Rose Bowl and Afternoon Games Thread
Some nice games this afternoon.
Iowa beats Miss State.
Right now James Franklin is busy screwing up a huge comeback for Penn State against Kentucky:
down 6 points on the Kentucky 15, Franklin elects to kick a field goal to make it 24-27 with 4 minutes left. Looks like Kentucky is about to pull out the win.
OSU vs Washington at 5:00 EST
Texas vs Georgia at 9:00 EST
January 1st, 2019 at 7:03 PM ^
Look ma, the four leading receivers on both these teams are a thing called a "WR". Eight guys called the "WR" been catching most passes in this game. What's that "WR" thing? Michigan got that ma?
January 1st, 2019 at 7:08 PM ^
Legit question, where should Michigan be ranked end of year? I’m thinking 12-16 range.
January 1st, 2019 at 7:15 PM ^
OSUs young backups even embarrassing UW now.
January 1st, 2019 at 7:17 PM ^
Washington has chosen the slow death with their zone being carved up and their offense yielding little. I guess the score won't sound as bad at around 42-10 but will actually be worse than our 62-39 disaster
January 1st, 2019 at 7:51 PM ^
We were down 41-19 in the 4th quarter. Those last 20 points were essentially garbage time points.
January 1st, 2019 at 7:18 PM ^
Any interest I might have had in today’s games was effectively extinguished by our Peach Bowl performance, which soured me on the balance of the college football season. That and having to watch Alabama and Clemson again (which I won’t).
January 1st, 2019 at 7:19 PM ^
I hope to God our coaches are watching and taking notes.
January 1st, 2019 at 7:31 PM ^
They aren't taking notes it ain't like using a variety of packages is a new innovation
January 1st, 2019 at 7:59 PM ^
It isn't a new innovation, but some would argue that our coaches never got the memo and therefore should be taking extensive notes.
January 1st, 2019 at 7:20 PM ^
This zone is really shutting down OSU’s passing game.
January 1st, 2019 at 7:24 PM ^
I know! NW zone scheme and UW zone scheme really shutting OSU down! If only Brown would've tried it! What a fool!
January 1st, 2019 at 7:29 PM ^
We have better defensive players than Washington and NW...
January 1st, 2019 at 8:32 PM ^
28 points is a lot less than Brown's #1 defense allowed at this point in the game.
January 1st, 2019 at 7:20 PM ^
I got one question. How the F does OSU’s receivers get so open? Against UF, we would be lucky to not have a DB riding our back.
The disparity between OSU and us...they want it, we don’t I guess.
January 1st, 2019 at 7:24 PM ^
Coaching, scheme, and athletes.
January 1st, 2019 at 7:27 PM ^
and roids
January 1st, 2019 at 7:30 PM ^
Stop it
January 1st, 2019 at 8:37 PM ^
Come on dude. Some of our already fit guys put on 20 pounds of lean muscle mass over winter conditioning with hard work, prayers, and whole milk.
Yeah right. Steroids are rampant at the HS level. You know a lot of dudes on every team are juicing.
January 1st, 2019 at 7:23 PM ^
Wow!!! Huskies are terrible!!! Would have been nice if OSU would have went to the playoffs and got trucked by Alabama and we would have beaten this Washington team in the Rose Bowl by 2+ TD’s!
January 1st, 2019 at 7:27 PM ^
You can’t actually be serious. Washington is no different that Florida, probably better. Do you really think it was just dumb UM luck and they would be crushing Washington. Dude
January 1st, 2019 at 7:29 PM ^
Yep, I didn’t join mgoblog just last week to trash Michigan Football, so yeah I really do believe Michigan would crush this Washington team. This Washington team is PSU level and we had no problem with them!
January 1st, 2019 at 7:33 PM ^
We would have lost to Washington...shit we woulda lost to UCF!
January 1st, 2019 at 7:38 PM ^
Sigh. You be you buddy, keep living your best life. UF ranked 10, UW ranked 9. Expand on the loss to UF and why UW would have been a W. It’s embarrassing that you act like the UF game was a fluke and with a different bounce of the ball UM would be Rose Bowl champs.
Also, Look at my post history champ, there isn’t a single post trashing UM. You seem to have issues with facts.
January 1st, 2019 at 7:38 PM ^
Florida is not a good football team.
Franks is not a good QB.
