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14 weeks 5 days ago	In 2011, with Northwestern at	In 2011, with Northwestern at the Michigan 37 with 7:00 left and driving for the tying touchdown, Jordan Kovacs ripped off Dan Persa's helmet without tackling him on fourth down.  The officials blew the play dead because the ball carrier's helmet came off.  First down going the other way, and Michigan salted it away.  Seemed to me pretty fishy that a defender can make the play dead by ripping off a helmet without getting flagged for a blow to the head or facemasking.
14 weeks 5 days ago	In 2003 in the opener against	In 2003 in the opener against Washington Braylon Edwards pretty clearly dropped a 4th-and-2 pass at midfield with 26 seconds left (and it was abundantly clear from his own body language that even he thought he dropped it as the defender hit him).  But Michigan pounced on the ball, the refs ruled it a fumble and first down before Washington went on to get flagged 15 yards for too many men on the defense, and Phil Brabbs became a hero as time expired.  It was a bad call then, and never would've withstood replay today.
27 weeks 22 hours ago	Since 1969: Playing as AP	Since 1969: Playing as AP #7:  19-7-0, .731 Playing as AP #15:  13-3-1, .794
32 weeks 5 days ago	Epstein was a great kickoff	Epstein was a great kickoff man, a good punter, and had a strong leg, but he was only ever okay for accuracy. He was only 26-for-42 on his career, with 3 missed extra points.  And never forget the 2000 game at UCLA, the 23-20 loss, in which he missed a 46-yarder, a 24-yarder with 3 minutes left, and an extra point.
1 year 20 weeks ago	I am not at all confident	I am not at all confident that the vacated records will stick upon ND's appeal.  ND's initial response to the sanction actually sounded pretty good to me, better than similar statements by other schools in other situations... (1) this was a situation of a student on the very fringe of the school's football officialdom helping out players in a few isolated incidents, and once officialdom found out about it they shut it down and did everything right to report, cooperate, etc.; and (2) according to ND at least, there's no precedent for vacated record in that kind of situation. If (2) is indeed true, I'd bet vacating of wins doesn't stick.  This wasn't like OSU systematically turning a blind eye to tattoo-gate and then Tressel trying to cover it up. In the lead-up to ND's game against Duke earlier in the year, I wrote a diary (link) about the historical race between U-M and ND for all-time wins and winning percentage.  I'd hate to see that historical relationship now made moot for something like this; I'd much prefer to see U-M now maintain and widen its advantage through domination on the field. And I LOVE the idea of ND simply being the #2 also-ran to U-M.
1 year 23 weeks ago	Yeah, I definitely thought	Yeah, I definitely thought about this, and didn't spend enough time thinking about it to come up with something good.  The question should probably be something like, "At what point are you ahead by more than one score with an unreasonable amount of time on the clock for the opponent to be able to come back to beat you?"  But it's tough to determine just how subjective one should be; second- and third-string players come into play, as well as momentum and morale. For instance, in weeding out the garbage-time scores... take a look at this year's MSU game.  Michigan went into bleed-the-clock mode early-ish in the fourth quarter, up by 20 points.  The game was, for all intents and purposes, over.  MSU scored with 7:31 remaining to close the gap to 13 points, 30-17.  In the flow of the game at that point, this was probably a "garbage-time" score, given also the quality of the teams.  It wasn't a meaningless score, however; MSU was only down 13 points with half of the fourth quarter left.  Teams have come back from farther behind with less time on the clock than that.  However, I did consider the touchdown with 0:01 left on the clock to be a garbage-time score, because that score truly was meaningless. (Actually because of the final go-for-two debacle, this year's MSU game didn't play into the adjustment to the calculation for garbage-time points, because Michigan beat 17 points at the same time it beat 23 points... when Michigan's total hit 24 with 0:39 left in the second quarter.)
