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Originally Posted by zwem
Michigan wasn't going to compete for a national title that year. Anybody that follows Michigan football closely and isn't biased would have known that. I thought that team would go 11-2 because I knew that defense would give up points/yardage and it would cost them a game or two.
Everybody got all excited when Michigan went 11-2 in 2006. That team struggled to get by Ball State that year and Ball State actually had a chance to win that game. I think Michigan overachieved that year. Then they played an actual team in USC and got ran over in the Rose Bowl.
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If you consider the recruits that App State got, the scholarship count, and where Michigan was ranked at the time they played, it's not hard to understand how excited App State got. Not to mention the way the game went down, tsun marched back, looked like they were going to win it with their much bigger athletes, and App state showed that speed matters.
Also, it's not fair to discount their victory, any tsun fan who says they weren't surprised to see a 1-AA team come into their house and upset them is a liar. How many draft picks for tsun out of that class? How many for App state? That's an enormous upset, in reality, your practice squad should have been able to handle that team.