MichiganCardinal

Swift has shown that over the course of multiple seasons. ASB was healthy all of last year and has had two injuries this year. Not willing to call them the same yet.

Anzalone completely lost.

No shut out today!!!! Forward down the field....

Play calling feels like they don't trust the offensive line in pass protection.

Going with a parlay today... Jerry Jones' suite shown on FOX +5.5 times Refs Inventing New Rules against Lions +1.5 rules Mike Pereira justifying this rule somehow -110 Tony Romo fanboying over the Cowboys +3 instances Lions win toss and receive +120

I wouldn't count on him returning at all. That's his surgically repaired ankle that's acting up.

Hopefully I don't regret these words, but I do not foresee a close game between Michigan and MSU. The talent discrepancy is so wide this year that I think a blow out like 2019 is far more likely than a game that goes down to the wire. There is something to be said for rivalry games bringing out the most in terms of motivation, but if you look at games across long periods of time, the better team almost always wins, and Michigan is certainly the far better team. Further, MSU will certainly be motivated, but I don't think there is a Michigan player on that team that doesn't remember the game last year, and how it kept them from a 13-0 season. That motivation will work both ways.

If the B1G was having a normal year I would agree. It’s just 1a, 1b, and the field though to this point. I don’t think Michigan will be tested by anyone except maybe Illinois (and that could be a blow out itself). Ohio State has Penn State in Happy Valley next week… mayyybe that one will ruin the 11-0 v 11-0 matchup? Penn State sure didn’t seem interested in challenging for the 2nd best team in the conference last week though.

Watching Clemson-Syracuse, I'm not sure that a one-loss ACC champion would make the playoff this year over a one-loss B1G team. The Clemson bias is still out there, so it wouldn't shock me if it's them, but this is a two-conference league now.

Iowa / Ohio State and Syracuse / Clemson at 12 UCLA / Oregon and Ole Miss / LSU at 330 MS State / Alabama and Kansas State / TCU at 7 I think we could see a number of unbeatens go down today

A lot of QBs struggle to come back from this injury. I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s not 100%

Holmes can say what he wants publicly, but this team was not built to win in 2022. They clearly have a plan that extends beyond 2022. There is an argument to be made that the team Campbell has been presented is better than their 1-4 would show, but these first two years has been a lot of "let's throw cheap talent at the wall and see what can stick"... It's why Rodrigo might be here next year rather than a free agent LB that could have been signed instead of him.

I think your last line does what you accuse Birkett of doing lol. Holmes has stayed away from big free agency moves.

The Rams offer by now would probably be limited to a 2028 1st and a nice ball of yarn

Really intriguing deal. Risk involved on both sides.

This year, but no timetable yet and they won't rush it.

Are weekly game threads not enough for you people?? First 1000 in attendance this week get a free match to help burn it all down.

There is a reason Chark signed a prove-it deal. If he doesn’t prove it, as it seems, cut ties at the end of the year. JayMo would take his touches away anyway next year.

CFB doesn't need a strong Notre Dame. The sport certainly benefits from strong midwest schools, but that could just as easily be Michigan, OSU, MSU, Penn State, et al. in any given year. It's more about competition and quantity than it is any individual school and quality. The sport would also benefit if the PAC-12 wasn't such a vacuum chamber of mediocrity, yet here we are. You don't want the sport turning into college baseball, where the midwest has no real chance, but practically speaking, that will never happen. It exists in baseball due to the climate of the midwest and the lack of funding (and interest) to build domed stadiums and training facilities for the midwest programs. They simply can't compete with southern schools who live and breath baseball 24/7/365. The problem of the last decade in CFB (as defined by fans of schools that are not Alabama, Clemson, and Ohio State) vested in the playoff format. Having four teams be all that can win a championship in any given year necessarily lends itself to a funneling of virtually all talent to select schools that have demonstrated they can be one of those four teams year-in and year-out. If you wanted to win a championship in college football, you had very strong reason to go to one of those schools, where Saban, Dabo, and Tressel/Meyer cracked the code for success (i.e., cheating without getting caught). I think we will see a dilution of talent with the expansion of the playoff. It might take some time, but good recruiting coupled with good coaching at a midsize school might actually mean something moving forward. I think that is what could be really good for college football. To see a school like Minnesota in 2019 or Cincinnati in 2021 make a run in the playoffs and actually compete with the upper echelon of SEC schools - that would be really good for the sport and really cool to see. With four playoff teams, Minnesota or Cincinnati can recruit their butts off and coach their butts off, but it doesn't mean anything in the long run when Saban can just step out his front door and have 5* recruits line up to play for him. Minnesota's peak is the 2019 Outback Bowl... If those schools can legitimately sell "hey, you can come here and we expect to compete for a championship", you might get some of those 5* kids who would otherwise go to Alabama or Ohio State to buy-in.

This is encouraging to me. I've always felt like past ownership teams have been very complacent and reactive, rather than proactive. It sounds like she is involved to the right degree.

No word from him on ASB yet.

After 1-3 it was true. They lost those three games by a combined 10 points. One game doesn’t put someone on the hot seat.

I would put Kevan Stefanski, Josh McDaniels, and Mike McCarthy on the list. I would not put Dan Campbell anywhere close to the list. Seats get hot when you don't meet expectations over the course of a season or seasons. The Lions did not expect to be competing this season.