Posted on 11/26/2016 1:08:26 PM PST by C19fan
Game lived up to the hype. Some thoughts:
Michigan gave up 14 points on turnovers.
Michigan's defense ran out of gas in the 4th quarter.
THE Ohio State University might actually prefer Penn State to beat Michigan State. Penn State will play in the Big 10 = 14 Conference game instead of THE Ohio State University. In this case, THE Ohio State University has punched their ticket the playoff.
Hated THE Ohio State University wearing the all black helmets.
I say you’re wrong. Want to make the playoffs? DON’T lose two games. Period. You lose two, don’t complain about getting ripped off. You have only yourself to blame. Different story if this is a six or eight team playoff. But with four teams, you lose two, you’re out.
The football team sucked all the years I was there. I assume it was the same for you?
Bama could play their backups next week and beat us by 30.
First few years we were on probation.
Oh wow, you were there in 79, that couldn’t have been fun. But 1980 was a surprising year, if only it wasn’t for Lindsay Scott.
I was working 3 jobs to make it through college with no student loans so I had no time to pay attention to sports. It is now a luxury.
That was my one and only college football game. It was fantastic.
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I remember our discussion! That is so awesome, how exciting to have been in that band and then to have your son in it as well!
When I was a kid, and still now, they were and are my favorite marching band. The absolute best!
Great game for the Buckeyes for sure, but I do wish they hadn’t gone to black helmets for that traditional game!! I think that takes away from the pageantry and tradition, just imho.
Congrats, great game, and nice to talk again.
Thanks for the comments and I agree about the helmets. Poor choice. Hope huskers do well in bowl game.
Nice!!
Absolutely, Michigan made too many mistakes on offense (3 costly turnovers).
But you can't analyze this game without talking about the lousy hometown-biased officiating. That's traditionally more common with basketball than football, BTW.
Despite its own errors, Michigan actually won this game by stopping the OSU on downs in the second OT. No way that the OSU QB running got to the 15 yard line. The furthest advance of the ball on that play was when it touched the big OSU blocker's fanny when that blocker's feet were completely behind the 15 yard line and the blocker was still in an upright position. His rear end could not have been ahead of his feet! After that contact with his own man, the ball in the QB's right hand was not going forward any more, because a second Michigan tackler drove the QB's right arm back.
I don't know what game that official who spotted the ball incorrectly was watching, but in my book, Michigan won that game, despite its mistakes and despite the officials' missing of an obvious pass interference call against OSU which forced Michigan to kick a FG on their possession in the 2nd OT.
Nothing wrong with a game like this ending in tie, which is what it should have been and, twenty years ago, would have been. I was never a fan of the overtime rule in regular season college football, and one of the reasons, that this game demonstrates, is that a single bad officials' call in OT can snatch victory from defeat or defeat from victory.
It probably gets that team a spot in the Rose Bowl (the greatest, oldest, and most well known bowl venue) plus championship rings and a nice trophy.
And with that comes an appearance of the school's band in the Tournament of Roses parade, the best known New Years parade in the world.
Its good to know my superstitious tradition on drinking diet mountain dew while watching Ohio State - Michigan game worked. Yeah! That was a great game I was sitting on edge of sofa thru much of the 4th quarter and OT.
I agree they should use traditional jerseys.
As a buckeye I have to agree with that. I was thinking as I watched this game that if I was a bama fan there was nothing I was seeing here that concerned me. Buckeyes only chance would be forcing TO's. They don't have the speed at the skill positions they did in 2014.
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