Best thing you saw: Week 9

Submitted by mi93 on

What an incredible day of college football.  This week, cutting to the chase(ish)…

Non-M: The number of great catches today was astounding – and that’s just in the games I saw. PSU, ND, NC St, Utah and TT all had great plays.  A Wiscy OL gets a TD on a long hand-off.  Barkley did THAT on the opening kick (and the game was an all-timer despite the participants).  ISU knocked off another top 5.  MD-IN and NE-Purdon’t both went to the wire.  All that, and I haven’t even mentioned the Wildcats of NW (or of AZ who are beating WSU at the moment).  Brohm ran a play I’ve been waiting to see for countless years – have the punter throw a long pass rather than kick and have a gunner catch it or get a DPI (Purdue drew the DPI).  Hard to choose this week.  I think I’m going to pick Dabo Swinney.  Something I saw when he coached up a young player after a fumble in the monsoon in Clemson.  He didn’t yell, didn’t yank the kid’s jersey – he coached, mentored.  Did what good leaders do.  Hard to believe he’s been at Clemson 10 years now (and didn’t become truly relevant until year 7).  And I see why he gets recruits.  Feeling like these kids get molded into responsible men makes me like the game more.

M: Harbaugh will be questioned as to why it didn’t happen sooner, right or wrong.  Regardless, he played the position, and has coached it far longer than I ever will.  I trust he knows better than I when a player is ready to take the field in that position.  That said, and channeling my inner Mad Hatter, the best thing I saw was…THE INSERTION OF PETERS!  Who’s with me?!

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SpinachAssassin

October 29th, 2017 at 12:00 AM ^

In a way that means we will have far fewer feelings takes in the board this week. And I’ll actually want to read the offense UFR! Ped State losing. I think I hate them the most. I’m relatively ok with free tattoos but not ok with child endangerment. I’ll always pick OSU over them, and just about anybody else. Only Baylor do I root for the meteor, and Baylor is winless so fuck them too.

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SpilledMilk

October 29th, 2017 at 12:14 AM ^

But our game day crowd in the Big House is kind of lame. I was there (as usual) and it just seems like it's such a chore for most of the crowd to make some noise... I get the sense that most folks are more concerned with their post game wine and cheese parties than the actual game

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1VaBlue1

October 29th, 2017 at 8:40 AM ^

You're just now figuring this out?  LOL!!!  Yeah, it's been that way for generations.  Anymore, it's tradition for Michigan to have a soft crowd - almost front running.  There have been games where's its been unbelievably good, like a PSU White Out, but those are few and far between.  The jokes about blue hairs doing nothing more than yelling "down in front" are mostly true...

I dunno...  Maybe fans are just so seriously into the game that they're intensely watching the play?  Could be, I guess...

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M-Dog

October 29th, 2017 at 12:11 PM ^

Some of it is situational.

I grew up in PA and attended lots of Penn State games.  A noon game at Beaver stadium against a marginal opponent is as much a sleepfest as a Michigan noon game agianst Rutgers.

They're not all white-out night games there.

Same thing for Michigan.  The MSU game at night in the rain was a really good environment, in spite of the team giving nothing to get charged up about.

Noon against Rutgers with the team out of the Big Ten East race?  You're only going to get so much excitement.  If not for Peters coming in, it would have been a snoozer. 

 

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MGoBrewMom

October 29th, 2017 at 12:30 AM ^

OL + Peters Mo Freaking Hurst... And, my own personal bonus: The marching band at my kids' HS playing The Victors at the varsity football game last night.It was the first game I had attended, and did not believe them when they told me that it was their HS's fight song as well. I was clearly the most excited person in the stands to hear it!

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M-Dog

October 29th, 2017 at 12:07 PM ^

I took my daughter to our high school football game on Friday night and she ran off with her friends.  She then texted she needed money . . . but didn't want me to come over where her friends were to give it to her.

The fact that I even existed was just too big an embarrassment for her to endure.

So, that did not end well.

 

 

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901 P

October 29th, 2017 at 8:54 PM ^

I have a vague memory of my high school's hockey team in Minneaplis playing a team from Bloomington and getting spanked. Their fight song was the Victors and my friend (who was on our hockey team) said after the game that he was so sick of hearing it because they played it after every goal. Also, a team in Bow, NH has the winged helmets, and a team the town over is the Spartans and has jerseys that are pretty much identical to MSU. I don't thInk they play each other though.

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M-Dog

October 29th, 2017 at 12:04 PM ^

I lived in McLean, VA for a couple of years in a rental townhouse.  Behind the townhouse was McLean High School.  Friday nights in the fall I would hear all the noise and commotion from the HS football games.

One Friday, I decided to go the game and see what all the fuss was about.  They were playing their big rival, Langley (home of the CIA, otherwise a pretty normal place) High School.

Langley scores a touchdown, and what do my ears hear?  The Victors!  (Worst rendition of it I ever heard though.)

High Schools use "On Wisconsin" and the Wisconsin "W" a lot too.

 

 

 

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blueloosh

October 29th, 2017 at 1:19 AM ^

Peters, obviously.  But my personal runner-up is Ben Mason. The man is a persistent road-grader. with good instincts. Roll through Higdon's 10-yd touchdown on slow-mo and behold the glory that is Mason. Similar, not-quite-as-glorious blocking on Walker's touchdown. And other plays I can't recall off the top of my head.  We have other great FBs this year, but this kid is a delight. We are going to have a ball watching him for another 3.5 years.

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SwitchbladeSam

October 29th, 2017 at 1:38 AM ^

Peters & Walker are both top of the class recruits and building blocks for the future. I'm excited about them both. Also, Onwenu looked dominant. There's a lot of young talent on this team.

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newtopos

October 29th, 2017 at 2:02 AM ^

Khalil Tate (for best non-Michigan thing I saw).  Arizona put up 58 points against the 12th ranked (S&P+) defense, and Tate has had an insane first four games as a starter.  (And he was 18 years old for three of those games.)

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