Oops I forgot to post my January prediction for the 2017 season

In the past I have posted my prediction for the upcoming football season immediately after the season ended, in January.
2012 Predicted 9-5 team ended up 8-5
2013 Predicted 10-4 team ended up 7-6
2014 Predicted 9-4 team ended up 5-7
2015 Predicted 10-3 team ended up 10-3
2016 Predicted 15-0 team ended up 10-3

Overall prediction 53-16; actual record 40-24

Here goes:
Florida - W
Cincinnati - W
Air Force - W
Purdue - W
MSU - W
Indiana - W
Penn State -L
Rutgers - W
Minnesota -W
Maryland - W
Wisconsin - W
OSU - L
Outback Bowl - Auburn - W

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2017 Season Prediction

Pedestrian Bridge

 University of Michigan Law School

Anthony Wayne Bridge

Toledo, OH (birthplace of Michigan Coach Jim Harbaugh)

Season Prediction:  9-3 (10-3 overall)

2017 College Football Hall Of Fame Voting

I voted for the first time last year. Looks like only one player and one coach I voted for made it in the class.

I'll use the same criteria this year:

1. Did they play for Michigan
2. Have I seen them play in person and the level of success they had against Michigan
3. Under recognized player I saw enough on TV or heard enough about to earn my vote
4. "Star" who is likely to get enough votes from others

Criteria 1 yields 3 deserving Wolverines.
Jumbo Elliot - dominant offensive lineman that helped return M to a OL factory
Rick Leach - The Peach - The Guts and Glue of the Maize and Blue
Charles Woodson - Heisman Trophy winner

For the second criteria - there are 16 players I saw play in person on the ballot, so once again I won't have to go past this criteria:

1. Tyrell Buckley - Great battle with Desmond Howard in 1991
2. Keith Byars - Injured much of 1985, but played against M
3. Mark Carrier - Don't remember him from the 1989 Rose Bowl
4. Kerry Collins - Losing QB in M's first trip to Happy Valley in 1993 - I missed the 1994 game in Ann Arbor
5. Robert Gallery - I always felt he was overrated at Iowa
6. Moe Gardner - Stout D lineman from Illinois - I swear jiMpossible called him out on the sideline but he claims not to remember
7. Dana Howard -Illini linebacker who I saw tie and beat M
8. Raghib Ismail - shouldn't have kicked to him once, let alone twice
9. Anthony Poindexter may have played in the Kickoff Classic in 1995
10. Antwaan Randle El - Had a last second heave to defeat M in 1999 in Bloomington fall incomplete
11. Simeon Rice - same as Dana Howard above
12. Taylor Stubblefield - Purdue receiver did not have much success vs. M
13. Aaron Taylor - DL from Notre Dame - lost to Desmond Howard in '91 and beat M in '93
14. Troy Vincent - Wisconsin DB - M had no trouble with his Badgers
15. Michael Westbrook - 1994 Colorado...
16. Lorenzo White - 1987 at MSU

Easy votes are Buckley, Ismail, Randle El, Westbrook and White. That brings me to 8 votes - so 4 more to go.
I'll go with Byars for his 1984 season, Kerry Collins for his 1994 season, Moe Gardner and Taylor Stubblefield.

For coaches there are 2 options that I saw coach against M, so they get my vote. Frank Beamer - truly deserving even though his team lost to M, and Mack Brown - probably less deserving, but he did ride Vince Young to a Rose Bowl victory over Michigan.

New Year - New Trophy Holder - Clemson wins!

Clemson pulled out a thrilling 35-31 victory over Alabama in last nights CFP- Championship game in Tampa.
Of course the most important thing the Tigers bring back to South Carolina is the jiMpossible-sarcasMike trophy.

This is the 5th time the Tigers have held the trophy.

• They beat Duke back in 1974 before dropping their next game to Tennessee. 
• The Tigers had a longer run the second time, taking the trophy in the 1988 Citrus Bowl over Penn State and followed with two wins to start the 1988 season before falling to Florida State. 
• Clemson had a trophy drought until 2011. They took it from Auburn in September and won 5 more before a loss to Georgia Tech. The won it back in the ACC Championship over Virginia Tech before getting blasted by West Virginia in the Orange Bowl.
• Clemson has also lost as trophy challengers in 1942, 1954, 1959, 1967, 1971 1999 and 2010. 
• This leaves their trophy game record at 12-11.

It looks like Clemson's 2017 schedule is not finalized, but they do open with Kent St and Auburn at home. They also host the Citadel and travel to arch rival, South Carolina in addition to whatever their conference schedule will be.

Florida State Prediction

Michigan Gulo Gulo 28
Florida State Runaways* 27

*the word 'seminole' derives from the spanish 'cimmaron', meaning 'runaway' or 'wild one'.

