The No. 7 Michigan Wolverines played with their food a little bit on Saturday, but easily defeated the Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders 40-21. The Blue Raiders got the first score of the game following a fumble in UM territory by Michigan quarterback Shea Patterson, but the Wolverines would then go on a 40-7 run to end any confusion about how this game was going to go.
October 12, 2008 | You may not know this, but year in and year out, Michigan football was not always one of the Big Ten’s seven or eight best teams. For a three-year period beginning with the hiring of Rich Rodriguez in 2008, they took a significant step backward. In Rodriguez’s first season, the Wolverines managed a pitiful 3-9 record, which…
September 3, 2007 | My generation’s most memorable “Where were you?” Michigan loss was Colorado’s Hail Mary win in Ann Arbor in 1994. Thirteen years later, the college football gods gave another generation their own memorable Wolverine loss, but this one happened to be an all-timer. Michigan was ranked No. 5…
Sunday evening, ProFootballTalk.com reported that the NFL’s New York Jets would be making an attempt to hire Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh after the season. The Jets are currently 4-11 this season with one game remaining and head coach Todd Bowles is expected to be fired. The trends have not painted…
I don’t really know what else to say about Ohio State’s 62-39 win over Michigan that I didn’t already say in The Scarlet Wedding piece that I wrote on Sunday, but I guess I can try. Everything that follows will probably be some form of me saying that nearly everything Michigan did in this game could have been mistaken…
It’s Monday somewhere, right? This past weekend the Michigan Wolverines came away with a 31-20 hard-fought win over Indiana in their final tune-up game of the season. The game was surprising for a number of reasons, but mainly because Michigan usually loses games when the final score is 31-20. Indiana led this game three times…
In this episode of The Buckeye Weekly Podcast, Tony Gerdeman and Tom Orr answer listener questions about Saturday’s game between Michigan and Ohio State. Following Saturday’s 52-51 win at Maryland, questions about the Michigan game were solicited. As you might expect, the questions we received were of a particular tone.
If you don’t count Ohio State or Michigan State or Notre Dame, Jim Harbaugh is now 4-0 in rivalry games at Michigan. This past Saturday was his fourth win in as many tries over the hated Rutgers Scarlet Knights. The Wolverines left New Jersey as 42-7 victors, making them 9-1 on the season and 7-0 in conference play.
Michigan, now 8-1 overall and 6-0 in conference play, defeated Penn State (6-3, 3-3) by a charitable score of 42-7 on Saturday. The score could have been much worse, but there’s a reason cats don’t kill mice right away. The Wolverines came into their game on Saturday off of a bye week and if there was any rust, it never showed.
My three favorite rivalries in college football are Michigan’s rivalries with Ohio State, Michigan State, and Notre Dame. What the MSU game may lack in broad historical importance or scope, however, is made up for in local and immediate importance and just an unrelenting desire to see bad things happen to the opposing…
The No. 12 Michigan Wolverines (6-1, 4-0) defeated the No. 15 Wisconsin Badgers (4-2, 2-1) 38-13 under the lights of Michigan Stadium Saturday night, and in so doing they joined 4-3 BYU as the only two teams in the nation to have beaten the Badgers this season. The Michigan defense held Wisconsin to just 11 first downs…
