Eleven Warriors

Devin Gardner is clearly not a receiver.

Denard can't hit wide open guys.  Michigan seems to have the players, they're just not executing at all.

Ahhhhh power football! It's a thing of beauty.

It's over.

Game over!

LOL @ everyone who thought that his weak Scum team would hang with Bama.

Last year, Michigan was an 8-4 team with a 10-2 schedule. This year, they are an 8-4 team with a 7-5 schedule.

What can Denard do, asks Mussburger? Not throw ducks?

Exactly

Bamas the 2002 Ohio State team every year.

Bama is the 2006 Ohio State offense (minus the offensive line) and the 2002 Ohio State defense, every year

Stafon who?

Sparty didn't look that great against a bad Boise team.  I would argue that the whole B1G looked bad this week, besides us after Q1 and Nebraska after about midway through Q2.  But Nebraska lost Burkhead, maybe for a while.  But it's only week one, so we'll see how people progress, it would be our league to lose if we were allowed....

USC is going to score 100 tonight

Enjoy your college glory at QB Denard..because you won't see that position  after the season.

Let the real debate begin . . . Is Michigan the worst #8 team of all time?

Here's a surprise: "Shoelace" injured. What a dolt. 

Michigan is getting embarrassed.  I mean it's even worse than I thought it'd be right now.  I was thinking 34-17 Bama but Bama's pushing 21 in the 1st! 

What a f'ing joke.

21-0 in the 1st quarter... this is going to be a massacre 

Devin Gardner Denard Robinson is clearly not a receiver quarterback.

Fixed.

Brady Hoke might want to head for the Buffett a little early tonight..

Well... bout time to put in the second string eh?

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Denard needs an arm.

Fixed.

The positive is he could totally smoke Ussain Bolt in the 40, way to go Denard!

Wow, this is ugly.  I mean, those uniforms make me sick.  Oh right, Alabama is beating children too.  How high can you count?

Haha yes!! I love it!! 

Im kinda feeling bad for them lol, look at the sideline the players are in shock, i witness one guy explaining something and the rest just staring off into space like "is it really 21-0 ALREADY?"

wonder how long itll be before Michigan fans at Cowboys Stadium start using their academic prowess in football conversations with Bama fans

Well looks like Floyd Mayweather is 3 Mil in the hole after tonight

Denard can't eat cereal right now. His teeth are wired shut.

Brady Hoke might go off the deep end tonight and consume an entire buffet after his whopper.

Fixed.

Fromthe18: Bama fans don't give a lick about academic prowess. If they were us, Michigan fans could play the Sherman and Grant cards, but they can't even do that.

the biggest/most fundamental difference between SEC teams and the rest of the country isnt talent or speed, its the personality of the player and the team as a whole... SEC teams want to kick the crap out of you in every single part of the game both physically and mentally... if you give them an inch, they step on your throat.

I can't help it if the big ten stinks..they need to win games.

What'll really be bad is if Michigan ends up winning the B1G this year.  Can you imagine what will be said about the B1G then.  Sadly, they probably have a pretty good chance. 

Albert: maybe Bama will believe that this means something more than it does and will be vulnerable week 3 against Arkansas?

No, Michigan will not win the BT this year. MSU will alley f'em again this year.

Wow straight gashed!

Hopefully Shane Morris is texting updates to the 2013 class to ensure them of their decisions to be Michigan men

Albert: that toothless guy at the bar last night might have been a pig, but he kinda had a point about Michigan. Get these girls some tutus.

No way will THIS screw up recruiting. Wow dude got crushed.

would love to hear from the guy who voted Michigan #1.

Because they have added a ton of highly rated talent over the last 2 cycles.  You'd think it would translate, and winning 11 games matters.

LOLOLOLOLOL I dont care about the penalty that late hit was fucking awesome.

In my mind, the only reason I really care about the B1G performing well is if it helps improve OSU's case for the MNC or a BCS at-large bid. Seeing as we're ineligible this post-season, I really couldn't care less about how well the B1G fares against other conferences.

Greg Mattison is a defensive genius

Yes Albert, you nailed it, they will now say Bama creamed the number 8, but it should have been number 20 or higher.

In other news Mack Brown is still a terrible coach. UT only up 20-9 on Wyoming...

Man DickRod gained a ton of weight.  What?  He's not coaching this team?  Sure looks like it!

Mtots, it still matters for next year.

Who is calling their plays? What the heck?

I wonder what Dymonte is thinking

Hopefully he is thinking... oh crap... Bosa tweet... priceless...

Denard is telegraphing EVERY play. I surprised there are not more picks.

that pass gets more touch on it, Depriest is walking into the endzone

Depriest repping Ohio. I hope he blitzes and throws Denard to the dirt.

Michigan could be 3-5 after 8 games this year.