1 year 25 weeks ago	The Paul Bunyan trophy has	The Paul Bunyan trophy has never been exchanged on the field/sideline (at least not in the past several decades).  It's always been done out of sight in the locker rooms.  Between statue, base, and wooden stand, it's huge.
1 year 26 weeks ago	Ready to go.	Ready to go.
1 year 27 weeks ago	FWIW, the graphic in that	FWIW, the graphic in that link is wrong as to ND's numbers.  It lists ND's record as 894-316-42, .7308.  They forgot the hurricane last Saturday.  ND now stands at 894-317-42, .7302. Also, this is stupid.  Need to play big-time football to be listed with the big-time schools.
1 year 27 weeks ago	Whoops, my bad lol.	Whoops, my bad lol.
1 year 27 weeks ago	What makes it even more	What makes it even more amazing is that most of Michigan's non-conference games in the Point-a-Minute era were less than the regulation 70 minutes (two 35-minute halves).  The teams would agree before the game to play 20- or 25-minute halves, etc., and the losing team would often concede at some point in the second half (as Stanford did in the first Rose Bowl).  What allowed Michigan to run up such high scores in many shortened games was the kickoff strategy back then... the team that was scored upon had the option to either kickoff or receive.  In that era with games often massively turning on a turnover or penalty, teams usually chose to kickoff back to their opponent who had just scored, to try to keep the ball out of their own end.  Michigan spent huge chunks of those games on offense.
1 year 27 weeks ago	vs. Illinois in 2010; 69-67,	vs. Illinois in 2010; 69-67, 3OT.
1 year 27 weeks ago	Interesting that none of	Interesting that none of those are close games at all, and most feature goose eggs, whereas if you'd expanded your criteria by one more point to include games in which Michigan scored 69, there'd be a 69-67 game up there.
1 year 28 weeks ago	Great post.  I love creative	Great post.  I love creative use of stats.
1 year 28 weeks ago	Utah was unranked for its	Utah was unranked for its game with Michigan last year, although Utah would finish the season ranked #17. After the final AP poll this year I'll give a report on Michigan's record post-Bump against teams that finished the season ranked, rather than against rankings at game time.
1 year 30 weeks ago	No, it's not even that the	No, it's not even that the page you've linked isn't updated yet for this season... it's just completely wrong. Notre Dame's official online media guide for this season (http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/nd/sports/m-footbl/auto_pdf/2016-17/misc_non_event/16-media-guide.pdf ... scroll to page 139) lists the Irish's all-time record as 892-313-42 (now 893-315-42 after three games).  Your buddy's link lists 892-314-41.  I don't know how you reconcile that at all, except to say that whoever runs the site at that link was working with very poor information or has very fat thumbs. Michigan's official game notes for this week (http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/mich/sports/m-footbl/auto_pdf/2016-17/release/release_20160919aaa.pdf ... scroll to page 2) lists the Wolverines' all-time record (updated as of last weekend) as 928-331-36.  Your buddy's link lists 925-333-38.  Again, I have no idea how you reconcile that. (Also, to review the history of the winning percentage and wins races, I went season-by-season for each school, adding up the cumulative record per each school's official season record history... in each case, the totals added up to each school's published official all-time record, as one would expect.) Your buddy and his goofy site are just plain wrong.
1 year 30 weeks ago	Moreover, if you want to	Moreover, if you want to include FCS schools, Yale is actually 3rd on the wins list, with 890.
1 year 30 weeks ago	Ha yes, good point.  I'll let	Ha yes, good point.  I'll let you argue that one for history.  Every school started off at either .000, .500, or 1.000. And for that matter, Michigan's win percentage after the 1880 season was .8333 (2-0-1), but it seems silly to count that... like something STAEE would do.
1 year 30 weeks ago	Yup, 861 not 681.  Thanks.	Yup, 861 not 681.  Thanks.  *edited*
1 year 30 weeks ago	Thanks!  *edited*	Thanks!  *edited*
1 year 31 weeks ago	Don't know if Colorado is	Don't know if Colorado is bringing the band this weekend, but if they do, you'll likely hear a little bit of one of the worst in the mediocre division.
