How this works again:

1. Readers predict the final score. Write it in the replies with the Michigan score first and a dash between them like so:
   

   41-7

2. First person (by timestamp) to guess the correct score wins.
3. If you got it right, I contact you for an address by your MGoBlog account email, and you give me some time to get that to you.
4. If nobody got it right or I don't hear from the winner(s) we push it to next week or let it go.

About Last Time:

Someone was just short. I don’t want to talk about it.

This Week's Game:

Michigan in universally ridiculed alternates vs. an SEC team in Dallas, except this time it’s coached not by Nick Saban but by a guy who looks like other people he’s not a lot.

And on the Line:

A copy of the greatest Michigan preview book in the world

PLUS a small thing in the envelope that I’ll include that I can’t say what it is because I’m not supposed to have them. But the important thing is the book because we’re almost out of them, and look at your coffee table right now is that what you want people to see all football season?

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Contest fine print: One entry per user. First user to choose a set of scores wins, determined by the timestamp of your entry (for my ease I prefer if you don't post it as a reply to another person's score--if you do it won't help or hurt you). Deadline for entries is 24 hours before the start of the game. MGoEmployees and Moderators exempt from winning. The algorithm finds the winners as it chooses. I’m not kidding the little thing I’m putting in there is the coolest thing we’ve ever given away. The algorithm is self-correcting. The algorithm is from Jersey, we think…we haven’t actually seen a roster yet. The algorithm did not submit an FOIA request for Rutgers’ playbook. This is not the algorithm. But it’s getting there.

How this works again:

1. Readers predict the final score of a designated game by placing a guess in the comments, preferably in the format of [M score][hyphen][Opp score], for example "41-0" or "35-0 Michigan", or "28-0 Go Blue", or "42-0 Harbaugh!" etc.
2. The three guys who read this part holler at people who post in a different format
3. First person (by timestamp) to post a particular score has it.
4. If you got it right, I contact you for an address by your MGoBlog account email, and you give me some time to get that to you.
5. If nobody got it right or I don't hear from the winner(s) we push it to next game or let it go.

This Week’s Game:

Michigan vs. Oregon in the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament.

And on the line:

Take your pick:

Went through a lot of ideas before settling on the only one it could be. Of course we have some other hoops tees too.

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Fine print: One entry per user. First user to choose a set of scores wins, determined by the timestamp of your entry (for my ease I prefer if you don't post it as a reply to another person's score--if you do it won't help or hurt you). Deadline for entries is the start of the game. MGoEmployees and Moderators exempt from winning. The algorithm finds the winners as it chooses. The algorithm is self-correcting. The algorithm asked Jeeves! The algorithm is was Mr. Basketball in Germany. The algorithm never imagined this was possible.

Fine we’ll bring this back. Don’t skip the tiebreaker.

How this works again:

1. Readers predict the final score of a designated game by placing a guess in the comments, preferably in the format of [M score][hyphen][Opp score], for example "41-0" or "35-0 Michigan", or "28-0 Go Blue", or "42-0 Harbaugh!" etc.
2. The three guys who read this part holler at people who post in a different format
3. First person (by timestamp) to post a particular score has it.
4. If you got it right, I contact you for an address by your MGoBlog account email, and you give me some time to get that to you.
5. If nobody got it right or I don't hear from the winner(s) we push it to next week or let it go.

This Week’s Game:

Michigan vs. Indiana, football edition.

And on the line:

Our friends at the Michigan History Project put together a photographical coffee table book that you’re not allowed to not have anymore. Throw out the one about seashells; nobody’s ever going to open it anyway.

TIEBREAKER: We really want to give one of these away so if nobody gets the score it’ll go to whomever can name the most people in this photo:

No fair reading other peoples’ answers.

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Fine print: One entry per user. First user to choose a set of scores wins, determined by the timestamp of your entry (for my ease I prefer if you don't post it as a reply to another person's score--if you do it won't help or hurt you). Deadline for entries is 24 hours before the start of the game. MGoEmployees and Moderators exempt from winning. The algorithm finds the winners as it chooses. The algorithm is self-correcting. The algorithm asked Jeeves! The algorithm is from Jersey, but escaped. The algorithm has everything on the table.