September 19th, 2016 at 2:38 PM ^
Lets say retake instead of overtake.
September 19th, 2016 at 2:39 PM ^
Exactly!
September 19th, 2016 at 4:57 PM ^
All I see here is:
"No, OUR penis is larger!"
September 19th, 2016 at 4:58 PM ^
which, actually, would be accurate. Not that anyone keeps track of that stuff.
right?
guys?
...
September 19th, 2016 at 5:47 PM ^
September 19th, 2016 at 6:42 PM ^
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September 19th, 2016 at 3:46 PM ^
"Retake Notre Dame?" That sounds a bit odd.
September 19th, 2016 at 6:06 PM ^
It's going to have to work, I already made the t-shirt.
September 19th, 2016 at 2:42 PM ^
I'm sure that the NBC announcers will breathlessly tell how Notre Dame gives out the #2 jersey to commemorate their status as the #2 program in all-time win percentage.
September 19th, 2016 at 2:43 PM ^
September 19th, 2016 at 2:45 PM ^
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September 19th, 2016 at 9:01 PM ^
It is gross to think such lizards brag about such things. To the knowing man or woman that hears that it obviously doesn't mean shit in their own mind. Yay, we have the all time winning percentage! How long have you had it for notra lame? Comeon guys! Spill it to the world! Tell everyone just how long you have had the all time winning percentage. That's also a fact the people deserve to know right?
September 19th, 2016 at 3:21 PM ^
Michigan is headed up and ND is headed slightly down. I can see fans turning on Kelly and ND struggling for a few years during the struggle and inevitable transition to another coach. Kelly could probably go 9-4 indefinitely there, but their fans won't allow it.
ND"s cherry-picking, half-indie schedule should still result in a 9-3 record followed by a bowl loss due to being overrated and slotted higher than they deserve. Meanwhile, Michigan is going to have 1, 2 and 3 loss seasons for the next ten years or so. The winning percentage will take care of itself.
September 19th, 2016 at 5:21 PM ^
Brian Kelly is the new John Cooper??
September 19th, 2016 at 9:19 PM ^
Exactly what I was thinking.
So, yeah. Except purpler.
September 19th, 2016 at 9:17 PM ^
Yep, in the next ten years Michigan will well be comfortably ahead in wins and win %. I had a tall skinny and kind of athletic punk confront me in a bar the other weekend I was wearing my #1 jersey. Yeah, laugh all you want schmucks but I do look good in it. You all probably have too big of guts and no traps or shoulders to pull it off. Anyway, this guy came up to me in a bar and asked me if that was an irish jersey I was wearing and I turned around to expose the block m on the back of my old addidas piece of shit. He then put me in a head lock. I just stood there knowing that's all that candy ass irish fan would do and I was right. He let go and I turned around with a smirck. He told me that notra dame was catching up to Michigan with the total wins and would soon surpass them. I chuckled while shaking my head and looked him right in his candy ass eye and stated that they have a very long way to go. Especially now. I later confronted him at bar close outside to see what he had to say or if there were any more head locks in store. He turned away. Four leaf clovers are for the fairy folk all you men in the world! Bullshit always talks first!
September 20th, 2016 at 12:15 PM ^
September 19th, 2016 at 3:29 PM ^
Wait...that actually happened?
September 19th, 2016 at 3:44 PM ^
Close. Apparently ND gives out the #1 jersey for the game to whatever player performs the best in practive that week in order to signify them having the "highest winning %" in CFB history. The announcers were practically nutting themselves talking about it.
September 19th, 2016 at 5:54 PM ^
September 19th, 2016 at 2:50 PM ^
This would be so hilarious. You plan a season long promotion to wave your dick around about how you're the best and then you lose it 4 games into the season. Poetic justice.
September 19th, 2016 at 5:27 PM ^
It's early in the season and so some weighting of initial assumptions must be still in these rankings, but still:
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/ncaaf/sagarin/
Also, keep in mind that Texas lost 50-43 at California late Saturday night. It's not exactly Murderer's Row, but if Cal were playing that schedule, I wouldn't deem any game starting w/ NC State as a highly likely win.
