I'm nervous. Very nervous. And why shouldn't I be? Michigan is playing a team with a spread offense, at night in a loud stadium, most likely without all-everything Mike Hart in the backfield.
Plus throw in the fact that the Illini have their backs to the wall after last weekend's loss.
Thus, while Reverse Blog Psychology requires that I continue my trend of picking U-M's opponent here, based on the above, I don't really know if his is an RBP pick or a probable outcome:
Hart-less Michigan - 21, Spread Bitches, Spread Illinois - 28
Leave your thoughts, rants, feelings and general what-not in the comments section.
*UPDATE*
Final Score: All-Heart Michigan - 27, We Love Penalties Illinois - 17
ohmygodohmygodohmygod.
That, my friends, was a HUGE victory for the 2007 Wolverines. To go into a hostile stadium at night with injuries to arguably the best RB in the country and a banged up senior QB, overcome three turnovers and a 14-3 deficit is very impressive.
More to come later but I need to wait until my heart rate drops below 175 beats per minute.
Go Blue!
Saturday, October 20, 2007
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Che-he! Che-ha! Che-ha-ha-ha!
Go Illini go!
Che-he! Che-ha! Che-ha-ha-ha!
Go Illini go!
Illinois! Illinois! Illinois!
Look, if you get beat by a school with the above fight song lyrics just remember to slash down the wrist and not across.
Oh yeah, make sure you're sitting in the tub. Key Play fans will appreciate your thoughtfulness.
O.K first of all never do those lyrics again, and second you have a point to worry but dont because we do have the best or close to best recieving core in the nation.
Hail to the Victors! Go Blue!
GO BLUE!!! (Thank God for ABC!)
Whets, I didn't know you had such a lovely singing voice :P
Well, I disagree with what you said regarding Mike Hart. You said he will most likely not be playing, but we all know you can't keep him off the field unless you saw off both of his legs and take away his wheelchair.
Those who hear me say I'm channeling Elvis.
We're DOOMED today.....
Add this to the mix (if you dare...) I will be able to watch this game live, the first time this year. In my family I am well known as a first class jinx (first class other things as well- but this is a topic for another blog...). This could be a problem. But I promise to switch to the food network if it appears I am causing any negative mojo.
PS anybody ever click on the little wheelchair guy next to the word verification? It's a hoot.
"PS anybody ever click on the little wheelchair guy next to the word verification? It's a hoot."
Aaaaiiiieeee. The voices! The voices are back.
Must...not...listen...to...the...
voices.
you were nervous about the purdont game and look what happened. we crushed them. granted, painter is not a mobile qb and we were at home, but we still shut them down. you predicted a loss and we won. so keep predicting losses and they might keep winning. :)
Michigan is going to get "juiced" like Ron and Nicole! No Hart means Carlos Brown will fumble more times than he gets yards. Henne will get nailed more times by more men than Lindsay Lohan did in rehab. Mario will resort to his old self and start dropping passes only to tell Carr at the end of the game he's transferring to Notre Dame.
Illinois spread offense will make Michigan look like a joke again.
Maize......thank you!!
do dat do dat do dat do dat
do dat do dat do dat do dat
Very superstitious, writings on the wall,
Very superstitious, ladders bout to fall,
Thirteen month old baby, broke the lookin glass
Seven years of bad luck, the good things in your past.
When you believe in things that you dont understand,
Then you suffer,
Superstition aint the way
do dat do dat do dat do dat
do dat do dat do dat do dat
Stevie Wonder likes football???
wtf
GO CYCLONES
Stevie can't see promoting superstition.
GO VANDY!
CYCLONES
Yes'm.
No guts no glory! Forget reverse psychology! You've gone soft. The spread on this game is 1.5 points. We'll cover that no problem.
Michigan 34
Illinois 20 (only because we let them have 10 late-4th quarter points)
If Michigan loses, I'll wear orange on Sunday.
Super G,
NOOOOOOOOOOO....we use reverse pyschology.........Michigan is going to get CREAMED!!!!!!!
GO BLUE!!
Whets, I thought I recognized that trembling upper lip you have. I didn't know Elivs has such a range of music that he sung though!
