We still had a great season

Winning 10 games is cool if youre mid tier program. Winning Big Ten Championships and competing for titles is what makes a good Michigan football season. Our good season went out the window with this embarrassing loss to OSU

This season should've ended with a Big Ten title. MSU was bad this year. PSU was average this year. Wisconsin was average this year. OSU wasn't that great. We would've faced fucking Northwestern for the Big Ten Championship. I mean how much more easy does it have to get for us to win something?

"Great season"? Sorry, FUCK NO. Being flat out embarrassed in our #1 rivalry game does not constitute a "great season". But I'll concede "good season".

No, we had a good season . Thats not good enough for me when greatness was certainly possible.  

It will be yet one more year farther than the last time Michigan won a Big Ten title . Which is too god damned long ago .

We beat 8 win teams congrats

No. Bookend losses to our two historically biggest rivals (Sparty has always been #3). And today's loss was just pathetic.

We had good results, but probably bc the BigTen was just awful this year. We got to feast on some trash offenses. I wouldn't call that a great season. Maybe a not-bad season -- tallest midget type situation. We lost to the two actual big boys that we played.

Season was not a “success”. It was a status quo type of season. 

Whatever

Good season, not great.  You can't have a great season with a game like that in Columbus.

GAME NOTES: wish I could make a post but I am new and don’t have the points. 

Watson can’t run, let up 3 big plays before we figured that out at least, 2nd TD was on him

3rd&17 was his penalty, Ambry needs to play, him not playing is on the entire coaching staff, Zordich, Brown, and Harbaugh, On a run 10 yards down field with a foot out of bounds,

Then gets picked on a deep throw again another penalty. Always 10 yards off the ball on a run and getting blocked through the whistle

Weren’t prepared for the crossing routes

No pressure on the QB

Offense makes crucial mistakes on every big play, drops, bad throws, false start, missed blocks, taking sacks 

We punt the ball into the endzone or short of the 20, that’s been an issue all year 

We play for third and short with a QB who makes a lot of mistakes, we need to get big plays on 1 and 2nd down

Winovich must be hurt, no pressure on the QB, getting pushed off the ball on runs, play Uche and Paye 

Harbaughs offense can’t win anything anymore, it’s impossible to run that system without an NFL QB. He has to change or he has to go, we can find someone for $2million to go 10-3 and lose to OSU, sucks to say it but it’s true, very lucky to score 19 in the first half vs a very average offense. 

Patterson can’t make a play, he’s not consistent at all and his big plays are few as far between. Takes sacks that make no sense and there is no excuse to take, 2pt conversion, 2nd&2. Scrambles out of perfectly clean pockets. Gets pressured and his eyes go down quick

Our WRs, RBs, Oline, and QB aren’t ever going to be that much better than they are right now 

Nico Collins can make plays, but he could do that in any offense 

Kickoff coverage competition is Harbaugh, good on him then a great play call for the one two punch 

They throw at bush on wheel routes and it’s open they drop it twice it’s still open the third time. Don Brown has better players than any coordinator in the world and he isn’t doing it in the game that matters most. We can’t play like this against Ohio state, we give up easy crossers, everyone knew that was coming we give away 7 free points, we give the wheel route against Bush 3 times, we let watson get abused outside the entire first half. Don Brown can hold everyone to 24 or under but OSU got 24 in the first half. Priorities don’t align there

We can’t play zone because we line up and press man the bad teams on our schedule and bully them into crazy stat lines, so we play Ohio State and we have no way to answer their playmakers. That’s a systemic issue on the entire coaching staff. 

This is what defense is like without NFL DEs

1 yard pass on 3rd and 9 to start the second half is pathetic. That’s playing to lose close, not playing to win at all. Can’t have that. Pathetic.

Ohio States offense gives them so many free yards. Michigan’s gives us nothing easy. 

