What things will happen in the game tonight?
What are some things you expect to see tonight and with what degree of confidence? What do you want to happens but you don't really expect, what are the chances and how much do you want it?
What I expect:
Michigan wins! 83%
We score at least in the high 20's. 51%
Michigan looks like a Michigan football team again & no longer looks like the Keystone Kops even if we're not perfect yet! 100%
The team will fight and play their asses off as much as they possibly can and fight to the end and fight like hell if they fall behind and never fucking give up! 100%
The offensive line will play like warriors, make you proud and remind you of... a Michigan offense line! 66.66666666%
We will have at least 3 long, sustained, time consuming drives that remind you of... Michigan football! We'll score on at least two of them. 59%
Kicking will be at least ok and punting will be a weapon. 72%
No more than 1 or 2 turnovers, not many penalties. 64%
Jake Butt is going to look like Charlie Sanders, Kellen Winslow, Gronk and Jake Butt all rolled into one! He'll make at least 4 catches for first downs. He'll save at least two drives with big 3rd or 4th down catches. He scores at least one TD. 55% (I asked a lot!)
Our qb's will have at least 3 crucial runs or scrambles to save a drive or score. 41%
QB's play well enough to win and don't give the game away. 75%
Freshmen (counting Drake) or defensive players doing spot duty will transform our receiving corps into a force! 70%!
We will have at least one game breaking long kick or punt return either to the (little) house or setting up an easy score. 38%
Peppers scores at least one TD one way or another. 42.3%
We will either block a kick or get a ST turn over. 33%
1 or 2 defensive players we don't expect (IE not Peppers) will line up as a runner or receiver at least once. 25%
Someone on offense we don't expect to run the ball will run the ball at least once, Drake, Poggi, Whitfield, someone like that. 35%
We'll force at least one fumble through continuous stripping/ball hawking attempts that we never would have under Hoke. 43%
We'll force at least one fumble with a plain old fashioned crushing tackle. 43%
Utah's offense will know they played a football game! We will punish ball carriers, receivers and qb's regardless of them gaining yards or not. They will get tired of it! We will fucking fly through the air and fly all over the field and hit the shit out of people like we did in The Game last year, but moar, better and harder! 92%!
All phases of the defense will be good to great! 84%
Nobody from Utah will do a Heisman pose unless it's one of M's players from Utah. 98.6%
That I will be really fucking pissed if somebody from Utah does another Heisman pose! 100%
Harbaugh! 100%
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What I want but it might not/probably won't happen:
The maize submarine hid the fact that Drake Johnson is healthy, ready to go and will be the surprise starter or play big minutes! 7% (hope = 100%)
On Michigan's first play on offense every member of the line will pancake their opponent on a play action touchdown bomb of 80 yards or longer from Morris to Harris in a combination that will become as famous as Wangler to Carter and on a play that reminds you of Denard's first play or the first time that AC, Desmond, or Woodson made your jaw drop! Your perceptions of this teams possibilities will go through the roof instantaneously and you'll leap out of your seat fists thrusting in the air screaming at the top of your lungs and seeing maize and blue spots in front of your eyes until you pass out! You'll wake up in time for the extra point but you'll have lost your voice for the rest of the night. 4% Want it a million percent!
Morris starts or plays early and throws beautiful pass after beautiful pass, 4 td passes, one running, no TO's, feels the rush, avoids the rush, feels the pocket, scrambles for yards & 1st downs, clutch on 3rd down, great stats, MVP. All of that? 1% Great game? 16% Want it 100%
30 point or better blowout! 17% Want it 100!
Shut out 17.3% Want it 100%
Crazy and stunning classic Harbaugh moment/event/eruption 7% Want it 50%
Go Blue!