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[THE_WIZARD_]

Bama is STACKED on offense in particular the OL. Hell their OL is probably as good as some NFL lines. But like dipshit said...defensively they lost a lot of talent...but they will still be very good. I will say Bama 35 Michigan 13

[Tony G]

I'd almost rather they forfeited to Alabama. Less chance of bad things happening.

Okay, first off I'm surprised Bo Schembechler hasn't risen from the grave and kicked your asses for even giving a head fake towards a suggestion of forfeiting being the best thing!

THOSE WHO STAY WILL BE CHAMPIONS
Ever hear that before? It means going out there and playing at 100% no matter what. It may very well come to pass that U-M gets beat by Satan's team but fer crissake you show up and you play with the pride that comes with putting on



For all the smack that gets posted here I am surprised at this attitude. Did the RR years turn you guys into pussies? Grow a maize and blue set of stones and man up!

This thread sounds like a bunch of Hoosiers!

[UMStan White]

"For all the smack that gets posted here I am surprised at this attitude. Did the RR years turn you guys into pussies? Grow a maize and blue set of stones and man up!

This thread sounds like a bunch of Hoosiers!"

AMEN!

[lineygoblue]

I guess the last few Carr years, and the Rodriguez years made me lower my sights a bit.

First games are a bear for every team. If this was going to be played deeper into the schedule, I'd probably expect a Bama blowout as well.

But, being the first game of the season, if there's any chance of an upset at all, this will be it.

And I think Hokeattison will have the guys as ready as they can be. We won't see any App State effort in Dallas.

[Tony G]

I apologize for the rant. I was just very surprised at the tone I was reading in this thread.

[Rob F]

No apologies necessary, Tony---I'm in agreement with you; there isn't a team on the schedule that Michigan can't beat, until someone proves themselves better over the course of 60 minutes between the sidelines, right up until the final gun sounds.

ND thought they had our number under the lights last September for about 59 1/2 minutes or so, didn't they!?!

[UMStan White]

"I apologize for the rant. I was just very surprised at the tone I was reading in this thread."

I thought you were too soft on them.

[lineygoblue]

I love it when you're tough on us, Stan ...

[Dr. Strangelove]

What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas

[entropy]

I love it when you're tough on us, Stan ...

So many comments...

[lineygoblue]

Oh, go ahead. If you don't someone else will ...

[Rob F]

What happens in Chesaning, stays in ... huh?

[Ghengis Jon]

"This thread sounds like a bunch of Hoosiers!"

.

That was cold.

[Tony G]

But accurate at the time. :-)

[entropy]

LOS ANGELES -- USC coach Lane Kiffin said Tuesday that he "would not vote USC No. 1" in the coaches' poll, but he actually did, USA Today revealed Thursday night.

Citing Kiffin's providing of "false or misleading information" to the public and a desire to "set the record straight to protect the poll's integrity," the newspaper released Kiffin's top-voted team in the USA Today Coaches' Poll.

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Votes are normally kept confidential until the final poll of each year.

Asked after his Trojans' Tuesday practice to reveal the team he voted to be No. 1 in the country, Kiffin said he could not disclose that information. But when told of Arizona coach Rich Rodriguez's comment that he voted the Trojans first, Kiffin laughed.

"I would not vote USC No. 1, I can tell you that much," Kiffin said.

He expressed similar sentiments at Pac-12 media day last month before the Trojans added Penn State running back Silas Redd to their roster.

"I don't know how you vote a team No. 1 that has less players than everybody else, so I don't but I'm sure I think I know our issues more than other people do, especially at running back," Kiffin said.

Grant Teaff, executive director of the American Football Coaches Association which co-directs the poll with the newspaper, told USA Today he sent Kiffin a letter about his issue with the comments.

USC senior associate athletic director of media relations Tim Tessalone said Kiffin had not received a letter or a phone call from Teaff as of late Thursday night.

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"USA TODAY sent a June 4, 2012, letter to coaches who agreed to vote in its college football poll stating that, except for the final poll of the regular season, 'votes for all other polls will be kept confidential by USA Today,'" Tessalone said in a statement. "The fact that the leadership of the American Football Coaches Association, which tasks USA TODAY to administer its poll, joined with the poll administrators from USA TODAY to decide to breach that confidentiality by providing to a reporter a coach's vote in its pre-season poll is disappointing and attacks the integrity of the poll.

"Further, that the reporter who was given this information represents the very organization that conducts the poll is a conflict of journalistic interest."

In the June 4 letter to Kiffin, there is no mention of USA Today's ability to reveal votes in certain situations.

Kiffin defended his vote to the newspaper by saying his players would have found out one way or another if he hadn't put the Trojans No. 1.

"We have less players than everybody else," Kiffin told USA Today. "So looking at it from the outside, I wouldn't (vote USC No. 1). Did I? Yeah, I did. That's not based off of 75 vs. 85. That's based off of Matt Barkley, T.J. McDonald and Robert Woods and Marqise Lee. When everybody has the same record, I can't go into a meeting with our players and have them say, 'You put that team and that team ahead of us.' That's why I did that."

The preseason poll was Kiffin's first-ever vote in the USA Today Coaches' Poll.