1 year 31 weeks ago	Yes, I mentioned several	Yes, I mentioned several "other" songs of schools ("Eyes of Texas" is one of these).  Although several are great ("Buckeye Battle Cry" and "Hike, Notre Dame" in particular could've made the top ten list), I restricted my rankings to the schools' "official" primary fight songs.
1 year 31 weeks ago	Yes, Miami in particular is	Yes, Miami in particular is in the running with Maryland for the booby prize.
1 year 31 weeks ago	See response to Michigan	See response to Michigan Arrogance's comment above.
1 year 31 weeks ago	Clemson's version of "Tiger	Clemson's version of "Tiger Rag" is far and away the best; I don't think it's close.  It didn't really qualify as one of the top ten in my book because the song was initially a popular song... not written as a fight song.  And so many schools use it in some way.
1 year 31 weeks ago	See my comment above for	See my comment above for "Ramblin' Wreck from Georgia Tech" re. Army's fight song. Navy's official fight song, "Anchors Aweigh," is great, but I really consider it more of a military march than a fight song.  Although it was written partly to be an athletics song, it has no lyrics regarding athletics, winning the game, etc.; it's just a naval song.  A great one, but not really a fight song.  To me it's just a tad slow to really be a crowd rouser. Air Force uses "The U.S. Air Force" (Off we go into the wild blue yonder...) as a fight song, but it's not the academy's official fight song.  The official song, "Falcon Fight Song," is not bad at all.  Not top-ten worthy, though.
1 year 31 weeks ago	I absolutely agree with you	I absolutely agree with you on the richness of sound in Victors vs. Victory March, but pure musicality isn't going to be the only criterion for just about anybody putting together a list like this.  And yes, there's not much science behind it... mostly personal preference.
1 year 31 weeks ago	I love Tennessee's use and	I love Tennessee's use and arrangement of "Rocky Top."  But although they use it as a fight song, it's not their official fight song.  "Down the Field" is.
1 year 34 weeks ago	I actually thought they	I actually thought they looked pretty good; it's a classic and classy helmet design, after all.  The uses I don't like are the tri-color version, with base color 1, wings color 2, and stripes color 3. Game was more competitive than the score indicated.  Running an entirely new system, some fundamentals were forgotten.  The Winged T offense moved the ball pretty well in stretches.
3 years 2 weeks ago	Possible additions?	Hero of Tiananmen Square (John Pollack, king of futile Big House preservation attempts) nailcoeds.exe (computer program executed by Chad Henne after a robotically awesome performance) First Yakety Sax Game / The Fucking Beat Down I (ND 2006) Second Yakety Sax Game / The Fucking Beat Down II (ND 2007) The Blip (Wisconsin 2008) Dr. Vorax (Greg Robinson's stuffed animal) Dilithium (Denard Robinson running the ball) TGMFWITHOMFW (The Greatest Mid-February Weekend In The History Of Mid-February Weekends; Feb 17-19, 2012; hockey sweeps NMU, basketball upsets OSU, 8 4-star football recruits commit) Pit Bull Game (Penn State 2006) Buffalo Stampede Game (Minnesota 2003) Dinopunt/Puntosaur (traditional punt formation/tactics) The Post-Apocalyptic Oregon Game (Oregon 2007) Football Armegeddon (OSU 2006) Year of Infinite Pain (2005) Most Legendary Press Conference Ever (Brady Hoke introduction) The Ryan Mallett Experience (Wisconsin 2007) Resumption of Normal Service (ND and Penn State 2007) Baby Seal State Game (Delaware State 2009) Fandom Endurance Games (I, II, III, and IV) (is there a IV yet?) Threetsheridammit (the two-headed quarterback of 2008)

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