B1G East Division Co-Champions
Unfortunately, it's just co. But Michigan did win their first division championship in program history.
With both Michigan and OSU at 8-1, both are declared East Division Champions with the tiebreaker obviously going the way it did. This is per the B1G rules. Their website had a release up after we beat Indiana that stated we clinched at least a share of the title.
B1G record books have a table of division titles as well.
Michigan will receive a B1G East Division trophy for its accomplishment.
Yes, what happened was very VERY disappointing last weekend, but look at the whole body of work this season.
Is this all that different from 2000 when Michigan, Purdue and Northwestern all tied for the Big Ten title? Michigan lost to both and gave up a ton of points and lost the Rose Bowl tiebreaker to Purdue.
Jack Harbaugh even had some words to say about the title on The Harbaugh Podcast, saying a banner should be put up.
And before OSU trolls laugh, well..........they celebrated theirs in 2015 so hard they made t-shirts for it:
We're finally on the board with a division title and let's use it as a stepping stone to an OUTRIGHT Division Championship in 2019. Go Blue
November 27th, 2018 at 3:15 PM ^
And yet we beat OSU in the `shoe, so in my book it was a successful season.
November 27th, 2018 at 3:25 PM ^
TING!
Won a New Years Day bowl game against an SEC team too.
So, we've had far worse seasons.
November 27th, 2018 at 4:23 PM ^
And then OSU grad Steinbrenner wrote Drew Henson a $5million dollar check and we lost to Ohio State the very next season. Fucking Navarre.
November 27th, 2018 at 5:14 PM ^
Navarre did beat Ohio State by 21 points.
So there's that.
November 27th, 2018 at 7:03 PM ^
14 but ok point taken.
November 27th, 2018 at 3:44 PM ^
I bet fans weren't too happy in 1973. Undefeated Michigan ties undefeated OSU because of late missed kick and gets to stay home when the athletic directors voted 6-4 to send OSU to the Rose Bowl instead of Michigan.
Guarantee Bo wanted that co-champion trophy.
November 27th, 2018 at 5:19 PM ^
I'm happy I wasn't alive back then. Consider the number of UM alum that were ADs in the conference at that time, we should've been a shoo-in.
November 27th, 2018 at 2:56 PM ^
I like the preemptive comeback against the inevitable trolls. Nice touch OP.
November 27th, 2018 at 7:45 PM ^
against the inevitable trolls
So the people who have enough integrity to realize this is a participation trophy are now "trolls".
Nice.
Way to perpetuate the MGoGroupThink.
November 27th, 2018 at 10:30 PM ^
That is so funny if you think being a jerk means you have "integrity"
November 28th, 2018 at 10:55 AM ^
That is so funny if you think that any constructive criticism or dealing in facts that goes against the status quo is, ahem, "being a jerk".
November 27th, 2018 at 2:59 PM ^
I'm so mad right now. I have been telling myself that everything is all good for 72 hours but everything is not all good and it took a BIG East Division trophy without a BIG title game for me to really understand how pissed I am.
I have been able to put the various disappointments over the years into different compartments fairly well but I can't find anywhere to put Saturday.
November 27th, 2018 at 3:00 PM ^
If it was MSU celebrating an Eastern Division Co-Championship, MGoBlog would be on fire with sarcasm about Sparty participation trophies.
After getting our asses handed to us, this is a bit pathetic.
November 27th, 2018 at 3:25 PM ^
So going 8-1 in conference is a participation trophy. Got it.
November 27th, 2018 at 3:26 PM ^
But about that 1 . . . yikes.
November 27th, 2018 at 4:04 PM ^
It was less points than OSU lost their 1 conference game by?? And it was to a much better team
November 27th, 2018 at 3:42 PM ^
If you seriously believe that the board wouldn't be mercilessly hammering Sparty for celebrating an Eastern Division Co-Championship after getting pounded 62-39, you haven't been paying attention for the last ten years.
November 27th, 2018 at 3:02 PM ^
Well you know what they say about ties? It's like kissing your sister. No one wins.
I don't want to diminish the team's accomplishments, but I wish the conference didn't do this. Just feels really hollow. OSU won the tiebreaker. They won the division. That's it.
November 27th, 2018 at 3:03 PM ^
Ugh delete this. Its sad and pathetic
November 27th, 2018 at 3:25 PM ^
So to recap in the past 24 hours we've had threads created on the following:
- Hey we still got a chance to make the final four
- Should we move to the B1G West?
- Hey we tied for the eastern conference title
If our goal was to provide fodder for the good folks at 11 Warriors and the other OSU blogs to laugh at us even more than Saturday's results yielded then I think we've succeeded wildly. And, FWIW, based on these jewels I think I miss the Hawt Taek threads.
November 27th, 2018 at 3:30 PM ^
Wait until we put up the "We're going to fire Harbaugh and hire Belichick" thread.
November 27th, 2018 at 4:59 PM ^
If you're worried about what OSU fans might think about the posts on the MGoBoard, I don't know what to tell ya.
November 27th, 2018 at 5:11 PM ^
I agree these consolation threads are worthless and kinda pathetic, but 11 Warriors -- are those the people that say Meatchicken, skunkweasals, TTUN, and scUM? We're afraid of what they think of us?
November 27th, 2018 at 3:04 PM ^
Yeah, it is something right!
November 27th, 2018 at 3:04 PM ^
It means something to the guys who did the work: the players.
November 27th, 2018 at 3:54 PM ^
Exactly. Nobody needs to jump up and down with excitement over this and I doubt the players would. They didn't earn a Big Ten Championship and are disappointed, but they earned this when they beat Indiana. OSU could have won it outright. They just needed to spend some of that Michigan game planning time on Purdue.
