I thought what Harbaugh said at the end was interesting.  It sounded like they were trying to score 42 at the end to honor the Oxford shooting victim.  This made the very aggressive approach at the end of the game make more sense, I had been wondering what Iowa did to piss him off before I heard that.

While I don’t put much, if any, stock in numerology, I was very glad to see JJ ram the ball down the field one last time.  I had a $10 bet with a former boss (Sparty grad) on the over.  The points for the O/U were 43.5.  It was the cherry on top of the sundae of beating his ass on the spread.  42 lives in a smallish corner of my heart.

But wasn't the book's posed question, how much is seven times eight ... 

also, I believe this is TEAM #142

I was thinking about how, in 2006, both us and Ohio State were undefeated going into The Game. Bo died the night before that game, then we lost. We ended up going to the Rose Bowl, not the Championship game for a rematch,, and lost to USC. Since then, we've had an extraordinary string of bad luck -- bad juju, some might say. Then this year, we find out that Bo wasn't the guy everyone thought he was. His posthumous grasp on the football program loosens and the tides start to turn for us. Back to that 2006 Michigan Ohio State game: the score was 42-39. 

Also, not really related, but since the appropriateness of grown men wearing sports jerseys has been debated ad Infinitum on this space (Probably not appropriate, but the fashion police are more in the wrong, IMO), the one article of clothing I do own with an athlete’s number is a Laker shirt of James Worthy’s uniform, who wore #42

And the win occurred on 12/4/21, a palindromic date with a 42 in it each way.

I'd like to send some props to Western Michigan, the happened to play three conferences champions this year and beat two of them. My guess is, no other MAC team has ever done that. Victories over Pitt and a 42 - 21 win over NIU. 

Don’t forget Michigan is 2 and Cincinnati is 4 so of course that will be the Nat Championship game

I feel like this thread needs a "Comments: Commence. Yes." in it.

The GPS coordinates for Ann Arbor are 42.2808° N, 83.7430° W

My age 6 years ago -- 42  *mind blown*

The great Jackie Robinson wore #42. Talk about uphill battles and bravery. 

We entered the game with . . . 42 Big Ten titles all-time.

I thought the whole Oxford thing was both cool to honor the kid and a bit morbid.  The kid is a hero and deserved to be celebrated, but they probably haven't even had his funeral and the parents are at the B1G championship.   What a weird spot to put a parent in?  Do you want to honor your son in front of the world or do you want get your mental shit together after having your son shot to death but a nutjob?

I guess there are no good solutions in situations like this.

Regarding numerology, when my son was a freshmen in college, a teammate of his committed suicide. It was the most awful thing imaginable. It was in October so he didn't really know the kid, who was a junior, or anyone else very well for that matter. The kid wore #34. That season, the team had 34 wins, a program best. It really seemed like divine intervention. When tragedy strikes a family like that, I think any kind of positive sign is affirming. 

42 is the ASCII code for * which is the wildcard ("everything" or more poetically "whatever you want it to be") symbol. 

This, my friends, is SCIENCE and we all know that SCIENCE CAN NEVER LIE

*double post, sorry*