@mtots

It matters where you start the seasons ranked because it biases you in a certain direction

Therefore,

If the Big Ten is thought to be tougher (by beating Bama for example) this year, the best teams in the Big Ten will be ranked higher next year giving them a jump start in the rankings. UM winning their game last year made them overrated this year, clearly. OSU would get that same benefit if they can do well in a conference that is considered tougher than the slap fest we are seeing from UM right now. UM plummets in rankings after this.

lol, how embarrassing.  Maybe if Brady Joke was putting together a game plan rather then mapping out the quickest route to every fast food place near the 'Boys stadium, maybe Michigan would look better than a middle school team.

LOL @ that dummy Mayweather! 

Pitt seriously lost to YSU? Hopefully that helps us with Dorian Johnson!

Bucksdan: good point. For this year, all ridicule directed toward the Big Ten is Michigan's fault. We were told in the 2008 that people nowadays can't remember anything that happened more than 18 minutes ago. Therefore, Ohio State was solely responsible for the BT's bad rep.

HAHA, Pitt lost to YSU. I think things are going well for OSU in recruiting after this weekend.

Hey, can we all get #goblue to trend on Twitter with funny comments?

Holy hell.

yeah... that was predictable.

And he telegraphed a pick6

Joe Bauserman laughed looking at that last pass. 

I missed the Pick 6 because I'm watching Aub v. Clemson.

Hopefully Notre Dames 2011 defensive backfield is watching this game

@STEENSN, Good teams will separate themselves with their play on the field regardless of where they're ranked to start the season. But it doesn't really make much of a difference in terms of where you finish one year and where you start at in the rankings the next year. For example: Georgia at #6 after losing to a (gasp) B1G team, Clemson at #14 after getting throttled by a Big East team in a BCS game, OSU at #18 after going 6-7.

@PHXBUCK, Gardner catches like a QB and throws like a WR

Wow blown coverage

That wasn't blown coverage, the UM player just broke the other guy's ankles.

Aub FG to tie Clemson, 16-16 with a minute left in 3Q.  

This is what getting completely out-coached looks like 

Now this is what I can an ass-kicking

<-------   This.

Man, do I love watching MeatChicken get embarrassed in front of a national audience!  I mean, I'm no fan of Alabama or the SEC, but you've gotta love watching your hated enemy get handed a straight up behind-the-woodshed BEATDOWN!  :-)  Ah, sweet schadenfreude...

Bama, for the confused 7 pct in the 11W poll, is demonstrating an "A" performance. See how it feels nothing can go wrong or be stopped? Didn't feel like that even when we were rolling.

THIS is where we want to be at the end of the year or going into next season

And Pitt lost to YSU!  That's a two-fer!  Tressel is smiling and Fat Urkel is crying!  Yea, football!

@mtots. imagine what they would be ranked had they won...

It does matter, eveyone talks about it who get the vote.

McCarron is a decent QB, no chance he gets the numbers to win the Heisman

I think OSU would have done better than Fichigan against Bama today. 

Alabama has to be averaging 9 yards a carry. Michigan D line is BAD. getting blown off the line each play. Even with Mike Martin they would be screwed. 

Jesus.... I just watched a WR lay out a middle linebacker.    

here come the chants..... SEC SEC  uugggg.

It creeps me out when Saban looks right into the camera when answering an interviewer's questions.  Look at the person who's talking to you, you tool!

the one thing that will come from this, that has never made sense to me, is Bama/SEC fans will use this game as some sort of demonstration of Big 10 vs SEC...will say this though, after the 1st weekend of football games, OSU looks like the best team in the Big 10...long way to go but wow, conference is going to have a ton of average teams again.

Yes Bill O' Brien, your tears are as sweet as candy.....

I think Ohio is now my second favorite team. 

You know Hoke is shaking in his boots- he is getting railed AND he thinks we won two games today

@ CPLUNK I totally agree with you, but the rest of the game we would do better. Whereas with Fichigan it is only going to get worse. 

Oh and 'Fuck Clemson'

I love how ESPiN shows SEC highlights.  BG outplayed Florida on offense, and they show the one good pass play Florida makes where the kid missed the tackle on the out route.  Don't bother to show the 2 missed easy FG's by BGSU, or how a spread MAC team was able to run draw plays all day on that SEC defense.

Clemson and Auburn is an iteresting game. I hate Auburn but I also want Clemson to fall in the rankings. Pretty even match-up so far. 

Yes, Auburn v. Clemson has been a good, interesting game with nice flow. Clemson threatening to go up midway through 4Q.

Great fade route TD for Clemson.

@ Schooey

No question about it. The two worst that exist. The only one I can think of that might compete is Pam Ward and I think she got fired last year.

Loving this game btw. Michigan getting used and abused. Hope all the recruits we are fighting them for are watching this.

They benefited from a cupcake schedule last year. Played 2 good teams last year and went 1-1 against them. Easy schedules will hide a lot of deficiencies.

IS JB Shugarts playing for scUM tonight?