November 27th, 2018 at 3:05 PM ^
November 27th, 2018 at 3:18 PM ^
I made a post when we clinched at least a share. Now that it's been determined that (sadly) it's a co-championship, I made this post which is completely different in its content from the other one.
You and other fans may not care, but you don't know that the players don't care. Winovich liked and retweeted a tweet about the trophy and the fact this team was the first division championship team here.
His first year we were 5-7 and lost to Rutgers, Maryland and Minnesota. He's been through some shit here and has helped turn it around tenfold. I'm sure he and the other 5th year seniors care.
November 27th, 2018 at 3:05 PM ^
Michigan is clearly the second best team in the B1G. We're good enough to beat the other good (not nationally elite) teams when they're slightly down, but not so good that we don't lose to them when they're atypically good.
That's Harbaugh's accomplishment after four years at Michigan. I think it's pretty good given that he inherited a dogshit program that lost to RUTGERS. It's not where I thought we would be, but it's still a good job done by Harbaugh.
November 27th, 2018 at 3:10 PM ^
Seriously. Fucking Rutgers.
Maryland and Minnesota at home.
November 27th, 2018 at 3:19 PM ^
It's easy to be pissed at Harbaugh for not getting Michigan to be elite, but damn did he ever walk into a dumpster fire.
MSU used to light us up like OSU just did. Shithole little brother filled with players that Michigan didn't look twice at. We were in a bad state.
Now Harbaugh needs to reevaluate and do what's necessary to make that next jump.
November 27th, 2018 at 4:03 PM ^
He definitely came in at a tough time. OSU and MSU were both at their programs' respective ceilings - OSU was defending national champion and MSU coming off a NY6 Bowl win. ND also had its best coach since Holtz (even if Kelly has had some bad individual seasons).
A decade earlier, OSU had Tressel (very good but not quite Meyer), MSU had John L. Smith and ND had Charlie Weis.
A few years before that (2000), OSU had John Cooper, MSU had Bobby Williams and ND had Bob Davie. Imagine Harbaugh getting to face those guys.
November 27th, 2018 at 3:22 PM ^
Hard to have perspective after Saturday but this says it well. We have a top 10 coach, and when we don't lose 2 QB's during the season we're a top 10ish team. The roster will basically 100% have turned over since Harbaugh arrived at the start of next year and I'm excited to see where the program goes next.
November 27th, 2018 at 3:08 PM ^
So, they gave us a parking meter to celebrate, um, whatever it is we're supposed to celebrate after Saturday?
Does it count down the minutes until the Wolverines can win a real trophy?
Yeah, I'm passing on this one. I hope Harbaugh does, too. Rather than putting it in Schembechler Hall, they can nail it to a post outside the Law Quad and laugh as exhausted students try stuffing quarters in it.
November 27th, 2018 at 3:08 PM ^
Ugh. This screams "participation trophy" to me. I get the pride over shared conference titles in the pre-divisions era, particularly the impressive 5-year streak from '88 to '92. But the conference and college football have changed dramatically since then. And the fact osu made & marketed merchandise in '15 doesn't make it okay. Hell, that seems more Sparty than anything. We are not the East Division representative in the Conference Championship Game. There should be no trophy. The fact that one exists doesn't justify any argument for such a triviality.
Looking forward to cheering on the boys in whatever bowl comes our way and anticipating even better success in '19.
November 27th, 2018 at 3:09 PM ^
“Participant” trophy
November 27th, 2018 at 3:10 PM ^
Yuck.
November 27th, 2018 at 3:12 PM ^
Need more of this. Well done sir. Well done.
November 27th, 2018 at 3:13 PM ^
Still too soon dude.
November 27th, 2018 at 3:14 PM ^
Can people put aside their feelings for just a few minutes and recognize that this does have meaning for the guys who worked for these victories? I mean, you don't have to like it, maybe just refrain from crapping on someone else's accomplishments.
November 27th, 2018 at 3:15 PM ^
A Co-Division Championship doesn't mean anything if we don't play for a Conference Championship.
That being said, Harbaugh has had the team playing OSU with a division title on the line 2 out of 4 years (3 if we count Co-Division titles, which we shouldn't). That is a damn fine job by someone who inherited a .500 program coming off its 2nd worst season in 40 years.
I think we all expect to be 10-2 or better from here on out with Harbaugh and I think we need to appreciate how far that is from the days of Rich Rod and Hoke. It wasn't good enough this year, but we are light years further than we were at the beginning of 2015.
November 27th, 2018 at 3:21 PM ^
Good post. Hard to keep perspective after Saturday but I told a friend last week that that's all we can ask for. Just keep putting yourself in position to win championships and eventually it'll break your way. Seems like we're long overdue, but this thing is on track.
November 27th, 2018 at 3:20 PM ^
Did anyone commit yet?
November 27th, 2018 at 3:34 PM ^
I think Brian committed hari-kari.
November 27th, 2018 at 3:55 PM ^
I’m pretty sure I should be committed at this point.
November 27th, 2018 at 3:21 PM ^
Michigan deserves the championship as much as osu. I only won 6 games and still curb stomped Urban.
Michigan lost to a 1 loss team
Ohio State lost two a 6-6 team
I'm not very smart but that's one loss each and Michigans loss is much better that osu's loss
November 27th, 2018 at 3:26 PM ^
Hurry up and quit so we can pick up some recruits.
November 27th, 2018 at 3:42 PM ^
Urban asked me to take the Louisville job so he has a shot at going undefeated.
November 27th, 2018 at 3:31 PM ^
Where can I pick up my: