We still had a great season

Good season yes, not great.

With our new ceiling, yup.

Maybe the new motto should be, “those who stay to get a PhD., come back to coach and retire late, may eventually be champions - but no guarantees.”

Good not great. 1-2 against our rivals and the one win we did have is currently tied 7-7 late in the third quarter against a 1-10 Rutgers. Also, no championships to speak of. 10-2 is a great season if you have lower expectations. This is Michigan, not Michigan State.

A "great" season used to mean beating OSU and winning the conference. Apparently expectations will be lowered for the rest of my life.

Very good but not great.  

Program is headed in the right direction and it will take as much time as necessary to build an elite program without the SEC standards. Make no mistake, OSU has sold out to SEC standards.

Next year is crucial. Leverage the 2019 class and strong roster to win the B1G with a favorable home schedule.

I don't know if I'd say great, but it was pretty damned good.  There were a lot of great moments, and I had a lot of fun watching this team play most of the season.  

Great season? No. Good season? Yes. 

Season was a failure plain and simple. Only beat 1/3 rivals, didn't make or win the B1G championship, and did not make the playoff. 

The well shucks, we weren't expected to and this wasn't so bad is the mentality of why this crap is acceptable in the first place.

This thread makes me want to vomit and then have it as an appetizer.

No. No it isn’t. Any season that includes a loss to OSU can not be considered great. If they had lost to Maryland last week and we were on our way to the B1G championship game, and still lost to OSU, it would not be a great season. This is 50+ years of Michigan football saying this. It is indisputably the truth.

Uuuhhhh. No.

Fuck you. I wouldn’t miss Don Brown if he wasn’t here next year. He’s great at inflating numbers against bad teams and then getting buttfucked by OSU. 

I, for one, really enjoyed this season. Saw a team that loved playing together and won some games I didn’t think were going to be won prior to the start of the season.

Of course OSU put together the perfect game today.  Why would it have been any different?  They have a very high level of talent.  They slept walk through the season and then finally decided to put a complete game together today.  Yippee skippy for them.

Losing to those fuckers again sucks ass. However, It’s out of my control so I’m moving on.

Go Blue forever!

No.We did not.

As an alum and fan for over 40 years, this sucks and is getting old.  But of course I feel pretty good about next year and plan on being at the Big House next year against osu.  We will win.  We have to win.  Alas, being a diehard Michigan fan has its ups and downs.  Let's finish with a solid bowl win.

GO BLUE!!

Definitely not great but still have a chance for a good one especially if we win a good bowl game

You must be a completely happy and calm person. I respect and admire you for that outlook. You, however, are just wrong with your overall take and acceptance

You must be a completely happy and calm person. I respect and admire you for that outlook. You, however, are just wrong with your overall take and acceptance

I think we overachieved this year and OSU underachieved. They exploited Our nickel back many times and we should have switched up much sooner to zone or Ambry Thomas at the nickel. We never learned the hurry up offense and it hurt several times today. It was surprising at the lack of D line pressure today. Both OSU lines outplayed our lines.

Win the bowl game and keep recruiting faster players. Next year will be special

we can never has the nice things the end

Maybe, but at this point, I am sick of losing to Ohio. It needs to end.

If you told me 10-2 with bookend losses I would have said “you’re rational but I fucking hate you”. And here we sit today.  

Nice season, I’ll save my rant about why we can’t break through for another day, tonight I’m just going to concede...

go blue

There is no great season without beating OSU.

This season will only be a good memory IF we flip the scrip on ND and OSU next year and take care of MSU again. AND the players show they learned from today.

Going into the season, I was hoping for 9-3 with a win at MSU. Didn't expect to win at ND or OSU at the time. NOW it hurts, but this is proof you have to put everything into ONE game during the off-season, even if it means a slip up at Iowa or Purdue. 

Significant improvement in our biggest weakness with the OLine. Improvement of 2-3 wins over last year. Re-establish our position above MSU and PSU at least. Overall, I think it was in line with preseason expectations. Maybe a bit better but we also didn't expect MSU and WI to be 7-5 meh teams. 

The defensive implosion and our paleolithic offensive approach will get a lot of the attention but in the end the most important thing is talent. Recruiting is improved although this loss may result in some setbacks. There's still a massive gap between our recruiting and OSU's and the talent difference was obvious. OSU will always give maximum effort in this game (unlike Purdue or Iowa) and has better talent. So how do you win? Either we have to drastically outcoach them or just get lucky and have a ton of breaks go our way. THat's a formula for winning once every 5 to 10 years against OSU. When we were winning games against OSU we had similar or even slightly better talent, particularly at QB. Not a big mystery, and our recruiting is quite good, but if that gap doesn't close OSU will keep owning us {unless OSU gets a shittier coach}.

It will be decent IF we beat Georgia in the Peach Bowl. Still had a turf-scratching win at MSU, plus big wins vs. UW and PSU (games that meant something at the time).

Now I'm hoping for either Okie to beat out OSU for the 4th spot or Bama doing a Purdue on OSU. 

Wisconsin and Sparty sucked this year. PSU was a shell of the team that boat raced Michigan last year. 

The B1G is markedly down and the revenging that was accomplished was, at the time, satisfying. 

As we look back, we can see it was all a mirage. Crappy teams in a down year