Records of the 10 youngest teams in CFB
This board needs to take a chill pill and go with the flow for the remainder of the season.
I was listening to Michigan Podcast last night (good listen for all of you on the ledge) and a list of the 10 youngest CFB teams was brought up in a tweet by Michael Spath per Phil Steele.
The respective records are:
UM. 5-2
USC. 6-2
MSU. 6-1
Ill. 2-5
Duke. 4-4
Ark. 2-5
Pitt. 3-5
Stanford. 5-2
TAMU. 5-2
UF. 3-3
I'd say 5-2 is pretty damn good considering we don't have an Oline, QB, de facto RB or WRs like many of these other schools do. (Looking at you Stanford, USC and TAMU especially!!!)
I doubt a Jim Harbaugh Michigan is sitting at 5-2 with talent like Bryce Love, Sam Darnold, Stanford Olinemen, or Christian Kirk suiting up for the Maize n Blue.
Yes, we probably should be 6-1 but shit always happens against MSU.
We got 3 weeks of semi-decent teams to improve against until Wisconsin and OSU.
Relax.
October 25th, 2017 at 11:26 PM ^
How is Arizona not on this list? RR working magic with those true freshman
October 25th, 2017 at 11:32 PM ^
Hell no.
October 26th, 2017 at 5:56 AM ^
you wouldn't be so tough, would you?
send a little shiver down your phytoplankton spine? better hope that is a wolverine whale....
October 26th, 2017 at 8:10 AM ^
October 25th, 2017 at 11:39 PM ^
We don't have any proof that our offense will be better next year. Speight appeared to be regressing before his injury and we will lose a few guys on the o-line. We're all hoping Harbaugh evaluates the offense and make the appropriate changes.
October 25th, 2017 at 11:51 PM ^
Kareem Walker looked good on his one and only carry. Those look like good pieces.
Sadly, the appropriate change IMO will not be made, and that's with the offensive philosophy. It's like watching Year 1 RichRod all over again. Instead of modifying the offense to match the QB skillset, the head coach is forcing the QB to adjust to their philosophy. Instead of RichRod and Threet/Sheridan, it's Harbaugh and O'Korn.
October 26th, 2017 at 1:14 AM ^
Black has looked good in his limited time, but it's no guarantee he makes a sophomore jump. I do like how Walker runs, but we don't know how he can block. Without an o-line it's going to be tough sledding for Walker. How long have we been anticipating good offensive line play for the next season? Changes need to be made on the offensive staff and things need to be figured out or we will be right here next year saying the same thing about the offense.
October 26th, 2017 at 8:01 AM ^
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October 25th, 2017 at 11:53 PM ^
October 25th, 2017 at 11:39 PM ^
I honestly believe msu can beat us just based on Douchtonio's hatred for us alone. Until Harbaugh instills that same hatred in the boys and in himself, I believe we will not have the upper hand in that rivalry. It's been clear since Douchtonio arrived and even more clearer in ths post game interview that he hates this program with all his heart.
October 26th, 2017 at 12:02 AM ^
October 26th, 2017 at 12:43 PM ^
The irony is strong with you.
October 26th, 2017 at 12:58 AM ^
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October 26th, 2017 at 8:25 AM ^
..........the more I need an Mgovalium.
October 26th, 2017 at 1:05 AM ^
See thats fine but i would rather have a more consistant offense with a slightly worse record. If we end up 8-4 or even 7-5 this wont mean much. Now if we go 9-3 or 10-2 then yes people do need to chill the fuck out. Lets wait and see oh and BEAT OSU!!
October 26th, 2017 at 5:24 AM ^
Stop making sense!!! Make it stop!
October 26th, 2017 at 5:47 AM ^
Insufferable and unreadable. Ill check back in to you snowflakes next season.
October 26th, 2017 at 6:20 AM ^
October 26th, 2017 at 7:13 AM ^
Probably ending this year 8-4, once again with zero signature wins and quite a few signature losses.
October 26th, 2017 at 8:04 AM ^
Looking at the record tells one nothing about how a team is playing. Michigan isn't getting better as the season is progressing. It's getting worse and that's something us Michigan fans have seen more often than not over the last decade. While I'd love to see Michigan pull a PSU circa last season, I really don't think we'll see that happen. I don't think this team has chemistry yet. But let's see if the team can surprise us all and prove us wrong.
October 26th, 2017 at 7:53 AM ^
Michigan will be fine. growing pains
October 26th, 2017 at 8:04 AM ^
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October 26th, 2017 at 8:17 AM ^
Something to aspire to.
October 26th, 2017 at 9:29 AM ^
My prediction: it will be some totally ugly, sloppy game that Northwestern leads a good chunk of but plays awful, and you just know deep somewhere in the recesses of your mind that no matter what happens, someway somehow, MSU is going to weasel its way into winning that game. Something like 17-16 with an offense that does just barely enough and the defense makes a few plays at the end of the game.
MSU is the king of winning ugly this year. And it won't surprise me if they reduce their games against PSU/OSU to slopfests where its anyone's game in the fourth quarter.
October 26th, 2017 at 8:12 AM ^
the neck injury to Wilt are the primary reasons we are not where some of us hoped or thought we would be this time of the season. Of course there are other factors, like the injury to T. Blackt, etc. but there is a lot of football to be played before The Game. Guarded and hopeful.
