All-time win/loss record (by school)
So about 4 or 5 years back, I saw a table showing the University of Michigan football win/loss record broken down for every opponent we have ever played. The cool thing was that we had either a winning record or even record against every single school we have ever played more than once. The original table was in one of the pre-season football magazines (I don't remember which one). Anyway, I have tried recently to find a copy of this table to check and see if we still are even or have a winning record against everybody else, which I think is some pretty cool bragging rights. Hopefully it is still the case, but if you come accross such information, let me know!
October 1st, 2010 at 2:44 PM ^
Everyone else = first loser
October 1st, 2010 at 2:44 PM ^
http://www.kiko13.com/cflrankings/TPMICH.htm
Form this, is looks like we have a losing record against Army, Cornell (!), USC (of course), and a few others.
October 1st, 2010 at 2:51 PM ^
Yeah, you are right...we need to get Cornell, UNC and Army on our schedule STAT!!! This must be rectified. (I am assuming a few Rose Bowl wins over USC will fix that situation out West).
October 1st, 2010 at 2:46 PM ^
but I believe this can be found on bentley.umich.edu
October 1st, 2010 at 2:58 PM ^
Football was an absolutely brutal game back then. There were several deaths (!) during games in those days. Roosevelt himself spearheaded football reforms that included a reduction in the schedule. (And people think it's bad for Congress to get involved in the BCS...)
October 1st, 2010 at 3:34 PM ^
And some credit those reforms with "saving" college football, so TR's intervention may have been a welcome one.
See article titled Theodore Roosevelt: College football's savior from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Mvictors.com has an interesting article on that era titled "Yost & Michigan Leave the Western Conference (1906-08)" (see http://mvictors.com/?p=493). Explains that Michigan played Cornell, Penn, and Syracuse regularly from 1907 to 1916 when Yost took Michigan independent.
October 1st, 2010 at 3:53 PM ^
They definitely were needed. What I meant was that there is precedent for governmental involvement in college football reform. (And governmental intervention may be the only thing that gets rid of the BCS.)
October 1st, 2010 at 4:09 PM ^
Obviously I misread your post--sorry about that.
October 1st, 2010 at 2:53 PM ^
Not quite true, but close!
Link: http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/div_ia/bigten/michigan/opponents.php
I only did a quick scan. But it looks like there are 4 teams that have currently winning records over us. One hasn't existed for probably a century: Chicago University Football Club. One still kind of exists, but we probably won't ever play again: Cornell.
Then there's Army, who leads us 5-4 (last played in '62). And USC, who leads us 6-4. We were last ahead of USC in '89, but went right back to being the next year, and then have been down to them since 2004.
October 1st, 2010 at 2:59 PM ^
UNC is also 2-1 against us all-time.
October 1st, 2010 at 3:03 PM ^
Oops you're right, I missed that one. Still, having a losing record to only 5 out of the 139 teams we've played is pretty darn good. Too bad we'll never play 2 of them again. Looks like we need to take down the U*C's though. And maybe it's time to schedule Army again....
October 1st, 2010 at 3:54 PM ^
John Cooper paid dearly for Ariz St.'s Rose Bowl win. If one counts bowls, Texas, OK and Tenn are also 1-0 vs. MICH.
October 1st, 2010 at 3:00 PM ^
I think it would be cool to start playing Army again. It seems like there was a rivalry there back in the day! Wouldn't it be more exciting to have an early season (relatively easy) win over Army than a UConn or BGSU? Or, maybe, I just want to have one fewer team out there that has a winning record against us!
October 1st, 2010 at 3:05 PM ^
I 2nd and 3rd this if thats ok with the MGoBlogeratti.
October 1st, 2010 at 3:08 PM ^
I kind of feel bad beating up on the service academies. I don't mind having a losing record to the U.S. Army.
I definitely want a crack at UNC and USC, though.
October 1st, 2010 at 3:18 PM ^
If we put UNC on the schedule in the next couple of years we have a pretty good shot.
October 1st, 2010 at 3:27 PM ^
I think we have a good shot against UNC any time - and we would have the lead against them if LT weren't a cheap-shot artist.
October 1st, 2010 at 2:54 PM ^
I'm guessing it was in The Wolverine preview magazine, or at least it always used to be. Haven't bought it the past few years, though
October 1st, 2010 at 2:57 PM ^
I use college football data warehouse:
http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/div_ia/bigten/michigan/opponents.p…
although they recently changed the coding on the site so that you can't copy and paste the data into tables anymore. maybe i'll go back to using stassen.
October 1st, 2010 at 3:00 PM ^
A win tomorrow will boost our all-time winning percentage from .737 to .738.
And thanks to ND's latest bout of suckiness, we're now effectively 5.5 games ahead of them in the winning percentage standings.
October 1st, 2010 at 3:10 PM ^
That and they will never surpass us in total wins. Haha ND, bow down.
October 1st, 2010 at 3:11 PM ^
Here are our winning percentages against the Big 10...
Ohio State .566
(Nebraska) .583
Penn State .667
MSU .681
Illinois .736
Purdue .741
Minnesota .755
Iowa .764
Wisconsin .786
Northwestern .829
Indiana .850
October 1st, 2010 at 3:24 PM ^
Pretty soon (this year hopefully) our win percentage against tOSU will begin to rise again. Next year, Nebraska will be at our mercy.
October 1st, 2010 at 3:46 PM ^
October 1st, 2010 at 4:43 PM ^
At least they're in the ballpark with NW (barely).
October 1st, 2010 at 5:32 PM ^
Minnesota may be their best bet to reach .500 against. Minn was once a national power but hasn't done anything in decades. They don't seem to be headed anywhere, anytime soon. Northwestern OTOH might be tougher, given that Fitzgerald seems like a very promising coach and probably will stay a long time.
October 1st, 2010 at 11:32 PM ^
I think leaving the Metrodome is a huge plus. While I don't expect them to ever be a powerhouse, they could become as successful as a Northwestern or an MSU.
October 1st, 2010 at 6:10 PM ^
Disregard: Already covered. Apologies
October 1st, 2010 at 6:42 PM ^
That OSU winning percentage is getting way too close to .500
October 1st, 2010 at 9:54 PM ^
OSU needs to win the next 14 meetings to tie it up.
October 1st, 2010 at 11:01 PM ^
Why does it only say Michigan has only four wins on OSU? Did that shock anyone else?
October 1st, 2010 at 11:42 PM ^
I'm not sure what you're referring to, but the all-time series is 57-43-6 in our favor.