January 1st, 2019 at 1:22 PM ^
Cool.
January 1st, 2019 at 1:24 PM ^
Go cheer for Iowa then
January 1st, 2019 at 1:26 PM ^
My niece is in the Iowa marching band so I actually am. Normally I don't care for them. Still bitter about 85 when I was a student at Michigan and they screwed up our season.
January 1st, 2019 at 1:28 PM ^
Sounds like a good plan!
~ Brian
January 1st, 2019 at 4:36 PM ^
Iowa has the same conference title drought as us, we basically are them.
January 1st, 2019 at 1:24 PM ^
I've always assumed that Iowa was the most roided-up team in the Big Ten, only slightly ahead of MSU. Not really sure where I got that idea, but I still think it's true.
January 1st, 2019 at 1:26 PM ^
Fun fact: the best roids are made from corn.
January 1st, 2019 at 1:32 PM ^
Should've used Preparation H
January 1st, 2019 at 1:34 PM ^
But only after preparations A-G fail
January 1st, 2019 at 2:16 PM ^
Maybe we need a new banner:
Everyone else cheats, we know it, we have no evidence, we just know it!
Hey, that kind of thinking got a guy a really good gig in Washington DC....
January 1st, 2019 at 3:47 PM ^
Hidden Trump supporters downvoting is funny (but then jump out at say, it's not that, I just don't want to read about it on this board)
January 1st, 2019 at 3:55 PM ^
I wonder what Paul Manafort, who spent his holidays in federal prison, would say about your specious claim of “no evidence.” Or Michael Cohen, or Butina, or Flynn, or Papadopolous.....
January 1st, 2019 at 4:41 PM ^
I actually agree with you. So lame all the cheating accusations here yet the fact is NO ONE ever gets caught but bag men, yeah right.
No disgruntled former player ever comes out and does a tell all story ever especially considering he'd be paid tons of money if so also. Somehow thousands of players are all keeping this secret.
January 1st, 2019 at 5:02 PM ^
You're damn right it did. Worked good for a sell out traitor supposedly from Hawaii, Chicago or wherever. And a Crime scene investigation from Arkansas. How's that work for you. Shut up and sit in you closet. And yes mods, shut it down and ban me. Tired of daily reading this blog and bitches making comments such as I replied to. The grown ups are fed up.
January 1st, 2019 at 5:35 PM ^
January 1st, 2019 at 5:58 PM ^
If only the mods could bar you from voting.
January 1st, 2019 at 1:25 PM ^
‘Member when they were one game away from the playoffs, lost, went to a NY6 bowl and proceeded to get jail-sexed by Stanford?
January 1st, 2019 at 1:27 PM ^
Anyone sitting out for Iowa?
January 1st, 2019 at 1:31 PM ^
Fant.
January 1st, 2019 at 3:28 PM ^
Well, technically, Karan Higdon sat out all 4 years for them.
January 1st, 2019 at 1:29 PM ^
They’re probably happy as fuck that they aren’t in Iowa
January 1st, 2019 at 1:33 PM ^
lol true
January 1st, 2019 at 3:48 PM ^
It's quite fine, biznite.
January 1st, 2019 at 1:30 PM ^
Must be more than “just a business trip” for them
January 1st, 2019 at 1:31 PM ^
You want to see a team that wants to be in a bowl game, flip on the Fiesta Bowl.
UCF is looking like a team on fire early.
This is the first UCF game I’ve watched this year, and surprise, they’re a fun and exciting team to watch.
January 1st, 2019 at 1:34 PM ^
Yeah, I’ve tried not to get into the whole “team looks disinterested,” meaningless bowl game line of thinking. But watching UCF and Iowa, there is a noticeable difference in the energy level that these teams are playing with, when contrast with that of our team this past week (other than Chase and Hudson).
January 1st, 2019 at 1:37 PM ^
That's my criticism of the coaching staff even moreso than schemes. They have come out flat repeatedly in big games. I have no idea why but there is some problem there. They come out jumping around to play crappy teams at home but bring on energy for road games against good opponents. Maybe their pre-game routine is wearing them out or something.
January 1st, 2019 at 3:37 PM ^
Two things:
1. Disinterested (i.e., impartial) =/= uninterested. Pet peeve of mine.
2. I don't really think that we looked flat. I thought we played pretty hard in the first half but really missed Bush, Gary and Higdon. Then the game gradually got out of hand, exacerbated by the fact that we had always been a ball-control offense during the regular season. We were never great in must-pass situations. (Why we were never great is a question that the staff needs to figure out, because the personnel was there.)
