So...the Orange Bowl, huh?

Submitted by I Like Burgers on

So Michigan ain't making the playoff.  How do we feel about playing Florida State in the Orange Bowl?  Or Clemson on the off chance they lose to Va. Tech?

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rainingmaize

December 3rd, 2016 at 2:15 AM ^

Not only was it a talented team, but it was one that had players that fit his offense. While Harbaugh inherited a team with a good defense, he also inherited a team that had Shane f'ing Morris and Derrick Green as the projected starting backfield.

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DHughes5218

December 4th, 2016 at 12:26 AM ^

Hoke's players fit Harbaugh's system just as well, if not better, than Tressel's fitting Meyer's. He had a qb who could run, but that's about it. It wasn't a roster full of NFL talent. 

Shane Morris may have been the projected starter, but he didn't start. Jake Rudock wasn't a bad QB and you could argue he was the best in the Big Ten last year.

I'm not saying Harbaugh had it easier than Meyer, but I'm trying to say Meyer didn't walk into a locker room loaded with talent and it wasn't a perfect situation. He was fortunate that the entire Big Ten was down. When MSU is your primary competition, you're going to win a lot of games.

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M-Dog

December 3rd, 2016 at 12:56 AM ^

I would love to see Harbaugh - Bo's protege - in a Rose Bowl against USC.  Get some redemption aganist all those Bo heartbreaks.

The Rose Bowl against USC is the only bowl game that I could get up for after the gut-punch of this season.

 

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160 IQ

December 3rd, 2016 at 2:07 AM ^

True.  I am just so done with Florida.  Cali all the way please.  The Rose Bowl is the greatest college football experience in the world outside of the Big House.  If you have not been you need to.  It is awesome with a capital A.  As Keith Jackson said - "the field is perfect, the weather is perfect!"  The pageantry, the beauty - love, love, love the Rose Bowl!!!!

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M-Dog

December 3rd, 2016 at 12:13 AM ^

So is FSU a done deal or is there still a chance for Louisville?  

I don't want Louisville, they are a one man team.  If they did not have Jackson, they would be Maryland.

Boring.

 

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George Pickett

December 3rd, 2016 at 12:15 AM ^

You know what's amazing?  3 of the 5 losses under Harbaugh have come on the last play of the game.  That's horseshit.

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lhglrkwg

December 3rd, 2016 at 12:19 AM ^

that won't make much of anyone feel better about ending in the Orange Bowl this year but we've only seen a Harbaugh team just straight lose a game twice: Utah & 2015 OSU. The other 3 were nailbiters that ended the wrong way in the last minute

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fksljj

December 3rd, 2016 at 12:20 AM ^

Normally would be really pumped up for an Orange/Rose appearance. Not this year. Feels like a consolation prize like '06. It was hard to get excited for that game. o$u plays for championship, we get participation trophies. This is getting old.

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M-Dog

December 3rd, 2016 at 12:25 AM ^

I feel the same way.  It's just hard to stand up after being gut-punched.

But that's how you get beat in bowl games.  Teams that don't really want to be in their bowl game play like teams that don't really want to be in their bowl game.  And they lose.  Happens all the time.

 

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uminks

December 3rd, 2016 at 12:36 AM ^

We will be in a rebuilding mode with a lot of young Harbaugh players. I would love to knock off what should be  highly ranked OSU next season at home. In 2019, Wilton's senior season we will have to play in Columbus again. We will be improved but may lose another tough one to OSU. 2019 we will be in beast mode with OSU at home.

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jmblue

December 3rd, 2016 at 12:51 AM ^

Let's let next season play out.  Yes, on paper it figures to be a relative down year, but we'll have a fair amount of talent - it'll just be young.  Having a veteran Speight will help.

Not sure where the 2018 pessimism is coming from.  That figures to be a pretty strong team.   Is it the schedule?  Yeah, we go to Columbus but so what - if you're a championship team you're going to have to win games like that at some point.  (Going to East Lansing / South Bend doesn't scare me too much at the moment.)

 

 

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uminks

December 3rd, 2016 at 12:20 AM ^

All the other bowls seem so minor now. I wish they would have set the playoffs initially for the top 8 teams. I think one top 4 team is going to be left out and that would be Michigan. I'll watch the Orange bowl but I'm just not excited about it.

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Carcajou

December 3rd, 2016 at 1:31 AM ^

The thing is, if the playoff were 8 teams, I don't know if Michigan gets in either.

With 8 they will give an autobid to the P5 conference winners; probably one to the top ranked G5 conference winners; and two (highest ranked) at-large bids. I can easily imagine a rule against three teams from the same conference.
 

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