All the other posts are full with off field drama and shame. Rightfully so, but the games are starting and I'm hyped. Also I've found myself back in IN and couldn't resist getting talked into going to the game tonight. Ross Ade ain't great, but really shows out at night.

Go boilers! Not confident, but excited. Should be a fun game regardless.

As far as the rest of the weekend:

- WV vs TN was thinking of going if I was home this weekend
- Auburn vs. Washington. Huskies are my Pac10 team + I'm team Peterson
- mich/ ND
-Miami / LSU

games like this remind me of just how impressive Northwestern's rise to pseudo-relevance has been, becuase they're still woefully under-talented relative to the powers in their conference but they remain competitive

Defense got better in second half. 3ints= 21 points in first half was too much to overcome in end

Fun, if not crazy/wild atmosphere.

Also, fuck! I forgot how long CFB games can be.

would've loved to see the ending before that damn penalty!

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Teams so far. But I think it's an intentional trade-off. He so intently focused on intensity and driving swagger/confidence that he's fine with some undisciplined play. But not like that!

If not I know FSU gonna put 40 on dem hoes.

Noles vs. VaTech should be a good game, glad Francois is on our side...we got this!



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6-2 is shaky to win the coastal, but if yall can pop VT and Miami for us...

that would be super helpful

and FSU-GT has been fun as hell every time for the last decade. a 3rd ACC championship matchup would be sweet.

WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE

we're money.

if not? i dunno.

our defense is savage though. our whole starting defensive backfield will be drafted, as will a couple guys who are on the bench simply because they are underclassmen who have to wait out their higher-ups.

having Hunter Bryant and Chico McClatcher back should keep the offense ticking even though no one knows a single WR's name.

traveling across country has me just as nervous as anything. pac 12 teams just don't do that all that much.

we're in your house in a couple of weeks.

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Getting beat by 40 at home is a motivating tailwind that scares me.

I have that circled as a win, but can't front like I'm confident

blown out by SC, you guys, Auburn, losing by a TD at Kentucky then actually kind of "hanging" with Georgia before they were like "wait...we've got like 4 NFL running backs on our roster...bye". After the Barry Odom meltdown presser...I thought for sure he was gone...then we run off 6 wins to end the regular season. The defense cannot go anywhere but up. Last year we won the home opener against Missouri State, but they hung 42 points on us...ugh. Hopefully we choke out Tennessee-Martin today, as we should.

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@Purdue, home against Georgia, @ South Carolina, @ Alabama...GEEZ!

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I count six, maybe seven wins on the schedule. I'm not worried about Wyoming. But we could easily lose four of the six, if not all six.

Purdue will be tough, obviously UGA, USC, and ALA likely will be losses and I could see Memphis giving us fits if our defense isn't tightened up by then.

<--- Me when my head hits the pillow

I've looked at the schedule several times and I can't decide what I feel as far as a record. Like you said, the defense is going to determine a lot. While this wasn't giving up 43 to Missouri State, last year...I don't think we could see enough from Saturday's game to know anything for certain. I will say that I was disappointed by the lack of a pass rush. I feel like we have been waiting for Terry Beckner to be dominant for some time, now. The Perdue game will let us know what to really expect, I think. It'd be nice to go into the Georgia game 3-0, because we will probably have 3 straight losses, starting with the Bulldogs.

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nice to see the evolution of the big 10. that game wouldve been completely unwatchable for the past decade.

fitzgerald platooning thorson in the first half was bizarre.

>All the other posts are full with off field drama and shame.
>Rightfully so, but the games are starting and I'm hyped. Also
>I've found myself back in IN and couldn't resist getting
>talked into going to the game tonight. Ross Ade ain't great,
>but really shows out at night.
>
>Go boilers! Not confident, but excited. Should be a fun game
>regardless.
>
>As far as the rest of the weekend:
>
>- WV vs TN was thinking of going if I was home this weekend
>- Auburn vs. Washington. Huskies are my Pac10 team + I'm team
>Peterson
>- mich/ ND
>-Miami / LSU
>
>

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Bet on my boys to cover and they delivered. Few things feel better. Need Joe Giles-Harris to be healthy, but other than that, great first game against a team that beat us last year.

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Oregon State, Ohio State or Oklahoma State?

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...I'm from the era when A.I. was the answer, now they think ai is the answer - Marlon Craft

bet that

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should've been the starter last year

how you gonna lose to these dudes 2 years in a row????

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but still

Looks my Saturdays are already free for the Fall now.

Dude is legit not a good coach or seemingly a program builder either.
Texas will somehow be worse after him than when Brown left
But hey, at least they started upgrading the facilities.

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Expecting any coach to take a gutted program and immediately jump start it with under developed talent and underclassman is stupid
But they did. And here we are.

