Guess the Score, Win Stuff: The Jug
Hey that's our 30-cent jug.
No it's not.
I swear we bought one just like it last year for your game.
What were you afraid we'd poison the water or something?
No, we needed a place to put water since Gatorade jugs won't be invented for, oh, at least another half a century. Are you sure that's not the one we bought?
Yep.
But you wrote "Michigan Jug 'Captured' by Oscar" on it. You even added a date and the score of the game. Are you sure…?
Okay well you left it. It's our jug now.
That's fine.
You'll have to win it back or I'm keeping it forever!
Oh?
How this works again:
- Readers predict the final score of a designated game by placing a guess in the comments, preferably in the format of [M score][hyphen][Opp score], for example "41-0" or "35-0 Michigan", or "28-0 Go Blue", or "42-0 Harbaugh!" etc.
- The three guys who read this part holler at people who post in a different format
- First person (by timestamp) to post a particular score has it.
- If you got it right, I contact you for an address by your MGoBlog account email, and you give me some time to get that to you.
- If nobody got it right or I don't hear from the winner(s) we push it to next week or let it go.
About Last Time:
No football happened so nobody won. Oh the game before that? No football happened so…
This Week's Game:
Michigan at Minnesota, with pottery on the line.
And on the Line:
Our friends at Rivalry Trophy are giving away a full-sized(!) replica of the Little Brown Jug to whoever can get this score right. They also sell this for $200, and a smaller version for $100, and a Christmas ornament sized one for $18 that I think is the most adorable thing on the planet that isn't half my genes.
Fine Print:
One entry per user. First user to choose a set of scores wins, determined by the timestamp of your entry (for my ease I prefer if you don't post it as a reply to another person's score--if you do it won't help or hurt you). Deadline for entries is 24 hours before the start of the game. MGoEmployees and moderators exempt from winning. The algorithm finds the winners as it chooses. The algorithm is self-correcting. The algorithm consistently runs power. The algorithm locked Rutgers out of Jersey. The algorithm can't make every football coach Jerry Kill but thinks it really shouldn't be too much to ask to have one.
October 30th, 2015 at 9:37 AM ^
Bring back the jug!
October 30th, 2015 at 9:39 AM ^
47-5 M
October 30th, 2015 at 9:45 AM ^
84-0 Michigan
October 30th, 2015 at 9:50 AM ^
48-6 Michigan
October 30th, 2015 at 9:50 AM ^
I'm guessing 30 - 13 Michigan.
Bonus prediction: Minnesota scores on their first drive due to being motivated about the whole Jerry Kill thing plus Michigan usually gives up some yards on the first drives.
October 30th, 2015 at 9:53 AM ^
Brown jug comes home.
October 30th, 2015 at 9:58 AM ^
41 - 0 MEEEEECHEGAN
October 30th, 2015 at 9:59 AM ^
Time for a very unlikely prognostication.
Michigan, 57-3
Go blue!
October 30th, 2015 at 10:01 AM ^
October 30th, 2015 at 10:02 AM ^
34-20 Michigan because all the good scores are taken.
October 30th, 2015 at 10:06 AM ^
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October 30th, 2015 at 10:15 AM ^
October 30th, 2015 at 10:17 AM ^
October 30th, 2015 at 10:18 AM ^
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October 30th, 2015 at 10:34 AM ^
24-10 Michigan
October 30th, 2015 at 10:41 AM ^
Michigan 19 - 0 Minnesota
October 30th, 2015 at 10:35 AM ^
M51 10M
October 30th, 2015 at 10:44 AM ^
Michigan 20, Minnesota 9
October 30th, 2015 at 10:49 AM ^
Michigan 25 - Minnesota 3
Rudock finally connects on a deep ball.... but it's to Drake Harris.
October 30th, 2015 at 10:53 AM ^
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October 30th, 2015 at 11:21 AM ^
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October 30th, 2015 at 11:33 AM ^
43 Michigan - 6 Minnesota
October 30th, 2015 at 11:36 AM ^
23-10 Michigan
October 30th, 2015 at 11:43 AM ^
October 30th, 2015 at 11:49 AM ^
Sorry for being a downer, but I always subscribe to hedging my bets against my happiness.
Here's to hoping I'm wrong -- go blue!
October 30th, 2015 at 11:53 AM ^
Michigan wins, 23-15
October 30th, 2015 at 12:08 PM ^
Michigan, that is.
October 30th, 2015 at 12:12 PM ^
42 - 8 Michigan
October 30th, 2015 at 12:17 PM ^
Michigan wins 30-12. I want that jug.
October 30th, 2015 at 12:19 PM ^
October 30th, 2015 at 12:23 PM ^
Michigan 32 - 0
October 30th, 2015 at 12:32 PM ^
October 30th, 2015 at 12:39 PM ^
40-13 Michigan
October 30th, 2015 at 12:37 PM ^
Michigan 31-16.
October 30th, 2015 at 1:02 PM ^
38-0 Michigan
October 30th, 2015 at 1:15 PM ^
35-0 Michigan
October 30th, 2015 at 1:18 PM ^
Michigan wins
October 30th, 2015 at 1:19 PM ^
October 30th, 2015 at 1:24 PM ^
21-3 Harbaugh
October 30th, 2015 at 1:33 PM ^
I'll go with:
Michigan - 22
Minnesota - 6
TD for Smith on the ground and one for Butt in the air. 2 field goals by Allen and a safety for good measure when Blake pins the Gophers on the 1 foot line.
Minnesota ekes out two field goals, one off a Rudock INT in Michigan territory.
October 30th, 2015 at 2:18 PM ^
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October 30th, 2015 at 2:20 PM ^
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October 30th, 2015 at 2:35 PM ^
Kenny Allen beast-mode
October 30th, 2015 at 2:32 PM ^
Michigan 19 - Minn 5 (Safety in 1st quarter and FG as time expires)
October 30th, 2015 at 2:34 PM ^
39-10 Michigan wins!
October 30th, 2015 at 3:12 PM ^
Michigan 31 - 10
October 30th, 2015 at 3:22 PM ^
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October 30th, 2015 at 4:15 PM ^
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