We're down to schadenfreude and hoping others spoil our rivals' seasons.

On the plus side we daggered up Northwestern real well before they fell apart, I suppose. And held serve against ND.

The 5 year picture is favorable for Michigan. This year sucked hard.

Clearly the lesser of two evils.

Which is less odious - 25-0 or State going to their first Rose Bowl in 25 years?

I shouldn't have been posting all those "Casey at the Bat" excerpts on my friends' walls when State was up 17-0. This happens every time I get confident in the outcome of a sporting event.

All opponents get up for Michigan in all sports. It is the natural order of things.

Also starring Wal-Mart and Longhorn Steakhouse ads.

A win for Green is less bad for Michigan.

Let's get this over with quickly, please.

I didn't sign up with Team B1G for the athletic competence.

My graduate program has effectively taken over my life for the next week so I'll be mostly studying. After Tuesday things open up a little bit; I'm hoping to get started on my independent research for my thesis and get a good chunk of it done over winter break.

In my free time I go for long walks - just as good for cardiovascular health as running and takes up equal amounts of energy - and play lots of video games. Settlers of Catan online (build on the best stone and grain), Team Fortress 2 (Pyro, Soldier, Demo, and if you habitually play sniper or spy every game you deserve to die in a fire), correspondence chess (usually 3-5 days per move per player), and bullet chess (1 minute per player for the entire game is wacky and awesome).

If I had infinite free time, after studying sufficiently for exams, I would YouTube it up and make playthroughs and strategy videos. If you're into that sort of thing two creators I recommend are STAR_ and HuskyStarcraft.

I will hatewatch the offense sputter its way to a 13-point effort and lap up the misery in the greater interwebs.

49-13 Ohio.

is to throw statistics and points out the window and enjoy the historic levels of awesome. We're talking Pat Shurmur without the passing attack. We're talking Navy without the triple option. We're talking Charlie "My team is a pile of crap" Weis without the schematic advantage. It is a proud, uh, tradition that is being channeled by our OC.

At least we will look fabulous as we die in droves.

Now, they are 4-5, facing a very tough road game @ CIN, with a series split with BAL and the possibility of shutting out that team in Pittsburgh, and I'm stunned. Other than beating NE in the Mangini era, the Browns have never felt more relevant in my fandom lifetime.

The trade with IND - a Trent Richardson for a first-round draft pick - gained some of the ground the franchise lost with the disastrous Weeden-Richardson first-rounders. Hoyer or Campbell are both acceptable decision-makers for the moment if they can avoid getting James Harrison'd out of existence.

34-32

THREE two-loss SEC teams in the top 15? Get real.

How many TDs is homefield advantage worth? Anyone?

I can send just as many Concern Rays to help the team while watching as while not watching. As soon as I saw bubble screen pump fakes in the IU picture pages I knew he hadn't changed one bit post-PSU. I'm not dealing with that stubborn garbage.

the more idiotic Borges looks.

I'm still not watching Michigan until he's no longer calling plays. No mas.

The Penn State loss inexplicably and needlessly gave us an incredibly difficult path to Indianapolis, as State has a charmin soft schedule. So I reserve my right to question our OC and his tactics.

Thanks Minnesota.

Tie ballgame :30 3Q

***Except Duke

Offense: Continue to burn 75% of first downs, approaching hatewatching territory. IU plays with a 9-man box in man the entire game. I-Form still equals run and shotgun, pass. Michigan puts up 30-35 points with 2 Funchess TDs and 1 Chesson TD in the air. Gardner runs for 2 TDs with 2 INTs and Lewan has another injury scare.

Defense: 3- and 4- man rush fiesta. IU squeezes off 2 passing TDs they shouldn't and give up 3-4 gratifying sacks.

Team: Plays IU close enough that it pisses off more than half of the fanbase. Worries >>> enjoyment of this one. I look forward to monitoring the misery on my study breaks. Have fun storming the castle.

M 31
IU 30

Michigan can have my viewership, or they can have Al Borges calling plays, but not both.

Yes, snarkaholics, I realize I am a wolf howling in the wilderness.

Screenshotted for the archives.

This is called The Thin Zone.

Ideally I'd prefer to keep Nebraska and get rid of the other three, but if we had to lose the Huskers in order to get rid of the other three, such a trade would be equitable.

NO

That's my cue to hightail it to the library. See you all in about eight hours.

They scored a TD in the red zone instead of kicking a field goal. I'm stunned.

