@J_Smitty35 I get that and that was my argument too. But we’re in the championship playoff and we got teams looking like they don’t belong. Something gotta change. Georgia pretty much got a walk-in spot in the championship game. Bc they side of the bracket is pretty much all scrubs.
Cassius Winston and Xavier Tillman were the 1st and 2nd best players in the country in 2019-2020.
(by BPR, the gold standard in analytics)
via @EvanMiya
For decades, UM has fluctuated between "bad" and "pretty good".
In 1999, they finished #5 in the AP Poll...
...then didn't have another Top 5 finish for 21 years.
They're plucky. They're like Big Ten Boise.
True, they've had incredible peaks. But check this out...
UM has "won" 2 titles since 1948.
Did you know they're the only 2 contested championships of the modern era?
1. 1997
-Anyone can watch the closing seconds of the 1998 Rose Bowl and see Washington State (trailing by 5) was cheated out of a final play just outside the red zone.
-All objective analytical models (i.e. Sagarin, SP+) heavily favor Nebraska over Michigan, and it's not close.
This title should not have been shared.
2. 2023
This "title" is best summarized by a simple bit of trivia:
In November 2023, Jim Harbaugh became the first coach in the history of American sports to be suspended twice in one year without losing his job.
He then broke his own record with a 3rd suspension months later.
All 3 suspensions stemmed from competitive advantage violations (cheating).
All 3 were either self-imposed, or unopposed.
These are objective facts, and they tell the story of Michigan Football.
Indeed, every 25 years or so, Michigan elevates above its normal standard.
When they do, books are written about the illegitimacy of the anomaly.
#GOBLUE
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