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Week 1 is finally here!

>ESPN/ABC set for best college football opening weekend schedule ever

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espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/9640836/the-historic-notre-dame-michigan-rivalry-never-really-gone
games.espn.com/college-football-pickem/2016/en/group?groupID=18448
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1st for Sup Forums

2nd for ALL ABOARD THE SPEIGHT TRAIN

REMINDER THAT EASTERN MICHIGAN WILL RECORD IT'S FIRST WIN OVER A POWER 5 TEAM IN HISTORY ON SEPTEMBER 10th AGAINST MISSOURI.

>my face when people actually think the team with the best defense and a top 10 offense in the country will miss the playoffs next season

>Brandon Peters (objectively and statistically the best QB in the 2016 recruiting class, it isn't even debatable)
>Ty Isaac (best RB in the game who will be 100% healthy, unlike the entirety of last year. he will put up 1200+YDs/10+TDs/5.0YPC)
>Jake Butt (a top 3 TE already going into this season, 1000+YDs/7+TDs)
>Sean McKeon (literally a Jake Butt-clone)
>Amara Darboh (top 10 WR, 900+YDs/5+TDs)
>Jabril Peppers (a black guy trapped in a black's body, one of the smartest players in football, elite measurables, incredible upside)
>Kareem Walker (one of the fastest and most explosive players in football)
>Joe Beneducci (best blocking FB in country)

>Best pass rush in the B1G
>Best LB corp in the B1G
>Best secondary in the country
>Top 5 D-Line

Barring major injuries to key players, there is literally no way the Wolverines are missing the playoffs this season

The Michigan B1G championship drought ends in 2016-2017

You can't prove me wrong

Cap it

SEC SEC SEC

Goddammit

Not too sure about this score lads

I prefer the O'Korn field honestly.

Nice

You and your camera need to die, ASAP.

What's the password for the ESPN College Pick'Em?

Also, Saban > Harbaugh

You'll have to come do it yourself

>Michitrash fans
>trash
pick both

Post vitals and I will. Don't test me you little wet behind the ears fuck.

I he saying "faggot" or a cut off "fuck you"?

fuck you.

>Also, Saban > Harbaugh
No shit

It's "fuck you" because his mouth is trending downward. If it was "faggot", his mouth would be trending upward because of the "a".

he's saying "MUH ALL TIME WINS BEFORE THE INVENTION OF THE FORWARD PASS"

SEC > "Big" 10

ahahaha
fuck

are michigan fans the worst?

Are you obsessed?

I think they'll overtake the lead over tOSU as the worst this season when they cry and bitch about being "refballed" out of 4 wins.

Are you a delusional faggot?

Good afternoon /cfb/
>mfw we're only 6 days and a wake up away from the upset of Notre Dame

Good. I hope ND gets raped like all of the Catholic priests that have raped alter boys for decades.

>Michigan is the reason the forward pass is popular.

Fielding Yost brought it with him in the early 1900's and then proceeded to kick everyone's ass with it with an unprecedented dominance never seen before or since and never will be again given parity of today's game.

Before Yost brought it to Michigan all the "big" schools thought the forward pass was a joke and a gimmick and no successful team would ever use it consistently. Michigan also invented defensive/offensive specialists and their coach in the 30's Crisler basically wrote the rule book we know today.

Just saying.

Here here

just banter mate. but that is bretty interesting

If you want to talk some Michigan football, all you had to do was ask, little buddy.

Do you even read books? It is well known that the forward pass was invented by Rockne at Notre Dame

The Smithsonian:
The forward pass was ridiculed by college football’s powerhouse teams only to be proved wrong by Pop Warner and his Indians
smithsonianmag.com/history/the-early-history-of-footballs-forward-pass-78015237/
>In 1907, the Carlisle Indians traveled to Philadelphia to play Penn. The Indians completed 8 of 16 passes, including one thrown by a player relatively new to the varsity squad named Jim Thorpe, pictured here in 1909.

All good.

Here's a good info on Yost's early teams that are always mind boggling to read.

tl;dr:
Outscored opponents 2,821 to 42 in his first 57 games (55-1-1).