January 1st, 2019 at 4:01 PM ^
Now these are two opinions I am happy to share.
The first is, I fear, a lost cause, to be lamented over by grammarians and those concerned with clarity of communication as opposed to deniability.
As to the second, we can but hope the coaches work on the passing game for next year, so that it can be a more consistent threat. The personnel is in place and they have gained another year of experience. Could this be the way to get over the hump?
January 1st, 2019 at 1:37 PM ^
I mean they are playing for back to back National Championships. I would hope they would come out on fire.
*but yea, they look REAL good*
January 1st, 2019 at 3:47 PM ^
Well, UCF is now down 13. Did UCF only want to play one quarter?
January 1st, 2019 at 4:32 PM ^
This is a classic MGoBoard overreaction. UCF led 14-3 (with one TD coming on a pick six) and has gotten rolled ever since. LSU is up 16 points now.
January 1st, 2019 at 1:35 PM ^
You came all the way to the internet to write this post. Far out.
January 1st, 2019 at 1:35 PM ^
Looks like UCF is going back to back National Champs
January 1st, 2019 at 1:40 PM ^
This is why bowl games - unless it’s the Rose Bowl (for personal subjective reasons) and the CFP - don’t really matter to me in terms of evaluating a team or season. There are so many factors - players sitting out, teams being up, teams being down, location, month to prepare, coaches looking for other jobs etc etc - that aren’t really a factor the rest of the season and are unique to bowls. I want us to play well and win and it’s disappointing when the team gives up easily like we did in the second half on Saturday, but I don’t get real worked up about it. The Peach Bowl performance as a whole won’t really factor in how I view next season. It might from an individual perspective - ie really liked what I saw from Turner - but not from a team perspective. JMO
January 1st, 2019 at 1:46 PM ^
Didn't know they were bowl eligible. Good for them.
January 1st, 2019 at 1:47 PM ^
Three thoughts:
1. I'm still as salty as the Dead Sea about our team getting sent to the Jimmy John's Bail Bonds Bowl on 28 Dec, while teams that Michigan trampled played in better games on New Year's Eve or Day.
2. LSU has even more players sitting out than Michigan, handing Devry Florida University a chance to look better than they are. That said, if they go 12-0 again next season, they got to be in the playoffs.
3. ESPN isn't even pretending to be anything other than the SEC network.
January 1st, 2019 at 1:59 PM ^
You forgot the part about playing Floriduh again...
January 1st, 2019 at 1:49 PM ^
Guess Alexander doesn’t want to be there.....
what a dipshit move, punch a guy in the face mask.
January 1st, 2019 at 2:01 PM ^
Looks like they prepared for this game...can we hire their prep person cause we need one
January 1st, 2019 at 2:03 PM ^
Trade Pep for Prep? I like it.
January 1st, 2019 at 2:03 PM ^
So have you been to Iowa? Entertaining huh? If you had an all expense paid trip say to anywhere and you were a Hawkeye I think you’d be happy! Michigan players played Florida 3 times in two years! Yay!!! No excuses for our game but give me a break.
January 1st, 2019 at 2:13 PM ^
And it took less than 4 minutes in the second half to blow their lead lmao
January 1st, 2019 at 2:19 PM ^
Iowa doesn’t have national title aspirations. They have realistic expectations about what their program is, what it can accomplish, and what it can/can’t do.
So....yeah....beating a mid-tier SEC team ina New Year’s Day Bowl is a huge deal for them.
January 1st, 2019 at 2:45 PM ^
Iowa was 12-0 and a late stop away from making the CFP just a few years ago. They have the same aspirations we do every year. They want to play in Indy with a chance to make the playoffs. They've been closer than we have.
January 1st, 2019 at 3:21 PM ^
We are iowa
January 1st, 2019 at 3:25 PM ^
We have much better recruiting, but we play in a much more difficult (for now) division.
January 1st, 2019 at 2:26 PM ^
Joe Burrow is having the kind of game I was so hoping Shea would have had. Now I’m sad again.
January 1st, 2019 at 2:29 PM ^
I hope Harbaugh is watching these games. Of all the bowl games I’ve watched Michigan looked liked the least interested team to be playing. I just hope this team doesn’t implode this off season.