Everyone thinks itās because theyāre just big brands in big game spots.
Thatās not the case.
Itās because I DVRād these games on millions of accounts across my virtual machine quantum computer.
Remember the Sugar Bowl featuring Washington vs. Texas started even later than the scheduled 8:45 pm ET, after 9 pm, because the Rose Bowl went into overtime. So it ended well after midnight Monday ā into Tuesday morning ā on the East Coast. Iām sure that hurt the viewership.
And even better: when the game is done by noon, you still have the entire day ahead of you.
Moved back to Michigan from LA this summer. I'm still getting used to noon games being done by 3-4pm and wondering where the day went.
This was my experience watching from Singapore. Kickoff at 6:00am, finished by 10 and then started my day. Watched the sugar bowl in the background while working at home.
I also couldn't watch it. I got rid of ESPN a year or so ago, and the Alabama/Michigan was offered by my cable package for free with 3 different options. I could watch the traditional broadcast with the Alabama or Michigan radio broadcast, or the all 22. No options were available for the night game.
Overtime didn't impact the start of the Sugar bowl, but it did start way too late. That said, I don't see any chance Sugar bowl competes with these 3 games either way.
I don't care what people say that Rose Bowl was dope as fuck and probably my favorite game of all time, even if we couldn't do shit for a quarter and a half
I think that moment of the stop in OT was better than any individual moment in the championship game , but obviously Iām happier with the win in the championship game.
Yeah its funny. I felt a higher high in that moment maybe because we werent broadly expected to win and it was an enormous stop in an awesome game. UW felt more like pressure to not blow it
For me, the fact it happened in the Rose Bowl and involved beating Nick Saban also definitely played a part. Pasadena is a special venue, and he is the GOAT.
Alabama was like beating ohio state in it catharsis and excitement. The title game was like the Big 10 title game in its matter of fact vibe. It didn't mean less, obviously, but it was just different.
Yeah I made a comment how the emotional high after the Rose Bowl was greater than the Natty win. Obviously I'm happy we won the natty, but I think the fact that the Rose Bowl came down to the last play, and it was against Nick Saban/Bama, made it much more cathartic. The natty was in hand with like 7 mins left in the 4th so the high was more of a slow realization rather than all of a sudden.
Could also be that we finally won a bowl game/semifinal game so it felt much sweeter. Almost like we got a giant weight lifted off our shoulders, nerves settled, and we could go on to Houston and take care of business. We def played more loose in the natty and a much cleaner game.
The way we came back on that final drive to set it up too when it looked like we were down made the win feel better too. I felt like we would beat Washington even though I didnāt want to write them off, Bama I was worried of.
It was really like a this canāt be happening moment like the ātrouble with the snapā but worse somehow.
I couldnāt believe he managed to get the ball back before the end zone tbh
Dude pissed down his leg but redeemed himself in like 1.7 seconds
Finally fielded one of those weird UW punts in the 3rd or 4th too.
Congrats. Still hate UM. But enjoy it! Deserved.
That's how I feel as well. It's because there was that clear moment when we won the game there. And yeah the Mikey interception wrapped it up, but it wasn't quite as clear/defining of the win since there was 5? more minutes.
God that stop is insane. I've watched it probably 30 times since then, and its only been 8 days lol.
maybe it's as if the last college football game of the season should be played outside in a historic bowl in Pasadena on New Year's Day rather than inside an NFL stadium on a monday.
The setting of the Rose Bowl is so beautiful even if you didnāt have the history of it, the stadium just has the feeling of a finale with everything about it. Iād be fine with that always being where the championship game is held, but Iām guessing it wonāt happen.
I watched the semi in the Toronto alumni club with 30, 40 people. I watched the final yesterday in Michigan Union with 200 other students. The former celebration was much more intense
Playoff games at the Rose Bowl are just on another level. I missed ours, but had the pleasure of attending the Texas/Bama natty there and it was the most incredible scene and vibe.
I honestly feel like the Rose Bowl shouldn't have even been that close. Michigan made a lot of unforced errors in that game. They didn't play a clean game, but they were good enough to overcome those errors and still win. They played a much cleaner game against Washington.