Burnt orange or pumpkin orange?
Katie,
Thank ya, thank ya very much.
Elvis has not left the building.
This is like Lucy holding the ball for Charlie Brown- when are we gonna learn? we saw all kinds of different "stuff" on offense last week. W/ Hart out, we should try all that different stuff THIS week. But we won't. Why? Because what would that prove? Last week we proved we could pass the ball w/ Hart in the game. This week we'll prove we can RUN the w/out Hart in the game. It's "the team" thing. We're Michigan- we'll quick to anyone abd cover them. We'll run the ball against twelve man fronts. We stay "our" offense regardless of personnel.
Names don't matter- only execution.
The is the same crew that didn't scout App St. They aren't going to adjust for illinois, hart's injury, or the forward pass.
POOF! go the Cyclones. :-(
I told you to root for Vandy. If you had listened to me that would be a smiley face.
Hey,
Boeckman is 7 for 7 with a TD.
I heard Chad Henne has a poster of Todd Boeckman on his wall.
oh whetstone.
Now I'm trying to decide if tOSU is that good, or Sparty is that sad.
Go WILDCATS (?)
The Battle for the Best I-AA Loser in AA.
ugh
so minnesota loses to I-AA North Dakota State, setting up next week's grudge match in A2.
look for EPSN to give it a name- something like: "Battle of the I-AA Losers" or "Battle to be the Best I-A Team in Division I-AA".
T9,
very catchy use of all the "AA"'s.
maybe the game could be sponsored by, say "AAA"? certainly Lloyd could use the free maps.
I think the game should be sponsored by AA. Lloyd could use a little help from a Higher Power.
SiC--
I was trying to follow your lead and then you 'yipped' on the post.....
Colorado does the same gay key jingle on 3rd down. lame.
Should be a good game for you guys today....I'm torn between my hate for M*ch*g*n and wanting them to win out until the Buckeyes pay a visit. In any case good luck I guess
T9,
my bad- fixed some typos.
What a day. Now, if Oklahoma and LSU could pick up one more loss.
just watched the Florida-Kentucky game --
Gary Danielson is so in love with all things Florida - I had to "mute" the game.
No Henne, No Hart
I'm sick....
BUT
remain TRUE BLUE
GO BLUE
BEAT THE ILLINI
Holy Shit... what Maize and Blue team was that lining up 5 wide receivers????
After seeing a shot of the crowd, I gotta think, Illinois hasn't beat Michigan at home since 1983, and fans are wearing Fuck Michigan shirts? Stay classy Illinois.
ANSWERED
LET'S GO BLUE
I realize we don't have much choice but I do love to see us passing........nice that they just ran Minor....gotta throw them off a bit........I am SOOOO nervous! OYE!!
Ron Zook is such a smug doofus...
So--Katie
isn't it interesting that it's the women who appear to be on-line right now????
Who is worse? Meyer or Zook?
Isn't that kind of like asking "Would you rather be deaf or blind?"
I think Zook is worse... it's only a matter of time for Zook gets busted for some NCAA violations. There's no way in hell one gets a freshman class like that after the school goes 2-10, 2-9, 3-8, 1-11, 5-7 in the last five years.
Yeah, Zook can say sell the program to the kids by telling them they'll get playing time right away but I think that only goes so far.
Zook had to have made a deal with the devil and his time will come.
I have company from out of town, a guy who doesn't like football.(How do I have friends who don't like football????)...so I bought a new bookshelf and I am having him put it together while I watch the game...LMAO!!! He still isn't finished and it is the 3rd quarter...hee hee......
BRILLIANT Katie!
Classic TV shot of the Mendenhall family with the 'Hei$man' Shirt
and his mom will give him $1000 for 5 TDs?
Zook is way dirty
gotta be
F'n running QB and F'n Crable..
my god this game is making me drink. ok, this drive is looking better. I'm still drinking though
dangit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Let me say now that I was wrong. They came up w/ a whole new page to the playbook. If we lose, it won't be DeBord's playcalling.
I really don't know if I'm going to make it to the end of this game alive....
