Ranking the November NCAAF Meltdowns we most want to see
November is always the critical month in college football - rivalry games, jockeying for playoff and bowl positioning, and often the fate of household name coaches is determined. Michigan is highly unlikely to factor into the CFP this year, but as Michigan and college football fans, there are a handful of key games/teams that bear close watching this year. Which of the 3 possibilities below are you most eager to see, and what are the chances:
1) OSU loses 3 of 4 in November (Iowa, MSU, and UM)
- Reason to be excited: Freaks out the entire state of Ohio, casts doubt in the minds of recruits about the coaching genius and staying power of Urban Meyer.
2) The Auburn Tigers pin losses on UGA (Sat) and Bama (Nov 25), as the road to the SEC Championship runs straight through Jordan-Hare Stadium
- Reason to be excited: All those smug SEC fans currently counting on 2 CFP bids face the prospect of none (or 1 max), as Auburn would have the opportunity under this scenario to beat UGA again in the SEC championship game
3) ND gets all the way to the last weekend as a top 3 team, only to have Stanford go all Bryce Love on them and dash their CFP hopes
- Reason to be excited: It's been too log since we've seen ol' Purple Face in his natural state, and yeah, F ND
November 7th, 2017 at 4:02 PM ^
November 7th, 2017 at 4:10 PM ^
MSU needs to lose all their games.
Sick of them being secretly good. And ofcourse OSU to lose to us.
November 7th, 2017 at 4:11 PM ^
I want all the meltdowns. Refuse to choose.
HOWEVER . . . i definitely agree that I'd like to see MSU lose to OSU. I'd like to see Wisconsin lose to Michigan, obv., and am unsure about Iowa. I hate PSU, so would like to see them lose to Wisconsin in the Big 10 championshiip. While I want Michigan to win all remaining games, I don't really want them in the Big 10 Championship game, and definitely don't want them in the National Championship Playoff.
November 7th, 2017 at 4:27 PM ^
Why do you not want them in the Big Ten Championship? If that was the case, we would just be playing a team we already beat on the road.
November 7th, 2017 at 5:24 PM ^
That's fair enough. I don't mind if they go to the Big 10 Championship . . . I just absolutely don't want them in the National Championship 4 teams. I personally do not believe they are good enough for that this year. I would not be thrilled for them to make it all the way and then be crushed by Alabama.
Here's a better way to say what I want:
- Win all remaining games, including a bowl.
- Don't play in the National Championship playoffs.
If they happen to make it to the Big 10 Championship, fine. That just is less important to me right now. As coaches are wont to say, control what you can control, and don't worry about the rest. Michigan controls the games they play. The rest isn't 100% up to them.
November 7th, 2017 at 5:25 PM ^
stupid double post.
November 7th, 2017 at 4:14 PM ^
November 7th, 2017 at 4:12 PM ^
November 7th, 2017 at 4:13 PM ^
2) PSU. They are well on their way already, and one more loss would cement the epic collapse that those child rape apologists deserve.
3) ND. To hell with Notre Dame.
I wouldn’t really call 1 loss to Michigan a collapse for OSU or Wisconsin.
November 7th, 2017 at 4:14 PM ^
1) OSU losing to us to end their regular season 9-3. Their season began with national title aspirations, and it would end with a jail-sexing from Iowa and a soul-crushing disembowelment from Michigan. Enjoy the Outback Bowl you asswipes.
2) ND dropping a game to either Miami or Stanford. Disregarding my bias, I absolutely do not believe ND deserves to be in the conversation right now. Not above Clemson or Oklahoma anyway. Hope they drop a game, head to something like the Cotton Bowl where they meet up with an upstart Michigan team that has won five straight and get de-pantsed on national television 35-0.
3) Auburn losing to Georgia this week but knocking off Alabama in the final week of the season, and then Georgia beating Alabama in the SEC Championship game to knock Alabama out of the title chase for good. I don't hate Alabama, but I'd rather see someone else win it all. And I think losing two games is the only way Alabama is out. Regardless of whether they win the SEC or not. They will get the benefit of the doubt until they physically can't be accommodated any further.
Who I want the final four to be:
1) Georgia - the wife is a UGa fan. Happy wife happy life.
2) Oklahoma - anyone who beats OSU is alright in my book
3) Miami - this would almost certainly mean they beat ND and knock them out of the playoff race. And I'd rather see someone from the ACC besides Clemson. Plus, Mark Richt is a good man.
4) Wisconsin. I hope they make it as a 12-1 Big Ten champion after dropping the Michigan game, but knocking off anyone not named Michigan in the conference title game and being the beneficiary of a lot of chaos in the final weeks of the season.
Georgia-Oklahoma would make for a great title game, and Georgia-Miami would make for an "oh boy is this awkward" title game.
November 7th, 2017 at 4:50 PM ^
Why Wisconsin? If they do well in the playoffs, they'll be harder to recruit against. If they don't, people will say the Big 10 sucks. Better to have the Pac 12 champion.
In fact, the thing I think we should all be rooting for is for Michigan to beat Wisconsin and OSU so badly that it's clear that neither of them can possibly be picked for the playoff. Then they can meet in Indianapolis and sadly play a meaningless game against each other.
November 7th, 2017 at 4:57 PM ^
I don't mind Wisconsin at all, and honestly I'm not really worried about recruiting against them. They've been winning ~10 games a year almost every year for the last decade while we've spent a good chunk of that time not knowing our ass from a hole in the ground. We still out-recruit them every single year. I don't know too many recruiting battles we've lost to them for guys that we've really wanted.
Sure, their recruiting would experience some kind of uptick, but Wisconsin knows what kind of guys it goes after, and I don't think they're going to stray too much from that regardless of what happens. They're likely never going to be a threat to recruit the way we, OSU and PSU do.
Luckily for them, they haven't needed to recruit that way to be successful.
November 7th, 2017 at 4:31 PM ^
is the melting of Urban Meyer's face like in the Indiana Jones movie.
Hopefully, he chooses poorly in the Big Game.
November 7th, 2017 at 4:51 PM ^
Dammit I can't embed at all. Tried adding the meme for it. But hopefully an upvote for you will make up for it good sir.
November 7th, 2017 at 4:49 PM ^
OSU to go 8-4 and watch their fans slowly lose it. End their regular season with a smackdown in the big house and Harbaugh going for two up big.
November 7th, 2017 at 5:49 PM ^
could all crumble as hard as possible for rest of year, that would be great. mm k
November 7th, 2017 at 6:10 PM ^
Smug fanbase doesn't deserve.
November 7th, 2017 at 6:14 PM ^
Mostly, I just want to see OSU burn. But I definitely do NOT want to see Sparty get any more uppidy than they are currently.
November 7th, 2017 at 6:17 PM ^
Primarily since that means losses to Rutgers and/or Maryland.
The fact that I saw a column today that made a case for Sparty to make the CFP if they win out has me fully in the MSU meltdown camp. OSU is not firing Meyer and their recruiting would not be affected if they lose out.
November 7th, 2017 at 6:35 PM ^
November 7th, 2017 at 7:11 PM ^
OSU
MSU
ND
November 7th, 2017 at 9:01 PM ^
ISIS socker team
Ohio State
Penn State
...in descending order.
November 7th, 2017 at 10:01 PM ^
November 8th, 2017 at 10:30 AM ^
ND losing 2 games would make me happy.