THE GAME: Ohio State 42, Michigan 7 (Nov. 22)

[BearBuck27]

Originally Posted by BuckBackHome

3:41 and michigan still ______!

SUCKS

[buckeyebri]

Originally Posted by NFBuck

m*ch*g*n is an absolutely awful football team...maybe the worst in the Big-Ten. I expect them to play their best game of the season next Saturday.

There is still a lot of talent on this ScUM squad that has been thoroughly wasted by Rodus Dickus......

It is one thing to install a new style of offense....it is another thing to have the players to run that offense before you do.....

and it is 5:31 and Michigan still........

[buckeyemania11]

Ted Ginn Jr- 2004 Army All American Bowl MVP, took a dump on Michigan in his career

Chris Wells- 2006 Army All American Bowl MVP, has also owned Michigan

Terrelle Pryor- 2008 Army All American Bowl MVP................

[Gothmog8]

On Michigan's loss to NW -


At least one Wolverine said the season can be salvaged by upsetting rival Ohio State next week.
"If we can come out and beat O-State that would clear everything up," [Brandon] Harrison said.

Clear what up? That a sucky team might pull off the upset by sheer will-power and luck? (and maybe blind refs, crappy announcers, and flying pigs)

I just hope OSU comes to play too.

[ScriptOhio]

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- A share of the Big Ten title is still out there for Ohio State. So is a potential BCS berth, automatic or at large.
All that remains is a team that just suffered its school-record eighth loss, a team that barely resembles the arch-rival Ohio State faces on the final Saturday of every season.
If there was ever a time to reflect a bit on the bigger picture, Saturday afternoon was it. But Buckeyes coach Jim Tressel and his players remain single-minded.
"It's not about the Big Ten title," running back Chris "Beanie" Wells said. "It's not about where we go in the BCS. It's about Ohio State-Michigan."
Before the season, Ohio State discussed two goals: Winning a third consecutive outright Big Ten title and beating Michigan for the fifth consecutive time. The first objective is off the table, but the second remains.
None of the current Buckeyes players has ever lost to Michigan, and they have no plans to start now.
"It's important to both teams," head coach Jim Tressel said. "BCS stuff and bowl stuff and Big Ten stuff, is really second compared to the Ohio State-Michigan game. Usually at the end of that game, you find out what you've earned for the season. But the Ohio State-Michigan game is a season unto itself."
It's quite literally one for Michigan, which stumbles into Ohio Stadium at 3-8 after Saturday's loss to Northwestern. The Wolverines have ensured their first losing season since 1967 and their first bowl-less season since 1974.
A long, lonely winter awaits head coach Rich Rodriguez and his players, but they could momentarily dull the pain by beating a vastly superior Ohio State team in Columbus.
"It's a huge chance for them to kind of regain their season and get them started on the right foot," Ohio State wide receiver Brian Hartline said. "They're not going to a bowl game, so it's all or nothing, the last game.
"They have a great chance to knock us off and kind of launch them into the '09 year."
Buckeyes freshman quarterback Terrelle Pryor will get his first taste of one of college football's greatest rivalries next week. Pryor also will share the field with Rodriguez, who came close to landing him during a prolonged recruitment.
Pryor hasn't spoken to Rodriguez since hours before he committed to Ohio State. His father was the one who actually called Rodriguez, Penn State defensive coordinator Tom Bradley and others to tell them they had lost the Pryor sweepstakes.
"It was kind of hard to say no to them," Pryor said, "so I had my father call them."
Asked how much better Michigan would have fared this season had he went there, Pryor replied, "I can't answer that. I'm here."
And so is the Michigan game, no matter how watered-down it seems.
"You always think about Michigan," linebacker Marcus Freeman said. "You always watch to see what they're doing because that's such a big rivalry. Finally, we can actually concentrate on Michigan because it's Michigan week."

Entire article: ESPN - Michigan game hasn't lost meaning for Buckeyes - Big Ten

[BuckeyeMike80]

[Oh8ch]

There is a lot of talk about overconfidence, and I agree that is a risk.

But I can't see a lack of focus.

As a fan I am as focused on this game as any other season. Whether it be to steal the Big Ten championship from them or to make them 3-9 - it is all this week is about. My energy level will be as high next Saturday as it would be if they were 11-0. I have been conditioned my entire football watching life to focus on this game every year.

The records may not be what we have come to expect or what fans outside of Ohio need to focus on The Game - but it is the only Michigan game we get.

Every upperclassman has to feel the same way. Every underclassman from Ohio has to feel the same way. And those few who don't fit those categories will quickly become infected. I expect to see hitting like we haven't seen all year.

And every coach on either side of the ball understands what this game is about - with one possible exception.

[NFBuck]

[Zander42]

Totally agree, records don't matter in this game. How many times have we gone into this game as huge favorites and been hit in the teeth, and vice versa? Fortunately, Tressel knows this. I think the fellas will be ready. If your at Ohio State and aren't ready for this one, you don't have a pulse.

Game week baby!!!

[Gothmog8]

Oh man I just realized this will be the 1st OSU-Michigan game in 10 years that I won't be able to follow at all!!!! (no radio, tv, or internet)

I guess all I can do is grow my beard in solidarity, pray for an ass-whupping, and watch highlights in the hotel room.

[BUCKYLE]

It's on.

[censored] them.

[Sdgobucks]

[censored] Michigan

[Sdgobucks]

[censored] Michigan

[OHSportsFan9]

We cannot lose to these guys.

[censored] MICHIGAN!

[JXC]

Originally Posted by BUCKYLE

It's on.

[censored] them.

I'm wondering if Michigan will ever be great again. They are going to have trouble recuriting out of state, and in state high school football isn't the greatest. I don't know. I am think we probably take the lead in this rivalry in my lifetime. That's my prediction. I'm sticking to it. I don't know which is stronger. My hate for Michigan, or my love for kicking their asses. I hope we win by 50.