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<--- Big Baller World Order

one of the best, I selfishly hope he doesn't get back into coaching because of it

<-Fear Ameer

Leading Solich and Ohio by 12

<-Fear Ameer

talented defenses, but that was an ugly pairing of quarterbacks who don't rise to the occassion

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in what was basically an away game and without their stud LT.

with that said, if they win out in the pac (which they prob will) i would still find it hard to make a case for them in the playoffs.

Browning isn’t a very good QB so he will drop a game against a pac 12 t am that he shouldn’t.

toughest games against stanford and oregon?

very winnable schedule

surprisingly on defense as well

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When a team quits on its coach, this is what it looks like. I hope that’s not what’s happening to Michigan, but this is really bad.

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"You (Fisher) could get fired, Les Snead could get fired, Kevin Demoff could get fired, but I will always be Eric Dickerson.” (c) The God

Yeah, we got issues. Not enough push up front and young secondary. But, wow, that’s a good ass offensive system and play caller. You could see how well the routes all fit together.

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"You (Fisher) could get fired, Les Snead could get fired, Kevin Demoff could get fired, but I will always be Eric Dickerson.” (c) The God

>When a team quits on its coach, this is what it looks like.

which offensive player on mich are you dying to insert into your squad's lineup?

The backs and receivers all look slow as shit, and obviously the line is a disaster,

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"You (Fisher) could get fired, Les Snead could get fired, Kevin Demoff could get fired, but I will always be Eric Dickerson.” (c) The God

my media day press conference observations didn't go over so well, haha

but they were on point. this guy's gonna be looking for the exit pretty soon.

bama upgrading to him is unfair

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"You (Fisher) could get fired, Les Snead could get fired, Kevin Demoff could get fired, but I will always be Eric Dickerson.” (c) The God

pac 12 south will be a shit show this year.

would like to see Tate ball out and take the division.

Arizona isn’t winning the Pac 12 South. I have Colorado winning the Pac 12 South this season.

This offense is WAY better than Colorado.

Probably the best true freshman linebacker in the country with Robertson.

N'Keal Harry is a 1st round pick WR and Manny can jump over your favorite DB.

Huge game against Sparty next week

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> I have Colorado
>winning the Pac 12 South this season.

Colorado State is definitely rebuilding

<-Fear Ameer

But my God... Both these teams are GARBAGE


>All the other posts are full with off field drama and shame.
>Rightfully so, but the games are starting and I'm hyped. Also
>I've found myself back in IN and couldn't resist getting
>talked into going to the game tonight. Ross Ade ain't great,
>but really shows out at night.
>
>Go boilers! Not confident, but excited. Should be a fun game
>regardless.
>
>As far as the rest of the weekend:
>
>- WV vs TN was thinking of going if I was home this weekend
>- Auburn vs. Washington. Huskies are my Pac10 team + I'm team
>Peterson
>- mich/ ND
>-Miami / LSU
>
>

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the only way they wouldve lost that game was with turnovers or really shitty field position because mich was not going march the length of the field with multiple scoring drives

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Shit is just comedy to me.

And relax notre dame is far from trash.

Alabama is just. Whew. I'll never tire seeing Saban have a chaotic meltdown on a player up 30+ points with seven neck veins on the verge of exploding

LOL at ucla, cmon Chip.

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>Alabama is just. Whew. I'll never tire seeing Saban have a
>chaotic meltdown on a player up 30+ points with seven neck
>veins on the verge of exploding

#themichigandifference



>All the other posts are full with off field drama and shame.
>Rightfully so, but the games are starting and I'm hyped. Also
>I've found myself back in IN and couldn't resist getting
>talked into going to the game tonight. Ross Ade ain't great,
>but really shows out at night.
>
>Go boilers! Not confident, but excited. Should be a fun game
>regardless.
>
>As far as the rest of the weekend:
>
>- WV vs TN was thinking of going if I was home this weekend
>- Auburn vs. Washington. Huskies are my Pac10 team + I'm team
>Peterson
>- mich/ ND
>-Miami / LSU
>
>

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the brown figures on the walls of my apart-a-ment...

>#themichigandifference
>
>
>
>>All the other posts are full with off field drama and shame.
>
>>Rightfully so, but the games are starting and I'm hyped.
>Also
>>I've found myself back in IN and couldn't resist getting
>>talked into going to the game tonight. Ross Ade ain't
>great,
>>but really shows out at night.
>>
>>Go boilers! Not confident, but excited. Should be a fun
>game
>>regardless.
>>
>>As far as the rest of the weekend:
>>
>>- WV vs TN was thinking of going if I was home this weekend
>>- Auburn vs. Washington. Huskies are my Pac10 team + I'm
>team
>>Peterson
>>- mich/ ND
>>-Miami / LSU
>>
>>
>

Does Harbaugh's ego let him junk his antiquated offense? Gary Patterson did.

