2 years of Harbaugh...What's your most satisfying victory and most disappointing loss.
I'll go first:
All losses suck but these didn't kill me as much: '15 Utah - first game on the road with unproven qb, enough said .'15 MSU - I might be the only Wolverine to feel we got outplayed and weren't ready for the Top 10 ranking that a victory would have provided. '16 Iowa This one should have hurt more than it did, not sure why. FSU bowl game: very bummed to see our DL get run over, had a nice comeback but always sucks to go into offseason with a L.
'15 OSU- very disappointed with a blowout loss, didn't expect that from a Harbaugh coached UofM team, no matter the talent difference.
****My most disappointed loss:***** '16 OSU Home game with playoffs on the line, outplayed them through 3 quarters. So disappointed to see the D gassed at the end. Instantly fell from national spot light. Felt numb for days.
Wins: '15 BYU We blew the doors off a pretty good team, sent expectations soaring. '15 PSU - How great it felt to see we were the better coached team and pull away in the 4th quarter on the road. '16 PSU - beating the tar out of PSU always feels special. UofF bowl - helped ease the sting of OSU and sent us into offseason with great momentum.
******My most satisfying win:****** '16 Wisconsin. Tough as nails old school victory. We couldn't make many mistakes that game and didn't. Further evidence that Harbaugh's mental toughness was imparted on the team.
Fine, say "hold serve" if you must. But if I catch any of you guys saying "fortnight" ... I'll kill you. Also, I don't like anybody touching my things ... .
(Drives me batshit how the U.S. announcers force that word into every conversation, and how the networks put it in oh-so-many advertisements for Wimbledon.)
Sgt. Hulka remains our big toe
"Satisfied is not a word I’m ever going to use. It’s never a word I’m going to associate with football. It’s a confusing word. It’s like comfortable.
I just don’t ever associate it with football."
ha gotta love it! tough to think of another coach whod immediately offer that response in a presser (though i dont quite recall the setting)
Couldn't have said it any better.
You're living a year in the future. The 2017 season hasn't happened yet.
The most telling part is that he described the most recent game against OSU as a home game.
Well, the '17 game against OSU is a home game. And we'll be in the playoff hunt to boot, which is good to know. But man, it sucks to know we're gonna lose to them again.
"It sucks to know we're gonna lose to them again"? Why, because they blew us out so bad last year?
I understand that we lost a lot of players, but the beauty of The Game is that the players have had nearly an entire season to work out the kinks before playing. And we return a shit ton of talent on the DL, have solid LBs, and potentially great young wideouts.
I'm glad I'm not so pessmistic as you. Also, watch out for Brother Mazoune and Omar. Don't ask me how I know, but watch yourself.
Ahh, thanks for the clarity. We're on the same page, Stringer, you and I. My apologies for being a bit slow on the uptake.
Still, watch out for Brother Mazoune ... .
Cali4444 is The_Knowledge?
MSU won on a total FLUKE and we controlled them except for a "fat guy" TD in 2015.
Go Blue!
Either you are a sorcerer oracle or you got your years mixed up.
I noticed that. WTF?
Most satisfying wins:
'16 Penn State - domination, white flag field goal
'15 Florida Citrus Bowl - absolutely controlled a "great SEC power" and demonstrated Michigan Football is back
'16 Wisconsin - hard fought defensive game and JumpMan^TM interception to seal it
'16 Rutgers - "Fence the Garden" LOL
Most Disappointing Losses:
'16 OSU - totally outplayed them, a few key mistakes, and tough calls / controversy
'15 MSU - first game at the big house, what a game to attend...
'16 Florida State - the elation of the Chris Evans TD run followed by the defensive collapse was brutal and leaves a bad taste
fsu bowl game was crazy. plenty of disappointing moments (and some great ones too). mccray and evans immediately come to mind as does the D collapse.
but that final kick return is prob the craziest and most disappointing - which led to lewis playing the winning fade pretty well only to just miss a near perfect toss. wild wild ending to that game
I was disappointed, but not for anything that happened on the field. What made it so was the fact we didn't get to see our best player on defense play his last game in a Michigan jersey due to a freak injury, and then in the first half we lost arguably are best player on offense (Butt), and at a position where a star player could exploit the second and third stringers that FSU was playing at safety.
Win or lose, I just felt like fate didn't allow us to play our best game. That's disappointing.
Loss: See previous comment. That last play loss just sucked. I've become somewhat numb to Ohio State losses at this point, so those didn't hurt as bad as MSU in year 1
Mine too. The Punt that Wasn't will stay with me probably until, oh ... forever. 99 times out of 100 that play goes off without a hitch. But the 100th time made me sit in stunned silence.
But last year proved the old Shakesperean adage, "Paybacks are a bitch, forsooth." And watching Marky Mark's "I'm gonna go for two even thought it won't do me any good, just so I can show I'm big & tough", and having it blow up in his constipated face as #5 raced the other way ... yeah, that was pretty sweet.
And that game will be far from disappointing because it's gonna be a win.
From Troll perspective it's away.
...Harbaugh wins at least 1 National Championship at Michigan. Winning the first one is always the toughest. All our rivals and the MIchigan/Harbaugh haters will talk shit until it happens.
Most disappointing losses (in order):
- 2016 Ohio State
- 2015 Michigan State
- 2016 Iowa (had a bad feeling about this game and it came true)
- 2016 Florida State
- 2015 Ohio State
- 2015 Utah
3 of those losses were because we didn't have a strong OL and, therefore, couldn't close out games with soul-crushing power football: 2016 OSU, 2016 Iowa (but the usually reliable Darboh dropped the ball), 2015 Michigan State.
Two most disappointing losses were MSU two years ago and OSU last year.
I honestly thought we outplayed the opponent in both games. The Michigan State game was more even than OSU. Without the two interceptions, we beat OSU easily.
Argh.
As heartbreaking as the 2015 loss is to sparty, blowing a chance to go to the playoff after losing to an 2016 OSU team we were clearly better than was way worse and disapointing. Michigan just doesnt have to turn the ball over in the second half and michigan wins no problem.
Way worse?
That was one of the single, worst experiences I have felt.
Both were absolutely painful.
I agree it was painful, but I dont think that team in 2015 was ready to run the table and get to the playoff even if they beat MSU. We were able to get revenge in 2016 and it seems that the power has shifted in the State. beating OSU in 2016 was essential to getting into the playoff and we were clearly a playoff team in 2016. Beating OSU in columbus would of been so so sweet, and watching the game slip away in the 4th quarter and in OT was one of the most painful experiences I have.
How about this...they are both worse? :(
They were both horrible.
But Michigan was not that far out of the running in 2015. Remember, they were getting some pub as being one of the teams in the playoff, even with that loss. Who knows how things would have changed had that gone in Michigan's favor?
OSU was disappointing, but I didn't expect Michigan to win that game. I was hopeful that we would, but it was a road game with a less than 100% Speight at QB. To have victory snatched away on a stupid fumbled punt attempt, returned for a TD, a play that happens once every few decades in all of college football, and it happened to us, in that situation, against that team? That sucked.
I fixed the year played
Most satisfying: 78-0 against our main rival
Most "meh" loss: Utah. whatevs, man.
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