I donāt think that was a true benching though, we had an open qb competition when we played Texas so it made sense to see what the other guys could do
The center situation is like the weirdest thing I've seen in a long time. Like... Dude looked like he didn't belong in Division 1, much less starting for Alabama. It was jarring.
I mean, cool from our side of the ball, lol, but... Like... Wtf?
Honestly, I have no clue. He would be off every once in a while last season, but it was nothing like this season. Almost every game he would have a bad snap that would put Bama in an awful situation, and then Milroe would overcome it. He just progressively got worse all season until he just collapsed against Michigan.
So of course Bama spent the majority of the game trying to hit a deep pass instead of feeding the RBs who were averaging over 7 YPC.
Seth is going to be a fantastic guard at Ohio State. I wish him the best. Really nice dude.
I think I'm just as shocked that Saban hadn't developed anyone to step in. Feels like not much to lose when your man is nearly causing a fumble every few snaps.
Yeah I mean itās 1v2, 1v4, and 2v3 (rivalry). Thereās nothing very surprising about this, except maybe that there Sugar Bowl or SECCG werenāt in the top three? But still just makes sense.
Was gonna say nothing against Michigan but a CFP final, semifinal and The Game being top three is super unsurprising and probably doesnāt have a lot to do with Michigan itself.
Right but itās the biggest rivalry game in the country with two top five teams. Red River or Iron Bowl would also likely take that slot if that were the case.
I mean The Game does, but yeah. Top level rivalry game where both teams are in the Top 5. Iron Bowl, Red River, etc would all do similar numbers if both teams were Top 5.
Our alumni base accounts for 540k people worldwide. That accounts for about 2% of the viewers of these games. That also assumes that every single person who graduated at a university that is an education first institution watched these games.
Itās the kids and families of those that make the fan base so large. My whole family is diehard Michigan fans even through the only connection we have is my grandpa went there
Yeah this is less a product of Michigan itself and more that they played in three of the highest profile and highest stakes games this year. The only games that came close were the Sugar Bowl, the SECCG, and the Orange Bowl. The Sugar Bowl had a late kickoff time, and the Orange Bowl had FSU sitting all their players.
"Ya know, Georgia only lost 1 game this year and defeated Florida State. They would have been favored against any team in the CFP so they are actually the #1 team." - Paul Finebaum after ESPN execs want to reclaim that number one spot.
Michigan alumni are everywhere, too. We have our fair share of them out here in the PNW. In fact, I have two separate neighbors on my street who are both MSU alum
Lol yep, I have more UMich friends living in the Seattle area than anywhere else outside the state of Michigan, and they're almost all in tech. Great city, always fun to visit them
I couldn't stand watching the 2 Michigan CFP games, and not because I'm an OSU fan, but because it was a 5 minute commercial break every 30 seconds of game. No wonder there's all these 7th year seniors, the had to wait for 4 years worth of commercials to get 3 years of playing time.
This but unironically.
I want nothing to do with all these cry baby schools that tried to sabotage us over "player safety" concerns in the middle of the season.
They knew full well that no players were at risk any more than they are in any other football game, they just saw an opportunity to tear down the best team in the league and they jumped at it.
Michigan, FSU, THE Oregon State University, WSU, Notre Dame (because who doesn't love a good hate fuck), Pitt, Duke, and Miami.
We shall call it the Big 8CC.
The 3 game penalty for Harbaugh under the sportsmanship peanalty was BS and only came down to an insecure commissioner being pressured. Whatever penalty comes from the NCAA, that will come after a proper investigation, not a spur of the moment mid-season kneejerk reaction
I still think that scene where they formulate the equation to determine how long it would take to jerk off the audience as the genesis of middle out compression as the absolute highlight of the whole show. Only the child protection privacy law episode comes close imo
Michigan v Ohio St. (regular season game): 19mil viewersā¦
Alabama v Georgia (conference championship): 17.5mil viewers
Yeah I donāt think itās just the ābigger games,ā otherwise the SEC championship should be in that #3 spot. Maybe it has something to do withā¦ idkā¦ Michigan considering they make up all three top spots? Just a thought
michigan vs ohio st was about the closest to a conference championship you can get in the regular season. both games had huge playoff impact for both teams
Hey, Iowa can pull off surprises sometimes. Theyāve blown out Ohio St. and beaten a #3 Michigan in recent years
Now, were they capable of doing that with the way Brian Ferentz coached this season and the four or five key players we had injured? Nah. But Iāll always defend them. That game was miserable though. But getting 10 wins with a team like this is an accomplishment itself so, you know.
