This Week's Obscure Historical Stats

Submitted by J.W. Wells Co. on

A slowly growing number of historically minded, stat geek MGoUsers seem to like these posts, so I'll keep them up.  The rest of you may allow your attention to wander.

This Week's Results:

Since Bo took over in 1969, Michigan is now 31-11-1 (.733) when playing with the No. 3 ranking in the AP poll.

In that time Michigan is 270-33-5 (.885) when ranked in the AP poll and playing against an unranked team.

Michigan is now 89-27-0 (.767) on Homecoming (including four exhibition games against alumni in the early days).

With Brian Kelly sitting at home today and enjoying his vote of confidence from Savvy Jack, Michigan extends its slim lead over Notre Dame in all-time winning percentage, .7313 to .7297.

Looking Ahead:

Next week against Michigan State will be Michigan's 1300th game.  Michigan has a surprisingly poor record of 6-6-0 in its prior "century" games, and has dropped the last two:

Game Date Opponent Result
100 Nov 6, 1897 Purdue

W, 34-4
200 Nov 2, 1907 at Vanderbilt W, 8-0
300 Oct 1, 1921 Mount Union W, 44-0
400 Oct 21, 1933 Ohio State W, 13-0
500 Sep 22, 1945 Indiana L, 13-7
600 Nov 19, 1955 Ohio State L, 17-0
700 Nov 5, 1966 Illinois L, 28-21
800 Jan 1, 1976

Oklahoma

(Orange Bowl)

 L, 14-6
900 Sep 29, 1984 at Indiana W, 14-6
1000 Oct 24, 1992 Minnesota W, 63-13
1100 Nov 4, 2000 at Northwestern L, 54-51
1200 Nov 1, 2008 at Purdue L, 48-42
1300 Oct 29, 2016 at Michigan State ?

 

 

 

 

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Comments

Picktown GoBlue

October 23rd, 2016 at 8:23 PM ^

than Navy and Rutgers, and eventually take the lead for FBS most games played

  • M - 1299
  • Navy - 1300 - could tie or pass them this year
  • Rutgers - 1318 - might take 9 years to pass them at about +2 per year, or longer

Will take a while to catch Penn, though.  FCS top teams:

  • Lafayette - 1302 - should tie or pass them this year
  • Lehigh - 1312 - at +3 might take 4 years
  • Yale - 1314 - at +4 could pass them in 4 years
  • Penn - 1366 - at +4 could pass them in 17 years....

Ivy League does not do postseason, and only play 10 games per year.  Penn and Yale have 4 games left this season, while MIchigan has at least 6 and as many as 8.

Lehigh and Lafayette play 11 per year.  They don't make the postseason too often.

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