Paris Campbell guarded by Bush, free 30 yards. Bush hurt shortly after Gary was down. 10:23 left in the 3rd down 5. Game feels over. We are lucky to even be close. Anyone who says this game would go different if Bush didn’t get hurt is crazy, our defense has been getting worked all day, penalties have been the only positive play for us. 

We survive to only give up a FG, down 8 middle of the 3rd. Offense needs to wake up. 

Ambry Thomas goes full idiot mode pins us deep. Feels like us starting at the 10 means OSU has a better chance at points than we do. 

3rd and long game on the line, throw to McCurry and get bailed out by the penalty. What the fuck are we doing. 

Offense is just shit. Every time we need a play. Shit. 

Gentry can’t catch, drops a 30 yarder, dropped a TD, dropped a TD last week. He can’t be the guy on big plays. ANOTHER DROP FOR 30 yards!! He gets hurt. The guy we choose to go to in the “gotta have it plays” as Belichick likes to call them. Is a guy who clearly isn’t up for the moment. 

Blocked punt game over before we get to the 4th quarter. Hart takes 2 steps to punt the ball and it’s blocked easy, he can’t even make a good punt when he has time to get it off. Detail over looked again. Pathetic. 

Get the ball back need a big play, -2 yard run. Fucking obvious. Drop on 2nd. Patterson ends the game on 3rd down. Pathetic. 

We are getting kept alive by the refs. Too bad we are already dead. 

Down 22, 1 minute left in the 3rd. Run up the middle for 1 yard. Fuck that shit. Then a short pass. Another short pass. If we were trying to run the clock out we are doing a great job. Another run up the middle. Tick-tick. Game over. 

Collins jumps over another guy, Moss’d him. Called incomplete. HAHAHAH. Ball is pulled out way after the play. Refs suck, they must be Michigan guys. 

Ran the clock down before the play, snapping the ball with 3 seconds on the play clock is just fucking dumb. 

Go for 2 and we are under center, slows down the quick screen and it’s short. How fucking pathetic can we get. 

Missed on 2, 2pt conversions, both of which were bad play calls, nothing creative. 

80 yard play. Easy, untouched. This team will never win this game. Not with this coaching staff. Never. 

Still running the ball up the middle. We quit. 4th quarter still early. Played 2 good teams this year. Two losses. 

The offense absolutely must change, we have to look more like Oklahoma than Michigan State if we want to win anything relevant in today’s football. I hope Harbaugh changes as a coach. If not, we need to change our coach. 

Entire 4th quarter is garbage time, but they are still beating our ass. We bring this staff back next year and we are admitting we are a 2nd tier school.

Michigan gets blown out by a better program. With better coaches and better players. They were better prepared and came out and executed better. Michigan even got lucky a few times and still never made it close. Pathetic showing by our entire team. Make changes or kiss this rivalry good bye. Are they morally corrupt? Do they do things that should never be done to win? Yea sure. Is that any excuse? No. 

This is the difference between the teams and the fan bases. If OSU lost by 30 to us they'd be ready to set the world on fire even if it was their first loss of the season. Us? We say "good try, fellas and great season". 

BOO THIS MAN!

Doesn't matter, if you lose to Ohio State you had a bad season

I think it was a failure because they put themselves into a position to change the national narriative of the program. They failed miserably. Hopefully this loss doesn't cost recruits or set the program back.

Good season.  It can't be great with a loss to Ohio State.

Yes and no. The day will come, eventually, when we beat those cunts. I don't know, man. I find it harder and harder to be angry every year. 

I mean, believe me, I'm fucking pissed. But it is what it is. We're cursed, they have better talent, better coaches, whatever. 

Just whatever. Either deal with it or don't be a Michigan fan. Those are our choices. As shitty as it sounds, it'd be so much easier to be a dumbass Ohio State fan. Think about it, have no morals, be a fan of a winning team and enjoy fall year in and year out.

I could never do it, fuck them, but my point still stands.

