Sad Day for the State of Michigan
What a bad day for the entire state of Michigan on rivalry weekend! Ohio State overcame a 9 point deficit to beat Michigan (I do wish I could have watched more of this game, my sister said it was pretty exciting at the end) and Penn State beat the sloppy Spartans 31-22. Michigan State finishes 5-6, after starting out 4-0 with such high hopes for the season. My sister and I watched the end of this game at Cambridge One -- the food and the beer and the company were all great, but the game was not so good. Everytime it looked like MSU could mount a comeback, they committed a turnover. It's like they wanted to lose the game. No actually, it's like someone paid the kicker to botch the game -- he made so many mistakes that no Division I college player should ever make (even in practice!). So Penn State earns a BCS berth and shares the Big Ten title with OSU (OSU could still win an at-large BCS bid), while MSU goes to no bowl game and Michigan goes to one that is not quite as good as the ones they normally go to. (I hear my friend Ben saying, "Our team will be playing on New Year's Day, although yours probably won't be in a New Year's Day bowl"). Sigh, if only they were in any bowl!
It's laughable how Illinois and Northwestern are rivals and Purdue and Indiana are rivals. Perhaps I should not be laughing at this as my team just lost 6 of their last 7 games.
What I miss about moving to the Northeast is quality football viewing. People in the Northeast don't appreciate football nearly as much as they should and the teams don't play nearly as well as they should.
Hmmm, wonder how that Harvard-Yale game went....
posted by Mango Kiwi @ 8:55 PM
4 Comments:
I heard the Michigan/Ohio rivalry started with an argument over Toledo when the state boundaries were drawn. Ohio won but they took Toledo anyway. :-)
I thought it had to do with Woody Hayes being Bo Schembechler's (sp?) mentor, or did the rivalry start before then?
Its really irritating to have a team that loses 3 games by less than 5 points all because of the same sort of pattern. We're up by less than a field goal with a couple of minutes left and our defense can't stop the other team. I'm not saying its all the defense's fault, the defense probably does well to keep usin games like that. Its mainly the offense's fault for scoring one touchdown for every 3 or 4 times they get to the redzone. Blah.
By the way to your previous commentor.. Michigan and Ohio state have played each other for 102 years now. The hundredth meeting was in 2003 which we won. So its a LOT older than Bo and Woody.
yeah it seems like henne can't often make the big plays at the end. hopefully he will learn next year, though he did make a big play at the end of the penn state game. michigan state is totally different i think -- i think the entire team just broke down somehow (especially special teams) so then stanton puts upon himself to personally win the game for the whole team which is virtually impossible. So he starts playing risky because he knows the kicker can't make a field goal or even punt for that matter -- hence all the interceptions...
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