College GameDay @ Rose Bowl Open Thread

Submitted by JWG Wolverine on
There hasn’t been a thread yet so figured I might as well make one. College GameDay is on right now for their usual New Year’s Day show at the Rose Bowl! Let’s get ourselves ready for a big win to start 2018! Happy New Year and GO BLUE!!

Wolverine91

January 1st, 2018 at 10:39 AM ^

Any word on what uniforms we'll be wearing? Would love to see the all maize again countering the all black of South Carolina. That would be cool.

Wolverine91

January 1st, 2018 at 10:55 AM ^

It seems like we never wear our home jerseys. I think the last time was the 2011 gator bowl against miss st and then 2005 and 2007 rose bowls.

And no I don't think it's Michigans choice. Most bowl games alternate each year on which conference is the designated home team. We just happen to usually go in bowl games where we are the "away" team those years...

charblue.

January 1st, 2018 at 10:52 AM ^

on here since the terrific "holding call" diary was posted above here the other day. But Mark Richt's sideline blowup the other night at the Orange Bowl while his Miami team was getting beat by Wisconsin has failed to generate much reaction here, considering the reason behind his blowup, over the contention that the Badgers were regularly holding his DLine and not getting called.

The fact that he likely faces a major fine over his behavior which included bumping an official who flagged him for his reaction setting up a first-and-goal situation for the Badgers just before halftime, only underlines to me the actual evidence found in the diary indicating that teams with great defense are not getting bolding calls for whatever reason. And Michigan regulary gets screwed in this regard.

Clearly, coaches are paying attention to this stat. During the game, Wisconsin did get called for an obvious first half hold after it appeared that the defender who was choke-held on the play was actually offside before the snap.

Suddenly, coming out of a timeout with the Badgers driving late in the first half, ESPN cameras caught Richt going nuts and chasing the white hat with some hot comments about the lack of holding calls. Imagine if Harbaugh had done that?

erald01

January 1st, 2018 at 11:23 AM ^

I am glad Wiscy won that game but Miami got screwed many times in holding calls. I cannot remember how many times i saw the OL holding. Richt is a pretty calm guy so for him to blow up like that it was huge. Not right by any means but i was glad someone other than our coach did it on national tv. These refs need to be held accountable somehow.

Heywood_Jablome

January 1st, 2018 at 11:13 AM ^

Any word so far on the B1G being 7-0 looking to make it 8-0?

We all know if that was the SEC it would be flashed non-stop on the news ticker at the bottom.

ppudge

January 1st, 2018 at 12:12 PM ^

All New Year's 6 bowls should be the only games today. But ESPN would never do that because it would mean overlapping game times. But it would be awesome.