 25th, 2016 at 3:56 AM ^

How about having the unc/pitt over at 66.5. Pitt up 36-30 unc with the rock. UNC calls run with 20 something seconds left and no time outs at the 10 that goes down to the 5 tick tick tick tick. 10,9,8,7 pitt hikes it 6,5,4 passes to the right into the endzone with :02 left TOUCHDOOOOOOWN! But wait a flag.... PI ON PITT game over!




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bacon

September 25th, 2016 at 3:23 AM ^

- Speight escaping contact repeatedly and making plays downfield. He's been amazing so far at moving around and buying extra time.
- Wormley was a force today.
- Lewis back and playing at a high level.
- Also, some really great blocks on Peppers first punt return.

GoWings2008

September 25th, 2016 at 6:43 AM ^

Michigan's run game
Michigan's defense
ND losing
Sparty losing
Arkansas losing
USC losing... I'll always hate that program
Loved the Tennessee comeback
Felt my unborn child move for the first time. It was unreal.

UMForLife

September 25th, 2016 at 7:32 AM ^

Scoring TD to make it 49. F*** PSU. Loved it.
Loved the MANBALL in 4th qtr. Michigan FB at its best.
I was getting work related emails from sparty fans while their game was going on. They just don't leave the stadium. They leave their TV also. Enjoyed it very much.
ND sucking again. HELL with ND.
CO game was good and so was AUB.
Wisconsin showed what it can do, but I have a feeling we have not yet. Vanilla offense was the best and looking forward to a Wisconsin beat down.

1VaBlue1

September 25th, 2016 at 8:01 AM ^

While I loved the 326 yds rushing, I'm not going to pretend that PSU actually has a DL or LB's.  I am also not going to pretend that watching Harbaugh say 'fuck it, ram it down thier throats' all game long was not simply awesome!  I loved the decisions to go on 4th - field position on the first couple were no man's land - punting doesn't help, too far for a FG.  But that 4th & 7?  That was simply telling his team he wanted a TD in no uncertain terms.  Loved it!  Too often, teams punt on 4th & 1 near FG territory - pisses me off every time.

Franklin's TO and FG, down 28, validated Brian's statement: 'Hoke vs Franklin is a good coaching matchup'...

Stanford's drive FTW had the feel, and the entire stadium knew that TD was coming.  But I'll give UCLA credit - they played a damn good game.  The game wasn't close because Stanford played poorly, it was close because UCLA played well.

I loved how MSU got steamrolled.  I thought they might lose that game, but never thought 30-6 was in the cards.  

Brian Kelly was out-coached by David Cutcliff.  LMAO!!  I mean, Cutcliff is legit - the man can coach.  And Kelly is proving to be vastly overrated.

Mgodiscgolfer

September 25th, 2016 at 8:12 AM ^

reminded me of the Bo, Mo, Lloyd days when the team was so disciplined that Detroit Lion like penalties were very, very rare so they would not beat themselves. Let the opposition beat themselves. 

Mgoscottie

September 25th, 2016 at 8:16 AM ^

looked great and really has looked great in very limited action all year.  The worst thing was the refs late in the game (aside from Clark).  Hopefully they got that out of the way before the important games.