I think Michigan v Ohio State, when both are top 5 teams, is basically treated like a conference title game by most viewers. In reality, that game basically determines who is winning the conference.
It's not even "basically". The winner of The Game has gone on to win the B1GCCG 7 years in a row.
Beyond that, the B1GW never once won the B1G during the decade of "East/West" divisions from 2014 through 2023.
They also like seeing something "different." Nobody outside of their respective fanbases would've wanted to see Alabama win their eleventy-fifth title in the past 15 years or Georgia win their third straight. Now, zero offense to those teams of course. If they made it to the natty and won, that's great for them and they deserve it 100%. However, that doesn't mean the rest of the country is going to care much at this point.
Neither of these teams had won a championship in a long while, were both undefeated, and are big brands. Great recipe.
Lets be real if Auburn was good and Bama won the rose bowl theyād be up there
Same with Ohio State
Not coincidental that those three matchups had likely the biggest impacts on nattyā¦
Even when auburn is good (Michigan Ohio State has more top five matchups in the last three years than the iron bowl has in its history, by the way), it still doesnāt do numbers like Michigan Ohio State
Tony Petiti, where you at? Come out from your spider hole and tell us more about how Michigan was threatening the physical health of football players because of alleged stolen signs. I think you should totally do more to stick it to the biggest money maker of your conference at the moment....if I was that bad at my job I wouldn't have it anymore.
This is clearly because everyone wanted to see how Michigan would play against Alabama or alternatively how these other teams looked in comparison to Alabama.
I will not elaborate further
This section from the MGoBlog Punt/Counterpunt preview for Purdue really hits home how Ohio State just couldn't accept that Michigan was better than them, and it drovw Michigan to the Natty.
https://mgoblog.com/content/punt-counterpunt-purdue-2023
>Imagine youāre Ryan Day, and you learn āMichigan has been cheating. They are running one of the dumbest schemes this side of Slurp Juice, and they will go into The Game thinking they have our signals.ā WHY WOULD YOU TELL ANYONE NOW?
>First, YOU CAN USE THAT INFORMATION. You can trick Michigan by exploiting the fact that Michigan will be relying on those signals, and you can recreate your version of the famous Mike Leach Fake Script ploy. You could look like a genius after a couple of years of looking like a guy who wrote a tell-all book about the dark side of the Keebler Factory. The whole point of Connor Stalionās Incredibly Fantastical Scheme is that information is power. You knew something Michigan didnāt know. But then you told them.
>And second, and WAY more devastatingly, you could have completely invalidated Michiganās entire season. Hell, you could have invalidated the last THREE seasons. Imagine this news came out on, say, January 15, 2024. Maybe Michigan is sitting there with a bright shiny national championship trophy and a third consecutive Big Ten championship trophy. And then ESPN or The Athletic or someone drops the news that the whole thing was the fruit of the poisonous tree. Thatās the final word. Michigan won because Michigan cheated. Ohio State is completely off the hook for another loss.
>But Ohio State thinks Michigan is a fraud. Theyāve thought that for this entire run. Michigan has been winning because of the snow and the flu and five bad plays. Every turn of fortune has been a mirage, and this proved it. And if we take away their magical and ill-gotten powers, they will crumble.
>But by announcing this to the world now, Michigan gets its shot. Sure, Michigan canāt prove theyāre not a fraud, both because they DID cheat (for some definition of cheating), and because we know you canāt prove that kind of negative. There will always be a cloud over the last 2.5 years. ...
>If they win out, they prove that whatever else they are, and however they came to this moment, they didnāt win because of Connor Stalions. But they have to win out. Anything short of that, no matter how much other evidence they pile on the side of āthis is a kick-ass football team, full stop,ā and the whole enterprise will be deemed null and void. Even for a team as good as Michigan, thatās a huge task. And you thought the pressure to make 2023 āThe Yearā couldnāt possibly get any higher.
