Why you no play game inside more?
In an effort to be as unproductive as possible my first day back, I thought I would delve into the statistical almanacs to see what Michigan's all-time indoor record was in football. About the only things I learned are: 1) Minnesota must feel awful never beating us once in the Metrodome, 2) Minnesota's awfulness has remained constant between 1983 and 2011, and 3)Michigan's bowl record indoors is similarly bad compared to their bowl record outdoors. One interesting factoid: Michigan lost their first ever regular season indoor game and has never lost indoors since (13 consecutive wins). Conversely, we won our first ever indoor bowl game and haven't won since (3 consecutive losses). Lets change that tonight, Go Blue!
EDIT Part 2: I missed the 1897 game at the Chicago Coliseum, so Michigan lost their first two indoor games in the history of the program. AND we won the 2012 Sugar Bowl!
Regular Season:
- 1896 @Chicago (Chicago Coliseum): Chicago 7, Michigan 6
- 1897 @Chicago (Chicago Coliseum): Chicago 21, Michigan 12
- 1983 @Minnesota (Metrodome): Michigan 58, Minnesota 10
- 1985 @Minnesota (Metrodome): Michigan 48, Minnesota 7
- 1987 @Minnesota (Metrodome): Michigan 30, Minnesota 20
- 1989 @Minnesota (Metrodome): Michigan 49, Minnesota 15
- 1991 @Minnesota (Metrodome): Michigan 52, Minnesota 6
- 1993 @Minnesota (Metrodome): Michigan 58, Minnesota 7
- 1996 @Minnesota (Metrodome): Michigan 44, Minnesota 10
- 1998 @Minnesota (Metrodome): Michigan 15, Minnesota 10
- 1999 @Syracuse (Carrier Dome): Michigan 18, Syracuse 13
- 2002 @Minnesota (Metrodome): Michigan 41, Minnesota 24
- 2003 @Minnesota (Navarre Transcontinental Metrodome): Michigan 38, Minnesota 35
- 2006 @Minnesota (Metrodome): Michigan 28, Minnesota 14
- 2008 @Minnesota (Metrodome): Michigan 29, Minnesota 6
Edit: A belated thank you to the 3-9 2008 squad for upholding Michigan's record of perfection in the Metrodome.
Bowl Games:
- 1981 Bluebonnet Bowl (Houston Astrodome): Michigan 33, UCLA 14
- 1984 Sugar Bowl (New Orleans Superdome): Auburn 9, Michigan 7
- 1995 Alamo Bowl (Alamodome): Texas A&M 22, Michigan 20
- 2005 Alamo Bowl (Alamodome): Nebraska 32, Michigan 28
- 2012 Sugar Bowl (New Orleans Superdome): Michigan 23, Virginia Tech 20 (OT)
January 3rd, 2012 at 4:30 PM ^
Damn, that is ugly! I had no idea we dominated there so much! I do recall Navarre going to town on the Gophers.
January 3rd, 2012 at 4:31 PM ^
I don't remember that 2005 Alamo bowl ever happening.
January 3rd, 2012 at 4:38 PM ^
No, the game happened. But we're still in a delay while the referees figure out how to assess a thousand-men-on-the-field penalty against Nebraska. I think Michigan should get the ball on the Nebraska 2 yard line for one untimed down as soon as they get word from upstairs.
January 3rd, 2012 at 5:17 PM ^
shocked that the end of that game was never discussed. (It probably was here, but I was a naive freshman back in those days) To this day I sometimes log on to espn hoping that they might have finally sorted it out, or at least addressed that it was in some way controversial.
January 3rd, 2012 at 4:51 PM ^
Periodically, and without warning, I will feel the need to scream, “TYLER ECKER PITCH THE DAMN BALL” to this day.
January 3rd, 2012 at 5:12 PM ^
It's like Tourette's. I get it too
January 3rd, 2012 at 5:51 PM ^
YES! User name has sudden but surely temporary relevance!
And the thrill is over. That was fun.
January 3rd, 2012 at 4:36 PM ^
it has something to do with the team we played indoors was mostly Minnesota?
January 3rd, 2012 at 4:40 PM ^
The thread title was a little joke, but as I mentioned in the post itself Minnesota's awfulness makes Michigan's record in domes a meaningless analytical exercise.
January 3rd, 2012 at 7:00 PM ^
...saw the same thing...in fact if you eliminate Minnesota from the equation...we are officially 3-4
January 3rd, 2012 at 4:36 PM ^
Because playing in a dome isn't real footbowww!!!
January 3rd, 2012 at 4:42 PM ^
Somehow I had totally forgotten about the second part of that home and home with Syracuse. Unfortunately, all I can remember is McNabb in '98... Looks like '99 was barely a better result.
January 3rd, 2012 at 5:32 PM ^
I was at that '99 Carrier Dome game. I remember three things about that trip:
1. Syracuse, the town, has a lot of hills
2. The Carrier Dome serves beer.
3. This was the only game of the 1999 season where Drew Henson outplayed Tom Brady.
...I don't remember much more than this (see number 2).
January 3rd, 2012 at 5:43 PM ^
-We got a safety on an unbelievable sack of Troy Nunes - like a 30-yard sack.
