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Is it bad that I care more about the attendance figure (to see how much fan apathy is sticking it to WCF) than about the final score? I wonder if this means I'm actually starting to hate this team for their ineptitude.

No, they'll still go back to Orlando. tUOS will go to the Fiesta.

There really needs to be a law against weddings during football season.

I'd watch your own back too I notice IPFW put a little bit of a scare into you guys.

So I think I can officially say I'm down 20 pounds from when I started. Took me a little longer than I wanted, but here I am, about 172 pounds. I don't think I've been down that far for, maybe, five or six years? I know this, once I get below 170 that's definitely about a seven-year milestone. I haven't had to buy any new clothes but on the plus side, my gut no longer feels like it's been released from prison when I undo my belt at the end of the day. About 15 more pounds to go, I think.

Fantastic game. Fantastic. I dunno what Stu Douglass is thinking sometimes, but, yay! It shouldn't have even been that close. The team has some growing up to do - they bungled a few fast breaks because of trying to make the fancy play. As these guys mature they'll learn that style points don't make it to the scoreboard. I can't wait to see how they do against Dook. I mean, Dook should probably destroy them, I don't think M has an answer for Kyle Singler. But then again, UCLA was supposed to beat them too. So you never know.

Homer pick: Michigan 20, Bu¢keye$ 17 Actual pick: tUOS 31, Michigan 10 Also: Penn State 35, LB 13

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If the game goes badly enough, that might take no more than seven, maybe eight minutes.

I dunno if I can come up with five. Let's see....always liked Bill Guerin. Mats Sundin, love the steady play (although the Brett Favre act is wearing a little thin.) Shawn Thornton, from watching him in his Norfolk Admirals days. Lecavalier, just because, I don't even know why. That's about it, really. Oh, and Jordin Tootoo. HA! No.

Yeah....but you've had a lot of them.

Seriously....that quote was taken so ridiculously out of context the writers ought to be embarrassed.

Yeah, Dantonio's a true Sparty now. He'd have to be, in order to actively sacrifice the Rose Bowl just to see Michigan lose. Only the Spartans. Makes it all the more hilarious if he jumps ship to Tennessee. I don't think he will, but I'd love to see it just for s***s and giggles.

Abso-freakin-lutely. Why was Carr gently nudged aside? Didn't beat OSU enough. So if RR changes that, I don't care what happened against Northwestern or Illinois or Purdue. As the Fab Five seasons have been wiped from the record books, I deny this ever happened.

Like hell you will. There's really not much tUOS can do to add to the misery of the season. We're pretty much already numb; most of us are expecting a blowout, so when it comes it's just par for the course. You, like most tUOS fans, probably see this as mostly a foregone conclusion, and the win won't bring you the same happiness, merely the satisfaction of being right. (And don't kid yourselves. Arrogance? Trust me, you guys have it in spades.) A loss, on the other hand, would cause nuclear meltdown. In the event Michigan wins I'm gonna go over to BP and just refresh the game thread over and over again. I saw what happened over there when we beat you in basketball. Multiply that by two billion in the event of a football loss.

I'm glad that happened, because it turns OSU fans into giant steaming hypocrites any time they criticize logo-jumping or any such thing. I respect Woody for the most part but God he could a classless piece of s*** at times. You never, ever caught Bo's teams disrespecting the opposition or running up the score. Or punching out opposing players who'd just picked off a pass, come to think of it. By the way, thanks for reverting to the standard OSU spelling system so we know which team that is on the field.

OSU won last year by lining up in the same formations they had all year and running brand-new plays out of them, making all that game film worthless. That's probably what it's going to take this year for Michigan. We're either going to lose 42-14, 20-14, or win 14-10, but we're not rolling up a whole lot of points no matter what, unless we break some big plays and get some defensive scores too.

If you don't speak in grunts and sentence fragments it's kind of hard to identify you as a Buckeye

I really don't understand MSU fans. I hate the piss outta Ohio State but I'd put on a Beanie Wells jersey and pull like hell for the Buckeyes if there were some scenario where a Buckeye win put Michigan in the Rose Bowl instead of the C*****l O** Bowl. Team first, rivalries second.

Next time you go to a Michigan game, take me along. I'm 2-0. It's incredible, the way that team keeps dominating. I'm going home Thanksgiving weekend - if Grand Valley has a home playoff game that weekend that doesn't conflict with UVA-VT, I'm going to make my brother procure us some tickets.

+1 That is not how you convince quality coaches to take on the very difficult task of dragging the team out of the muck. Tampa's officially been established as a clown-show organization. :rotflmao: It's funny 'cause it's true.

The point is not the sport itself, the article talks about the people. Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt did the same thing Jimmie Johnson does, but nobody would ever call them boring. Whereas Jimmie Johnson really is the Lidstrom of NASCAR, and vice versa.

Must be. The roles are a little bit reversed this year; normally MSU fans are thinking basketball by October.

Friday: New Jersey @ Washington Columbus @ Buffalo Carolina @ Atlanta Detroit @ Florida St Louis @ Chicago Nashville @ Anaheim Saturday: Toronto @ Vancouver Philadelphia @ Montreal Washington @ New Jersey Ottawa @ NY Islanders Boston @ NY Rangers Buffalo @ Pittsburgh Columbus @ Minnesota Dallas @ Phoenix Colorado @ Edmonton Nashville @ Los Angeles Sunday: Tampa Bay @ Carolina Montreal @ St Louis San Jose @ Chicago Atlanta @ Philadelphia Los Angeles @ Anaheim

Northeastern kept it close in the first half because they absolutely owned the boards. It was ugly. Beilein must have made an adjustment or two at halftime because the second half was much better. I'm not expecting anything other than a blowout against UCLA. If M keeps it within 20 I'll be surprised.