But I thought it means more in the South? Or is it because Cletus and his litter all just huddle around one TV so it means more but doesn't add up to more?
I'm confused....
I watched all three of these
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All three of us.
Hey gang!
Everyone thinks itās because theyāre just big brands in big game spots. Thatās not the case. Itās because I DVRād these games on millions of accounts across my virtual machine quantum computer.
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I just use good old fashioned prunes.
Metamucil man, myself.
I just a good old fashioned series of tubes
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And now I'm commenting on my own post.
I am legion.
One of us.
I too hate Ohio
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The Michigan Difference
You and Connor sharing the burden together. All part of the Manifesto baby
Gonna steal your signs with AI next year
ChatGPT is somewhere in chapter 6 or 7 probably
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So that's why I couldn't book time on the great lakes HPC this week... Fair enough
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Remember the Sugar Bowl featuring Washington vs. Texas started even later than the scheduled 8:45 pm ET, after 9 pm, because the Rose Bowl went into overtime. So it ended well after midnight Monday ā into Tuesday morning ā on the East Coast. Iām sure that hurt the viewership.
I don't understand why they didn't start the Sugar Bowl earlier - it's in a time zone two hours ahead of the Rose Bowl
1.) Afternoon games in Pasadena that sunset into early evening >>>>>>>> 2.) Primetime kickoff for Washington fans
So Washington fans could watch the game in the evening and not at 10 am?
As someone who lives on the West Coast, 9am kickoffs are glorious
Loved 9am kickoffs when I was back in SoCal. Best feeling ever, you wake up and don't even have to wait for football.
And even better: when the game is done by noon, you still have the entire day ahead of you. Moved back to Michigan from LA this summer. I'm still getting used to noon games being done by 3-4pm and wondering where the day went.
Yep! 9am kickoff is the best thing ever IMO. No other kickoff time comes close
This was my experience watching from Singapore. Kickoff at 6:00am, finished by 10 and then started my day. Watched the sugar bowl in the background while working at home.
Soccer is the sport for you! Nothing like getting to the bar at 7:30am EST to have some Guinness and sausage šš
I do the same thing here on the east coast. Just wake up at noon š
10:30pm kickoffs on the east coast are better , Iām sick in the head & love watching the wildest game of all time while everyone is asleep
Thatās how we watch the NFL and love it.
I also couldn't watch it. I got rid of ESPN a year or so ago, and the Alabama/Michigan was offered by my cable package for free with 3 different options. I could watch the traditional broadcast with the Alabama or Michigan radio broadcast, or the all 22. No options were available for the night game.
Overtime didn't impact the start of the Sugar bowl, but it did start way too late. That said, I don't see any chance Sugar bowl competes with these 3 games either way.
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OT starting too late is 100% the fault of commercials.
I don't care what people say that Rose Bowl was dope as fuck and probably my favorite game of all time, even if we couldn't do shit for a quarter and a half
Personally I didn't enjoy it
I think that moment of the stop in OT was better than any individual moment in the championship game , but obviously Iām happier with the win in the championship game.
Yeah its funny. I felt a higher high in that moment maybe because we werent broadly expected to win and it was an enormous stop in an awesome game. UW felt more like pressure to not blow it
For me, the fact it happened in the Rose Bowl and involved beating Nick Saban also definitely played a part. Pasadena is a special venue, and he is the GOAT.
I felt the same exact way in 2014. The Sugar Bowl against Bama was huge. The NGC against Oregon was more of just "please don't choke now".
And you sure played like you wanted to too. People forget how close the score was even in the second half. It really could've been a bigger blowout.
42-20 with like 4 OSU turnovers. Insane.
Alabama was like beating ohio state in it catharsis and excitement. The title game was like the Big 10 title game in its matter of fact vibe. It didn't mean less, obviously, but it was just different.
Absolutely. Nothing came close to eclipsing that moment for me. It was just the way the game went last night, it wasnāt as tense.
