With no Ohio State game this weekend, I’m probably going to be watching no football on Saturday. Truth be told, I’m going to Cedar Point for Halloweekend, and riding the Millenium Force at night.
The Big Ten schedule has it’s two best teams taking the week off with the Buckeyes and Penn State resting for the final stretch. Most teams will be fighting for a shot of bowl season. And two teams will be fighting for survival.
Michigan (2-6, 1-3 Big Ten) will be at Purdue (2-6, 0-4) for a Noon kickoff. Both teams need to win all four of their remaining games to become bowl-eligible, so at least one of these teams will walk off the field on Saturday knowing that the season ends in November.
Michigan fans will say whatever they want to make themselves feel better in the morning….but not a single one of them would have ever predicted they’d end their bowl streak during Week 9 of this year. They can rationalize it all they want, but a 2-7 record while playing teams like Miami (OH) and Toledo and Notre Dame was NEVER acceptable to them.
So as you watch the noon games, keep that in mind…that Michigan has their pride on the line. Their beloved streak could be over in 24 hours, and all they’ll have left to clamor about is thier all-time win-loss record.
And you just KNOW they will ALL fall back on that tired argument, as if any of them can recall the early days of Michigan football. Like way back in 19-ott-8 when Phineus Q. Rosenblatt ran for 80 lengths in a match. He had the lasses blushin’ in their bloomers, he did.
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