Michigan finishes #10 in AP
First top-10 finish in a decade.
- Clemson
- Alabama
- USC
- Washington
- Oklahoma
- 0hio State
- Penn State
- Florida State
- Wisconsin
- Michigan
- Oklahoma State
- Stanford
- LSU
- Florida
- Western Michigan
- Virginia Tech
- Colorado
- West Virginia
- USF
- Miami
- Louisville
- Tennessee
- Utah
- Auburn
- San Diego State
January 10th, 2017 at 11:37 AM ^
Agreed!
January 10th, 2017 at 12:19 PM ^
January 10th, 2017 at 2:14 PM ^
I disagree (about PSU, not about underperforming down the stretch). If PSU plays OSU in Columbus do you think they win that game? If we play PSU again do you think they beat us? Do you think PSU beats FSU?
Personally I think PSU got hot and we played some bad matchups for us down the stretch. McSorley is a very streaky QB. I think head to head we beat them consistently because of the difference on lines and our DBs neutralize their strengths. Does that mean we had the better season, no (but I think there's another argument for that).
January 11th, 2017 at 8:19 AM ^
Our only win out of the state of Michigan was Rutgers. Winning in Happy Valley would be a given though? Or playing them when they were healthy? Or once our offense went stagnant?And yeah, they got hot. We got cold. Since when to November games not mean more than September ones?
And we are talking about the difference between being 7th or 9th and being 10th in a stupid AP poll. Who cares? Complaining about it only makes us look whiney. We had the chance to do something about it. But we blew it. Repeatedly. In the fourth quarter. At the end of the year.
Let's move on and look to the bright future. Clinging to a September win is like clinging to a September Heisman.
January 10th, 2017 at 11:28 AM ^
The inconsistency around OSU is irritating. It seems like bowls were important and OSU was destroyed, yet somehow ends up 6th. It's all meaningless, though. On to 2017!
January 10th, 2017 at 11:55 AM ^
by 39 points (of course us), but behind a team they beat, ohio. go figure.
January 10th, 2017 at 2:16 PM ^
Not a lot of consistency in how they rank them. Same with USC being ahead of UW, who they beat, but had more losses than.
January 10th, 2017 at 12:14 PM ^
I would have flipped Ohio State and Florida State, and probably Michigan and Wisconsin. No strong disagreements, though.
January 10th, 2017 at 12:22 PM ^
Good chance to top that next year!
GO BLUE!!
January 10th, 2017 at 12:29 PM ^
as listed. However, I have no problem with the intent, that being, I believe, attempting to determine the strongest teams at season's end and in certain cases - USC being the most glaring - early season miscues have to be forgiven in order to make a reasonable guess at just who are the toughest outs as of today.
With the change of qb at USC, their entire team was transformed which is not that unusual because both the D and O feed off one another. No, I don't believe they are the third best team in the nation, but they made an incredible turnaround. And, imo, their qb will, deservedly so, be a preseason AA next year. Really don't know if he was struggling early; therefore the decision to go with the incumbent early. But when I saw him play I knew I was watching one of the top 3, 4 qbs in the nation and the young man is just a freshman.
Using the same logic, despite our thrashing of PSU, they almost have to finish ranked higher than us, although like most here, I think we'd kick their ass again. Losing 3 out of the last 4 pretty much sealed our fate as to final rankings, but other than the almost unforgivable loss to IA, we played a damn fine game vs. OSU (controlled almost the entire game) but the L is still there and we came back strong vs. FSU, but again another damn L to a team that had been embarrassed on national t.v.
I can live with a finish in the top 10 though. It speaks as to the huge, huge improvement we've made in just two short seasons.
January 10th, 2017 at 12:30 PM ^
osu dropped out of top 5.
January 10th, 2017 at 2:42 PM ^