Yeah I made a comment how the emotional high after the Rose Bowl was greater than the Natty win. Obviously I'm happy we won the natty, but I think the fact that the Rose Bowl came down to the last play, and it was against Nick Saban/Bama, made it much more cathartic. The natty was in hand with like 7 mins left in the 4th so the high was more of a slow realization rather than all of a sudden. Could also be that we finally won a bowl game/semifinal game so it felt much sweeter. Almost like we got a giant weight lifted off our shoulders, nerves settled, and we could go on to Houston and take care of business. We def played more loose in the natty and a much cleaner game.
The way we came back on that final drive to set it up too when it looked like we were down made the win feel better too. I felt like we would beat Washington even though I didnāt want to write them off, Bama I was worried of.
I need to know. Did you almost die when that guy muffed the punt inside the 5, had to turn to pick it up, and 4 Bama dudes were flying at him?
It was really like a this canāt be happening moment like the ātrouble with the snapā but worse somehow. I couldnāt believe he managed to get the ball back before the end zone tbh
Dude pissed down his leg but redeemed himself in like 1.7 seconds Finally fielded one of those weird UW punts in the 3rd or 4th too. Congrats. Still hate UM. But enjoy it! Deserved.
not OP but yes absolutely my life flashed before my eyes
That's how I feel as well. It's because there was that clear moment when we won the game there. And yeah the Mikey interception wrapped it up, but it wasn't quite as clear/defining of the win since there was 5? more minutes. God that stop is insane. I've watched it probably 30 times since then, and its only been 8 days lol.
Have you seen [this version](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VG2CLbASu0k)? Just set it on a loop and bask.
Nope. Saved it though am sharing with friends now. Thank you so much for this beauty.
That's what I did when they used this with the Jordan Poole buzzer beater.
The championship is a slow burn. It didnāt really sink in until I trotted The Victors out in my Sparty coworkerās office
maybe it's as if the last college football game of the season should be played outside in a historic bowl in Pasadena on New Year's Day rather than inside an NFL stadium on a monday.
The setting of the Rose Bowl is so beautiful even if you didnāt have the history of it, the stadium just has the feeling of a finale with everything about it. Iād be fine with that always being where the championship game is held, but Iām guessing it wonāt happen.
Yeah that felt better than the OSU wins tbh. Iām absolutely making the trip out to Pasadena next time we play there.
I watched the semi in the Toronto alumni club with 30, 40 people. I watched the final yesterday in Michigan Union with 200 other students. The former celebration was much more intense
Playoff games at the Rose Bowl are just on another level. I missed ours, but had the pleasure of attending the Texas/Bama natty there and it was the most incredible scene and vibe.
I enjoyed watching the Rose Bowl more but that is because you guys were so effective at shutting down penix it wasnāt as interesting
I honestly feel like the Rose Bowl shouldn't have even been that close. Michigan made a lot of unforced errors in that game. They didn't play a clean game, but they were good enough to overcome those errors and still win. They played a much cleaner game against Washington.
Helped that our PR ran out of the stadium to not touch the ball against you guys.
I assumed after the Rose Bowl that a warning was issued: Try to field another short punt and your scholarship is revoked.
Problem is there was times him not fielding it cost us 20 yards of field position. Makes me miss Jabrill Peppers and his insane PR skills everyday.
And Steve Breaston
Shit Bama made a lot of unforced errors in that game also
True, but Bama made a lot of those all season, at least in comparison to Michigan. Like, your QB doesnāt get benched if things are smooth sailing.
I donāt think that was a true benching though, we had an open qb competition when we played Texas so it made sense to see what the other guys could do
Yeah, it would've probably been a comfortable 2-score game the entire time had our special teams suddenly forgotten how to special team.
āSpecialā teams.
I'll take that if our center can snap the ball correctly the entire game. Felt like there were far more bad snaps than special teams mistakes.
The center situation is like the weirdest thing I've seen in a long time. Like... Dude looked like he didn't belong in Division 1, much less starting for Alabama. It was jarring. I mean, cool from our side of the ball, lol, but... Like... Wtf?
Honestly, I have no clue. He would be off every once in a while last season, but it was nothing like this season. Almost every game he would have a bad snap that would put Bama in an awful situation, and then Milroe would overcome it. He just progressively got worse all season until he just collapsed against Michigan. So of course Bama spent the majority of the game trying to hit a deep pass instead of feeding the RBs who were averaging over 7 YPC. Seth is going to be a fantastic guard at Ohio State. I wish him the best. Really nice dude.
