Way to go Matt and Brandon! It’s only been one post later and I’m pretty sure we’ve already met our goal of “more comments than Brian Ferentz has scoring drives!” At this rate, we may have more comments than Brian Ferentz has average yards per game! The bad news is that Iowa is probably going to win the Big Ten West. This will result in two things: One, the most poetically fitting end the Big Ten West’s existence. In its final year before the expansion/reorg, the “Bee Tee Dubs” will crown the worst offense in college football its champion. Two, it will give Kirk Nepotism the excuse he needs to keep his son around for another year. Yay!!! But here’s the good news: Now that we’ve got the comments out of the way, I don’t have to worry about alienating half of my readership. There’s a specific type of content that has been mostly absent from this year’s blog post… MICHIGAN!
There is a team coming up on Michigan’s schedule that I think Michigan will destroy. I don’t think I’ve ever been more confident in this. They have a weak offensive line. They cannot run the football. They are replacing a quarterback who is worse than any of their previous starters (or backups) in recent memory. Their secondary got absolutely torched last year, and Michigan’s QB and receivers look dramatically improved since they last met. Michigan should crush this team. This is the worst version of this team since before Rich Rodriguez. Michigan may be fielding their best team in my lifetime.
Michigan should NOT go into the game with this mindset. This most real game Michigan will have played. They need to go into this like Devin Bush tearing up the Spartan Logo in 2018*. I want Michigan to want to embarrass this team. This team will NOT come into this game lightly. It will be their whole season. They will want revenge. If there’s ever a game this team will be fired up for, it’s this one. This should be like Florida vs Georgia in that Netflix special on Urban Meyer’s Gators.
Did you guys see that documentary? I kept flipping between enjoying it and being completely annoyed by it. I now don’t completely hate Tim Tebow… although I’m still glad Lloyd Carr made him cry in 2007. Urban Meyer is still full of shit… I’m sure there’s some truth to his “I don’t like turning my back on players” speech… but come on… you turned a blind eye to arrests and drug use and off-field antics because you wanted to win football games. If it was about caring for the players, you wouldn’t have faked heart problems (actually drug problems) and tried to leave them after the 2009 National Championship loss. And then faked heart problems again (still actually drug problems) and actually left after the following year. I didn’t like that they glossed over the ending of the 2007 season… But the thing that I couldn’t stand the most was “Pete” Finebaum. Ever see the movie “61” about Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle? Paul Finebaum is the sports writer who’s never played baseball dumping on Maris the whole movie. Kinda makes you want to see Mickey Mantle (Thomas Jane) put on a Punisher T-Shirt and… anyway where were we?
Oh right… MIchigan should crush Ohio State this year. They’re nowhere near what they were in 2021 and 2022. And Michigan is… also nowhere near what they were in 2021 and 2022… I’m excited for and not dreading this game for the first time in a while… But as I mentioned in a previous post… The last time I felt this way, JT was short.
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What? Did you think I was talking about someone else?
What happened to Jinxes and Disrespekt
Oh Michigan State… I mean… They just fired their former coach for “admitted and undisputed behaviors which have brought public disrespect, contempt and ridicule upon the university.” I just wrote a whole article essentially comparing Michigan State to Ohio state. The disrespect isn’t coming from me… In all seriousness, I expect them to play Michigan tough this weekend. Recent teams have schemed things that work early against Michigan and nobody is better at that than Michigan State and Mark Dantonio. I expect a closer than comfortable game early for Michigan fans, but if Michigan is what the country thinks they are, it should be apparent by the second half.
*I do condone destruction of property.**
**Ok, I kind of do… It’s grass. Don’t piss off Devin Bush.
Not gonna talk about the elephant in the room that came up this week? Something along the lines of the 2017 Astros? Really not bring that up? We are bad this year, like worse than JLS bad so agree with all that it will be a blowout (Smacking face in a press conference bad). But really? I hold this Blog to a higher journalistic standard!
Lol, that came out after I wrote this. Next post.
Honestly – I can’t believe it is weeks later, and as I write this, Iowa is still leading the Big Ten West. Like, it makes my brain hurt. WHY is that division so bad? Between Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Nebraska, you can’t come up with ONE team that wouldn’t be a 14+ point underdog to whoever the East Division champ will be? It’s horrendous.
I also heard the Florida football thing REALLY glossed over the murderers and the criminals on that team, and was very pro-Meyer and Tebow. I’m sure Gator fans loved it. I pretty much get mad every time I see Urban though, so I think I’ll pass on that watch…