Was Saturday Michigan's biggest win of the 21st century?
November 29th, 2022 at 1:33 PM ^
....so far.
November 29th, 2022 at 1:35 PM ^
/end thread.
November 29th, 2022 at 2:03 PM ^
I read that in Homer Simpson’s voice.
(if you know, you know)
November 29th, 2022 at 2:11 PM ^
This was going to be my comment!
November 29th, 2022 at 2:22 PM ^
win it this year and claim all the unclaimed titles of eras gone by. 7 for 1 deal, thus topping the 2021-22 blowouts of ohio st in this forum post.
November 29th, 2022 at 1:35 PM ^
M00N game
November 29th, 2022 at 1:49 PM ^
Right up there with the 2010 Illinois game.
November 29th, 2022 at 1:51 PM ^
That one is like Godfather III - it never happened.
November 29th, 2022 at 1:55 PM ^
Gave up my ticket to the sister-in-law for that one. She had never been to the Big House before and thought it was the greatest game ever. She hates defense.
November 29th, 2022 at 2:02 PM ^
Harbaugh needs to add the "QB oh nos" to the playbook.
November 29th, 2022 at 4:10 PM ^
my brain literally goes to this game, in the "manball or basketball on grass" part of previews.
November 29th, 2022 at 2:09 PM ^
M00N was Hoke's last win at Michigan.
If that's not the ultimate in "seems appropriate", I don't know what is...
November 29th, 2022 at 4:10 PM ^
Nonsense. 2013 Akron game. Instant classic. Legendary football
November 29th, 2022 at 1:37 PM ^
Last year set up this year. This year doesn't happen without last year.
November 29th, 2022 at 2:00 PM ^
This doesn't happen with Harbaugh in Minnesota. Glad that didn't work out!
November 29th, 2022 at 3:49 PM ^
Yes, this was WONDERFUL, but years from now, I think we'll all remember where we were for the 2021 game more brightly than the 2022.
November 29th, 2022 at 4:31 PM ^
More brightsidely.
November 29th, 2022 at 1:38 PM ^
Yes. Winning on Saturday confirmed that last year wasn't a one-off that Michigan happened to grasp while playing at home. Michigan won emphatically, Harbaugh showed that Michigan has a strong identity and mental toughness, while Third Base showed this rivalry is bigger than he can handle.
Colin Cowherd (sp?) said it best: Day had a 25 yard head start on Harbaugh. Harbaugh has since sprinted past him.
OSU doesn't know what they are at this point.
November 29th, 2022 at 3:21 PM ^
I thought that Day was on Third and Harbaugh just hit his second home run!
November 29th, 2022 at 1:39 PM ^
I look at it as it was something that needed to be done, I hope Im not ruining the joy of it because I thoroughly did! The 2016 Columbus train robbery and trouble with the snap cost Harbaugh and UofM dearly as the natural cycle of football of not winning those games which would've fast tracked the Harbaugh era. It was deservedly earned!!
November 29th, 2022 at 2:26 PM ^
I've said that ever since that horrible replay. If the refs call that right, the past 6 years under Michigan would have been so much different.
November 29th, 2022 at 2:35 PM ^
exactly 10 years after we were robbed in 2006, when Crable was called for a horrendous late hit penalty on 3rd and 15 when smith threw the ball away while running out of bounds......
It was insane seeing a fairly called game, in cbus, on Saturday.... First time I can remember that we didn't have every questionable call go the other way.
November 29th, 2022 at 1:40 PM ^
It'd be great to win a championship this season (2023) to have two national titles exactly 100 years apart (1923).
November 29th, 2022 at 1:47 PM ^
This year is as good a year as they may have in a while. A 12-0 season is rare by any team's standards. Not to mention, the presumed CFP field is beatable, perhaps more so than prior years.
If they play like they get Corum back and play like they did on Saturday, then the championship is theirs to lose.
November 29th, 2022 at 1:54 PM ^
I also like the 25-year split.
November 29th, 2022 at 2:11 PM ^
A NC this year would be nice in light of:
25th anniv of 1997 NC
75th anniv of 1948 NC
100th anniv of 1923 NC
November 29th, 2022 at 2:29 PM ^
essentially we're guaranteed a NC every 25 years, it could be worse!
November 29th, 2022 at 2:41 PM ^
50th anniv of 1948 NC would be 1998. 75th anniv of 1948 NC would be 2023.
November 29th, 2022 at 3:04 PM ^
Well my "1998 Rose Bowl Champs" sweatshirt says that our 1997 national championship game was played in 1998. Word on the street is that this season's natty will also be played in 2023.
(It should also be noted that the final AP poll for the 1948 season was released on Nov. 29 because they crowned national champs before the bowls until 1968.)
November 29th, 2022 at 6:04 PM ^
I fixed my post. Math is hard.
November 29th, 2022 at 2:27 PM ^
@MgoHillbilly, check your email please.
Looking forward to the post season this year for sure.
Go Blue 🏈🏈🏈
November 29th, 2022 at 4:04 PM ^
Thanks! I'll send something your way soon!