Let me say now that I was wrong. They came up w/ a whole new page to the playbook. If we lose, it won't be DeBord's playcalling.
Well, with 6:40-ish left, lets hope they don't run to the left 3x and give the ball up quickly.
OMG We made a Field Goal!!!
We got a bit lucky in this one... giving the ball up 3 times... but holy cow, what about the play calling?!?!?!?!
GO BLUE!!!
Ok. Maybe I'm sold. I'll have to look in the mirror tomorrow to be sure, but I may be sold.
BIG, TOUGH win on the road without Mike, with a highly medicated Chad (gotta be that way with a shoulder injury, ?partial separation vs. rotator cuff strain? ), and a juiced up Ryan.
Defense looked GREAT.
DeBord has been abducted by aliens. clearly.
GO BLUE!!!!
What a great win!! It wasn't pretty and it wasn't perfect but with all the injuries we faced I'm happy to take it!
GO BLUE!
every time Illinois got a penalty -
I prayed that Zook was thinking -
"I really shouldn't have voted for Florida last year"
Karma can be a wonderful thing!
Title IX - i was thinking the same thing when I saw the Hei$man shirt - tacky, dirty, and wrong.
Go Blue !!!
Hail to the Victors !!!
OK - OK - 27 - 17:
I didn't count on Henne being out and the first minute of the game.
Still --- all great for U of M and no reverse psychology required (thank you very much).
Go Blue,
Super G
For Michigan's final touchdown of the game, they didn't throw rock, they didn't throw paper, they didn't even throw scissors, they threw NINJA TORNADO!
I'm still in disbelief that this ultra-conservative offense would roll that play out. Wow.
Here's hoping we keep it rolling thru the remainder of the Big10 season (and beyond for a change). :)
To Illinois: take that you classless bitches. You had it coming.
Where do I start? I think we go back a year to Ron Zook voting UF #2. But then we come back to this year.
My dad had a business trip to Champaign Urbana and people told him how much they hate Michigan, but they're ok with OSU.
Then tonight at the Michigan bar I was at, there was some dickhead with an Illinois shirt flipping everyone off. I think it was when the cameraman stumbled across the douchebag wearing the Fuck Michigan shirt that I decided that these miserable fans deserve an embarrassing loss to Michigan
Just finished watching the game from the Tivo. I'm the first to be critical of lloyd and the staff, but I have to say...hats off. The playcalling, player discipline (though that may have been just by comparison) and, my god, the special teams! Field goals made, great kick coverage (after the opener). Illinois was battling field position all day. Really impressive win.
I saw the F* Michigan shirts. Honestly, it's more funny/pathetic than anything. Kind of like that idiot Chippendale from Wisconsin a few weeks back. I'm starting to feel like the Yankees here.
You know the F* Michigan shirts have a simple explanation probably...Everyone likes to hate the wingest (both in # AND Percentage) teams in any sport at any level.. But in the end one word shuts them up.. SCOREBOARD!
GO BLUE!!!!
was in champaign for the game, at the opposite end of the stadium from all the other michigan fans... no longer have any voice whatsoever :) the illinois fans were LOUD for the first 3/4ths of the game (or at least 1/2... i thought they started to wimp out a bit)... was a pretty sweet first away game, i've gotta say, and i loved hanging around at the end of the game with all the michigan fans and players shouting to each other. might have some sweet pictures :) go blue!!
Yeah, I like how ABC couldn't show close-up shots of the crowd for most of the game unless they started looking at Michigan fans. Caught those shirts right at the beginning of the game with one of the first shots that panned over the crowd. The guy's shirt was kind of crunched up, but you could definitely tell what it said. Then they caught one dead on later in the game. Wonder if the "Fuck Michigan" store had special versions made up for Illini fans.
Oh, and Katie - I ended up with a FIANCE that doesn't like football. I still don't know how that one happened. He's coming to dread Saturdays now that we live together. I think he believes he has some chance of getting me to stop screaming at the tv. That should go away soon enough, though. A bookshelf, huh? I wonder if I can think up building projects for him to do every weekend...
Jessica....you need to reconsider that marriage....LMAO!
Oh, he'll learn eventually. :D
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