Legions on September 1, 2007 at 7:17 PM

Illini! They suck, but they haven’t lost to a Division 1AA team in a while…I think.

http://www.collegesportingnews.com/article.asp?articleid=85996

Sorry but you are wrong. While you make excellent pints about the timing of a loss, this is different. Michigan can run the table but everyone will remember their loss was against a 1-AA school. That is quite different than losing to Oregon State. The only championship the Wolverines will play for is the 1-AA title against ASU.

And CyberCipher, there is no way that the Wyoming win over UVa compares to App. State’s win. Wyoming has been Bowl Division (I-A) for a long time, and a team getting better each year. While App. State is two-year reigning champs of the Championship Division (I-AA), they still are the very first I-AA level team to bring down a top-25, let alone top-5 team.

Guess they weren’t kidding when they said “That’s why they play the games”.

Last year Michigan *dominated* the entire season and then their only loss was to the #1 team in the nation in the last game of the season, by a few points, at OSU. USC, on the other hand, lost to some schmuck Pac 10 team in the middle of the season. But what did the almighty computers and voters do? They put USC above Michigan in the polls.

Why you ask?

Because USC lost earlier in the season. That’s it. Period.

So, as a Purdue alumus who has had the brilliance of UM football shoved in his face by everyone I know ever since I moved to Michigan in 1999, I was extremely happy to see them finally lose a game like this instead of pulling it out of their *ss in the last minute as they have usually done in the past. HOWEVER, all the so-called sports geniuses who keep saying this eliminates UM from the national title either don’t have a clue or are trying to cover up for the fact that the stupid polling system the college game employs allows for early season losses to schmuck teams, but not for late season losses to Top 5 teams.

UM should be embarrassed, but if they use this to come together and run the table, they are right back in the national title chase.

F-Yeah! Go ASU!!

Bwahahahahaha!

As for the Vols, we shall see…as we have done every season. at least we got cutcliffe back. if the Volunteers ever strung together half a game’s worth of consistent plays, they would win from time to time on their own merit.

Go Vols! :)

espn analysis is always very irritating

ESPN is usually unfairly brutal towards Nebraska at times. I’m not a huge fan anyways but it’s something I’ve noticed and it irks me just a bit. If they win, great. If not, oh well, better luck next time. ESPN seems to take pleasure when they lose at times. When they win it’s barely on their radar but when they lose, oh boy look out, they’re all over it then. Sometimes Nebraska fans are a pain. I think many are still getting used to the fact that our big championship days back in the 90′s are long gone. They’re still a good team and most fans are cool but the best they’ve managed to pull off the past few years is about a 70%-80% win rate which is still good, just not championsip good.

Useless fact, long ago the Nebraska Cornhuskers were actually called the BUGEATERS!!! I kid you not!

Yeah, a few years ago Tennessee was playing for the National Championship. Before the game ESPN was all about “the Vols don’t have the skills to get it done” and after the game it was “I knew Tennessee would win.”
What a bunch of tools.

Go Vols!!!!!!

Tennessee Dave on September 1, 2007 at 6:11 PM

Just like they were saying about Florida in January. But for me, any time that pompous Corso has to eat crow, it’s a good time.

Meh. Too much hype over a pre-season game.

This is the real deal, brother. Michigan is ovah.
And LOL, leave it up to some of you guys to bring politics into College Football.

Preseason? This is what makes Wisconsin the BCS representative out of the Big 10.

The BCS is a scam cooked up by the MSM.

The Big-Ten champion plays in the Rose Bowl, and that will be decided on the field (not by MSM popularity polls) in the last two weeks of the Big-Ten (i.e. regular) season.

That’s the way it oughtta be, and that’s the way it is.

Obviously, for Michigan to contend for the (real) championship and the Rose Bowl, they will need to play a lot better than they did today. But I would rather lose a tune-up with no Rose Bowl implications than a conference game that actually counts for something.

Talk about divine justice.Gotta love it!

I guess alah doesn’t like football. Er…not or allah but the arabian moongod/quranic one.(HAHA)

GOD BLESS AMERICA!
paratisi

My collie says:

Thomas Jefferson wore frilly, ruffled clothes and actually LIKED France, ya’ know.

Not that there’s anything WRONG with that. The founding of UVA is one of three things in his life that he was MOST proud of — it’s carved on his tombstone, if I’m not mistaken. Of course, if he was alive today, he’d probably be horrified by the influence that the NCAA has on “higher education”.

This definitely puts a damper on The Game, but it was a pleasure to watch anyway. Takes the disappointment from the National Title game away for me. GO BUCKS!

O-H…!

But this makes the last game, usually the best game mean zip.

stephana on September 1, 2007 at 7:50 PM

No, it doesn’t make it zip. The only place this loss counts is in the polls; if somehow OSU and Michigan survive Bucky Badger, it’ll still mean the conference.

Of course, that’s not going to happen ;-)