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Rich Rod Michigan: A Transition in Trouble
The University of Michigan, the winningest program in college football, will open their season this Saturday with Western Michigan at home. Over 104,000 fans will be there and most of them won't have the faintest idea as to what kind of team, or what kind of season the Wolverines will have. That's...
Practice: Day Five
The first day in full pads. Finally. Mack Brown goes full cliche on his blog and quotes both Joe Jamail and Zig Ziglar. He's clearly aiming for srr50's demographic and is probably kicking himself for posting this before Les Paul died. Jamail makes people feel, uh, less positive than...
Big 10 BCS Road Record
Yesterday began a look at the BCS conferences and their non-conference road schedules during the BCS Era. The theory being that road records are a legitimate indication of the strength of a team and a conference since you face more hardships and usually tougher opponents when away from home. Today...
Swimming in the Talent Pool
Just before Signing Day, we talked here about the Recruiting Rankings analysis that SMQ performed and he concluded how accurately Rivals was predicting winning percentages. "Rivals was very, very good at picking the top teams – of the top 25 winningest teams of the last six years, all were either...
Michigan Calls Rodriguez Up From The Minors
For the second time this year, Michigan made the call down to their AAA farm club in Morgantown, West Virginia to bring up a head coach. Rich Rodriguez Monday became only the 4th Wolverine football coach in the last 40 years. He joins former WVU basketball coach John Beilein on the Morgantown to...
Saban to Miles: Take the Michigan job
According to the Detroit Free Press, Les Miles is talking to the Wolverines again. Miles had a phone conversation Friday morning with Michigan athletic director Bill Martin and school president Mary Sue Coleman, according to several people with knowledge of the call. While Miles did sign an LSU...
Greg Schiano prefers track suits to sweatshirts
Michigan is 0-2 in their head coaching search. After being turned down by LSU coach Les Miles last week, they've now been rejected by Rutgers coach Greg Schiano. Schiano apparently agreed to the job on Wednesday but had a change of heart. I'm guessing some Rutgers alumni told him either his...
No Dog In The Fight: How To Choose Sides In A Rivalry Game - Ohio St/Michigan
Nothing arouses passion like the the rivalry game. The backyard brawl, the battle for bragging rights, the border war tussle. Even a fan with no dog in the fight can feel the tension...and their own confusion. Who to pull for? Investing yourself for three hours in a team that is not your own can...
College Football Bets Week 9
Well, another kiss your sooner sister last week going 2-2. Overall, 24-20-3, up four units for the year. The writeups this week will be short and sweet, mainly because it's a big card and I've had a very busy week. Wisconsin -7.5 vs. Indiana. After two disappointing road losses Wisky bounced...
You must be 42 inches tall to ride the Coaching Carousel -- that means you, HenryJames
As the college season makes the turn for the home stretch, it is clearly time to start talking about who gets whacked -- particularly given this weekend's Battle of the Buyouts in Lincoln. This year's coaching carousel seems destined to be as bloody as the last 6 episodes of the Sopranos. Yeah,...
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