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M remains at #4 in AP poll while WVU slips ahead of osu. AP is basically unchanged except for osu getting jumped by WVU and Dana Holgerson's hair ..... heh.
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Mission to CFB's National Championship accomplished. But the shine on the NC Trophy is embarrassingly wearing off. It's M B-Ball ..... or hockey or volley ball or name your college sport favorite time ...... until next year. -
'The Simpsons' picks a side in Michigan-Ohio State rivalry (kinda)
"Your division isn't going through Green Bay it's going through Detroit for the next five years" - Rex RyanComment
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We need experts to tell us not to look ahead past OSU? FFS.Comment
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Agreed. Hard to imagine Michigan looking ahead to the Northwestern matchup, when there's a road game against a team that beats us every year and has only one defeat for the whole year ahead. Beat OSU and the season is an unqualified success. Should be another classic.Originally posted by hack View Post
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Jeff - where is the new game thread???
Let's fucking GO! Can't believe we have to wait a whole week for this still.Comment
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Trying to honor the don't post the score (or unstick the thread/post the next one) until later today.
I think I'll reconsider after I make my From the Stands post.Mission to CFB's National Championship accomplished. But the shine on the NC Trophy is embarrassingly wearing off. It's M B-Ball ..... or hockey or volley ball or name your college sport favorite time ...... until next year.Comment
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Looking back to the predictions from August (September in one instance) in this thread:- Jeff Buchanan: 11-1. M gets to the CCG and advances to the CFP play-offs.
- Hannibal: 7-5
- WM Wolverine: 9-3 or 10-2
- Talent: 9-3, 10-2, or 11-1
- Detroit Dan: 9-3 or 10-2 (made after loss to Notre Dame)
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Wisconsin, Sparty, Ohio state not as good as expected, Notre dame better and Penn state about what I expected.Comment
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Notre dame has benefited from a weaker schedule than projected too, would like to see them play a B1G east schedule instead of ACC trash.Comment
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Yeah. I'd say both M's and ND's schedules turned to shit. I'm not sure that ND playing B10 East teams would matter much. They already beat the clear best team and did so by controlling the entire game. Sparty wouldn't score more than 6. Penn State and Ohio State have massive issues. It's a trash year for the B10.
I suspect we're going to see this all play out with Clemson-ND and Alabama-M. I don't expect those games to be close.Dan Patrick: What was your reaction to [Urban Meyer being hired]?
Brady Hoke: You know.....not....good.Comment
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Not prepared to endorse that suspicion yet.Originally posted by iam416 View Post
Too many anomalous things can happen between now and December 29th. FiveThrityEight has some interesting odds. Even with a 53% chance of beating osu, M has only a 44% chance of winning the BIG and a 35% of making the playoffs. Those odds round out with M having only a 6% chance of winning the NC.
Clemson, ND, UAT, and UGA, in that order, are ahead of M. Clemson has the best chance of winning the NC (36%). UAT has the best chance of winning the SEC.
These odds are after week 12 but before the CFP selection committee rankings. FiveThirtyEight will update odds sometime tonight.
You can see that the risk, in these particular odds, of the BIG getting edged out of the CFP and instead two SEC teams get in (UGA and UAT) is real.
Mission to CFB's National Championship accomplished. But the shine on the NC Trophy is embarrassingly wearing off. It's M B-Ball ..... or hockey or volley ball or name your college sport favorite time ...... until next year.Comment
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IMO, there's a slightly better chance that Georgia beats Alabama than M loses either of its two final games. And, IMO, both would knock M out of the CFP. So, I think it's right to be more concerned about Georgia than anyone M is playing.
Clemson's high percentage is, obviously, due the ease of its remaining games.Dan Patrick: What was your reaction to [Urban Meyer being hired]?
Brady Hoke: You know.....not....good.Comment
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Agree with that ....... I wish I could spend the time to look real close at both Alabama and UGA and get an eyeball sense of these two teams. Obviously, I spend a lot of time reading about and watching film of M. After M's last two games, I don't think they are the juggernaut they looked like after they swept Wisconsin, MSU and PSU - all three of these teams with dinged up QBs and not really very good it turns out.Originally posted by iam416 View Post
In the case of Rutgers, I think M purposefully limited Shes's carries off the RO and that affected what the O looked like and objectively delivered. IU is at another level altogether. A previously stout pass D got had too many times in that game to call the passing D v. IU an anomaly. I think it's a scheme issue, has cropped up before and had more to do with what Brown was doing with his edge rushers and LBs. They didn't get enough pressure on Ramsey as a reward for all the risks Brown took doing what he did. Obviously Allen put a lot of emphasis on figuring out how to mitigate the edge rush. Whatever he was having his OL do, they did well at it. I was impressed with how well IU's OL and TEs got the outside rushers out of their intended more direct lanes to the QB. Gary and Winovich lost their match-ups more often than they won them. Two surprises therefore materialized: (1) Ramsey unexpectedly hit some deep shots putting the ball into a phone booth. (2) Gads of space in the middle zone caused by missing LBs made Ramsey's connection on multiple slants easy.
Not to rehash the IU game ....... what this post is about is that fans need to put the brakes on expectations for M to land in the CFB play-off let alone beat osu, NfW and any of the play-off contenders if they get there.Last edited by Jeff Buchanan; November 20, 2018, 11:44 AM.Mission to CFB's National Championship accomplished. But the shine on the NC Trophy is embarrassingly wearing off. It's M B-Ball ..... or hockey or volley ball or name your college sport favorite time ...... until next year.Comment
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I am here for all of your Alabama questions... I wish I could spend the time to look real close at...Alabama"The problem with quotes on the Internet is that it is sometimes hard to verify their authenticity." -Abraham LincolnComment
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OK ..... if M and Alabama meet in the CFP, assume you are the OC and then DC. What strengths present in UAT's offense produce advantages against M's defensive weaknesses. Do the same as if you were DC. If there are Bama weaknesses that M can exploit on either side of the ball, feel free to discuss.Mission to CFB's National Championship accomplished. But the shine on the NC Trophy is embarrassingly wearing off. It's M B-Ball ..... or hockey or volley ball or name your college sport favorite time ...... until next year.Comment
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