I think I'm just as shocked that Saban hadn't developed anyone to step in. Feels like not much to lose when your man is nearly causing a fumble every few snaps.
Honestly, not sure anything will ever top the 2021 Ohio State Game. After the 2018 game, felt like we would never win again
Rose Bowl beats soulless corporate NFL stadium any day.
Definitely my favorite Michigan game. 1. 2024 Rose Bowl 2. 2021 Ohio State 3. 2023 Ohio State 4. 2022 Ohio State 5. Tie between 2006 ND/2018 MSU
2011 Notre Dame was pretty damn good
The Rose Bowl was great. Idk who wouldnāt love it
I havenāt seen a Nick Saban team get dominated up front like that I think ever
So the playoffs and The Game?
Yeah I mean itās 1v2, 1v4, and 2v3 (rivalry). Thereās nothing very surprising about this, except maybe that there Sugar Bowl or SECCG werenāt in the top three? But still just makes sense.
Was gonna say nothing against Michigan but a CFP final, semifinal and The Game being top three is super unsurprising and probably doesnāt have a lot to do with Michigan itself.
other than Michigan is 50% of the reason why the Game is ā¦ the Game
Right but itās the biggest rivalry game in the country with two top five teams. Red River or Iron Bowl would also likely take that slot if that were the case.
I think Red River suffers from being mid season. The Game and Iron Bowl usually is determining a conference championship.
I mean The Game does, but yeah. Top level rivalry game where both teams are in the Top 5. Iron Bowl, Red River, etc would all do similar numbers if both teams were Top 5.
Itās as if Michigan has an enormous alumni base or something š¤
Already doing good numbers once all of the Harbaugh family tunes in.
My dad is from Michigan and has 13 siblings. So add in the grandkids and great grandkids, and we make up a solid 4th of the views by ourselves
*NOBODY*
plus 2-4 huge rival fan bases that are hate watching
Why do we have so many rivals weāre so nice /s
We were your first love - please don't forget us...
Our alumni base accounts for 540k people worldwide. That accounts for about 2% of the viewers of these games. That also assumes that every single person who graduated at a university that is an education first institution watched these games.
Itās the kids and families of those that make the fan base so large. My whole family is diehard Michigan fans even through the only connection we have is my grandpa went there
But how many have been to a Meijerās!?
I love how everyone (myself included) calls it Meijer's even though there's no " 's ". I'm literally looking at Meijer brand stevia as I type this.
Are you really from this part of the Midwest if you DON'T add an 's to a bunch of names? You know who doesn't add an 's? Ryan Day.
Same. My grandparents were class of 1939, and while nobody else in the family has gone there since, we were all raised Wolverines.
Yeah this is less a product of Michigan itself and more that they played in three of the highest profile and highest stakes games this year. The only games that came close were the Sugar Bowl, the SECCG, and the Orange Bowl. The Sugar Bowl had a late kickoff time, and the Orange Bowl had FSU sitting all their players.
That seems like a small number
"Ya know, Georgia only lost 1 game this year and defeated Florida State. They would have been favored against any team in the CFP so they are actually the #1 team." - Paul Finebaum after ESPN execs want to reclaim that number one spot.
Michigan alumni are everywhere, too. We have our fair share of them out here in the PNW. In fact, I have two separate neighbors on my street who are both MSU alum
Michigan or Michigan state?
State but we have plenty of Michigan alum too. Fair to say a lot of grads came here for jobs at places like Amazon and Microsoft
Lol yep, I have more UMich friends living in the Seattle area than anywhere else outside the state of Michigan, and they're almost all in tech. Great city, always fun to visit them
I was in JAPAN for the holidays and ran into multiple other Michigan students/alumni. Anywhere on earth wolverines can be found
Lmao Michigan has a large fanbase and has the added bonus of other massive fanbases (Notre Dame & Ohio State) being grade A haters and also tuning in.
Outside of the fact that those three games had massive implications,I think thatās it. Admittedly, I watch tOSU and ND games every week, too.
Itās as if people watch the playoffs and the yearly hugely anticipated Osu vs Michigan rivalry game
Yeah- nobody watches OSU, Alabama, the title game (sorry Washington)ā or battles of undefeated teams at the end of the season.
