all-time win percentage

As I write this ND is tied with Rutgers (Go boneg).

Coming into today Michigan and Notre Dame are 1-2 in all-time win percentage.

M is 910-320-36 for 0.73301738

ND is 873-305-42 for 0.73278689

If ND wins this afternoon they will move to 0.73300573. Still behind M, so regardless of this outcome, M will go into tonight as the win percentage leader.

If M loses, however, they will fall behind ND with 0.73243883. 

Sports Bar Bowl prediction

If Gardner were playing I would have a decent amount of confidence that M would win. With Morris taking the snaps - I just don't know. I fear the offense will be something like the 2002 bowl against Tennessee, where for some reason they thought they could run the ball straight up the middle against dominant defensive linemen. And that team had a future Doak Walker winner at tailback, I don't think this team does.

I think it comes down to turnovers. If M wins the turnover battle they win the game.

M 17
KSU 14

A homer to the last…

Kansa Prediction

Kansas State Agricultural College 33
Catholepistemiad of Michigania 25

sarcasMike College Football Playoff 2013

I've done this a few times in the past so it seems like a good time to break it out again.

My playoff preference would be:

All conference champs
Use the BCS and the CFRC to select the at-large teams
Avoid conference match-ups in the first round
Home games until at least the semi finals
At-large teams play on the road when facing a conference champ
Some sort of bias for independents if they are ranked highly enough

Our 10 conference champs (with CFRC rank) are (after the jump)

Sooners Storm Bedlam for Trophy

The Oklahoma Sooners captured the jiMpossible-sarcasMike Trophy with a 33-24 victory over their Bedlam rival Oklahoma State.

Photo credit: http://www.soonersports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=31000&ATCLID=209334370

They next face Alabama in the Sugar Bowl. Oklahoma has a 7-11-1 record in trophy games.

date	Winner		Loser
1/2/1939	Tennessee	17	OU	0	Orange Bowl
9/28/1946	Army	21	OU	7
10/9/1965	Texas	19	OU	0
1/1/1968	OU	26	Tennessee	24	Orange Bowl
9/21/1968	Notre Dame	45	OU	21
9/29/1973	USC	7	OU	7
9/3/1992	OU	34	Texas Tech	9
9/12/1992	OU	61	Arkansas St	0
9/19/1992	USC	20	OU	10
9/28/1996	Tulsa	31	OU	24
11/1/1997	Nebraska	69	OU	7
11/7/1998	Texas A&M	29	OU	0
1/4/2005	USC	55	OU	19	Orange Bowl
11/22/2008	OU	65	Texas Tech	21
11/29/2008	OU	61	Oklahoma St	41
12/6/2008	OU	62	Missouri	21	BXII Championship
1/8/2009	Florida	24	OU	14	BCS Championship
11/7/2013	Baylor	41	OU	12
12/7/2013	OU	33	Oklahoma St	24

Thoughts on a great football Saturday

2 point conversion

• I had a bad feeling going into the play. Michigan has not been a good short yardage team all year. 
• I didn't like the formation they came out in. I really didn't like that they came back out in the same formation. John Beilein would never do that with the basketball team.
• After the fact, I think they needed to go for two. 
• OSU had a dominant running game - without a turnover M was unlikely to stop them
• M would be using their back up kicker for any field goals (his miss was saved by the timeout M called in the 3rd Q)
• Gardner was hobbled.
• As I said I didn't like the formation, I think it limited M. I think OSU had scouted the film enough to be able to guess what was coming.
• That being said, I think if Gardner had been able to get the pass off a split second earlier and Dileo could have reacted and made the catch right as he turned it would have been successful.
• When you're going for an all-or-nothing two point conversion play - I think you need to pull out all the stops. It either needs to be your best play that no one had been able to stop all year or something you've saved for just this case - that is un-scoutable. This play was neither.
• Biggest problem I have with the decision to go for two is Hoke saying he asked the seniors and they said "go for 2." Well of course they did. If there is a player on that sideline that didn't want to go for the win right there - they should be cut. Hoke and his staff are paid a ridiculous amount of money to make those decisions. The 22-23 year-olds on the sideline are paid in tuition and board allowances.
• Another way I've thought about the decision to go for 2 - what if the scenario was M was down by 3 and faced 4th and goal on the 3 with 32 seconds left. Do you take the field goal then? I feel like that decisions might have been to kick, but why is it any different?

Alabama -Auburn

• The extra second - I thought the clock in football was different than the clock in basketball in that the on field officials need to signal to stop the clock. It shouldn't be the split-second his foot came down out-of-bounds but the split-second the official started to signal to stop the clock.

If Alabama wins on this FG it would be an injustice - official has to signal to stop the clock - game should be over
— Mike Altese (@mpharmd98) December 1, 2013

boneg championship - Rose Bowl

• I was happy until I realized that their loss probably guaranteed MSU a spot in the Rose Bowl
• Twitter seems to think I should root for MSU because "Ohio (sic) is our real rival"
• I know about 2 people who are OSU fans - I know several MSU fans. I don't like it, but I'm not surprised when OSU is successful and better than M. I do NOT like it when MSU is.
• My best chance is a close OSU victory (preferably 7-3 with many turnovers) with an Auburn blow-out in the SEC championship game dropping OSU behind Auburn in the BCS.

Pics from Saturday

Megaphone

Augie

Urban

Script

Band

M

Captains

Brady

Jon

Trapped

Flyover