Ugh, I'd rather play Utah in the Holiday Bowl.

This is indeed hell.

All you naysayers need to get another life or just forget M football exists until next fall.  The fact is that this is the best bowl matchup that M could have qualified for and in the best bowl that a non-Big 10 championship team could qualify for.  It is also the main lead-in game to the playoff games later in the day and will get plenty of attention, as the off-bowl games go.  It will be a great tune-up for next fall -- just forget that Florida is the opponent.  Hopefully, few players will opt out and it will be a good test.  And it is just 12 hours down I-75 when the weather is OK, so start your engines!

I've never been this underwhelmed about a bowl matchup. Nothing is exciting about it. I don't care what has changed about the bowl system--playing on December 29th should be what happens when you go 8-4 or 7-5. Screw this.

Boring. Who would ever think this rematch would make for appealing football?

At least we’ll get to hear lots of talk about Jim McElwain being on our coaching staff now. Media loves an obvious narrative.

This is what happens when you come up short. We could’ve had an entertaining game against Clemson, but instead we’re in the Bullshit Bowl.

My new favorite rival....    Florida.       Sigh

Time for Mullen revenge for when he was at Mississippi State for the Gator Bowl.  That’s something to cheer for.

I've got a bad feeling about this.

It's more Michigan football. Always a plus. I think that is what every fan feels.

This opponent in this bowl interests me on the excitement level of a home non-conference tomato can game in September.

10-2 with what was one of the hardest schedules in preseason deserves better than this. I know you have to win the OSU game or the ND game. But at the same time let's not act like we're 8-4 with no quality wins like last year.

Players should be in a warm weather site and the fans should be watching the most marquee match up available. 

I don't think either request is close to be met here. And those aren't unreasonable requests.

Just have no interest in this game whatsoever

Just win this fucking game and move on. 

This just shows Warde Manuel has no power. We just sit back and accept a crappy, repeat opponent and bowl. If we are such an attractive draw for a bowl, why don’t we exert some influence to get a better bowl and more intriguing opponent? The A.D. is a joke. We just meekly accept whatever scraps the bowl committee deigns to give us. 

This is Michigan's punishment for not taking care of business and making the playoffs. We let the conference down by not defeating OSU and making the playoffs. I think UF will be much more motivated for this game then Michigan. I guess we'll see how good Harbaugh can coach to get the win. It will be rather disappointing to lose another bowl game.

Well, isn't this just peachy!

I don't like the match-up for a lot of reasons but .......

The one thing worth watching is to see if Harbaugh and Brown learned anything from having put their players in such an untenable position v. osu. The players were juiced for The Game and these two did nothing but put forth a stodgy game plan, straight out of the hackney drawer that was the same old shit that worked for a weak BIG overall and especially for hobbled Wisconsin, MSU and PSU - usually good teams that weren't in 2018. M got pantsed by ufm who had a lot of under-performing talent on his team, until The Game ..... so, what's new...... other than it is becoming apparent that Harbaugh may not be the elite coach we thought he was when he was signed.

If M wants to compete for Championships like Harbaugh says he does, he absolutely has to not drop a turd on the playing field like he did v. Usc last season. That loss sent a message to a lot of M fans and that was JH simply can't manage or motivate his staff sufficiently to obtain the results he claims he wants. That message lingers.

I think it is obvious that his approach to the game in 2018 grossly underutilized the talent he had on the roster to play at an elite level. Instead, he let himself and his staff get comfortable and lazy with what they thought they had - Fortress M - failing to realize how weak the BIG actually was. Whether that was from talent disparities or injuries making M wins a lot easier than they probably should have been in an up year for the BIG is immaterial.

That he and his staff failed to account for that and come up with a better game plan for osu was damning. That throughout the 2018 season, his failure to innovate in the passing game in such a way that would have allowed practice of such innovation and for a reasonable chance to keep up with air-osu in a shootout, specifically engineered by ufm to be that way, and it did -  was nothing short of incompetence. Instead, JH tried to impose his strategy on ufm and that failed. He seemed to have no back-up. People I know get fired for avoidable mistakes like that.

If his Michigan team shows up in ATL on 12/29 with the same stale game plan he won games with against bad teams, the one that cost Michigan wins against the two good teams M played, regardless of whether his team beats UF or not, it will seal his fate as an average coach and fans will have to get used to Michigan continuing it's also ran tradition in an era that demands innovative play. M fans, who support ticket and apparel sales, donors who support much more than that, and the BIG Ten who keeps getting shut out of CFP bucks by an under-performing Michigan football team WILL DEMAND IT.

Even Lloyd shocked the world with his swan-song game plan v. the Tim Tebow lead, ufm coached Gators in 2008. Henne went 23/39, 379y and 3 TDs throwing to Arrington and Manningham who torched the UF secondary. Meanwhile, M's defense kept Tebow under constant pressure - both of these things were completely unlike anything M had done that season. Jim, we're watching you.  

Gary is out.  Honestly, any legit NFL prospect on UM’s team should skip the Peach Bowl.  Time to get the replacement players reps and get the moving-on guys ready for the NFL combine. Time to look on to 2019 for everyone.  

Any New Years’ Six bowl invitation is an accomplishment, not a punishment. I’m going to watch the game and have fun. It’s healthier than dwelling on negatives.

I hope the team is excited and plays their best game of the year.

Go Blue! 

Just win and get ready for 2019 home schedule vs MSU, ND, and OSU....

Just win and get ready for 2019 home schedule vs MSU, ND, and OSU....

The peach looks like an ass. Enough said. 

One thing I do wish they'd do is move these bigger bowls around a bit more.  Nobody is going to be excited for this game in Atlanta, but if they moved the Peach Bowl to, I don't know, the Northeast then they'd 100% get more excitement from a big part of the fanbase that doesn't live in the Sunbelt.