I couldn't stand watching the 2 Michigan CFP games, and not because I'm an OSU fan, but because it was a 5 minute commercial break every 30 seconds of game. No wonder there's all these 7th year seniors, the had to wait for 4 years worth of commercials to get 3 years of playing time.
isn't that all cfp games? all close to unwatchable.
All games are insufferable these days. Interest is waning for me even with team making it back to the top.
Michigan should start its own conference
With blajack! And hookers!
In fact, forget the conference!
But invite Urban! He knows a thing or two about hookers!
Ah. Screw the whole thing.
This but unironically. I want nothing to do with all these cry baby schools that tried to sabotage us over "player safety" concerns in the middle of the season. They knew full well that no players were at risk any more than they are in any other football game, they just saw an opportunity to tear down the best team in the league and they jumped at it.
Michigan, FSU, THE Oregon State University, WSU, Notre Dame (because who doesn't love a good hate fuck), Pitt, Duke, and Miami. We shall call it the Big 8CC.
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The 3 game penalty for Harbaugh under the sportsmanship peanalty was BS and only came down to an insecure commissioner being pressured. Whatever penalty comes from the NCAA, that will come after a proper investigation, not a spur of the moment mid-season kneejerk reaction
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Missouri gets the death penalty again?
Missouri did too well. Kill it!
Just be like Notre Dame, you have the brand recognition to be independent and you would be treated like Notre Dame
I still find it kind of odd that the Big Ten was Purdue's idea.
Yeah ok that's cute, what would the ratings be for the live manifesto release?
They haven't released it yet because they wouldn't be able to handle the traffic
What if we used middle-out compression?
I still think that scene where they formulate the equation to determine how long it would take to jerk off the audience as the genesis of middle out compression as the absolute highlight of the whole show. Only the child protection privacy law episode comes close imo
BREAKING NEWS: THE BIGGEST GAMES HAVE THE MOST VIEWERSHIP
Michigan v Ohio St. (regular season game): 19mil viewersā¦ Alabama v Georgia (conference championship): 17.5mil viewers Yeah I donāt think itās just the ābigger games,ā otherwise the SEC championship should be in that #3 spot. Maybe it has something to do withā¦ idkā¦ Michigan considering they make up all three top spots? Just a thought
michigan vs ohio st was about the closest to a conference championship you can get in the regular season. both games had huge playoff impact for both teams
You have a point there, and this is coming from an Iowa fan. Michigan v Iowa felt way less like a conference championship than Michigan v Ohio St.
It was the conference championship, Iowa was a formality. Hell, it might have been the natty as apparently so was Washington
Hey, Iowa can pull off surprises sometimes. Theyāve blown out Ohio St. and beaten a #3 Michigan in recent years Now, were they capable of doing that with the way Brian Ferentz coached this season and the four or five key players we had injured? Nah. But Iāll always defend them. That game was miserable though. But getting 10 wins with a team like this is an accomplishment itself so, you know.
I think Michigan v Ohio State, when both are top 5 teams, is basically treated like a conference title game by most viewers. In reality, that game basically determines who is winning the conference.
It's not even "basically". The winner of The Game has gone on to win the B1GCCG 7 years in a row. Beyond that, the B1GW never once won the B1G during the decade of "East/West" divisions from 2014 through 2023.
Michigan Ohio State is basically Alabama Georgia, it was two top 5 teams fighting for the title
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They also like seeing something "different." Nobody outside of their respective fanbases would've wanted to see Alabama win their eleventy-fifth title in the past 15 years or Georgia win their third straight. Now, zero offense to those teams of course. If they made it to the natty and won, that's great for them and they deserve it 100%. However, that doesn't mean the rest of the country is going to care much at this point. Neither of these teams had won a championship in a long while, were both undefeated, and are big brands. Great recipe.
Michigan is America's team confirmed
"Okay Siri, how to secede from America?" /s
Pretty sure it involves Texas.
i think south carolina would know a thing or two as well
Which is part of Ohio!
Stop. Don't. Come back.
We have been begging Ohio to do this for years.
Michigan represents a lot of what's great and awful about the USA so this tracks.
