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Notre Dame (Weis) v. Michigan (Rodriguez)

  • Always Rooted for Notre Dame. RR certainly doesn't give me reason to change.

    Votes: 8 16.0%
  • Used to root for Notre Dame, but love a man with hairplugs. Go Blue.

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Always rooted for Michigan; even with RR, they're still the lesser of two evils

    Votes: 33 66.0%
  • Used to root for Michigan. RR tips the scales (even with Jabba) in Notre Dame's favor

    Votes: 9 18.0%

  • Total voters
    50
I have never found myself "rooting" for Michigan. That said, and of course this is in games other than the Ohio State game, I don't "root" against them. Well, I do root for Minnesota against them, but that's just cause the Gophers are like... my little brother or something. And, once I turned on the Appy State game in the waning moments, I did indeed actively root for Appy State to beat Mich. But, had that game been against... Nebraska, I would not have done so.

In any event, if I root for anything in a Michigan game, I root for sloppy play and mental mistakes. When Michigan wins, I don't care, it's fine (Even against Minnesota, not against OSU of course). When they lose, I find myself enjoying it, even if ever so briefly. But, I can't say I root for them to lose.

My favorite ND v. Mich game is when both teams trip over themselves trying to get the other team to win. I like goal line fumbles. I like poorly thrown picks. I like bad coaching. I forget the precise year - it was 1996 or close to it - but it was the perfect ND v. Mich game. Neither team wanted to win, and they played like it. Fumbles, bad play calling, drops, INTs.... poor clock management.... It was great.
 
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tbonesizzle;1094224; said:
I must quote the official rules of being a Buckeye on this one...

"WHEN ND PLAYS MICHIGAN, IT IS MANDATORY THAT YOU NOT ROOT FOR EITHER TEAM...THERE ARE NO WINNERS HERE."
Whoa, whoa buddy. JT makes the official rules, and he says....


"When our Big Ten brothers are playing Notre Dame, we're always rooting for them," Tressel said. "I'm rooting for our Big Ten partners. I want our strength of conference to be as good as it can be." -Jim Tressel
 
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