Cheers - to the best Saturday of College Football in recent memory
What a great day of football. It's rare anymore that I can park on the couch at noon and be content to sit here till midnight watching football but here I've sat from the end of gameday till now because it felt like there was constant flow of 2-3 great games going at a time
MSU upsetting PSU on a FG as time expired...Bedlam going into an absolute shootout and still manging to come down to the last minute...Iowa absolutely destroying OSU in a Kinnick classic...NC State and Clemson going down to the wire...the entire SEC looking awful today...four top 25 matchups so far and now three consecutive top 25 matchups to wrap up the night
This is why we love college football. Don't tell me I was the only one who loved the whole day from start to finish.
November 4th, 2017 at 11:56 PM ^
Same, haven't moved much all day.
November 4th, 2017 at 11:58 PM ^
Great day! Anytime we win and osu loses its a great day!
November 5th, 2017 at 12:06 AM ^
It would be nice if we won said game soon!
November 4th, 2017 at 11:59 PM ^
sorry, I can’t be happy about an MSU win
November 5th, 2017 at 12:12 AM ^
They beat Penn State so those fucking asshole fans are sad.
November 5th, 2017 at 12:24 AM ^
They won?
November 5th, 2017 at 12:29 AM ^
Penn State fans are the fucking assholes. Celebrating the dude who covers up child rape overcomes Sparty fans being obnoxious jerks in my mind.
November 5th, 2017 at 8:34 AM ^
Gard Schadenfreude scale Penn State losses are much more satisfying than Sparty losses. BTW, fuck Penn State and all their obnoxious, pedophile cover up apologist fans.
November 5th, 2017 at 12:12 AM ^
Nah... that's what we wanted today. Ped State with 2 losses. Next week, we need to pull for Ohio State again though.
November 5th, 2017 at 12:21 AM ^
It’s not what ‘we’ wanted at all. It’s a bad scenario. Sorry.
November 5th, 2017 at 12:13 AM ^
I'm from the Class of 97. For me MSU is Little Brother and can't compete with us. I know some of the millenials around here get mad when you say that, but let's be honest. They are inferior and who cares about them? I'm much more happy when PSU and OSU lose. Those guys are the real threat. Not second rate MSU. Can't believe Dantoni hasn't left them yet.
November 5th, 2017 at 12:41 AM ^
This reads like a parody Michigan fan account
November 5th, 2017 at 12:44 AM ^
I’m from the class of 99 and I have watched UM play MSU for the past 10 years
November 5th, 2017 at 1:17 AM ^
MSU can't compete with us? That's a joke.
MSU has won:
- 8 out of 10 against Michigan
- 4 out of 5 against Penn State
- 3 out of 5 against Wisconsin
- is an even 3-3 in their last 6 against Ohio State.
Be honest, we would kill for all of those records. If Sparty wins next week, it's a fair argument that they are the best program in the Big Ten so far this decade.
November 5th, 2017 at 4:26 AM ^
As harbaugh had his first season after taking over a 5-7 team. So lets all just pump the brakes.
November 5th, 2017 at 11:49 AM ^
Nobody is doubting last year was terrible for State.
The last time that happened however, when the Spartans went 6-6 in 2012, the next year Dantonio led his team to a Big Ten Championship and Rose Bowl win. He has a chance to go for a Big Ten title off a bad year once again.
November 5th, 2017 at 9:28 AM ^
But he is a heckuva coach.
November 5th, 2017 at 11:39 AM ^
Don't do that.
November 4th, 2017 at 11:59 PM ^
FOX broadcast was like listening to Dan and Jim. More Bo and Michigan Man references than I could count. Loved it
November 5th, 2017 at 1:14 AM ^
but Brando was gushing and I liked that.
November 5th, 2017 at 9:33 AM ^
Who’s been doing this for a while said twice on Minny illegal procedure right before the play was blown dead: free snap. Huh?
November 5th, 2017 at 9:30 AM ^
Rob Little? Really? At least Brando corrected that immediately. Need some adults working.
November 5th, 2017 at 12:00 AM ^
As a U of M fan it does get tiring seeing msu mix slothball football with the occasional post route and then steal games at the last second. But I actually preferred them to state Penn.
It was a joy to see Franklin run down the field after the game to remind his depressed team to go shake hands and show sportsmanship.
November 5th, 2017 at 12:03 AM ^
National media is calling this "chaos" and bad for big ten but I love it. Delany is a pathetic joke and he's been commish 28 years now. He deserves nothing and I am relishing this opportunity for Michigan to sneak back into discussion.
November 5th, 2017 at 8:30 AM ^
Agree with this. Glad to see PSU season's fall apart after they threw everything, including the kitchen sink, at us to try to match the differential from our win last season. Karma for a short-sighted, egomaniac.
We beat ourselves against MSU for the second time in Harbaugh's tenure. I feel these incidences will stop when Peters/DPJ/Black/Walker and everyone filtering them are 2-3 years seasoned.
November 5th, 2017 at 10:06 AM ^
Penn State just couldn't get it up for the 3rd time in a row! Their performance was "limp". That being said, it doesn't get tougher than U-M/OSU/MSU--in succession--anywhere.
