Odds of M/MSU being a College Gameday battle
As other MGoUsers pointed out there is still no game time for the MSU game. It's starting to shape up like this could be a top-15 matchup two weeks from now. The number 3, 6, 7, 8, 19, 21, 23 ranked teams all lost games yesterday so there will be some serious reshuffling in the rankings today.
Michigan will almost certainly move into the top 20, while Northwestern was already No. 16 before their shutout yesterday, so they'll move into the top 15. A win vs NW next week would catapult the good guys into the same position.
What are the odds we still haven't heard a game time because the value of the game won't be decided until next week? Could this be a potential College Gameday game?
October 4th, 2015 at 8:35 AM ^
I wouldn't put any money on it just for the fact that college game day has picked some head scratchers in the past, but if MSU remains #2 in the polls and we end up holding Northwestern under double digits while scoring more than 24 points, then I predict us getting college game day.
October 4th, 2015 at 9:17 AM ^
I have a hard time believing there's an over-under scoring element to their thinking. The ranking and records will be their main consideration.
October 4th, 2015 at 9:42 AM ^
I assume that bostonsix is thinking that the score of the Northwestern game will affect our ranking which will affect the Gameday decision.
October 4th, 2015 at 10:27 AM ^
Plus the rivalry game factor. I'm sure ESPN would love to play up the in-state Michigan/MSU hate.
October 4th, 2015 at 4:55 PM ^
It's also a factor of what other big games are competing for attention and if they have already been to the home team's campus.
It's not unprecedented, but they don't generally like to go to the same campus twice in the same season.
They may be looking out of the corner of their eye trying to determine if they should wait for Michigan-Ohio State in Ann Arbor in anticipation that it could be a big matchup.
If OSU keeps playing like they are playing however, Game Day should just shoot their Ann Arbor wad now on Michigan-MSU. OSU may not even be a top 5 team by the time of The Game.
October 4th, 2015 at 8:35 AM ^
why not NW this week?
October 4th, 2015 at 8:38 AM ^
They decided to go to Cal at Utah this week.
October 4th, 2015 at 8:56 AM ^
Plus game already announced will be shown on BTN
October 4th, 2015 at 9:35 AM ^
Did they? That's a joke. Both teams looked very impressive again on Saturday, Northwestern will be ranked inside the top 15, Michigan most likely in the top 20.. yet the game is on BTN? That's ridiculous.
October 4th, 2015 at 10:22 AM ^
Was likely picked weeks ago when no one in their right mind thought NW-Michigan would be a game of national importance.
October 4th, 2015 at 4:59 PM ^
To be fair, we did not think it would be either. It's scheduled for Homecoming where teams like Michigan usually schedule easy wins that are not competitive games to give the alums something to feel good about while they wander around the campus and wonder what the hell happened to Blimpy Burger?
October 4th, 2015 at 1:32 PM ^
These things are picked weeks in advance. And if you look at who's playing on the Disney channels this weekend, it's not a surprise they were picked over us. Oklahoma-Texas, Miami-Florida St., WVU-OK St (both ranked, btw), Arkansas-Alabama (who were both ranked preseason), Clemson-GT (same), Wisco-Neb (same) and LSU-South Carolina.
Those all looked like bigger match ups a month ago, and the rivalry games (Miami-FSU and OU-Texas) were always going to be primary network games.
October 4th, 2015 at 12:10 PM ^
According to Mgoblue.com, the M-NW game's television station is TBA. Unless that stands for "The Bigten nAtwork" I don't think that has been determined yet.
October 4th, 2015 at 8:40 AM ^
It's at the Cal game this week I believe.
October 4th, 2015 at 9:08 AM ^
BTN game. Cal Utah is espn
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October 4th, 2015 at 9:12 AM ^
That usually doesn't matter with CGD, they've went to big games televised by Fox, NBC, & CBS
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October 4th, 2015 at 1:28 PM ^
two weeks in a row. I have to believe if we beat NW next week then game day will be here for the MSU game.
October 4th, 2015 at 8:37 AM ^
I think CGD will be there, no question about it. That would be by far the most intriguing matchup that weekend
October 4th, 2015 at 8:40 AM ^
Yeah I think it's been mentioned in passing by Rece.
October 4th, 2015 at 8:50 AM ^
The only others that week to compete with would be Florida vs LSU, and maybe ND vs USC. I bet ESPN picks the SEC matchup
October 4th, 2015 at 9:29 AM ^
is a way better team in my opinion. I think we might get lucky by virtue of the higher overall current ranking of both teams.
October 4th, 2015 at 10:27 AM ^
Gameday trys not to have the same teams featured at their location too much. LSU still has games against Bama and Ole Miss where Gameday could visit.
October 4th, 2015 at 11:21 AM ^
Ole Miss' bed shitting yesterday may have nixed any game day plans that included them. Florida v LSU would be my guess for next week's destination.
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October 4th, 2015 at 10:25 AM ^
That Florida v LSU game didn't look like much a week or two ago, but now that could be a hell of a matchup. Especially if it winds up being a night game at Death Valley.
October 4th, 2015 at 5:05 PM ^
Agreed. They may be saving Ann Arbor for Michigan-Ohio State if we both keep winning. Hell, probably even if we don't win out until then but OSU does.
An Ohio State team in position for a Playoff berth versus Jim "I Guarantee we will win" Harbaugh will make for a compelling story line for CGD.
October 4th, 2015 at 11:38 AM ^
Florida lsu has more national appeal and could easily also be a top 15 matchup. My guess is college GameDay goes there and then goes to either michigan/osu or msu/osu later in the year based on who wins the game. But it doesn't really matter if we don't beat northwestern and pat Fitzgerald is a good coach coming in with a really confident team so I'm not counting any chickens yet.
