Is Rutgers currently our best win?

Submitted by ak47 on

Since Peters is now the starting qb I can only assume Michigan is going to win out the rest of the season a la usc last year and I was looking at some schedules to see how high I thought we could climb in the rankings if we did that.  Then I realized that Rutgers or at Purdue are the best wins this year and realized we weren't going to climb high.

Florida 3-4 fired their coach after giving up 42 points to a team that threw the ball 7 times and below rutgers in s&p

cincy 2-6

air force 4-4 other potential best win of the season because they are the only win at or over .500 but lost to new mexico

purdue 3-5 and lost to rutgers and nebraska so probably not best win but was on the road.

Indiana 3-5 and just gave up 42 points in a loss to maryland. 

I fully expect us to win the next two games and have at least a competitive game against wisconsin but yeesh our wins are shit.

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ijohnb

October 30th, 2017 at 11:35 AM ^

think pretty much everybody was trying to deflect the reality in front of our face at that point.

I remember Tyree Kinnel returned a Pick 6 against Cinci and all was good.  From that moment on it was two games worth of WTF.

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El Jeffe

October 30th, 2017 at 12:11 PM ^

I'm confused--you say that people said that and then put the /s tag. So they didn't say that?

Also, anyone who said that Cincy would be a 10-win team was clearly huffing Aqua Net and so should not have been listened to. I do admit to thinking that AFA would be pretty good.

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Everyone Murders

October 30th, 2017 at 11:10 AM ^

Florida and Purdue are better wins.  If Peters is able to maintain his growth, it may be the most memorable of the three, but Florida was high stakes at the time and Purdue was dramatic commupance against a team coached by a dickweed and with a dickweed DE purposely injuring our QB.

YMMV.

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taistreetsmyhero

October 30th, 2017 at 12:28 PM ^

MSU dominated us when the weather was good in the first half, and then forced 3 TOS on us when the weather was bad. The defense played great in weather-assisted conditions, but shat the bed when it was real football. MSU deserves that win and was the better team. That being said, if there are two halves of normal weather, we probably win.

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BassDude138

October 30th, 2017 at 1:03 PM ^

They didn't dominate before the weather, but obviously had the advantage. They score a TD after a turnover where Michigan was moving the ball with ease, and that drive included a PF on a 3rd down play and a couple of QB scrambles. Their second TD was admittedly a great play call on the scoring play. Almost all of their offense was on one jump ball to a reciever, a busted run, and a couple of QB scrambles.

Not trying to downplay it, but UM looked like they were going to control the game until that Isaac fumble. A few miscues and literally only a few successful plays by MSU gave them the momentum and the lead. After that it was pretty much the entire country watching Michigans offense stumble all over itself for 2+ quarters.

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jabberwock

October 30th, 2017 at 1:28 PM ^

I simply cannot understand how people keep making excuses for the MSU game.

Michigan had just as many chances to win as MSU did; maybe they did a better job of keeping their #1 QB from getting injured earlier in the season, or maybe they actually beleived the weather report, etc.  This was a home game, and while it had the requisite shitty/general anti-M reffing, we should be used to that by now.

At some point, you are your record.

That doesn't mean ignoring context, but if you leave the decision in the hands of the refs, or the weather, or some wunderkid FG kicker then you better expect the consequences.

Michigan deserved to lose against Iowa & OSU last year as well as MSU this year because at some level of coaching or execution they didn't give themselves the cushion necessary.

And when Michigan squeaks out a last-second-miracle win they deserve every bit of credit as well.

It's why you play the games.

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ijohnb

October 30th, 2017 at 1:47 PM ^

stands out to me about the MSU game the most in retrospect was how completely unprepared we were at the end of our first drive to get something into the end zone.  You completely script a drive, up until the point that we need to, ya know, actually score?  With the weather approaching, whatever we had that kind of a "go to" play needed to come out there.  Not two throw away fades that had no chance to succeed.  I think if Michigan gets into the end zone right there the whole game is different. 

To a large extent, Michigan played the first half as though it had the whole game to work with.  To the contrary, Michigan State played the first half with the urgency that the approaching weather called for.

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RockinLoud

October 30th, 2017 at 2:17 PM ^

I think the not scoring on the first drive was a much O'Korn as anything. I recall (I believe it was) Gentry wide open for a TD on a post route on one of the fades and I think GP open on the other. 

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BigBlue02

October 30th, 2017 at 2:12 PM ^

MSU definitely didn’t dominate us in the first half. It was pretty evenly matched if not for the turnovers. Then in the 2nd half, they didn’t get a first down until the last drive of the half and gained 34 total yards. I’m confident saying we are a better team this year, we just out-shit-the-bed them in that game. I am also confident that we wouldn’t lose to Northwestern

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BigBlue02

October 31st, 2017 at 2:56 AM ^

I watched a first half that MSU had one sustained drive that turned into points and another that they had a short field because we coughed up the ball. Did you watch an alternate game in which they somehow “dominated” us in the first half as that other poster suggested?

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CompleteLunacy

October 30th, 2017 at 12:33 PM ^

I'd say Michigan is the better team, but I think it's closer than many around here would be willing to admit.  And I mean, both teams are 6-2, and both teams have a blowout loss to a significantly better team and a close loss to a slightly inferior opponent.

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ak47

October 30th, 2017 at 11:11 AM ^

Also partly looked at this to see if we might be ranked in the playoff rankings because why not, don't think we are going to be ranked in this first week and probably not until after the md game, not that it really matters, just find it interesting.

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