Phil Steele: 2019 Michigan Football losing to Clemson in Semifinal
Phil Steele predicts that Michigan is going to the CFB semifinals in 2019.
Steele likes Michigan's new OC, new offensive philosophy, QB, veteran OL and Don Brown. He also likes the fact that Michigan gets Notre Dame, MSU and Ohio State in Ann Arbor.
Link: https://thespun.com/big-ten/michigan-wolverines/michigan-college-football-playoff-prediction-phil-steele
Would be very happy with that as it likely means we've won the conference.
Agreed. A big ten championship also means a win against OSU and MSU. As long as we aren’t embarrassed in the playoffs like MSU or OSU vs Clemson, I’d be happy with that season.
Not necesarily. Look at last year...had Maryland held on against OSU, we still would have been playing in Indianapolis against Northwestern for the BigTen Championship.
Well, if Maryland had held on, OSU (and Urban) might have been demoralized and mailed it in. In spite of the importance OSU puts on the Michigan game, last year's team looked mentally/emotionally weak all year.
Always until they play us. Always.
Nice thought. It's a cliche, but they'd play like warrior-poets against us even if they were 0-11 going into The Game. That culture extends beyond the HC of the hour.
I wouldn’t say they looked weak all year, possibly the first 11 games of the season. The last three games all they did was crush us, win the Big Ten Championship and win the Rose Bowl.
With OSU having an unproven QB, who may be a better runner than a thrower, in a pass-happy offense, I like our chances against them. I would like them even more if they still had Schiano running their defense.
Yes, but we would have already been embarrassed.
Same. I've downgraded my long term expectations of the program from compete yearly for National Titles to compete yearly for Big Ten Titles which they basically are already doing.
We all know the current college football landscape means it's unrealistic to expect to join the Clemson and Bama's of the world. Just give me a Big Ten Title, please.
Why? Bama sucked before Satan. Winning fixes everything.
Our bag men disappeared after Lloyd left..
Do you honestly think that Lloyd had any bagmen?
Unless you know something I don't... I think it had more to do with the perception of Michigan then versus now. The people we are recruiting now have seen Michigan win one Big Ten title in their lifetime, where people in the late 90s/early aughts had seen that for almost a majority of their lives with a national title to boot.
Driving around the athletic campus in the late 90's was like going to a car show.. Saw it first hand. I dont think it was over the top, but players did have nice trucks or at least access to them.
100%. I've gone through the same thing, and believe it's unrealistic to think we can compete for the top couple of national spots, and I'm ok with this. Give me regular 10-11 win seasons and competing for the conference title every year and I'm good.
By “compete yearly for Big Ten Titles” you mean play games in the BIG but don’t win the BIG Title?...yearly?
The one consistent thing in our retreat from BIG titles has been from being shut out of Ohio for the recruits,starting with Tressel. Fact is,w need way more top Ohio recruits, and that will be the difference again. They know how important that game is, and being from there they just have to win it. Why we see way more Ohio recruits. And same reason why dantoni has a few titles.
This is true and certainly a component in our inability to compete with OSU. I would submit that OSU's talent level has generally been higher (just how much is up for debate) over the last decade with one or two exceptions. Meyer has generally been the better coach. If the better coach only has to "out coach" us due to equal or slightly lower talent twice a decade, well we see the results.
Only if any of you have lived in Ohio, do you understand the degree to which OSU has locked down that state starting in the Fifties. It permeates every facet of life down there. Non-stop. If it is true that "Winning solves everything", OSU has a big lead over us which magnifies the situation.
It's not impossible, but it is one BIG challenge.
I disagree partly with this--I think it's indisputable that OSU has had better talent than us every year for the last 10-12. I think it's factual, and not by a small bit either.
Beating OSU gets you the whole prize. There is no half way. You either lose to OSU and your coach is overrated or god forbid you win and are in the way playoff. Half of Harbaughs tenure has come down to that.
Fear The Rutger
Won’t believe any of this shit until I see with my own two eyes that Michigan has more quantifiable points than OSU on the scoreboard with 0.00 time left.
Please remind me - is Steele usually Michigan-Optimistic of Michigan-Pessimistic?
Neutral. He nailed 2017 on the head and was pretty close in last years and 2016's prediction IIRC.
He's big on returning production.
He’s probably the best at what he does.
very much want this to be true.
emotional hedge says, 'not likely'.
I guess you'll just have to settle for a semi-final win then...
XM - Don't let the BPONE creep in!
fist bump for you and WW. i'll hang in there.
go blue!
So far the guys in this thread are pussy's. If we get to the semifinal and lose to Clemson I would be pissed. It's a step in the right direction, but fuck that. To hell with Notre Dame.
We haven't even BEEN to the B1G Championship Game once and you're calling people "pussy's" for being happy with a potential top-4 finish which would in all likelihood mean we won the B1G in 2019.....?
It's a prediction. Stop creaming your pants over a prediction.
"It's a prediction. Stop creaming your pants over a prediction."
Says the guy who just called people "pussy's" because of a prediction.
Get it right. Because they are happy with something hypothetical and it's a runner up to the runner up. Get over yourself.
Ok, we get your point. You can stop being a dick now.
You are ridiculous. Making the top 4 is always a good season no matter what, and maybe against the popular opinion on here Notre Dame and MSU should not feel bad about getting blown out in it. 2016 OSU can fuck off and should feel bad, because that team didn't deserve to be there.
pussies*
My bad. Thanks
He clearly posts like an incel. So it in terms of that word, it's understandable.
You are exactly right.
Whom about what??
NO MORE QUESTIONS !
No more answers!!
"So far the guys in this thread are pussy's."
One of the venerable MGoBlog traditions is "Predictions of how Michigan will do as indicator of manliness/testosterone level/estrogen level/Alpha Dog status." Thanks for stepping up.
At whom is the possessive form of cat aimed?
Also we need another fire bakich thread just in case people didn’t understand that there’s a joke on here about firing him
I'd take it...so long as we beat OSU, MSU, & the B1G.
Eh, I agree on OSU and the B1G. If we do those things and lose to MSU, meh, oh well. I'm caring less and less about MSU football by the day, back to the good ole days I guess.
Steele's 2018 prediction:
https://www.mlive.com/wolverines/2018/06/phil_steeles_michigan_forecast_1.html
"Steele projects a second-place finish in the Big Ten East, which would be the best finish for a Jim Harbaugh coached team since he arrived in Ann Arbor prior to the 2015 season.
That finish, Steele predicts, will send Michigan to the Chick-fil-A Peach Beach in Atlanta on Dec. 29."