-This was the ultimate "Todd Howard covers but doesn't look for the ball" game.
-We may have gotten away with PI on the last Syracuse play of the game.
January 3rd, 2012 at 4:43 PM ^
I'll always remeber this game as the "Nick Sheridan thinks he Joe Montana" game
I could not believe the throws and catches that were made that game.
January 3rd, 2012 at 4:48 PM ^
and our Fullback actually scored a rushing TD in RRs offense too boot.
January 3rd, 2012 at 4:44 PM ^
Sorry but this thread should be renamed: "DAMN! We can kick some Gopher ass!" Teams other than Minny that we beat in a Dome, 1981 UCLA and 1999 'Cuse.
January 3rd, 2012 at 4:45 PM ^
I was at that 1896 Chicago game. Damn that was a barnbuster of a game. Course there was not much punting back in those days, and the boys certainly could not kick it very high...so playing indoors under a relatively low ceiling as the Chicago Coliseum had, was not a factor.
January 3rd, 2012 at 4:49 PM ^
I was supposed to attend too, but on my way there a thief came in the middle of the night and stole 3 of my oxen, 2 yokes, and 700 pounds of my food. My brother's wife died of dysentary moments before kickoff and I missed the game.
January 3rd, 2012 at 5:10 PM ^
that dysentary is a real bi-ch
January 3rd, 2012 at 5:34 PM ^
I would've gone too, but I was making my way to the polls to cast my vote for William McKinley in the '96 election. F#*k William Jennings Bryan!
January 3rd, 2012 at 5:43 PM ^
Didn't you want free silver?
January 3rd, 2012 at 8:05 PM ^
knows that valuing the dollar based on gold as well as silver would have led to an unstable economy.
January 3rd, 2012 at 5:46 PM ^
No politics dog gummit
January 3rd, 2012 at 4:59 PM ^
Does anybody else yell "pitch it to Breaston" involuntarily whenever they hear/read a reference to the 2005 Alamo Bowl or is that just me?
January 3rd, 2012 at 5:11 PM ^
pitch the ball and we have the best ending in college football history(sorry Cal).
January 3rd, 2012 at 5:13 PM ^
Minnesota stopped playing the metrodome
January 3rd, 2012 at 5:29 PM ^
So what you're trying to say is Minnesota is bad.
January 3rd, 2012 at 5:39 PM ^
There has only been two times in Minnesota's history where they've had multiple game winning streaks against MIchigan. The last one was when Kennedy was president, before that it was Franklin Roosevelt, so yeah, they're not good.
January 3rd, 2012 at 5:38 PM ^
But no, you go out of bounds with Steve F*$%&*#G Breaston trailing behind you and no one between him and the endzone (except half the Nebraska team that wasn't on the field when the play started).
#I'mnotbitteratall,thankyou
January 3rd, 2012 at 6:45 PM ^
I'm pretty sure a chunk of our sideline had also wandered onto the field by the time that play actually ended. If anything, the refs probably should have called offsetting penalties and replayed the down.
In any case, that was the most poorly officiated game I have ever seen.
January 3rd, 2012 at 5:38 PM ^
The Nebraska game was thanks to the Sun Belt refs and us having to waste all our timeouts to get plays reviewed that the refs missed. No need to go down that path.
The Alamo Bowl against A&M, we came out completely flat. But it certainly didn't help that our opponent was playing in their home state. Wasn't the crowd ratio pretty much like last week's insane Baylor/Washington game?
Anyway, thank you for that disturbing stat of 3 straight bowl losses in domes by 2 points, 2 points and 4 points.
January 3rd, 2012 at 5:49 PM ^
January 3rd, 2012 at 6:11 PM ^
most bowl games for the B1G seem to be in the opponent's home state. or at least, close by.
until very recently Georgia hadnt played a game out of the south in 30 years.
January 3rd, 2012 at 6:13 PM ^
What you're saying is that according to trends if we win today we lose to Alabama, and if we lose today we beat Alabama?
January 3rd, 2012 at 6:32 PM ^
The only thing I can infer from my research is that we should see if Minnesota is willing to schedule us for 12 games a year in the Metrodome.
January 3rd, 2012 at 6:34 PM ^
I felt compelled to seek out footage of the end of the 2005 Alamo Bowl. God bless the internets. Here it is: LINK. The number of yahoos milling about on the field is quite remarkable.
January 3rd, 2012 at 7:23 PM ^
Just watched a longer clip, and this quote from Herbstreit (at the 2:52:25 mark, just before the last fateful play) made me chuckle a little bit: "I just want to congratulate Bill Callahan… For fans of Nebraska, look to the future and be excited because this win, you cannot put into words how big this win is for Bill, and for his staff, and for the future of where they're trying to take this program. Congratulations to Nebraska."
January 3rd, 2012 at 10:17 PM ^
He would turn this into an art form in a few years!
January 3rd, 2012 at 11:36 PM ^
is also saying we played University of Chicago again in 1897 and we lost 21-12
January 4th, 2012 at 10:25 AM ^
Indeed it does. This somehow eluded my highly paid team of Michigan football researchers.