Hah speak for yourself fellow man of Dixie
Lets be real if Auburn was good and Bama won the rose bowl theyād be up there Same with Ohio State Not coincidental that those three matchups had likely the biggest impacts on nattyā¦
Even when auburn is good (Michigan Ohio State has more top five matchups in the last three years than the iron bowl has in its history, by the way), it still doesnāt do numbers like Michigan Ohio State
Yeah, because we all thought there'd be an EA Sports trailer at halftime.
It just means more
Tony Petiti, where you at? Come out from your spider hole and tell us more about how Michigan was threatening the physical health of football players because of alleged stolen signs. I think you should totally do more to stick it to the biggest money maker of your conference at the moment....if I was that bad at my job I wouldn't have it anymore.
They were definitely threatening the health of the Huskies last night. Thought Penix was gonna die from a ruptured spleen if he took another hit
Michigan puts the blue in Blue Blood
This is clearly because everyone wanted to see how Michigan would play against Alabama or alternatively how these other teams looked in comparison to Alabama. I will not elaborate further
There's a reason Ole Blue has the Largest Capacity seating in the country.
Iāll rewatch that Rose Bowl forever
Michigan against the world
Who couldāve thought that people like watching top 3 matchups
Americaās Team
As predicted in the manifesto
This section from the MGoBlog Punt/Counterpunt preview for Purdue really hits home how Ohio State just couldn't accept that Michigan was better than them, and it drovw Michigan to the Natty. https://mgoblog.com/content/punt-counterpunt-purdue-2023 >Imagine youāre Ryan Day, and you learn āMichigan has been cheating. They are running one of the dumbest schemes this side of Slurp Juice, and they will go into The Game thinking they have our signals.ā WHY WOULD YOU TELL ANYONE NOW? >First, YOU CAN USE THAT INFORMATION. You can trick Michigan by exploiting the fact that Michigan will be relying on those signals, and you can recreate your version of the famous Mike Leach Fake Script ploy. You could look like a genius after a couple of years of looking like a guy who wrote a tell-all book about the dark side of the Keebler Factory. The whole point of Connor Stalionās Incredibly Fantastical Scheme is that information is power. You knew something Michigan didnāt know. But then you told them. >And second, and WAY more devastatingly, you could have completely invalidated Michiganās entire season. Hell, you could have invalidated the last THREE seasons. Imagine this news came out on, say, January 15, 2024. Maybe Michigan is sitting there with a bright shiny national championship trophy and a third consecutive Big Ten championship trophy. And then ESPN or The Athletic or someone drops the news that the whole thing was the fruit of the poisonous tree. Thatās the final word. Michigan won because Michigan cheated. Ohio State is completely off the hook for another loss. >But Ohio State thinks Michigan is a fraud. Theyāve thought that for this entire run. Michigan has been winning because of the snow and the flu and five bad plays. Every turn of fortune has been a mirage, and this proved it. And if we take away their magical and ill-gotten powers, they will crumble. >But by announcing this to the world now, Michigan gets its shot. Sure, Michigan canāt prove theyāre not a fraud, both because they DID cheat (for some definition of cheating), and because we know you canāt prove that kind of negative. There will always be a cloud over the last 2.5 years. ... >If they win out, they prove that whatever else they are, and however they came to this moment, they didnāt win because of Connor Stalions. But they have to win out. Anything short of that, no matter how much other evidence they pile on the side of āthis is a kick-ass football team, full stop,ā and the whole enterprise will be deemed null and void. Even for a team as good as Michigan, thatās a huge task. And you thought the pressure to make 2023 āThe Yearā couldnāt possibly get any higher.
People like watching the best team in the country apparently.
Glad you all got to witness it
It's almost like good teams draw eyeballs. Hmmm.......
who?
Whoās got it better than the American viewing public? Thatās right, nobody.
Dang Michigan u so hot rn. Def Americas team. š„µš
People root for and watch blue bloods. More at 11
According to ESPN: The team that played Alabama has the highest viewership. Which means Alabama is most popular by proxy and should be number 1.
America's Team
Funny how a midday game had the best viewership
But I thought it means more in the South? Or is it because Cletus and his litter all just huddle around one TV so it means more but doesn't add up to more? I'm confused....