October 4th, 2015 at 1:37 PM ^
In addition to the ones mentioned above, WVU-Baylor is a good match up (though not as good as ours), and Alabama-TAMU. I don't think any of those get it, but after Florida's game yesterday, I think Florida-LSU will be a good option.
That said, since Game Day hasn't been in Ann Arbor in a while and the Harbaugh factor, I feel like Michigan-MSU is the no-brainer option here.
October 4th, 2015 at 8:42 AM ^
Beat Northwestern. Thats it
October 4th, 2015 at 8:46 AM ^
Wish I could upvote both the comment and the avy. Did what I could.
October 4th, 2015 at 8:45 AM ^
If both teams win next week, 100%. If one of them lose, 0%.
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October 4th, 2015 at 8:50 AM ^
This pretty much sums it up.
October 4th, 2015 at 1:47 PM ^
Not 100%. It's likely both Florida and LSU are undefeated - that's probably a bigger match up.
October 4th, 2015 at 4:38 PM ^
Maybe.
However, of the four teams in question (UM, MSU, LSU, FLA), MSU would be the highest ranked and Michigan has the largest national draw/fanbase of those schools. That combo, plus the rivalry and fact that we're in the same division within our conference, and I think we have GameDay no matter what happens elsewhere (assuming Michigan beats Northwestern, of course).
They won't go to Bama and Texas A&M because they have already been to two Bama games and both Michigan (assuming a Northwestern win) and MSU will be ranked higher than USC/ND.
That said, all that really matters right now is beating those Wildcats. GO BLUE!!!
October 4th, 2015 at 8:49 AM ^
If we get past Northwestern, which is no guarantee by any means, and if MSU wins next week, which they should, then I'd say the odds are good they show up.
It'd make for a very intriguing matchup with a lot of storylines. But if we piss our pants against NW, you can probably kiss it good bye.
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October 4th, 2015 at 9:14 AM ^
What if they piss their pants at Rutgers? I get the idea of wanting the focus to be in Ann Arbor when MSU visits, but I am not seeing the forgone conclusion that MSU beats Rutgers at Rutgers at night. It's the first time MSU leaves the state of Michigan all season. Red flag, IMO.
October 4th, 2015 at 8:51 AM ^
Will be at the Florida vs LSU game. They won't be able to help themselves when it come to promoting their brand. The SEC has lost some luster this year and they will do whatever it takes to promote it.
October 4th, 2015 at 9:03 AM ^
Correct
I wouldn't be surprised if the love fest carries Florida into the top 10 after this weekend. It's hard to imagine the mothership picking another CGD location with two top 10 teams in Death Valley where they always play at night.
Guh
October 4th, 2015 at 4:39 PM ^
I really think that Florida will lose to Missouri (on the road, at night against a team that has absolutely owned them recently), so they won't go to LSU.
October 4th, 2015 at 1:22 PM ^
That'll be a CBS game...
They'll be in A2 if both teams win - that's an easy pick. The only thing ESPN promotes more than the SEC...is ESPN/ABC.
October 4th, 2015 at 8:56 AM ^
It's all about the match ups and both teams winning.
UCLA vs Stanford got less appealing last night with UCLA losing
The 2 games I worry about is
Bama vs A&M
LSU vs Florida
We all know ESPN sucks the SEC so by no means is it guaranteed
October 4th, 2015 at 9:02 AM ^
I'm not 100 percent sure MSU will beat Rutgers. It's an away night game and MSU hasn't been impressive even at home. Sure, Rutgers may be a dumpster fire, but they have more remaining talent than Purdue.
October 4th, 2015 at 9:14 AM ^
We will see if Dantonio gets them back on track. But the last 5 games does not bode well for them given how bad Oregon looked.
October 4th, 2015 at 9:42 AM ^
From what his players have told the media, he is keeping the Spartan Dawgs on a leash, not letting them exercise their full destructive capability. To save it for scUM presumably.
October 4th, 2015 at 9:31 AM ^
I don't think Rutgers is better than Purdue. I'm not even sure they're better than UNLV. I'm not being funny, I'm seriously not sure. Look at the schedules/results so far. I truly don't see a firm case for placing Rutgers ahead of anyone else on our schedule.
October 4th, 2015 at 9:45 AM ^
Both teams are terrible, but no way Purdue is better than Rutgers. Because they played MSU close does not mean Purdue is better. They are terrible. They were pretty whipped by everyone except MSU and one other team I am forgetting. Rutgers have their own issues, but they are a better team even with missing players. But we are talking about two terrible football teams.
October 4th, 2015 at 8:16 PM ^
4EverBlueGirl beat me to it, albeit in a less snarky way.
October 4th, 2015 at 10:27 AM ^
That could wind up being a top 10 matchup, and could be an ESPN or ABC game if CBS picks the LSU Florida game.
October 4th, 2015 at 4:42 PM ^
won't pick this because they've already been to two Bama games. The max Gameday has done in the past in a season is 3 I believe, but that would be 3 in one half of the season. They won't go. I bet that Gameday is planning long term to be at LSU-Bama in November.
October 4th, 2015 at 1:48 PM ^
UCLA-Stanford is on a Thursday night, so it's pretty unlikely they pick that game.
October 4th, 2015 at 8:57 AM ^
They love "The Hype" and Leonard Fournette is the big story this year so far. I believe Harbaugh making Dantonio break down and cry at the post game interview would be a much bigger story.