<-Fear Ameer

the defense will be fine, even tho the mistakes were all lethal. Hawkins not coming down with that ball in the endzone seems anomalous; he was in perfect position. they were way too amped up, and once they settled down they were dominant. penalties and overrushes were the cause of most of NDs scoring drives (or turned 3 into 7)

but the offense STILL cant pass protect. ND got pressure with 4 off stunts ALL night. also waited WAY too long to get Chris Evans involved. also did not get the expected production out of TE. McKeon did nothing and Gentry only did slightly more. idk what they are gonna do about these tackles, but it seems like everyone is gonna be banking on in-season development, which... *sigh*

WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE

this Burrow kid is making checks like Peyton Manning and can't even snap the ball on time...two timeouts in the first quarter to avoid delay of games

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firing Ruffin McNeill for winning 6-8 games every year because the AD thought we should be "winning championships and be in the national discussion" has worked out GREAT

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looked like a combo of the two, IMO, though I was passively watching while at a party.

I was actually encouraged by a few things:

- Guarantano looked completely different. He was hitting timing passes and throwing darts on favorable downs for the defense. he should be the guy, and Jordan looking like a young Jalen Hurd was a nice surprise.

- OL is going to be a huge issue. our guards look like tight ends. WVU was dictating the LOS, God bless what SEC fronts will do

- Defense was in the right spots, but they just aren't talented. no wonder so many freshmen are playing in the secondary. they got baptised by an experienced qb-wr corps but there will be better days.

- Pruitt did not look overmatched and team was well-coached for the most part. second half was ugly though so he has to correct that and get them to stop the bleeding.

played well for a half but their lack of talent and weakness on OL/DL (who can rush the passer?) will show up over 60 minutes. got to keep coaching and hope some young talent develop.

fuck Grier. he was shit in the first half but had some nice throws in the second. he won't take the next step until he gets that hero ball out of his system.

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JT barrett was the 3rd best qb on the osu roster for the past 2 seasons

and i will prob obsess over this for the rest of my life

it's a new day

tsk tsk

if braxtons shoulder didnt crumble ...*sigh*

he did everything better than Barrett...he just needed one more season w Urban to undo that bullshit interim w Bauserman and Fickell...

oh well.

cest la vie


>JT barrett was the 3rd best qb on the osu roster for the past
>2 seasons
>
>and i will prob obsess over this for the rest of my life

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brax had his own issues. and was certainly not tougher than JT.

they were going in on Ed O., SO hard for talking his shit...and, just in general. Dude said he had "three game plans" for Miami. Dan said his game plan was gonna be to hope the defense could win it 9-7, lol. Miami got washed.

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https://deadspin.com/big-ten-network-suspends-braylon-edwards-indefinitely-f-1828787456

he kinda toted the line there, he could've easily disparaged Michigan and kept his job/not get suspended, but droppin the F bomb and shitting on two current players? OVER THE LINE (c) Walter Sob

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>he kinda toted the line there, he could've easily disparaged
>Michigan and kept his job/not get suspended, but droppin the F
>bomb and shitting on two current players? OVER THE LINE (c)
>Walter Sob

WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE

not the poor misguided player who was duped into going to what he thought was an elite football school.

still funny though,

he was always nice to my family (they lived a few doors away from him when he was drafted by the browns) so i stopped talking greasy about braylon a while ag


i seriously dont know what the fix is for michigan...maybe they should make a serious run at dabo (the only coach who seems to have urbans number)

or go after some current assistant we have right now

(i dont get the big deal about iowa state HC matt campbell, the guy who supposedly has the inside track to TOSU job if URban ever quits or leaves)

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since way before saturday

>i seriously dont know what the fix is for michigan...maybe
>they should make a serious run at dabo (the only coach who
>seems to have urbans number)

The fix is time at this point. Let Frey and Warriner work and hope Jalen Mayfield grows up quick

>or go after some current assistant we have right now

isnt that where warriner came from?

>(i dont get the big deal about iowa state HC matt campbell,
>the guy who supposedly has the inside track to TOSU job if
>URban ever quits or leaves)

hes good. Toledo was fun to watch when he was the coach...peak MACtion lol

WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE

nobody came calling for him as an OC after he got fired from OSU and he's an objectively bad recruiter and talent evaluator.

he recruited a lot of OL at OSU who can't play a lick.

Frey's track record with recruiting is good enough for me

WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE

what the fuck were those guys doing?

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WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE

the replay officials should have buzzed down...and didn't. FSU could have challenged on the field...and didn't.

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