November 29th, 2022 at 2:58 PM ^
This is the 2022-23 school year, but the 2022 football season. Next year will be the 100th anniversary of that one.
November 29th, 2022 at 4:33 PM ^
Well we'll get a National Championship then too.
November 29th, 2022 at 1:40 PM ^
I think last year was a more important win, and this year was a bigger win (2nd year in a row, on the road, all but guaranteeing playoff)
November 29th, 2022 at 1:43 PM ^
I agree with the OP. Whatever is in third place is way behind the last couple of OSU wins.
November 29th, 2022 at 1:58 PM ^
Agreed. Biggest is subjective, but I would say third place is 2011 UM v Notre Dame
November 29th, 2022 at 2:53 PM ^
I think 2006 Notre Dame was bigger. 2011 was obviously the best ending, but the win was over an unranked ND in Ann Arbor, whereas 2006 was in South Bend against the #2 team in the country (featuring the Heisman favorite Brady Quinn), and we stomped them.
November 29th, 2022 at 1:43 PM ^
It was last year because last year had to happen to do what they did this year. Getting so many monkeys off the programs back was beyond necessary to move forward. Getting the opportunity to get thrashed by Georgia was another necessary step toward getting better. It was all put in motion after last year's beat-down.
November 29th, 2022 at 1:44 PM ^
Honestly as good as it feels to beat OSU and win the big ten, I think what I’m most happy about over the last few years, is that all of the rhetoric about hasn’t won on the road against an X ranked team, or as an underdog are all done.
It really got annoying to hear that every single game over the last 5 years. As if any team has a great winning percentage on the road, as an underdog, against a top 5 team (especially at the end of the year when rankings are actually worth something).
I’m rather enjoying the talk about Ryan day can’t win “the big one”. What the big one is, who really knows? A moving target that, at this time, Michigan no longer has to hit.
November 29th, 2022 at 1:46 PM ^
yes. but i think last year was more important, if that makes sense.
November 29th, 2022 at 1:52 PM ^
Unequivocally without a doubt, the biggest win in this century.
November 29th, 2022 at 1:53 PM ^
I still gotta go with last year because it got the monkey off our backs. We hadn't beaten them in ten years, we had hit rock bottom the previous season, we had lost to our other rival in agonizing fashion a few weeks prior, etc. We sorely needed that win.
This year was great, but it doesn't happen without last year. It was 42-27 that restored our confidence (which had eroded over the previous ten years). That win will go down alongside 1969 as a win that revitalized the program.
But the great thing about this question is that there's no wrong answer. 〽️
November 29th, 2022 at 2:28 PM ^
Last year was....something else. It felt like the earth's magnetic poles had switched or we'd entered another timeline/dimension. Titanic in its effects, the reverberations from that win changed fundamentally Michigan's place in the college football universe. It was bigger than if JT had been ruled short. It was bigger than if we had had something approximating a functional QB in 2017. We didn't just play tough, like we did under Hoke, ultimately to come up just short. We didn't eke out a win where luck or turnovers made the ultimate difference. Nope. We paved Ohio State until they quit, forgetting why they even liked playing football, in a way Michigan hadn't done in decades.
This year, while utterly massive as well, felt.....more natural? I think doing it on the road, in Columbus, in a different way, will have a larger impact on things like recruiting and the future stability of the program. It was an incredible performance against longer odds in a tougher environment than last year. On it's face it's a "better" win, but it's tough to express in words how much last year shook Michigan football's foundations to their core, creating a new future for the generations of Michigan players to come.
Will next year, when we pave them again, putting Ryan Day on the hottest of seats in the offseason, solidifying what is sure to be an unbelievable 2024 recruiting class, and putting Michigan into it's 3rd straight CFP be our biggest win? who knows. But I'll never forget how it felt to win that game last year. After the decades of frustration, on the heels of that 2020 season, COVID, everything else...... It made it feel like anything was possible again. I never thought a football game could do that.
November 29th, 2022 at 3:13 PM ^
Last year represented a turnaround in the recent series. This year was a statement.
November 29th, 2022 at 1:53 PM ^
Hard to replace the epic fool-hurdlin' win in the snow last year, but yes, I think this is #1 for now. I hope soon to be replaced, as Edwards' record-breaking 75-yard run against OSU lasted as #1 only for a few minutes!
November 29th, 2022 at 1:55 PM ^
No. It was the Hawaii game.
November 29th, 2022 at 2:01 PM ^
The accomplishment this year might be the greatest. For me as a fan, however, last year was like that snowy Christmas when you were little and opened the present you never thought you were going to get. The feeling is unbeatable.
November 29th, 2022 at 2:01 PM ^
Yes, Saturday's win was bigger than last year's. 1) it was at the Shoe; 2) Michigan was a 7-9 pt underdog; 3) Ryan Day thought that he had a better DC to stop Michigan. 4) Harbaugh outcoach Ryan Day-again. Seems Jim has Ryan's number nowadays.
Given how all but Charles Woodson and Desman Howard were the ONLY national pundits on either Fox or CGD, can we add BTN, to pick Michigan on national TV tells you have much all of the others were convinced that the buckeyes had a huge advantage going into this year's game.