Whatever narrative you have constructed in your head to deal with the Peach Bowl results, there is literally zero reason to believe the outcome would have been different against any other team of Florida's level-- like Washington.
January 1st, 2019 at 7:46 PM ^
Well you guys can keep running that hopeless train....that we’re staring at a 3-9 season next year and only 2 star recruits in our future, I am choosing to trust that things will get sorted out and 3 out of 4 ten win seasons isn’t actually Rutgers level like a growing number of bloggers are trying to sell!
January 1st, 2019 at 7:54 PM ^
I don’t think delusional 3-9 commentary (which absolutely nobody is saying) is any more informative than Rose Bowl champ posts. How about dropping the hyperbole and being real, just a crazy thought.
PS. This isn’t a blog and if you are using more than one ! a day you are overdoing it. Now get off my lawn.
January 1st, 2019 at 7:56 PM ^
There is a vast, yawning chasm between "We would have won the Rose Bowl!" and "We're going to go 3-9 and never beat Ohio State again".
And keep in mind, teams play an extra game against a cupcake nowadays. The idea of 10 wins as an accomplishment was set when that meant a 10-2 season. 10-3, with the extra win against a completely outmatched non-conference opponent, is much closer to 9-3 than it is to 10-2.
January 1st, 2019 at 7:58 PM ^
1 and 9 after 4 years
ONE & FUCKING NINE
January 2nd, 2019 at 2:22 AM ^
just so delusional..LOL
Get past Florida first before you speculate on an even better Washington team...jeez
January 2nd, 2019 at 2:22 AM ^
just so delusional..LOL
Get past Florida first before you speculate on an even better Washington team...jeez
January 1st, 2019 at 7:57 PM ^
Not saying we would beat UW, but I would like to think we would have had a different team in the Rose Bowl. I have to believe all 4 who sat the Peach would've played, and I would also hope to see a much more motivated team to compete the full game.
January 1st, 2019 at 8:05 PM ^
Football H, you’d sure hope there would be less sitting for the Rose Bowl, the biggest disappointment to me was not seeing what they were capable of doing against UF and the questions it raises. Felt like the team quit after The Game and didn’t come back. I don’t fault the players for sitting just because we didn’t get to see a good game, but it’s disappointing.
January 1st, 2019 at 7:28 PM ^
We wouldn’t have. Would be a 3 point game down to the wire. And we might lose
January 1st, 2019 at 7:46 PM ^
Did you watch the peach bowl? Florida isn’t good. We just made them look that way.
January 1st, 2019 at 7:24 PM ^
This is going to get real ugly.
OSU's offense makes UM's look like something from the stone age.
January 1st, 2019 at 8:02 PM ^
In fairness, UM's offense IS from the stoneage most days
January 1st, 2019 at 7:27 PM ^
Why is Washington playing against the 1985 Patriots? Steve Grogan is tearing them up
January 1st, 2019 at 7:37 PM ^
Herbstreit should leave the booth and suck Urban and Dewaynes dicks.
January 1st, 2019 at 7:42 PM ^
Yeah, why isn't he talking shit? They've both clearly been awful today
January 1st, 2019 at 8:08 PM ^
Oh your back. Lol Sell your soul for wins!
January 1st, 2019 at 9:08 PM ^
Why would he want to take your job?
January 1st, 2019 at 7:56 PM ^
Mods should lock this thread or send it to 11 W, I thought I got redirected there anyway for some reason reading through these posts..
January 1st, 2019 at 8:00 PM ^
Go to Mlive if you want homer central
January 1st, 2019 at 8:01 PM ^
You mean mlive where all of the Michigan articles are filled with Sparty troll commenters??
January 1st, 2019 at 8:00 PM ^
Holy shit is Browning just average, at best.
January 1st, 2019 at 8:06 PM ^
I'm going to watch to the end just to make sure Urban Meyer really leaves.
January 1st, 2019 at 8:28 PM ^
LOL. Thanks for giving me a reason to keep watching too.
January 1st, 2019 at 8:09 PM ^
Haskins has gotten excellent protection...his accuracy remains outstanding...he makes plays. That's how you win games.
January 1st, 2019 at 8:14 PM ^
Statistically UW is outplaying OSU slightly except in the one stat that matters...the score
January 1st, 2019 at 8:34 PM ^
Statistically UW is outplaying OSU slightly except in the one stat that matters...the time of possession.
Fixed that for you.