@Razorback I think I heard Pam Ward today. I am trying to remember what game it was. Unless there is another female announcer I know I heard her somewhere. The guy she was with sounded pretty amature, it was sad listening to them, not like football. 

No, you're right, the interwebs say she was canned. I wonder who I was hating on today. 

I hope Desmond Howard cries himself to sleep tonight.

What was with the white suit Des busted out for gameday today?

That's two sacks, Mussyburger, you biotch. 

I'm watching two games, cooking food and drinking all day and I can keep better track of shit that idiot. 

@Schooey I don't remember what teams were playing but I think there was a female announcer with Joey Galloway maybe??

Herbie and Brent are so bored right now

Yep, must have been Beth Mowins and Joey Galloway. I don't remember anything about Galloway except that he does not speak very clearly. Mowins was getting on my nerves though. 

If a former player says, "wow, what a hit, he positioned that just right" you can imagine that he knows of what he speaks. When a woman says that, I find it hard to believe that she has intimate knowledge of the situation. I'm not saying that a woman cannot call a good game, but they try to call it as a player would instead of sounding like themselves. 

The other problem is that I'm usually trying NOT to hear female voices when I watch football.

No sense in watching Fichigan get crushed any longer, except for just the sadistic pleasure of it. Oregon's got the crazy-ass helmets tonight, Asymmetry seems to be all the rage. 

If Toledo took out Arizona, that would be fun. Looks like there are only two games left to watch tonight. 

Oregon went for 2 on their opening TD, and they converted it.  I still think that's pretty dickhead to do.

So now if Bama scores one more TD the final score will be 41-14. Ha, I like that very much

Love watching Denard's hair and shoelaces fly in the air every time he gets popped...poetic really

@mtots... the people who vote says it matters... that is all I need to say. You are saying they are ranked well for losing, I am saying they would be ranked higher if they won and some others would have been ranked lower if they lost. It is all about perception of the team and that is based off  how well they do against their competition and how good that competition is. SEC seems tougher as a conference and we see that in the rankings.

You are essentially saying that the precieved strength of schedule means nothing when they vote... yet the main complaint about the preseason rankings is that it is based on the percieved strength of the SEC which hurts the rest of the conferences.

I think your push to say that the Big Ten percieved strength doesn't help OSU is very silly.

I would guess that Fichigan getting crushed can only help us in recruiting, in so far as one might rather play for us. The SEC is the best mindset is already out there, so I'm not sure that this particular game would make a difference. On the other hand, over the long term we would probably lose one now and again due to the SEC is the best mindset. So I do root for the BG1 overall because the bigger picture is important to some degree over the years. That the best I can figure it. And kids staying close to home, and the home teams that they rooted for growing up is probably a bigger factor. 

I think your push to say that the Big Ten percieved strength doesn't help OSU is very silly.

I guess I haven't been clear (that is my fault). I'm trying to say this year doesn't make much of a difference in terms of next year's rankings BEYOND the pre-season poll (which is a ridiculous poll to begin with). Things will shake out on the field of play NEXT YEAR and this year won't mean jacksquat.

Besides, Michigan would not be highly rated next year even if they won this game because they are losing their 3 year starter at QB.

Bama has taken their foot off the gas now. 

Is Hoke more of a pro-style guy?  In other words, is this performance still a result of these being mostly Rich Rodriguez's talent?

41-14, I don't know how to feel about this

http://www.ridethepine.com/funny/brent-musburger-curse/?utm_source=rss&u...

You are picking 2 really extreme examples though using Boise and TCU.  TCU had a respectable conference but Air Force, BYU, and Utah(other than 2 seasons) weren't as good as teams like MSU, Wisky, Penn State, Iowa etc.  Boise had NO ONE in their conference.  If a B1G team goes undefeated or has 1 loss, they'll get into the title game or playoffs, especially since there's a conference championship game.  

Another thing Boise and TCU don't have going for them is power.  College football is ruled by cash and Ohio State with 1 loss or undefeated will trump just about anyone else.  

If anyone thinks that the Big Ten percieved strength doesn't help or hurt OSU you are living in a fantasy world...

@Steensn never bothers USC

I can't even believe you are guys are arguing this...

Wow OkSt beat savannah st 84 to 0. That is just wrong in so many ways. LOL

Steensn: you're making the right argument during the wrong year. The ideal season for the Buckeyes will be to demolish every BT team, win the east by 2 games, but not be able to play in the BTCG. So, the BTCG pits something like Purdue versus a two loss MSU or Nebraska. A good year for Ohio State is going to be embarassing for the BT.

@Schooey: If OSU played Alabama today, I'd say Alabama wins 27-17.

Dbit: I agree, Urbz trumps general perceptions about the BT.

We don't say "Go blow!" for nothing.

I'm rooting for the Rockets rather than against RR. Tress a-- raped RR and left him for dead in an alley. What more damage can be done to the poor harmless creature?