Don't agree. It is totally unacceptable to lose a game of this magnitude in the manner we did. This set the program backwards.

We took a massive dump with the whole nation paying attention. I think the bush league game plan and the arrogance that came with it needs to be addressed.

Out coached, out played and out talented. No championship again.

What resources does this Staff need to make this game at least a competition? More PSA $?

Getting beaten by Ohio State is not an anomally, it is the norm 

This season is a failure, and don’t expect this team to show up for the bowl game 

Didn't beat OSU. Not great, Bob.

No we didn’t. Let’s be frank. This is the only game. Everything else is the preamble. This isn’t me being Pollyanna. No matter the month, ask anyone. Ohio St is THE game. 

I feel like theon fucking Greyjoy. No, I won’t quint drinking. Nor will I go to bed 

It was not a great season. A great season would be actually beating ohio st and winning a big ten championship. A good season, I will agree with that. Great? Not so much.

Good season. Terrible end. 

Yes.  I will agree with you in a week.  But not right God Damned now.  

"also had a top5 defense otherwise."

That "otherwise" is doing a whole lotta work.

That's true. 10-2 is a great season. The reason why it doesn't feel like that is because this game all but proved we are now in the Wisconsin-Iowa-MSU tier of the conference. OSU has the horses to compete at a high level; we are going to average 9 wins and, every once in a while, win the division. So it's a successful season, but only as measured by the benchmark of an upper-middle-class P5 team, which is what we are.

That's also why I think talk about firing the coaching staff is silly. I doubt any hypothetical coaching staff in the country could bring this team into the ranks of the elite. We should regard Harbaugh as the best possible coach for us, and also not expect to beat OSU very often. It doesn't make me any happier than it makes anyone else, but it's inescapable.

If you don't beat OSU and win the B1G it's not a great season. It was playoff or bust and we failed. Call a spade a spade.

No. It is impossible to have a great season where you give up over 60 to the scumbags.

Big Ten was awful this season.  If we were going to win it, this year was the easiest year possible to win it.  MSU, Wisky and Penn State all failed to live up to expectations.  Ohio State was not their usual self most of the season.  An we got blown out in The Game.  No Big Ten Titles in 15 years is something I never thought I'd live to see.

Michigan played nobody this year.  I can't believe college football analysts suggested this was a top 10 most difficult schedule. I call bullshit on that.

Michigan's best wins:

• Penn State 9-3
• Northwestern 8-4
• Wisconsin 7-5
• MSU 7-5
• WMU 7-5
• SMU 5-6
• Nebraska 4-8
• Maryland 5-7
• Rutgers 1-10
• Indiana 5-7

Michigan was never a real top 10 football team this year.

And what's really sad, neither is Ohio State, who shoved their asses into our faces once more with a 23 point win. 14-1.  Jesus Christ.

Not a great season.  Can’t talk about Revenge Tour and all that crap if you show up and get curb stomped like that against a deeply flawed OSU team.

I am tired of excuses and look on the bright side bullshit.  It’s about results, and they are not getting them.

I have never uttered these words before, but...Fire Harbaugh!

They absolutely own us.

No UM fan should be okay with that. Or rationalizing that. Or looking on the bright side of that.

EVER.

Losing to OSU is and will always be #1 on the "WHY I GOT FIRED AT MICHIGAN" list. For all eternity.

Should we turn up the heat on Harbaugh's seat? Be my guest. Beat OHIO.

Teams like OSU and Bama think 10-2 is a bad season. Until Michigan sees it that way they will always be mediocre. 

Losing this game ruins the season period. Another 12 week farce of "look at us, we're relevant again!"  Christ, what a disappointment. 

Not to say anything bad about the players, they do their best. But we did get outcoached in every phase of this game and out-executed too.

So Hall of Fame bowl or whatever it is they call it now? Who cares...

We did.  This team surpassed my expectations of 9-3.  But damn the WAY we lost is frustrating.