Michigan is #4 in both the AP Poll and the Coaches Poll
AP: http://collegefootball.ap.org/poll
The top 5 in the AP Poll is unchanged. Wisconsin (#8) and Nebraska (#10) are now both in the top 10.
Coaches: http://sportspolls.usatoday.com/ncaa/football/polls/coaches-poll/
The Coaches Poll now also has Nebrasks (#9) and Wisconsin (#10) in the top 10.
October 10th, 2016 at 12:39 PM ^
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October 10th, 2016 at 1:21 PM ^
Alabama
Tennessee
October 10th, 2016 at 1:23 PM ^
Texas A&M, not Tenn.
October 10th, 2016 at 1:24 PM ^
2 in the Coaches Poll (Alabama and Texas A&M)
3 in the AP Poll (Alabama, Texas A&M, and Tenessee)
October 10th, 2016 at 1:25 PM ^
Bama, Tenn, and TAMU
October 10th, 2016 at 1:26 PM ^
October 10th, 2016 at 7:20 PM ^
I'm confused by people thinking Nebraska is good. A close home win over a shit Oregon team, a not dominating performance over a bad Northwestern team and trailing in the 4th quarter to illinois? I'd certainly put some 1 loss teams above them until they beat wisconsin.
October 10th, 2016 at 9:01 PM ^
Absolutely agree. It's like voters discovered they couldn't overrate ND anymore so they just picked the next team up in the alphabet or something.
October 10th, 2016 at 9:10 PM ^
October 10th, 2016 at 9:23 PM ^
Hope Wisconsin shits the bed against them and drills the sucknuts though. A husker throttling in the B1G championship would be so satisfying. I'd go out for prime rib or shimp & lobster that night. Might hit the strip club too. That'd be a great day.
October 10th, 2016 at 12:41 PM ^
We are hands down, better than Clemson.
October 10th, 2016 at 12:44 PM ^
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October 10th, 2016 at 12:48 PM ^
And so is Washington. They aren't even a surprise to me. I knew they were going to start destoying the Pac12 when Chris Peterson got hired.
October 10th, 2016 at 1:00 PM ^
October 10th, 2016 at 3:50 PM ^
Yeah, they look good. The way they are beating these teams is impressive... but when Washington State is doing exactly the same thing to the same teams, the sheen comes off a bit. They're still a good candidate for the playoff and they would be a tough matchup, though.
October 10th, 2016 at 1:03 PM ^
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October 10th, 2016 at 1:14 PM ^
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October 10th, 2016 at 1:44 PM ^
I completely agree. I simply don't understand why some people get so fussy about the ranking. If Michigan wins the Big Ten, it's going to the playoff. That's all there is to it.
October 10th, 2016 at 2:49 PM ^
if we have our Home or Away jersey for the playoff games.
October 10th, 2016 at 1:26 PM ^
Agreed, we basically have one game on the schedule, OSU, especially this year with MSU looking like a pile of crap. Until we knock the king off the throne we won't get the respect. Until then they can rank Michigan wherever they want cause I know what the ranking will be after we handle business.
October 10th, 2016 at 2:31 PM ^
Cotton, lol. In all seriouness why is this years team so much better than the team that lost 42-13 at home and going to win on the road this time? I would ten d to agree if you had the same QB, but you a have a first year starter which traditionally lose in the "Game"?
October 10th, 2016 at 2:42 PM ^
Our DL was down 3 starters by the time we rolled in to The Game last year. Our DC also insisted on keeping a safety high instead of getting him involved in stopping the run. You guys edged us over and over and he never adjusted for it.
Also, I don't think your team is as talented this year as it was last year, certainly less experienced.
October 10th, 2016 at 2:57 PM ^
A good/great NT has the most thankless job in football. Sure, there are some dominant ones like Suh, Donald, etc. who get recognized because they are overpowering but most good NTs don't get recognized until their absence highlights a glaring hole.
OSU is not 28 points better than us. That was Meyer taking advantage of Michigan not having any good NTs (Mone injured, Glasgow injured, Pipkins transferred) and trapping our LBs in the wash.
DJ Durkin's defensive gameplan for that game was awful. Even Ohio State fans with Xs and Os acumen acknowledged they didn't understand what he was trying to do.
October 11th, 2016 at 3:21 AM ^
Plus good DL depth. The game will be much closer and we have a better chance of winning due to our amazing defense which will only improve as the players master Brown's defense.
