Thank you Team 143

I like this rational, thoughtful take.

Awesome season.  Too many on here who said they'd be 8-4 are crying cause they went 13-1.  

Good season, big fucking sour lemon to suck on to end it.

If OSU wins the whole damn thing...

13-1, many good memories made from this year and a banner hanging in the Glick Fieldhouse.

Thank you, indeed. Beat Ohio State for the 2nd year in a row, won the Big Ten for the for the 2nd year in a row. Despite today not turning out how we all would have liked, still a lot to be positive about.

Agreeed. Great team. Love it. Go blue

Amen 

I will take this season ten out of ten times. I'm grateful to everyone who helped make it happen. 

It was a fun season. I though that Michigan had great chance at a national championship, especially after they drew TCU. I was wrong. This loss really stings, but it was a great season nonetheless. 

+1 even the coaches. They shit the bed tonight and that’s an understatement. Team wasn’t prepared for TCU and lacked attention to detail. ONWARD! #GoBlue 

It sucks how it ended but absolutely a great season that was pretty unexpected. 

Next year lines up to have a similar upside so they gotta get back to work.

It was a great ride. They came up short and have difficulty winning that last game. Yes, TCU was the better team because they lasted 60 minutes which is something NONE of our opponents could do this season. Michigan played 60 minutes again today but faced a team that could also go the distance.

We’re built to beat tOSU.  We did it, and I’m still so happy about it.

go blue!!!!

This is the only thread I'm interested at looking at tonight. Great season, sad ending. Go Blue. 

Lost to Max Duggan. Dude was less than a 50% passer. Embarrassment. 

Man…amazing year. I’m going to call it a positive we are angry after going 13-1. The program has elevated. This hurts, but not as bad as the cumulative effect of going 9-3 each year and getting hammered by osu. 

keep building. It just hurts because osu or GA is going to piledrive tcu. 

Man…amazing year. I’m going to call it a positive we are angry after going 13-1. The program has elevated. This hurts, but not as bad as the cumulative effect of going 9-3 each year and getting hammered by osu. 

keep building. It just hurts because osu or GA is going to piledrive tcu. 

Thanks, boys.

It was a great season ended by a rare bad showing. Still proud and plenty of joy was given to us all in 2022!

Congrats to TCU and I'll be rooting for them.

It was a fantastic year any way you slice it. They played uncharacteristically and unfortunately beat themselves to some degree though obviously credit to TCU for taking advantage. They have nothing to hang their heads about. It’s still great to be a Michigan Wolverine.

Meh, I'll just thank team 142 again, they earned it.

45-23 OSU win was the hi light. We didn’t put the same emphasis in this game as that one

I remember clinging to Brandon Minor for a glimmer of hope, UCONN stalling at the goal line, Randy Edsall throwing his headset in glee, a rotund coach stubbornly not wearing one, beating UMASS by 5 pts, watching a QB get brain damage, M00N, the Sam McGuffie youtube video, a game totaling 7000 pts and 14 OT's against the Illini, being a basketball school, a giant macaroni, 2 tickets with a coke, Dat Bull 4 Life, Akron, surviving MSU with field goals, not surviving MSU with a punt, opening the the season ranked #2, ending a season with 3 wins..

Rarely beating Ohio State for most of my adolescence, and not winning them through early adulthood.

I'm so proud of this team. So proud of the program. It's football, man, and the future is so promising. Am I frustrated? Sure, but I'm a damn proud Michigan fan wearing some dope Jordan gear who gets to happily watch parkinggod highlights of recent and not a addidas wearing dweeb watching Wolverine Historian of games when I was 5.

Go Blue and Happy New Year, ladies and gents. It's been a fun year.

Unfortunate (if your team is not the one) nature of sports is there is only 1 left standing at the end.  We got to witness two straight years of at least making the playoffs after having not made it the before.  Certainly progress in my eyes!   

Go Blue.

Losing a playoff game we should have won hurts.

tOSU (likely) winning a playoff game they probably shouldn't have been in adds to the burn.

Looking past that, the past two years have been incredible. Three or four years ago, James Franklin spoke in a press conference about how he had a "good" team, but they had not ascended to being an "elite" team yet. He swore that Penn State would get there. They have not.

Team 143 did. As an 8 year old in '97 and a high school freshman in '04, this was my first time watching a truly great Michigan team. 143 crossed the bridge Franklin discussed. Despite perforation with injuries through almost all starting groups. this team was elite. I have no doubt that a healthy Blake Corum would have us in the championship.

Just as importantly, they transformed in this game. No Michigan offense I have ever seen has thrown the ball like the one we watched today. With their backs against the wall, they forced it downfield. They looked like tOSU today; unrecognizable from the team that ran the ball over and over against Illinois a month ago--the type of team a young 5-star quarterback or receiver would want to play for.

Thank you to Aiden last year for coming back; to Cade for breaking the spell; to Blake for choosing turkeys over cars, to Ronnie for taking all the misfortune; to Mikey for taking a gamble; to Donovan for his dominant legs and non-dominant hand; to Olu for starting over; to JJ for embracing grind over flash; to Jake for setting the records, and to Coach for betting on himself.

And to 143, for making this a great ride. Let's hope a few of those who could leave choose to stay. 

Go Blue.

Excellent and exciting season.  Well done, Wolverines!

Yes, we and team wish the TCU game went the other way.

Still, for me, the season was great.  And the team beating anOSU -- in their home stadium, and by a lot -- is the greatest of all.  Marvelous!