What does U Conn bowl win say about Mich.
U Conn. beats Oklahoma in their bowl and they will be celebrated as an up and coming team with a hot coach. While Michigan who handled them pretty easily has their coach fired. Guess if we were in the big east we would be undefeated. Maybe a healthy Denard like we had against them will make all the difference in our game.
December 22nd, 2010 at 10:03 AM ^
What would Oklahoma's likely slaughtering of UCONN say about Michigan in 2010?
Answer: About as much as UCONN upsetting Oklahoma would.....
December 22nd, 2010 at 10:07 AM ^
You know, if UConn wins its bowl game it will signal the coming of the apocalypse, the ground will open up and swallow us whole, Cthulu will rise, and a thousand years of darkness will follow.
So what it says about Michigan should be the least of our concerns.
December 22nd, 2010 at 10:15 AM ^
It would be better if UConn beat OK, but it still wouldn't say much about how good a team Michigan is.
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<br>How a healthy UM plays against a very solid SEC opponent, after a month to prepare, will speak volumes.
December 22nd, 2010 at 10:25 AM ^
A UConn win against Oklahoma (while highly unlikely) and a Michigan victory over Miss State would help Michigan in terms of its strength of schedule for the final BCS rankings.
December 22nd, 2010 at 10:57 AM ^
It doesn't say nearly as much if the 5 teams we lost to get beat in their bowl games. I dont see Michigan State beating Alabama, Florida should beat Penn State, Ohio State could lose to Arkansas. Who does Iowa play?
December 22nd, 2010 at 11:39 AM ^
And Missouri is likely a decent favorite in that game due to Iowa's off the field troubles.
I could easily envision a scenario where every B10 team, besides Michigan of course, loses their bowl game.
December 22nd, 2010 at 11:13 AM ^
This post deserves that for several reasons. First, no way in the world will UConn beat Oklahoma. You should lay off the sauce this early in the morning. Second, even if by some miracle they did win, all it says is that Michigan beat a team at home in both teams' first game of the season, which amounts to nothing. You can't give credit to wins at the very beginning of the season. Any analyst with half a brain will tell you the same thing. That's why at the end of the season nobody talks about the beginning of the season. Teams are shaking off the rust, learning to play with each other and getting in the swing of things. Finally, it says that Oklahoma just wasn't on their game that day and lost to a team that's much worse than them. End of story.
December 22nd, 2010 at 11:28 AM ^
was the fewest points allowed this year ... 10. Uconn finished the year 93rd in offense. The next best "defensive" effort was against Purdue allowing 16 points (weather a factor) and Purdue finished the year 101st in offense. This leads to Bowling Green (21pts) and 112th in offense, then ND (24pts) and 60th in offense.
After these games ... it gets ugly as MSU 34 points is the next fewest points allowed - nothing more worth looking at from a points allowed point of view.
After carefully analysis I believe that we can conclude that Michigan's 2010 defense was "decent" aainst really pathetic offenses.
Just for the record Mississippi State was 45th in offense and 51st in defense.
Go Blue !
December 22nd, 2010 at 12:03 PM ^
If Uconn beats Oklahoma then that means Michigan could have won the Big 12.
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December 22nd, 2010 at 12:37 PM ^
it means they could have won the B1G...
December 22nd, 2010 at 2:33 PM ^
.......that UConn will get beat badly by OU. However, conventional wisdom also said that Utah would get beat badly by Alabama, or that BSU would get beat badly by OU.
I would love to see a UConn win, but I don't think it happens.
December 22nd, 2010 at 5:24 PM ^
I think that would simply be yet another indictment against OU in big games than anything relating to Michigan.
December 22nd, 2010 at 5:31 PM ^
It says nothing, UConn was awful at the beginning of the year, UM didn't play the same team that will be going up against Oklahoma in a few weeks. Not that uconn is some juggernaut now.
December 23rd, 2010 at 9:08 AM ^
A UConn win means that you are smoking some pretty powerful stuff.
December 24th, 2010 at 4:06 PM ^
That the spread doesn't work because UConn doesn't really count.
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