

Listen to this crowd, look at this weather, and tell me you didn’t see it coming. The avalanche started down the hill during last year’s Michigan State game. They lost, but rather than getting run out of the building they had a possession to tie the game late. And they got avalanched under these same lights two years ago.īut what if they don’t? After all, Michigan could have been avalanched against Notre Dame last year they were down 21-3 at night on the road. They got avalanched in the Outback Bowl in 2017. They got avalanched in the last two games of last season granted, one was a bowl game that Michigan visibly didn’t care about, but the other was the most catastrophic loss in the last decae Michigan football. Michigan got avalanched once already this year. The concerns about an avalanche aren’t unfounded. And it feels like a snowballing might turn into an avalanche. I’ve heard and read mainstream purveyors of football thought declaring this a ‘must win.’ It’s all pressing inward. They hear the roar of the crows, and of and the members of the media who Are queueing up the “we told you so” takes. They’re looking at the glare of the lights, and of the national spotlight. They’re looking at the white-out crowd and the black sky. They’re looking at the rest of the picture. James Franklin is 1-4 against Michigan, and was once defeated by a 5-7 Brady Hoke team coming off a loss to Rutgers.īut no one is looking at the field. Jim Harbaugh is 1-1 on this field, and 3-1 overall against the team that plays on it. Michigan is 6-5 all-time on this football field.

Hashmarks every yard, field-wide lines every five yards. It’s covered in grass (Kentucky Bluegrass, to be specific). Goalposts are 10 feet high and 18.5 feet wide. In that spirit, and in light of tonight’s festivities, it may be of value to continue this effort at education.ġ20 yards long. PUNTīy Bryan those of you who read this week’s Opponent Watch, you may recall that we discussed the nature of footballs.
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Something's been missing from Michigan gamedays since the free programs ceased being economically viable: scientific gameday predictions that are not at all preordained by the strictures of a column in which one writer takes a positive tack and the other a negative one… something like Punt-Counterpunt.