November 5th, 2017 at 12:00 AM ^
I got a chuckle out of seeing "MAKE NOISE" on the jumbotron with the OSU/Iowa score next to it. I can't believe they got spanked that badly, but I'm not complaining.
November 5th, 2017 at 12:00 AM ^
Iowa State beating WVU, but that's just Yak being greedy.
November 5th, 2017 at 12:00 AM ^
Next 3 weeks will be too I suspect. Get a win next week heading into those 2 huge games at 8-2. Finish strong.
November 5th, 2017 at 12:01 AM ^
Watching Iowa curbstomo OSU into submission is something I will relish and dream about until it is our team that hands the ass whooping
November 5th, 2017 at 12:03 AM ^
I thought last week was maybe the best of recent memory (Iowa St, us, Sparty losing, the overall good Penn St-Ohio St game, and another game or two I was rooting for turning out as I wished...)
(I'm in Iowa fwiw...definitely been fun rooting the Cyclones on)
November 5th, 2017 at 12:02 AM ^
It was pretty close to perfect. I would have liked to see Clemson and Miami lose though. I hope sparty gets their hopes up just to have their collective dong punched hard next week. Give me a psu loss somewhere down the stretch and The Game will be the high stakes game its supposed to be.
November 5th, 2017 at 12:07 AM ^
No way right?
November 5th, 2017 at 12:19 AM ^
I'm thinking Nebraska or Maryland.
November 5th, 2017 at 12:11 AM ^
We need two MSU losses. One to OSU is not enough.
Spartans and Buckeyes are both in the driver's seat, which is my nightmare.
November 5th, 2017 at 12:15 AM ^
It's overall record that puts us in front of sparty if they lose to OSU. We'd have two losses, they'd have three.
November 5th, 2017 at 12:18 AM ^
If OSU wins next week and we beat OSU, wouldn't it be a 4 way tie?
November 5th, 2017 at 12:30 AM ^
If MSU drops one to OSU
If PSU wins out
If we win out
4 way tie. Michigan and PSU AT 10-2, MSU and OSU AT 9-3 overall.
November 5th, 2017 at 12:26 AM ^
No, it's not. It's poorly phrased by the conference (surprise!) but the first tiebreaker is record in games between the tied teams. Non-conference games are irrelevant until step 7 in the tiebreaking procedure.
So theoretically: a four way tie we would be 1-2 against the other tied teams, PSU would be 1-2, while OSU and MSU would be 2-1. Then OSU would go to the title game because they have beaten MSU in any reasonable scenario where this would happen.
A three way tie with MSU and PSU we would be done because we lost to both of them, then MSU would go because they beat PSU head to head.
A three way tie with MSU and OSU all three teams would be 1-1 against the others. Second tiebreaker is record within the division, which would eliminate us, because we would be 4-2 while each of them would be 5-1. Then OSU would go because they would have beaten MSU.
A three way tie with OSU and PSU is exactly the same deal, with OSU going because of their win over PSU.
We only go if we win out and tie ONLY with Ohio State. This requires two MSU losses (to OSU and Maryland or Rutgers) and one PSU loss (to Maryland, Rutgers, or Nebraska).
November 5th, 2017 at 12:37 AM ^
Poorly worded indeed.
November 5th, 2017 at 7:04 AM ^
That would be a negatory my friend.
Their ND loss means NOTHING as far as divisional pecking order. Polls, sure. But they could’ve lost to ND by 100 and it wouldn’t matter. We need them to lose twice. Could happen against OSU, but their last two games after that are Maryland and Rutgers.
Wish in one hand....
November 5th, 2017 at 8:40 AM ^
be to Durkin.
November 5th, 2017 at 9:17 AM ^
If OSU beats MSU, and we and PSU win out, there'd be. 4-way tie for 1st. First tiebreak is overall record, in which OSU and MSU would drop out with 3 losses. Then they'd look at PSU's head to head win over M and PSU would be the division winner.
November 5th, 2017 at 1:59 AM ^
to being in the drivers seat ourselves. That seemed impossible two weeks ago.
And after we lost to PSU and MSU, it was those two teams and OSU in the drivers seat. That hasn't was never going to change. So you're nightmare happened 2 and 4 weeks ago.
But now we're back in the conversation because we got the exact results we wanted in all four games involving MSU, PSU and OSU in the past two weeks.
Hence, it's been a great two weeks. Best case scenario in the past two weeks.
November 5th, 2017 at 7:06 AM ^
I don't give a tinker's damn about the CFP. We don't belong there this year. Beating Whisky and/or the Buckeyes would show great improvement during the year and bode well for the future.
November 5th, 2017 at 7:19 AM ^
No one is saying UM has a chance for the CFP...just an outside shot at Indy
November 5th, 2017 at 12:02 AM ^
Dilly dilly
November 5th, 2017 at 1:30 PM ^
Wish I could upvote you...yours is the first comment that made me crack a smile...
November 5th, 2017 at 12:07 AM ^
In our classical Michigan way. Dear young ones, this is how we used to win all the time for the most part. Running would open Anthony Carter for the bomb. It works. Enjoy.