October 26th, 2017 at 9:15 AM ^
Dude, Speight looked awful even before his neck injury. Who knows if the MSU game would've gone any differently with him at the helm.
October 26th, 2017 at 8:16 AM ^
is that if I miss a day because I am out of the office or have no time to surf, its not problem, I can just jump on the next day and read a brand new post that is exactly like the one yesterday, and the one the day before.
October 26th, 2017 at 8:31 AM ^
October 26th, 2017 at 8:38 AM ^
That Harbaugh just needs to "fix it!" I'm willing to bet Harbaugh wants to "fix it" a hellofa lot more than any of us...
October 26th, 2017 at 8:43 AM ^
October 26th, 2017 at 8:50 AM ^
October 26th, 2017 at 9:00 AM ^
MSU flat out was better than us that night, in good weather they were up 14-3 then some special teams gaffes let us pin them deep and score off from it. Then the rain came and whoever was ahead when that happened was going to win the game. If their true freshman PR doesn't muff that punt that game probably ends 14-3.
MSU was younger than us among the starters. That is a tough pill to swallow. I have to think the upside of our more talented young players is higher than the upside of their young players. That's what I've got, because they were starting 2 sophomores and 2 freshman on the O line. And mostly freshman and sophomores all over the field and they beat us.
October 26th, 2017 at 2:23 PM ^
October 26th, 2017 at 9:17 AM ^
this Blog disgusts me after a loss...
that is all I have to add...
jdon
October 26th, 2017 at 9:52 AM ^
MSU was younger than us, on the road coming off a close game and we were coming off a bye and they were up 14-3 at the half in good weather. Fuck those excuses that loss was bullshit, inexcusable and entirely on the coaches getting outcoached. MSU managed more drives with a less talented offense against a better defese because of superior coaching. Fuck that game pisses me off, I don't give a shit about losing to a better team, losing at home to a team you are more talented than, younger than you coming off a bye is shit coaching.
Seeing MSU up there on that list made me feel worse not better and did the opposite of getting me to step back from the ledge.
October 26th, 2017 at 10:11 AM ^
what is less talented about MSU's offense? Both teams' OC's suck ass, but MSU's line, QB and WRs seem better.
October 26th, 2017 at 1:24 PM ^
I'm with you. It's hard to spin the MSU loss any other way than Harbaugh and staff shit the bed. It was a bad loss. You can point to Speight and Black being injured and the random nature of turnovers but those things don't add up to the collective suck experienced in that game. Let's hope bad losses are an uncommon occurrence.
October 26th, 2017 at 3:41 PM ^
Well said, it sickens me how delusional Michigan fans are at how that game progressed. Maybe the denial that we were outplayed is to give them comfort because they have to deal with Sparties everyday, something I thankfully dont have to do
October 26th, 2017 at 3:56 PM ^
Spartans hgave been unbearable for 3 weeks. Not a peep before the game and now they won't shut up for 10 minutes. All year long it's going to suck.
October 26th, 2017 at 10:46 AM ^
October 26th, 2017 at 11:22 AM ^
Rison was a 4 star and his dad is an NFL HOFer. That White was underrated and his dad is also an NFL guy, but White was still a high 3 star, low 4 star some places. It's not like those guys are 2 stars, both have talent.
That corner they have, Josiah Scott, is a stud and another crazy find for them, no way that kid shouldn't have been a high 4 star, as a true freshman he is one of the top 2 or 3 cover corners in the conference. Does that Bachie look like a low 3 star? That guy is huge, fast, and athletic.
The O line is about development though IMO. MSU started a true freshman, a RS Freshman, A RS Sophomor, and a true sophomore on the O line. And although they were physically overmatched at times, they rarely made the freshman mistakes our young guys seem to make. Like totally whiffing on a stunt by the Penn State D line.
October 26th, 2017 at 1:42 PM ^
I don't understand. You're saying that MSU finds guys who can outperform their recruiting ranking while UM's underperform their rankings, and we should feel comforted?
October 26th, 2017 at 2:36 PM ^
No, I'm saying take the rankings with a grain of salt. MSU finds 4 star talent that isn't rated 4 stars. White and Josiah Scott were grossly underrated. Been paying attention to Scott all season, outside of 1 quarter vs Minnesota, he's been as good a cover corner as there is in the whole country, as a true freshman. No amount of development develops a true freshman corner into that if the talent isn't also elite. And MSU has a RS Freshman at RT that was also extremely talented as a low 3 star. Sure, they develop talent well, but they also find very talented players who were somehow mised by the services.
That Joe Bachie was a Western Michigan commit, he barely had any good offers. He gets to campus at MSU and they start measuring him and he's 6-2, 235, benches 400 lbs and runs around a 4.6 forty. If the services had known he was a physical speciman like that they'd have appropriately given him a 4 star grade. Kid has talent. Dantonio gets lucky with some recruits, but he also finds kids like Bachie more than anyone else in the conference.
They won on the road at night vs a top 7 team. Luck and development alone isn't enough to do that IMO. MSU has more talent than they get credit for. There isn't an obvious talent gap between them and us.
October 26th, 2017 at 2:51 PM ^
Steroids.