Orange Bowl Prediction based on historical data

Michigan is 205-59-1 in all games I have attended
        - Data is only for games I have attended unless otherwise stated
M is 71-15 in non-conference games

M is 6-0 vs. schools from the ACC

M is 8-5 in bowl games

M is 1-0 in the Orange Bowl

M is 1-1 when I attend a bowl game with one of my sisters

M is 3-1 when I attend a bowl game with one of my brothers-in-law

M is 1-1 vs. Florida State

M is 4-2 vs. schools from the state of Florida

M is 25-6-1 when facing a second school from the same state in the same season

M is 5-1 in games played in Florida
M is 47-18 when playing the opposition in their home state

M is 34-15 away Michigan Stadium

M is 132-42-1 vs. schools with mascots deemed heavier than a Wolverine

M is 20-7-1 vs. schools with Native American based Nicknames

M is 71-28-1 vs. schools with human based nicknames
M is 11-2 when ranked #6
M is 56-35 vs. ranked teams

M is 2-0 vs. teams ranked #10
M is 20-19 vs. teams ranked in the top 10
M is 27-5 when Jim Harbaugh plays a leading role for the team
M is 5-3 in night games

M is 40-5 when the next loss would make the total losses attended evenly divisible by 10

M is 2-1 when they’ve won their previous 11 attended games

It's easy when you look at the numbers:

M 27

FSU 17

Worst losses by a Big Ten Champion

When Penn State winning the B1G championship game Saturday night in Indianapolis. I wondered if any previous champions had lost a game by 39 points like they did earlier this year to Michigan (49-10).
I was not surprised to find that it was the new record. The previous record was just last season when MSU lost 38-0 to Alabama in the playoff game/Cotton Bowl.
I applied current tie breaker format to all previous Champs and compiled the worst loss (if they had one) for each champ in the table below.

year	champ	worst loss	bowl/playoff
2016	Penn St	39
2015	MSU	1	38
2014	OSU	14
2013	MSU	4
2012	Wisconsin	7	6
2011	Wisconsin	6	7
2010	Wisconsin	10	2
2009	OSU	8
2008	Penn St	1	14
2007	OSU	7	14
2006	OSU		27
2005	Penn St	2
2004	Michigan	16
2003	Michigan	4	14
2002	OSU
2001	Illinois	25	13
2000	Purdue	20	10
1999	Wisconsin	5
1998	Wisconsin	17
1997	Michigan
1996	OSU	4
1995	Northwestern	2	9
1994	Penn St
1993	Wisconsin	7
1992	Michigan
1991	Michigan	20	20
1990	Iowa	27	12
1989	Michigan	5	7
1988	Michigan	2
1987	MSU	28
1986	Michigan	3	7
1985	Iowa	9	17
1984	OSU	5	3
1983	Illinois	10	36
1982	Michigan	10	10
1981	Iowa	17	28
1980	Michigan	3
1979	OSU		1
1978	MSU	21
1977	Michigan	16	7
1976	Michigan	2	8
1975	OSU		13
1974	OSU	3	1
1973	OSU
1972	OSU	7	25
1971	Michigan		1
1970	OSU		10
1969	Michigan	23	7
1968	OSU
1967	Indiana	26	11
1966	MSU
1965	MSU		2
1964	Michigan	1
1963	Illinois	27
1962	Wisconsin	7	5
1961	OSU
1960	Minnesota	9	10
1959	Wisconsin	21	36
1958	Iowa	10
1957	OSU	4
1956	Iowa	10
1955	OSU	6
1954	OSU
1953	MSU	6
1952	Wisconsin	13	7
1951	Illinois
1950	Michigan	21
1949	OSU	27
1948	Michigan
1947	Michigan
1946	Illinois	20
1945	Indiana
1944	OSU
1943	Purdue
1942	OSU	10
1941	Minnesota
1940	Minnesota
1939	OSU	11
1938	Minnesota	19
1937	Minnesota	5
1936	Northwestern	20
1935	Minnesota
1934	Minnesota
1933	Michigan
1932	Michigan
1931	Purdue	7
1930	Michigan
1929	Purdue
1928	Illinois	3
1927	Illinois
1926	Michigan	10
1925	Michigan	1
1924	Chicago	3
1923	Illinois
1922	Iowa
1921	Iowa
1920	OSU		28
1919	Illinois	4
1918	Illinois	7
1917	OSU
1916	OSU
1915	Illinois
1914	Illinois
1913	Chicago
1912	Wisconsin
1911	Minnesota
1910	Illinois
1909	Minnesota	29
1908	Chicago
1907	Chicago	14
1906	Wisconsin
1905	Chicago
1904	Minnesota
1903	Minnesota
1902	Michigan
1901	Michigan
1900	Minnesota
1899	Chicago
1898	Michigan
1897	Wisconsin
1896	Wisconsin	10