October 10th, 2016 at 3:23 PM ^
note - doesn't mean Michigan wins or loses - but big differences
1 - Zeke is in the NFL - no runner in the B1G this season is anywhere close to him
2 - Currently (knocks on wood), Michigan has a much better DL with depth - our last few opponents of 2015 before the bowl game ran all over us
3 - OSU lost a lot of talent to the NFL - the new kids are not much of a drop off, but it is a little
4 - Michigan has 2 backs that can pop a long run now
I fully expect this year to be one helluva game
October 10th, 2016 at 5:22 PM ^
October 10th, 2016 at 6:19 PM ^
Plenty of coaches have accepted new jobs and performed just fine at the end of the season. The one thing that may work in our favor this year is that OSU seems to play better on the road than they do at the Shoe. Don't know why, but it appears that way to me.
October 11th, 2016 at 5:30 AM ^
but for different reasons. but a few things need to fall in place first. first and foremost, i think peppers will be taking more snaps on offense than defense by the game. if speight doesn't stop telegraphing his intentions i could see harbaugh gradually as the season progresses, transitioning peppers full time on offense by the game. peppers is easily your best player and think he's much more valuable to average offense then the defense. it all depends on speights development of course. Thoghts?
October 10th, 2016 at 12:57 PM ^
who is ranked 8
at home
with their best player hurt
with new, freshman QB
October 10th, 2016 at 1:05 PM ^
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October 10th, 2016 at 1:15 PM ^
October 10th, 2016 at 1:12 PM ^
*redshirt freshman, who just beat a (laughably) top ten team on the road.
October 10th, 2016 at 2:05 PM ^
The freshman did absolutely nothing in that game. Why did you bring up the QB?
October 10th, 2016 at 4:28 PM ^
Could've easily been 23-0 if we hit our field goals. They were only able to score because of a tipped INT.
October 10th, 2016 at 1:31 PM ^
Please explain how we are "hands down" better than Clemson?"
If we are "hands down better than Clemson" we should be #1 and it shouldn't be close because no team in the country is "hands down better than Clemson"
...just like no team in the country is "hands down" better than Michigan.
We haven't played anyone close to L'Ville or Lamar Jackson except when our defense goes up against Jabrill in practice.
We'll see what Wisconsin is about this weekend...don't get me wrong, I hope they beat OSU, obviously... But beating an average LSU team in Wisconsin, crushing a shit Sparty team, and hanging with Michigan in shit weather and 3 missed FGs doesn't mean they're an automatic top 10 team in my book. At least, IMO, they're not L'ville if that's the reasoning behind the comment.
Michigan could easily be #3, but there isn't any team in the top 7 that's "hands down" better than any other team in the top 7 right now.
October 10th, 2016 at 3:55 PM ^
To be honest we are the only team of the top five serious playoff contenders that has a glaringly obvious flaw, which is our inconsistent QB position. Clemson may not be playing great on offense consistently but their QB is a known quantity, and everybody else is humming along.
Maybe Speight improves or maybe our defense is so good that it won't matter, but right now that sticks out more than any unit on another one of the "elite" teams.
October 10th, 2016 at 6:21 PM ^
They're an average team with a below average offense. They were lucky to hang with us at all.
October 11th, 2016 at 3:29 AM ^
But if Wilton played better we would have won by 3 TDs. I'm just happy he was fairly accurate once with the long ball. Wilton will need to improve on passing the ball, since OSU will be playing the run. If it takes Pepper playing QB in the wildcat formation I would go with that against OSU.
October 10th, 2016 at 2:37 PM ^
Clemson has almost as good a defense as UM and an offense with a huge ceiling. They haven't played amazingly most of the year, but every team ahead of UM absolutely would give them a game.
October 10th, 2016 at 12:42 PM ^
Before anyone asks, I'll add the Coaches Poll once it has been released.
October 10th, 2016 at 12:45 PM ^
Where is it!? Why haven't you added it yet!?
October 10th, 2016 at 12:44 PM ^
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October 10th, 2016 at 12:46 PM ^
Ole Miss, for example, would wipe the floor with Nebraska.
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October 10th, 2016 at 2:26 PM ^
Everyone in front of them lost and all of a sudden they're #10. They seem decent, but they haven't played anyone and I bet they'd lose handily to several others teams below them
If IU doesn't handle them this weekend, I suspect they'll come back to earth with back-to-back throttlings by Wisconsin & OSU
October 10th, 2016 at 3:20 PM ^
Got to title game only because every team ahead of them lost the following week or two after our game with them.
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October 10th, 2016 at 4:31 PM ^
got a huge bump from beating Oregon when Oregon was ranked, but the voters haven't adjusted their view of the that win after Oregon went on to show how bad they are by losing three more in a row, two of them badly, the other at home. A three point win at home against Oregon now looks kind of bad for Nebraska. They are way overrated at this point, but have plenty of chances to prove their worth.
October 10th, 2016 at 6:23 PM ^
With a bad coach to boot.
October 10th, 2016 at 1:07 PM ^
And MSU isn't even ranked. Crazy.