<p>Do not ever doubt my expertise. If you bet, we're going 7-6 this season:
Oregon: 7-42 loss, I'm not kidding
PSU: 24-27, L
ND: 37-14, W
NW: 42-14, W
EMU: 49-3, W
PUR: 27-26, W
Ill: 7-3, W
MN: 14-3, W
UW: 0-27, L, we're getting shut out
OSU: 27-3. L
If you bet, use these scores, trust me.</p>
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With this defense, we'll be lucky to finish our regular season better than 8-4 and the Alamo bowl.
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It's not just the defense. This team didn's show up prepared for the opening game. We got so many breaks towards the end ... but so many mistakes. Any Michigan team in the past would have been able to run out the clock and preserve the slim lead.</p>
<p>maguo...i sooo agree with the Oregon score...their quarterback rushed for more than 140 yards today and had an 80 yard TD run as well. Dennis Dixon is a monster...</p>
<p>Who the in the bloody hell is our kicker and how does he botch two FG'?</p>
<p>Maguo, I think a lot of your predictions are correct. However, I disagree with OSU. I think Michigan will beat OSU this year. And you forgot MSU, which could potentially be a loss. 7-6 would not be far fetched. I think 9-4 or 8-5 is more likely though. I cannot imagine Michigan going better than 10-3.</p>
<p>Did you guys even watch the game? He didn't botch field goals. They were blocked.</p>
<p>Well then again, what am I to expect out of Michigan fans?</p>
<p>lol, that means their offensive line must suck big time....</p>
<p>The problem wasn't with the O-Line. The problem was with the kicker. If you kick the ball too low, particularly in a short field, it will be blocked. At any rate, regardless of how hot it may be, Appalachian State should never have been in a position to tie, much less win the game, with a mere field goal. Our offense was inconsistant and made too many mistakes, but it was not the problem. The main problem was our defense. We could not stop the Mountaineers. They moved against us at will.</p>
<p>The first field goal was his fault, but there was nowhere he could have kicked that second one that wouldn't have been blocked.</p>
<p>i blame it on the michigan students for not being loud enough. i was literally in disbelief, if michigan can't beat app state at home in the season opener, how can they beat anyone but northwestern</p>
<p>MattEisn, a lot of us were not even there. I know several people who don't move to Ann Arbor until today. I didn't go because the friend with whom I wanted to go to the game decided to come back on Sunday at the last minute. (I love supporting my team, but anyone can admit that it's more fun when you're not alone.)</p>
<p>In the end, I'm glad I wasn't there. I would have had a stroke watching that game.</p>
<p>i missed the game cuz I was blacked out and passed out. playing edward forty hands twice and then taking shots is not a good idea at ten in the morning.</p>
<p>This is absolute ********. I stayed out in the sun and my entire face and eyeballs are sunburned as hell and we lose. I think our fans were very loyal yesterday, especially considering that most stayed despite the tremendous heat and the poor performances.</p>
<p>I really don't know how our season will be much better. Our offense can probably reshape itself, but our defense seems average at best with little room for immediate improvements in the season. Coaching, as usual, was predictable. I wonder what the other B10 schools were thinking as their stadium saw our score.</p>
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<p>I dunno, if forced to find a silver lining, maybe this means I can relax and enjoy the season. It never matters how well Michigan is playing, fans have to wonder at any time when there is going to be the surprise implosion where we blow our record (and possibly the season). </p>
<p>This season, we've gotten the horror out of the way early. For what that's worth. Snerk.</p>
<p>I think it would take more than one embarrassing game to get Lloyd Carr fired. Drew Sharp and his acolytes can dial that back a little bit.</p>
<p>Stuff like this happens in college football. A few years ago Wisconsin lost to a pretty bad U Cinci team after being highly regarded. They came back to go to the Rose Bowl and most people forgot the loss as just a bad day. You will beat better teams this year. OTOH Carr should retire. You need new blood. Barry Alvarez knew when he was tired of the whole thing and groomed his replacement--a young aggressive coach. UM is just too stodgy now. The so-called 5* recruits are not that much better than lots of the 2 and 3* guys who only need a little coaching and time in the weight room to be as good as the more naturally gifted guys who often don't want to work as hard in college.</p>
<p>that's what makes college sports great.</p>
<p>Ya, I don't even bother betting on the nfl. It's not exciting to me.
I remember going crazy when boise won the fiesta bowl; nfl just doesn't have that quality.</p>
<p>it's a shame though...
UMICH is going to lose a few million over this upset.</p>
<p>Michigan fans were loyal yesterday? Are you kidding? Michigan fans were booing the team throughout the first half rather than cheering them on and helping them overcome a deficit. The only "support" they give the team is financial support. You won't find a larger, quieter group of fans in the country.</p>
<p>Michigan fans are some of the worst in college football (keep in mind I'm not talking students here). Rather than make the place loud, Michigan fans sit back in their 1 foot wide seat and talk about what they did this summer. It's a wine and cheese crowd who yells at you if you are cheering and standing up. They could care less about making a home field edge, what's important is that they are donating their money to the university so they can get their butt in the stadium with the other donors in their exclusive wine and cheese club. </p>
<p>That's why Michigan Stadium is NOT intimidating, not to teams like Appalachian State, or even Ball State. It is 107,501, where only about 20,000 are actually cheering, the rest chatting away with their aura of arrogance over them. It's the entire attitude of the school, and the administration, thinking that they are just better than everyone else when they really aren't. 1/2 the fans didn't even attend the school anyways, just living off of where their parents got their degree and their old money. </p>
<p>The program is eroding. Tressel owns them, they can't win a bowl game, and their last two appearances in the Big House have been pathetic. They don't develop talent, players are not getting drafted. Year in and year out they are picked as the favorites, picked as the top recruiting class, and always blow it. If you're new to Michigan football, get used to games like this, not in terms of monumental upsets, rather when teams that have less of a national reputation, less of a recruiting database, and less raw talent beat you. You can't spell Lloyd without 2 L's, and it's happened every year since the championship year.</p>
<p>lol.......!</p>