Wisconsin at Michigan, Night Game
7:30pm ET, ABC.
November 2nd, 2020 at 2:29 PM ^
We like Wisconsin at home when the sun sets. This would have been an awesome game to go to. Darn COVID
November 2nd, 2020 at 2:31 PM ^
At least Wisconsin will be down to QB4 or something.
In the most bizarre season ever, I fully expect us to be 3-1 with three ranked wins and a loss to 1-3 Sparty.
November 2nd, 2020 at 2:38 PM ^
I thought the board previously determined that their qb would be eligible to play for this game. Also, I’m not sure why you fully expect Michigan to beat Indiana, considering Indiana’s offense is better than MSU’s and they’ll be more than capable of abusing Michigan’s shitty secondary all day. And Wisconsin’s o-line is going to feat on Michigan’s d-line.
November 2nd, 2020 at 3:00 PM ^
Eligible to play is one thing. Not having practiced in a few weeks is something else. Of course, that means he'll have a career day against UM's defense.
November 2nd, 2020 at 3:00 PM ^
Also, I’m not sure why you fully expect Michigan to beat Indiana, considering Indiana’s offense is better than MSU’s and they’ll be more than capable of abusing Michigan’s shitty secondary all day.
OK. I'll bite. It seems like every year we collectively overreact to a shitty Michigan performance (or string of performances, like early last year). The MSU game was a shitty performance. I will not argue that point. Am I also saying that we'll go out and destroy Indiana on Saturday? No. But I will highlight that history is replete with "Michigan cannot possibly defeat X or Y opponent because look at what Z opponent just did to us last week" examples that are, in hindsight, vast overreactions.
Maybe this is the year we go 1-7 in B1G play. But that same narrative has been applied in many recent seasons. I hold out some glimmer of hope that we can right the ship, account for some obvious roster deficiencies with schematic adjustments, and not have IU abuse our "shitty secondary".
November 2nd, 2020 at 3:29 PM ^
Yeah, at this point anyone trying to extrapolate one week to the next in 2020 college football is just slightly informed guessing. Indiana is a good team but their offense barely cracked 150 yards until the last 2 drives of their game against PSU, then they put up fewer yards than MSU did against Rutgers the next game. I honestly don't know what to make of them and they could absolutely come out guns blazing next week, but Michigan had a "better" offense than MSU coming in this game and we all saw how that played out.
November 2nd, 2020 at 3:06 PM ^
I fully expect 2020 to continue not making sense. Your reasonable takes don't have a home in this year. Notice, I gave no reason for why we should be 3-1 except 2020 :shrug emoji
November 2nd, 2020 at 3:24 PM ^
2020 just might be our only chance of beating OSU in the near future
November 2nd, 2020 at 2:32 PM ^
Well, at least ABC/ESPN is pretty confident the this game will be played.
November 2nd, 2020 at 2:40 PM ^
Big ten and schools showing no concern for players having night games in mid November. All about TV money
November 2nd, 2020 at 2:46 PM ^
I don’t get it. Because it might be cold?
November 2nd, 2020 at 3:02 PM ^
As a fan, I don't like sitting in the cold for four hours. But playing in the cold is no problem.
November 2nd, 2020 at 3:12 PM ^
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Idi Amin, "Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular", doesn't have concern for anyone!
November 2nd, 2020 at 4:46 PM ^
He was also - quite unofficially, mind you - the King Of Scotland. He also gave himself a CBE - what contributions he made to the Empire are still unclear to me (he was an assistant cook in the Colonial Army, I believe), but hey...
For those that want an unsolicited film recommendation on this subject - "The Last King Of Scotland" has a great performance from Forest Whitaker as Amin.
November 2nd, 2020 at 5:45 PM ^
That was a great performance by Whitaker. PBS also had a series called "The Dictator's Playbook" with an episode on Amin that was pretty good.
https://www.pbs.org/show/dictators-playbook/
I've always wondered how I could get an OBE. Maybe I'll just follow Idi's lead and give one to myself. What could go wrong?
November 2nd, 2020 at 3:46 PM ^
Darren Rovell?? Is that you??
November 2nd, 2020 at 2:41 PM ^
Was Mertz's timeline ever confirmed? Last I heard was Rittenberg say the 21 day clock started with the initial test not the PCR.
November 2nd, 2020 at 2:57 PM ^
If they use a night game they will be beyond the 21 day time frame. In hours but still.
November 2nd, 2020 at 3:22 PM ^
ABC wants the big money viewership, so 7:30pm it is. How do you game plan this situation ? No depth chart, no film, etc. Anyone could win this game.
November 2nd, 2020 at 3:25 PM ^
I bet nobody shows up.
November 2nd, 2020 at 4:33 PM ^
But if they do show up, we have to play the game. They will have three games of film on our starters and we may have virtually nothing on them. Barry Alvarez is the biggest scam artist - there is no way they play Purdue next weekend but will show up to Ann Arbor with no one out and having 2 weeks to game plan / practice for Michigan.
November 3rd, 2020 at 12:04 PM ^
Yep, this is a huge "unintended consequence" that it seems very few have considered. It actually gives Wisconsin a huge advantage in game planning. Mongo, this would make a good board topic!
November 2nd, 2020 at 3:31 PM ^
Maybe they'll just turn the lights off.
November 2nd, 2020 at 6:52 PM ^
Let me guess...we lose at home to W. The backup qback looks like a throw god against us, we penalize ourselves umpteen times, and keep running the ball up the middle. Wisconsin follows the same script that other teams use against us with the same results. Harbaugh has a blank stare after the game mumbling about how we have to own the loss. Did I miss anything?
November 2nd, 2020 at 7:02 PM ^
Oh good, watching our d-line get trucked and all of our SPEED be slower than Wisconsin on national tv for everyone to see
November 2nd, 2020 at 7:15 PM ^
Assuming Wisco is back playing, this could be embarrassing. Sadly, we are all getting used to that.