Early season losses. Particularly this season, they are recoverable. Which is worse, losing the first game (barely) to App State, or losing badly to Stanford mid-season?
Before the Wisconsin game, Michigan was ranked 21st in the BCS. Had they beaten Wisconsin, they probably would have ridden up to the second ten, if not top ten. If they beat #5 Ohio State, then they'd certainly end up in the top five, since they only had two losses--their first of the year--and then finished off their season with ten straight wins. After all, on the same day, several ahead of them would have lost. With the last losses on the last day of regular season, they could easily have been poised to rise to the top as Ohio State did. Which would have been amusing, since it would have meant two two-loss teams in the NC game.
Beating Florida does not make you the greatest team ever.
Since neither I, or anyone else has made such a claim, I'm not sure what your point is.
My apologies.
I was reading some Michigan blogs earlier saying how great they were for beating a 3 loss Florida team.
In regards to the losses, they were early, but a division II loss at home is to much to overcome.