2 Stat Lines for your Sparty colleagues on Monday

Is that losing with dignity?

I somehow feel insulted.

How did they not have 94 penalty yards?

http://www.espn.com/college-football/matchup?gameId=401012884

Michigan dominated this game and is only getting better.  We have yet to play a complete game. 

Good belly laugh there. Thanks.

He can commiserate with Mork - his butt hurts. 

And now his butt hurts.

Hehe, funny that, ya know -- do you recall getting any sympathy from MSU fans when Michigan State beat down, say, RichRod's awful 2008 team at the Big House? Because I sure as hell don't. 

Holy shit. 11 yards? I gotta find video of that game, somewhere. Wow. 

I was at that game.  Their QB was Yarema, I think.  They couldn't do anything.  But that was back in the days when that was routine.

Great story about that game:  That was George Perles' first year as head coach.  When the teams met in East Lansing, Perles met his good friend Bo on the field before the game.  Perles said, "I have to tell you Bo, I'm really nervous."  

Bo smiled at his friend and replied, "You should be."  

Final: Michigan 42 MSU 0

Perles told this story at Bo's funeral.  

Here are highlights of that game.  Don't know how to embed....

https://youtu.be/RwFK7YDx-uI

It wasn't nearly as bad as Rutgers. They had 8 yards on 2 completions They are probably ignoring Rutgers because they had too few passes. Understandable when the last 5 attempts were all intercepted.

The tweet specifies that Lewerke's completion % was the worst with a minimum of 20 pass attempts.

Most of that was the backup QB in garbage time.

I don't know where to put this comment, but I am curious as to why on the fumbled punt that included two MSU penalties for holding and an illegal block in the back, the penalties would be wiped off because Michigan recovered the fumble. If there had been no change in possession from the punt, one of  the penalties would have been enforced at the end of the play from either the spot of the foul with no change in possession or from the field position at which the receiving team was down by contact.

But the calls were both wiped out apparently because of the fumble, and Michigan wasn't even consulted in making this choice. This is typically the case when a penalty is obvious on a play in which the outcome of the play is more advantageous to the penalty beneficiary than the result of the penalty,  say, a first down or touchdown on offense or a TFL on defense that negates a markoff that gives the offense another chance to replay the down.

In this case, the penalties weren't dead ball fouls. They occurred during the playing action that ended with a fumbled change of possession. So, why wouldn't the penalty yardage be added on at the end of the play? I understand the connection between a dead ball markoff (after the play was over unsportsmanlike or personal foul, such as a roughing penalty) and a playing action foul. Teams are super penalized when their actions are deemed unsportsmanlike under the rules, and multiple calls can be enforced at once. But if you are flagged for two blocking violations on one play why does change of possession negate those violations?

After the announcement, the referee went over to the Michigan sideline to confer with Harbaugh who seemed mystified by the action. No one on the broadcast questioned it, so I am assuming that a penalty is apparently negated by a change of possession play. That just doesn't seem like the correct administration of the call, unless the rule is you get the ball or you get the penalty, but not both.