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IrishSteelhead said:
2013 scUM may very well have the same inexplicable and improbable run a certain team did in 2012. They are getting breaks, doing just enough to win against crappy opponents, and getting up for the big opponents.
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If you are implying 2012 ND, no way. The Michigan defense is garbage.
 
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IrishSteelhead said:
2013 scUM may very well have the same inexplicable and improbable run a certain team did in 2012. They are getting breaks, doing just enough to win against crappy opponents, and getting up for the big opponents.
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Except that certain team in 2012 only gave up 12 points a game.
 
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"Hoke's been successful everywhere he's gone. He turned San Diego State around quickly". Doesn't he have like a 57% winning percentage?
 
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Everyone needs to conceptualize just how bad our D played against Michigan. Holy hell.
 
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This Michigan team isn't good enough to beat good teams, but the sad thing is, they'll be about 6-0 until they play someone decent.

If they keep playing like this, they could slip up, but IDK who to. No one on their schedule is good besides OSU, who's really good.
 
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This Michigan team isn't good enough to beat good teams, but the sad thing is, they'll be about 6-0 until they play someone decent.

If they keep playing like this, they could slip up, but IDK who to. No one on their schedule is good besides OSU, who's really good.
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The Michigan schedule is a joke. I could see MSU beating them because of their defense being so tough.
 
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kuehnja said:
This Michigan team isn't good enough to beat good teams, but the sad thing is, they'll be about 6-0 until they play someone decent.

If they keep playing like this, they could slip up, but IDK who to. No one on their schedule is good besides OSU, who's really good.
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We could conceivably have another smoke and mirrors scUM-OSU "Game of the Century" where the winner gets the privilege of having their poop pushed in by Bama, and the loser receives the same treat from Stanford or Oregon.
 
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How can one team have so many horseshoes up their a$$es?

Chandler Whitmer made an idiotic decision not running on first down (they said 5 yds, he looked like he could have gotten closer to 7)
 
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kuehnja said:
Relax. Do you have family on the team or something? If so I apologize. They're 5-7 the past two seasons and are 0-2 this year. All I'm saying.
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Sorry over reacted, but is my alma mata and my brother is currently a student there.


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Michigan should lose at Northwestern and definitely will lose to Ohio State. MSU is a toss up.
 
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i know alot of you been looking for the Michigan game to be put on youtube.
Alpha Beta posted this about it:

"The Big Ten owns the the rights to every Big Ten home game and their licensing agent will delete those games. I'm about to upload the UConn game but that's the only game this year that the Big Ten doesn't own the rights to. You can watch Big Ten, Pac-12 and Longhorn Network games on my site (see the link on my channel page)."
 
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Matt Hinton just posted an article on Gardner's struggles:

Last week in this space, I suggested that Michigan's harrowing, 28–24 scare against a MAC doormat, Akron, was a meaningless fluke that said nothing about the Wolverines' prospects for the rest of the season. I will stand by that. But a harrowing, 28–24 scare against a MAC doormat, immediately followed by a harrowing, 24–21 scare against an American Athletic doormat? Fool me twice, shame on me.

The big problem, as usual, is turnovers. Against Akron, Michigan quarterback Devin Gardner was responsible for all four of his team's giveaways, including an interception return for a touchdown that put the impossible within reach in the fourth quarter. Against Connecticut, he was responsible for three of four, including two interceptions and a fumble return for a touchdown that put the Huskies up by two touchdowns in the third. (The other turnover on Saturday was a muffed punt by Da'Mario Jones that set up UConn's second touchdown "drive" from the Michigan 9-yard line.) Nationally, the only team with more giveaways through the first four weeks is Western Kentucky.

The Devin Gardner we saw against Notre Dame was a confident, competent star in the making who lived up to every expectation, save for one inexplicably reckless play under pressure – a minor, correctable kink to smooth out amid all the positives. No one after that game could have predicted the Gardner we'd see against arguably the two worst teams on the schedule would look more like the guy who temporarily lost his mind in the end zone. After scoring on seven of eleven possessions against the Irish, against the Zips and Huskies the offense has only scored on eight of twenty-five. Towson had a better night against UConn than Michigan did, in every respect.

Again, we shouldn't lose sight of the fact that we're talking about a team that's 4–0 with one of the most impressive victories of the season under its belt, followed by back-to-back rallies from fourth-quarter deficits. Strictly from a talent perspective, the Wolverines have an edge on everyone they play until the finale against Ohio State; that also goes for Gardner against every opposing quarterback between here and Braxton Miller. The Big Ten standings don't incorporate style points. At this rate, though, Gardner's decision-making is looking increasingly like a time bomb waiting to go off, equally feared by everyone in the stadium on both sides. The next opponent, Minnesota, just moved to 4–0 itself with one of its most validating victories in years (see below) and boasts the best turnover margin in the conference. A team with championship ambitions can only afford so many close calls.
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As frustrating as this is for us, it makes me even more glad that the series is ending. Some disgruntled Michigan fan clearly made a pact with the devil to ensure their QBs always play like Heisman contenders against us. Let's take a decade or two off to let the black magic fade before we revisit the skunkbears.
 
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Whiskeyjack said:
Matt Hinton just posted an article on Gardner's struggles:



As frustrating as this is for us, it makes me even more glad that the series is ending. Someone disgruntled Michigan fan clearly made a pact with the devil to ensure their QBs always play like Heisman contenders against us. Let's take a decade or two off to let the black magic fade before we revisit the skunkbears.
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Great article.

Gardner's struggles should almost give us more confidence in the coaches and their game plan. The plan was apparently to put pressure on Gardner and force him to make mistakes. He didn't. At the time, I thought that showed a miscalculation on the coaches' part. Now it looks like it was absolutely the right game plan; by some MIRACLE (or perhaps curse or Faustian bargain), Gardner, a mistake-prone QB, just didn't make mistakes. I mean it drives me nuts thinking about it.
 
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It just goes to show you that every team we play tends to play their best against us. Purdue laid another egg against Wisconsin.
 
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No call for this body slam followed by some taunting it looks like by Frank Clark

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**** Michigan
 
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