2024 Rose Bowl: #1 Michigan Wolverines (13-0) vs. #4 Alabama Crimson Tide (12-1)

[CMRivdogs]

Bottom line is always $$$$. Alabama fans travel better than FSU. Alabama also gets better TV ratings

[RandyMarsh]

Bill Connely of ESPN ranked the top 40 CFP teams ever based off of his metrics and Michigan is currently number 7 overall 1 spot behind 2021 UGA.

He had 2021 UM at number 28 and last years team at number 23.

Btw coming in at dead last was the 2015 MSU team. 

[MichiganCardinal]

5 minutes ago, RandyMarsh said:

Btw coming in at dead last was the 2015 MSU team. 

When Michigan scores on its opening drive, I've already decided to text all my MSU friends "wow scoring against Alabama in the playoff sure is easy, huh guys!?"

[Deleterious]

Are they worried Ryan Day hacked their tablets?

 

[MichiganCardinal]

37 minutes ago, Deleterious said:

Are they worried Ryan Day hacked their tablets?

 

I can think of no logical reason that A + B = C here.

[romad1]

6 hours ago, Deleterious said:

Are they worried Ryan Day hacked their tablets?

 

I think George Helow told them what the Dharma Initiative is really up to at Michigan.

[MichiganCardinal]

The more I think the less sense it makes…. Even in the midst of the scandal…. Was Michigan stealing its own video? Why would you be unable to watch Michigan on a tablet? Or are you saying that your video is of Michigan’s signs and Alabama is restricting that because of the scandal? The last one is the only one that makes a modicum of sense.

[microline133]

It's an attempt to create a story leading up  to the game; a story that hopefully generates questions for UM players and coaches, and potentially offers some distraction from the task at hand. Nothing more.

[buddha]

like the helow hiring, its gamesmanship by saban.

[romad1]

11 hours ago, buddha said:

like the helow hiring, its gamesmanship by saban.

This bush league psych out stuff. Laughable, man – HA HA!

[Deleterious]

Kinda kills the Saban PSYOPS theory.

 

[buddha]

i still have a hard time seeing michigan winning this game.  nick saban is not ryan day.  he's not going to turtle when the going gets tough.  and bama - like georgia - is loaded at the skill positions in ways michigan is not.  bama is like penn state, only with a good offense and a great head coach.  michigan will have to play very well, bama will need to turn the ball over, and we'll need some luck.

[MichiganCardinal]

52 minutes ago, buddha said:

i still have a hard time seeing michigan winning this game.  nick saban is not ryan day.  he's not going to turtle when the going gets tough.  and bama - like georgia - is loaded at the skill positions in ways michigan is not.  bama is like penn state, only with a good offense and a great head coach.  michigan will have to play very well, bama will need to turn the ball over, and we'll need some luck.

I have an easier time seeing Michigan winning this game than I had seeing Michigan beating Georgia two years ago. I’m not going to defend Ryan Day, but Ohio State this year didn’t turtle like they did the last two years. They went punch for punch and just turned the ball over too many times.

This is probably the worst Alabama team in five years. Which says a lot for how great that program is. Their WRs are not Jerry Jeudy, Jamo, or Henry Ruggs and their RBs are not Jahmyr Gibbs or Derrick Henry. They’re still very good, but they’re not an NFL caliber team. Milroe is very good, but turnover prone. If Michigan plays the brand of mistake-free football that got them this far, and capitalizes on Milroe’s mistake(s), I think it will be a one-possession game either direction.

[gehringer_2]

59 minutes ago, buddha said:

i still have a hard time seeing michigan winning this game.

Yeah - I retain a lot of built in "B1G doesn't play the same brand of football" bias, but objectively I have to admit that M under Harbaugh has turned a kind of corner recently - they do play bigger and better than they used to. Is it enough to close the gap, esp without an adequate replacement for Zinter? Does seem doubtful.

[Deleterious]

This makes me happy.

 

[buddha]

best uniforms in sports.

[MichiganCardinal]

I need to focus on this game to distract me from the criminality occurring in the NFL.

Go Blue.

[MichiganCardinal]

 

[MichiganCardinal]

This is the first year (for me at least) where this game has felt bigger than The Game. That doesn't make intuitive sense, given this is a playoff and The Game is not, but I think there is something to be said for how the program has evolved.

The last two years, the season was a huge success after Michigan beat Ohio State and didn't collapse in the Big Ten Championship. Anything beyond that was gravy. This year it feels like the season depends more on this game tonight (and hopefully next Monday too) than it did against Ohio State. While Ohio State always matters, there's a been there, done that feeling to beating Ohio State now, and that winning this - winning a semifinal, beating the SEC, going to the National Championship - is now the real next barrier for Michigan football.

[TP_Fan]

I’d really love to see ESPN meltdown if Michigan can win this one. The hate and slander they’ve shown toward Michigan is out of control.  It’s time to shut everyone up. 

[Hongbit]

I wish you guys a lot of luck today.  For as much **** that I give, I honestly hope that Michigan can win today and next week.    

Enjoy these days as it seems inevitable this time that Harbaugh is really leaving.  Add that with the changing conference and no longer having a cakewalk schedule and it could be a long, long time before Michigan is in this position again.   

[buddha]

1 hour ago, Hongbit said:

I wish you guys a lot of luck today.  For as much **** that I give, I honestly hope that Michigan can win today and next week.    

Enjoy these days as it seems inevitable this time that Harbaugh is really leaving.  Add that with the changing conference and no longer having a cakewalk schedule and it could be a long, long time before Michigan is in this position again.   

lol, even when you say something nice about michigan you have to throw a shot in there too.  🙂

[gehringer_2]

Have we beaten Alabama since Brady?

EDIT.....nope. Lost in 2012 and 2020

Edited January 1, 2024 by gehringer_2

[buddha]

nope.  played them in a rich rod year to open the season in jerry world and were embarassed.  played them in a bowl game in shea patterson land and were good for the first half and then alabama decided to play and whupped michigan in the second half.

[Hongbit]

24 minutes ago, buddha said:

lol, even when you say something nice about michigan you have to throw a shot in there too.  🙂

It comes down to the expectation that Sharrone Moore will be the next coach.  Seems like a good guy but not ready for a job this big.   Marcus Freeman part 2.