carolina blue

October 23rd, 2016 at 5:32 PM ^

It's not that you would think that way...but if you hear the name enough you have it in your head. At some point you say "I need to do X. Where should I go? Oh yeah, that such and such place" which was drilled over me over into your head,somewhat subconsciously via the name of the bowl game.
It's very effective.



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JHendo

October 23rd, 2016 at 6:48 PM ^

I once took agreed to an interview with Insight.com purely because of the Insight bowl, even without really knowing much about what they do. When the interviewer asked why I chose to interview with them, I said something to the effect of liking the brand recognition of the company. The interviewer looked at me all confused because apparently the bowl was literally the only marketing they really did and no one outside of the industry knows about them.

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M-Dog

October 23rd, 2016 at 5:09 PM ^

I think we would take care of Clemson easily.  If we get that far, we would have taken care of OSU, and Clemson is OSU-lite.  

On the other hand, I would not want to play Alabama until I absolutely had to.  If we stay at #2 and win out, we would not have to until the NC game.  At that point, anything can happen.

 

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S Carolina Wolverine

October 23rd, 2016 at 5:27 PM ^

we must win out to go to the playoff

 

Jerry Palm still has osu in over UM

 

The media loves osu and is neutral at best towards UM

 

Win out and we are in!

 

PSU loss does not really hurt osu

 

amazingly so

 

Go Blue!

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SpikeFan2016

October 23rd, 2016 at 5:37 PM ^

I want Alabama to stay undefeated because I want Michigan in the Fiesta Bowl in Phoenix, not in Atlanta in the middle of SEC/Clemson territory. (partially because we'd have a huge fan disadvantage, partially because I live in California and selfishly want to be able to drive to a UM game this year).

 

#2 Michigan (13-0) vs. #3 Washington (13-0) in a desert showdown is my rooting interest!

 

I think they will find a way to make undefeated Washington play in Arizona instead of Atlanta, and at least one of the ACC/SEC champs will be in the Peach Bowl due to ticket selling purposes. But we have a lot of West Coast wolverines and travel well (plus Seattle to Phoenix is still not drivable/decently far) so we'd show up at least as well as the Huskies. 

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Alton

October 23rd, 2016 at 8:37 PM ^

If Michigan is #1 and an SEC or ACC team is #4, we will still most likely see Michigan in Glendale.  They will not give the #4 team a "home field" (within 500 miles or so) over the #1 team.  So if it ends 1-Michigan, 2-Clemson, 3-Washington, 4-Alabama, Michigan will certainly be headed to Glendale.

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Alton

October 23rd, 2016 at 9:04 PM ^

That's incorrect.  The official rules state no such thing.

Straight from the official website (Rule 9B):  "When assigning teams to sites, the committee will place the top two seeds at the most advantageous sites, weighing criteria such as convenience of travel for its fans, home-crowd advantage or disadvantage and general familiarity with the host city and its stadium. Preference will go to the No. 1 seed."

http://www.collegefootballplayoff.com/selection-committee-protocol

Notice the phrase "home-crowd advantage or disadvantage."  This is pretty much stating that they won't put #4 close to home.

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Yeoman

October 23rd, 2016 at 9:14 PM ^

Here's the relevant section from the Selection Committee Protocol:

 

When assigning teams to sites, the committee will place the top two seeds at the most advantageous sites, weighing criteria such as convenience of travel for its fans, home-crowd advantage or disadvantage and general familiarity with the host city and its stadium. Preference will go to the No. 1 seed.

 

They won't send #1 to play #4 at a site close to #4's campus just because that site is marginally closer to #1's campus than the other. If Michigan's #1 and playing an SEC or ACC team, they'll be in Glendale. It's not that much harder to fly to Phoenix than to Atlanta and they aren't going to give a home-crowd advantage to the #4 seed.

I suspect they won't be impressed by any home advantage Washington might have in Glendale--how big an alumni base do they have there anyway?--and it's not easy driving distance from Seattle. I'm guessing Michigan is in Glendale regardless, unless they're #3 or 4 and matched up with Alabama or Clemson. And I'm not sure there's a set of results that gives us that. I think it's probably unbeaten (which would mean top two) or out.

 

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turtleboy

October 23rd, 2016 at 6:13 PM ^

Honestly, good qbs have a history of being Alabamas kryptonite, since they never have to face one in the SEC. Oklahoma absolutely shredded them, as did Ohio State, and I think Washington is built to play them, especially since bama's given up quite a few yards this year compared to previous ones. I'd love to have a Michigan Washington rematch for the national championship.

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Mr. Yost

October 23rd, 2016 at 8:09 PM ^

Texas A&M = @ OSU
Wisconsin = @ Ole Miss

Who's our next best win? Colorado? Indiana?

We're an elite team, but this comment is full of blinders.

Colorado and Indiana at home don't stack up to LSU, Tennessee, and Arkansas all on the road.

This comment doesn't make much sense at all.

I'm not slurping the S-E-C juice, but some folks are just off their rocker after this weekend. At least look at the schedules before you make such a claim.

I didn't even mention Auburn and USC who are both down...what's that, @ Iowa and UCF? Come on now.

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Yeoman

October 23rd, 2016 at 9:20 PM ^

Massey has us as 7 1/2 point underdogs on a neutral field against Alabama and every other team in the country would be double digits. Those aren't small numbers and his computer doesn't slurp the SEC juice. They've played the #6 schedule in the country (again per Massey) and only one game has been closer than 19 points. Michigan's schedule to date is #23.

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LSAClassOf2000

October 23rd, 2016 at 6:17 PM ^

The Valero Alamo Bowl prediction of Baylor / Washington State though...

I mean, say that happens and you're flipping channels on the 29th of December and you're like, "You know, I've been looking for some good old fashioned pass game porn...." and you stop on that game for a couple hours....

 

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Yeoman

October 23rd, 2016 at 10:46 PM ^

In four of Leach's five years at the school WSU's defensive Fremeau ranking has been better than their offensive ranking (every year but 2014--true again this year so far). The last two seasons before Leach arrived the offense was better than the defense.

I don't think eyeballs adjust well for pace.

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Alton

October 23rd, 2016 at 8:31 PM ^

They would be the highest ranked Big Ten team not in the top 4.

It's that simple--that is the rule for determining who will go to the Rose Bowl if the conference champion is in the top 4.  A 10-2 Ohio State team would still be ranked higher than (say) a 10-3 Wisconsin team with 2 losses to Michigan and one to Ohio State.  They would also be ranked higher than (say) an 11-2 Nebraska team with losses to Michigan and Ohio State.

 

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Brendan71388

October 23rd, 2016 at 7:39 PM ^

Shlabach had us going to the playoff and NC game preseason and only just jumped ship to OSU like a week ago. A lot of people are sticking with OSU despite the loss bc they still can beat us and win the division.



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608Monroe

October 23rd, 2016 at 9:46 PM ^

I'm sure this is just me, but hiding behind all my joy and appreciation for Harbaugh lies a dark, frothing resentment for Dave Brandon. And it gets bigger each week.

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drzoidburg

October 24th, 2016 at 7:18 AM ^

better comparison would've been those notorious "retirement matches" i guess it's cool but the real ranking, the only one that ever matters, is out next week. So like i told someone who wanted to declare Michigan "back" before the Wisconsin game, let's wait one more week to get excited

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