September 19th, 2016 at 5:49 PM ^
Talk about an easy schedule...
September 19th, 2016 at 5:57 PM ^
September 19th, 2016 at 6:41 PM ^
I thought that was only for B-ball.
September 20th, 2016 at 8:45 AM ^
They are half-in for football (5 conference games, ineligable for the CCG).
September 19th, 2016 at 2:49 PM ^
I don't see them losing again until October 15 against Stanford which is our BYE week. So we won't retake it until we beat Illinois on October 22, which is their BYE week.
Then we play MSU and they play Miami(FL) so it could go right back to them if they win and we lose on October 29.
September 19th, 2016 at 2:53 PM ^
Shut your mouth with that blasphemy
September 19th, 2016 at 3:36 PM ^
September 19th, 2016 at 5:18 PM ^
*On whore island.
September 19th, 2016 at 3:28 PM ^
...so start doing it.
September 19th, 2016 at 4:39 PM ^
now irrelevant for the FCP for this year. Kind of a nice feeling not having to worrying about ND getting preferential treatment and sneaking in through the CFP back door with one loss.
September 19th, 2016 at 2:51 PM ^
Ok ND sucks and all that, but they're not going to lose to Duke. Comparing their schedule to ours, I think the next chance they have to get destroyed is October 15th at home against Stanford. We have a bye that week. So if we win out to this point and ND does the same and then loses to Stanford, do we have the record? Or do we have to beat Illinois the next week to retake it?
September 19th, 2016 at 3:39 PM ^
We have to beat Illinois.
September 19th, 2016 at 3:56 PM ^
another rivalry game.
September 19th, 2016 at 3:47 PM ^
We need to make up 3 games on them. So if they were 4-3 (winning until Stanford) and we are 6-0 we would have only made up 2.5 games.
September 19th, 2016 at 6:51 PM ^
They easily have 1-2 more loses on their schedule.
September 20th, 2016 at 11:40 AM ^
Yes, but the question is when will they come?
September 20th, 2016 at 8:55 AM ^
We needed to make up three games at the start of the season. We've made up two. If ND loses to Stanford to go 4-3, we will be a half-game back. If we win the following week when they have a bye, we retake the lead (0.7313 to 0.7312).
September 20th, 2016 at 11:41 AM ^
Replied to the wrong person?
September 19th, 2016 at 2:50 PM ^
So, I think this is pretty complicated. It depends on how you do your math.
The problem is the dreaded TIE. (That's "draw" to you English fans.) How do you count it?
If you ask, "who has WON the most games as a percentage of all games played" (meaning, a tie is the same as a loss--it's "not a win"), then WE ALREADY are in first place. 71.660% to 71.440%.
If you treat a tie as "half a win," which Wikipedia apparently does, then we are just behind them -- 73.050% to their 73.120%. If on Saturday we win and they lose, then yes we retake this calculation too (it will be our 73.071% to their 73.062%).
If you pretend ties were never played, and just looks at Wins as a percentage of Wins and Losses, then we are second to them (73.709% to their 73.924%)--and we would need to win the next 3 games, and them lose the next 3, for us to overtake them.
Data is from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NCAA_football_teams_by_wins -- which is dated January 2016, so I updated it with this year's 3 results.
September 19th, 2016 at 2:54 PM ^
In conclusion, to hell with Notre Dame!!
September 19th, 2016 at 3:01 PM ^
September 19th, 2016 at 3:50 PM ^
Yeah, they've always been counted that way.
September 19th, 2016 at 3:03 PM ^
September 19th, 2016 at 2:51 PM ^
ND is an overrated joke.
Water is wet.
Taxes suck.
September 19th, 2016 at 3:44 PM ^
The 21 year old is talking about taxes.
September 19th, 2016 at 3:50 PM ^
at the 21 yr old
you must drink some very bitter coffee in the morning.
September 19th, 2016 at 3:51 PM ^
The 21 year old who probably survives on the refund from his student loans is complaining about taxes.