I can live with that.

"You think you have all day????? Fuck he looks like fucking shit. what the fuck do they do at practice all week?"
"Worst Oline in the country? They are complete dog shit."
"WOW THATS A NOVEL IDEA. THROW IT FUCKING LONG BORGES GOD DAMMIT"
"We officially suck"
"Get Avery the fuck out of there!"
"Shay-aine Mor-ris Clap. Clap. Clap-clap-clap"
"This team fucking sucks."
"Gardner, you suck!"
"WE FUCKING SUCK"

Do they help with student loan payments?

To all you bitchers: STFU. Analyze rationally next time, kthxbai.

Eat it and die, Spielman.

We can gain 2 yards.

End of 3rd, 21-14 UCONN. Michigan will have the ball.

Sometimes you suck really bad until the third quarter.

Touchdown Michigan!

3&O.

Aaaand holding

Where's the ball?

And Spielman gets the mute.

Of cooooooooourse.

Awful shame about Marshall. That would have been a boon to Anyone But Alabama 2013.

Fresno State! Finally beats Boise State!

If your body can take it, it will probably help your immune response in the long term, as well as prime your digestion for whatever fortune might throw at it.

It wouldn't be Michigan football unless the other team had something special in store for us.

At least you don't have to root for Weeden or the MSC puke.

Not ideal for the annual Anyone But Alabama campaign.

I'm glad you found me dear.

Richardson wasn't doing much for Cleveland, terrible OL or no. I'm OK with throwing away this season if we can hopefully get a decent QB for next year.

0-16. I can feel it.

Go Fighting Scots!

I made the list! (the 2008/2007 comparisons) Appropriately enough I am not wearing a shirt at the moment.

Kirk at #5 is amusing. No way Iowa pays that 18.8 million buyout (as of 2012). Nice website though.

He hasn't posted anything new since May :(

Jim Tressel wins another Big Ten title.

Hey, if the mods don't give a darn, here's some TOOL music.

Please...anything but that...

College football everybody.

Blue hairs. Blue hairs everywhere.

3.5

Just another reason to throw this game on the rubbish heap.

Nope....can't be bothered to spend $1000 for a decent consultant.

"CFU holder snaps the ball 10 feet over the punter's head."

How could life be ANY other way?

I am deathly afraid of kangaroos and elephants now. Good thing all my vacations are in northern Michigan where all I have to worry about are lake flies.

PSU turnover, 5 and change left, down 10.

Starters were suspended for the first 2 games. But it didn't matter in the third game anyways.

Now, we are going to become Alabama. I don't see that happening for a few years. In between is going to be a long, painful transition.

This team is more worrying than 2008 and more disgraceful than 2007. I hope they have lots of stairs to run and 5AM workouts this upcoming week.

Texas' greed and mistreatment of its B12 conference partners for years is arguably the factor most directly responsible for the realignment fiesta we had recently. LHN made A&M mad enough to bolt for the SEC. Nebraska was fed up being stuck in the B12 North. Colorado and Missouri bolted for similar reasons. They don't share revenue equally in the B12 the way we do in the B10.

Akron State comes to town next weekend. They're Akron's big brother.

Hello BIG MACCCCCC

4 Gardner turnovers. Hot and cold Toussaint. Lewan injury. Wile punted like garbage. Weak 4th and 1 punt. 3 missed FG combined between the teams. Interior line mostly getting blown to little bits. No backups. Strobel didn't fucking get to play because he was injured. Spiritually another Horror, even if we "won" the ballgame.

Good: Chesson catch/TD, did not lose the game on the scoreboard.

Nope.

28-24 Michigan. Ballgame.

Fucking absolutely fucking pathetic game. Fucking god damn it.

I say decline the holding and take the loss of a down instead.

28-24 Michigan 2:49 4Q

Hoooooo boy.

Bad punt.

Really?

End of 3rd, 21-10 Michigan.

21-10 Michigan 3:23 3Q

Fine. Blitz every down if we have to.

Fitz coming alive, holding or no holding.

Boo birds.

Stockholm Syndrome anyone?

-______________________-

3 man rush does what 4 couldn't.

End of 1st, 7-3 Michigan.

I wonder when Norfleet will break that long one on a kickoff.

http://www.vipboxonline.eu/sports/american-football.html   Use one of the flash-based streams.

Every non-redshirt backup on the team getting PT.

TCU-Texas Tech it is.

Tressel is affiliated with the school. I want to see us score 100.