Michigan vs Vandy in Gator Bowl, CBS predicts

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Interesting. If Michigan plays like they did yesterday, they're gonna smack someone around in the bowl.

An old rivalry renewed. Yost vs McGugin.

Date Result Venue
10/14/1905 Michigan 18  Vanderbilt 0 Regents Field
11/3/1906 Michigan 10  Vanderbilt 4 Ferry Field
11/2/1907 Michigan 8    Vanderbilt 0 Old Dudley Field
10/31/1908 Michigan 24  Vanderbilt 6 Ferry Field
10/28/1911 Michigan 9    Vanderbilt 8 Ferry Field
10/25/1913 Michigan 33  Vanderbilt 2 Old Dudley Field
10/10/1914 Michigan 23  Vanderbilt 3 Ferry Field
10/14/1922 Michigan 0    Vanderbilt 0 Dudley Field
10/13/1923 Michigan 3    Vanderbilt 0 Ferry Field
9/20/1969 Michigan 42  Vanderbilt 14 Michigan Stadium
9/2/2006 #14 Michigan 27  Vanderbilt 7 Michigan Stadium

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/bowls/predictions

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Black Socks

December 1st, 2013 at 2:43 PM ^

So when do we find out?  Personally I would rather go to San Diego, but nevermind as we have no bowl ties there.  :)

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December 1st, 2013 at 2:48 PM ^

Vandy has some pretty dynamic runners.  Throwing is not so hot, so that bodes well for us. Vandy tore up Florida on the ground (yes I know everyone tore up Florida). Would prefer the Gator Bowl over BWW if nothing else but for recruiting sake.

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MichiganStudent

December 2nd, 2013 at 10:48 AM ^

My point with that was this season was already a failure and I feared that a game like Saturday would happen. We'd look good offensively and it would save Borges job.

I probably shouldn't have said that because I don't want michigan to ever lose, I was just trying to make the point above that I dislike Borges to the point that I'd like michigan to lose so he gets fired.

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chatster

December 1st, 2013 at 6:49 PM ^

I'd wait until Nat Silver makes his picks.  Apologies for the long response; but right now I'm thinking that, as poorly as Michigan Team 134 has played this season, it could wind up in the Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl, and at worst the Gator Bowl.

But it’s still to early to predict where Michigan will land in a bowl game, because the conference championships and other regular season games will have a big impact on where teams will go. If Ohio State is in the BCS top two after next week, then two Big Ten teams will play in BCS bowls. And if Michigan State beats them, then the Buckeyes still could make a BCS bowl as an at-large team. 

Expect Ohio State, Michigan State, Iowa and Wisconsin to be the first four Big Ten teams selected for bowls.  If Ohio State makes the national championship game, then Michigan State will go to the Rose Bowl. It then becomes a toss-up between Iowa and Wisconsin for the Capital One Bowl and Outback Bowl selections.  Iowa’s four losses were against teams that were 44-4, but one of those losses was to Wisconsin. I’d put Wisconsin in the Capital One Bowl and Iowa in the Outback Bowl.
 
The Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl gets the next Big Ten selection and will have to consider a pick between two historically strong fanbases that may be apathetic about their current teams.   Here, Michigan has to be thankful that Taylor Martinez is out for the season.  Although a former Big 12 match-up of Nebraska and Texas might be somewhat more attractive than a Michigan-Texas game, and Nebraska beat Michigan on the road, the Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl representatives were present at The Big House to witness one of the four good performances of the bi-polar Michigan offense during a season where it set positive and negative records.  
 
Although both teams’ starting quarterbacks are banged up, Nebraska’s starting quarterback supposedly can’t play.  Thus, the Wolverines could wind up in Tempe – not a bad destination for a Christmas week vacation and probably better for Michigan fans than Jacksonville, especially for those fans who might want to experience snow skiing up north in the morning and water skiing down south later in the day before heading to the bowl game.  Even if Michigan fans might not travel there in droves, the bowl’s sponsors might opt to invite the team with the world’s largest collection of living alumni in order to find enough viewers in the eastern half of the United States to watch a game that starts at 10:15 PM.
 
If Michigan, the eighth best team in the Big Ten according to the Big Ten Network rankings, isn’t thrown to the wolves against the Big 12's fourth selection in Tempe, the Gator Bowl picks next.  Michigan here has to be thankful that Penn State is not bowl eligible this year, because the Nittany Lions probably would be selected before the Wolverines for the Gator Bowl.  But they’re on probation, so “no bowl for you!”
 
Besides CBS’s Jerry Palm, both ESPN anaylsts and Phil Steele have Michigan in the Gator Bowl.  College Football News has Michigan and Washington in the Texas Bowl (and Minnesota-Georgia in the Gator Bowl.)  Jason Kirk of SB Nation has Michigan and Texas in the Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl (and Minnesota-Georgia in the Gator Bowl.)  Neither the Big Ten Network’s Tom Dienhart nor Sports Illustrated’s Stewart Mandel have updated their respective bowl projections.
 
Why will Michigan go bowling in Jacksonville?  If they want to help reach a sellout, both the Gator Bowl committee and the Jacksonville Jaguars could offer local fans and Michigan students and alumni three-for-one ticket deals for the chance to see the last three Michigan quarterbacks to start in a bowl game get together on the sidelines on New Years Day.

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Don

December 1st, 2013 at 7:19 PM ^

I like our chances against the Longhorns myself, but the meltdown here if we lost to the Texas GERGs would leave MGoBlog—and/or Brian—a smoking, radioactive crater.

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Team 101

December 2nd, 2013 at 12:11 AM ^

I could live with the Texas Bowl.

I hope we don't get invited to the BWW because they play the game in the middle of the night and I have never been able to stay up to watch the end of it.  Probably could with Michigan in it but who wants to watch a football game at 1 a.m. if you don't have to.

If we go to the Gator Bowl I am afraid I may be tempted to go because I will be in Florida but nowhere near Jacksonville and I did the Jacksonville thing in 1991 and other than the fact  that we smoked Ole Miss there wasn't much attractive about it.  I'm definitely glad I was not there for Rich Rod's swan song.  If the SEC team is low enough and we played like we did against Ohio and not like against Moo or Nebraska or {you could add anyone but CMU, Notre Dame, Minnesota and Ohio}  it could be worth going to.

The Texas Bowl I know I will not be going to and I could stay up to watch on TV.  A match up with a Big 12 team would be interesting to watch.

I was hoping for a trip to Outback or better but that's not going to happen this year.

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Jimmyisgod

December 2nd, 2013 at 12:28 PM ^

I do not think Georgia is a favorable matchup for us.  They're one of the top teams in the country when healthy and they'll be healthy in another month.  Vandy is also a lot better than people realize, but I'd prefer them to Georgia. 

Like a New Years Day game, but the BW3 picks 1st, it's by definition a better Bowl this year, would rather go there and play a team we will beat.  In short, I want nothing to do with Georgia.

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Brodie

December 3rd, 2013 at 3:18 AM ^

I'm ok with either... though I prefer the BWW Bowl at this point because all of the teams projected to make it (Texas, Oklahoma, K-State) are interesting and potentially beatable, I believe the Big 12 is probably just as bad as the B1G this season. The Gator is ok, too, obviously a better bowl in and of itself (classic game, classic name, NYD) but  most likely a crappy matchup. I'd be happy to go against Vandy, Georgia less so. I could see Vandy being a shoot out akin to what we just saw, Georgia would probably not be as enjoyable. 

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