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Game Thread THE GAME, 11/26/16, 12pm ET, ABC

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BUCK3YE5 said:
This one was better simply because the stakes were as high as they could possibly be.

Last year's game was really just for bragging rights.

The stakes are a ton more important to me than the point differential.
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People seem to forget that Michigan was ranked #10 last year and the winner of the game had a shot at the B1G title game (pending the outcome of PSU/Sparty). The stakes were big last year too. Not as big as this year, but probably as big as they had been since 2006.
 
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Tlangs said:
People seem to forget that Michigan was ranked #10 last year and the winner of the game had a shot at the B1G title game (pending the outcome of PSU/Sparty). The stakes were big last year too. Not as big as this year, but probably as big as they had been since 2006.
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That's because Michigan had been ass since 2006.

Last year's game was bragging rights. This year's game was a guaranteed playoff spot. The two aren't even close, when it comes to stakes, anyway.
 
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BUCK3YE5 said:
That's because Michigan had been ass since 2006.

Last year's game was bragging rights. This year's game was a guaranteed playoff spot. The two aren't even close, when it comes to stakes, anyway.
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Ok but if folks don't think it would have been equally soul crushing if we had destroyed TTUN this year, they are wrong. Skunkbear fans have been expecting redemption this year because of the number of upper classmen etc. if we had blown them out, that would have shown them definitively that we will always be the superior program and that they have little hope of ever equaling us.

I don't begrudge ANY victory against those pompous fools, but a destruction this year, which we could have done, would have put an exclamation point in their true place.
 
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LostLassie said:
Ran across this:

Patrick Barron ‏@BlueBarronPhoto Nov 27 Ann Arbor, MI


Curtis Samuel looked right at me on the final play. The file name for this is DirectPunchToSoulDong.jpg


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I mean, how scary are those eyes? You should get the hell out of his way if you know what's good for you.

Anyway, I know what my #4 Countdown thread image will be next year. :biggrin2:
 
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Earlier this season, JT went into an extended lecture about ball control crossing while crossing the line into the endzone. It was something about holding the ball high and tight, then handing it to the referee, then finding a bug guy and hugging him.

In the last play of the game, Curtis Samuel might as well have started twirling the ball on one finger starting about the two yard line. Check out time marker 3:58.

But hey, details are only for losers.

 
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maximumblitz said:
Earlier this season, JT went into an extended lecture about ball control crossing while crossing the line into the endzone. It was something about holding the ball high and tight, then handing it to the referee, then finding a bug guy and hugging him.

In the last play of the game, Curtis Samuel might as well have started twirling the ball on one finger starting about the two yard line. Check out time marker 3:58.

But hey, details are only for losers.

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I don't think it was as bad as you make it seem. He knew he was going to get in, still held on to the ball, and his distal arm extension only happened after breaking the plane of the end zone.
 
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Greyshirt said:
BTW I have been having a rather heated discussion with some members of the DFBIA and I am wondering what you guys think.

I think Urban is the best coach in college football. I actually think he is better than Saban. But Saban is the greatest program builder I have ever seen and can recruit. I just think Saban has it pretty good running his semi-pro squad down in Bama and he is not really playing on a level playing field with the rest of the world. And also he is a douche bag. Don't get me wrong I love my man MD but Urban is on another level.

Urban has won big everywhere he has coached. And won in the SEC (hear the angels sing). He has done it with different tweaks in offense and defense. He just knows how to coach and win. He has owned the B10 since his arrival and will play in his 2nd NC tournament and honestly his 1st year he was 12-0 and so I kind of feel he deserved some kind of cudo for that season.

But my discussion revolves around old khaki pants. I am just not sold he is a top 5 coach. Is he good, yeah he is good. But look at his big game choke jobs. He has 5 regular season loses.

- Utah - I give him a pass, first game team was way way sideways
- MSU blocked punt game - his team gave it away
- OSU - can you say beat down
- Iowa - again another choke job
- OSU - How can you say a guy is a good coach when his in game adjustments are so bad in big games? His team had 5 yards in the 4th quarter and 36 yards total after the 3rd quarter ended. And he cost his team 15 yards for being a DB on the sidelines. So net 21 yards....

I agree that he has taken the program from a dumpster fire to pretty solid in a crazy quick time. But where is it headed? They just lost their whole starting Defense. The offense still can not run against real programs, and he has the creativity of a rock. This was the last year that SCum in the next couple will go into the USO game as not a huge underdog. OSU was as down as they can be this year. Literally the 3rd youngest team in NCAA football. And yet SCum with a senior laden team and multiple ALL Americans on Defense gets just housed in the 4th quarter and in OT?

I think Khaki is a weird uniquely driven coach. I just am waiting for him to finish the deal. It has not happened anywhere. I am beginning to think he is the Larry Brown of football. He can win but no one can stand to have him around too long. Or he just needs to keep moving. A good coach but will never be considered great. Time will tell. But he is now 1-3 in rivalry games. And should be 3-1.......or at least 2-2. I mean OSU begged SCum to win that game this past weekend and they refused to take it so the Bucks snatched it.
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The guy is wound too tight and his teams reflect that. It's not a big deal when playing 0-3000 Rutgers and everything is clicking, but when his teams face adversity you just don't know how they will react.

To be fair, I thought Urban was frenetic at times this year, especially when he wanted the pace sped up or for us to go quick on 4th down. I think that came from his frustration with the coaching staff not getting plays in quickly though, and not being certifiably insane.
 
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