Michigan Football, the 2020 Abbreviated COVID Season

[AlabamAlum]

Circling back to the 'permanency" of college football. Here the ten teams with the most wins in the 90's (excluding Marshall as a non-FBS team). After that is a list of teams with the most wins from 2010-2019. I've highlighted in red the only team to make both lists. Everyone else has turned over.

1. Florida State
2. Nebraska
3. Florida
4. Tennessee
5. Penn State
6. Texas A&M
7. Michigan
8. Miami
9. Ohio State
10. Colorado

1. Alabama (123)
2. Ohio State* (117)
3. Clemson (113)
4. Oklahoma (109)
5. Boise State (107)
6. Wisconsin (102)
7. LSU (101)
8. Oregon (100)
9. Georgia (99)
10. Stanford (97)

Alabama would be tied with OSU. We forfeited 8 games because of the Antonio Langham cocktail napkin.

[Jeff Buchanan]

Oversigning? On the list of systemic problems within the FBS that allegedly produce the same teams for the CFP, this doesn't make the top 5.

DSL actually has a point about turn-over at the top of the CFB heap. As fans, we have very short term memories - immediacy bias. I like that term as introduced by talent and the term applied by him to my logic.

I don't think there is any arguing that the FBS, in particular within CFB, has several anti-competitive structural issues across all 130 teams. I claim no capacity to solve any of them but, in no particular order, my top 3 are:

Conference alignment on a national and regional basis. i.e., nationally and regionally, if you want conferences and leagues within them, the way they are arranged geographically right now makes little sense and has been driven not by making CFB more competitive nationally but by TV revenue/contracts, preservation of arcane organizational structures and self-interest.

Payola/Player compensation.

Lack of scheduling uniformity.

[hack]

I think the TV folks are more likely to compare ratings year-on year then they are across decades.

[Hannibal]

[iam416]

Man, I didn't even realize that HARBAUGH!!!! is on the verge of going 1-9 in is final 2 games as M coach. I remember when DSL's boy Cooper went 1-7-1 in the final two games over his first 5 years. It was pretty awful.

[WM Wolverine]

Harbaugh does have a pretty good record in his first 11 games of the season.

[hack]

1-7-1 in the final two games over his first 5 years

Well that made me wonder about any layoffs or ongoing struggles or somesuch at OSU's math department, so I googled news for OSU's math department and found "Ohio State ranked in the top 10 nationally for study abroad" (https://news.osu.edu/2019-open-doors...-international).

Good call to outsource the education aspect of having a university, OSU. I support whatever takes for more of your graduates to be able to count to 10 and multiply five by two.

[lineygoblue]

Harbaugh is not the problem.

[hack]

Michigan outranks OSU in every way but one.

[iam416]

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[iam416]

The State of M football? Welcome aboard Tom and Chase:

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[lineygoblue]

They are true Michigan Men. They are honorable, and live up to their commitments.

[iam416]

Indeed

[hack]

I see five different threat levels there. Not too ambitious a total.

???(????"Harbaugh shirtless" is excellent)

[froot loops]

That threat level chart is top notch.