Outscored opponents 550-0 in 1901 including a 128-0 win that was ended after 3 quarters. Also made Stanford quit with 8 minutes left in the first Rose Bowl.

Outscored opponents 644-12 in 1902.
Outscored opponents 565-5 in 1903.
Outscored opponents 567-22 in 1904.

Won first 12 games of 1905 by a score of 495-0 before losing their first game after 56 games by a score of 2-0. The guy who "lost" the game for Michigan literally killed himself over it.

Too bad I'm not from your mush mouth state you little prick. Nice try though. If you want to talk UM football, go talk to your autism friend on the way to school as you catch the 6:50 am bus to school.

I didn't say he invented it. But he was one of many who helped popularize it, especially being at a school like Michigan.

Also, Michigan literally taught Notre Dame football and gave them the "Fighting Irish" name.

Are you seriously beating off to stats from 115 years ago? Good god man... Michigan really is worse than Notre Dame.

Beware of the forward pass curse

>Especially being at a school like Michigan
>Notre Dame mentioned in same post

Dude, As an outsider to all this I just have to say that Notre Dame is held in a MUCH MUCH higher regard than freaking Michigan in the general publics eye.

Care to elaborate on Michigan "Teaching Notre Dame football" or giving the name "Fighting Irish"? I am intrigued

No.

If you can't appreciate that, then I can't help you. It's interesting. No one ever came close to that even back then and obviously never will again. I never said HEY LOOK HOW GOOD MICHIGAN IS HURR. I just posted something that anyone interested in college football should find interesting unless they're just constantly buttmad at anything involving a school they don't like.

uh, what do either of those things have to do with each other?

auburn 27-21 cap this post

Why in the hell would a guy kill himself over losing a football game? Especially back then when it wasn't a multi-billion dollar industry that is all over TV and the like.

again, no shit

>Care to elaborate on Michigan "Teaching Notre Dame football" or giving the name "Fighting Irish"? I am intrigued

>The first game took place in November 1887. Michigan had been playing football since 1879. Two players on Michigan's 1887 team, George Winthrop DeHaven, Jr. and William Warren Harless, had previously attended Notre Dame. In October 1887, DeHaven wrote to Brother Paul, who ran Notre Dame's intramural athletics program, telling him about the new game of football. Michigan had planned a game in Chicago on Thanksgiving Day, and the three men, DeHaven, Harless and Brother Paul, persuaded their respective schools to play a football match on the Notre Dame campus on the day before Thanksgiving.

>The game was the first played by a Notre Dame football team, and the Michigan team was credited with teaching the Notre Dame team the game before play began. The Notre Dame student newspaper, Scholastic, reported: "It was not considered a match contest, as the home team had been organized only a few weeks, and the Michigan boys, the champions of the West, came more to instruct them in the points of the Rugby game than to win fresh laurels." The proceedings began with a tutorial session in which players from both teams were divided irrespective of college. For the first 30 minutes, the teams scrimmaged in a practice game with Michigan "exchanging six men for the same number from Notre Dame."

1/2

I thought it was Paul Brown who invented it?

I blame our forefathers for breeding them that way.

didn't that punter for michigan kill himself after last year?

>In November 1909, Notre Dame, coached by a former Michigan player in Frank Longman, defeated Michigan by a score of 11 to 3. The game was the ninth meeting in the rivalry, with Michigan having won the first eight games (five of them by shutouts) by a combined score of 121 to 16. The 1909 gave birth to the "Fighting Irish" nickname. E. A. Batchelor, a sportswriter for the Detroit Free Press, submitted a report on the game with the headline: "'Shorty' Longman's Fighting Irishmen Humble the Wolverines to Tune of 11 to 3."

>Michigan football historian, John Kryk, later wrote: "With that flowery lead, E.A. Batchelor of the Detroit Free Press popularized a moniker Notre Dame teams would later come to embrace – and aptly summed up the greatest athletic achievement to that point in Notre Dame history."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan–Notre_Dame_football_rivalry

uhnd.com/football/irish-stewed-road-traveled-1887/

247sports.com/Bolt/Notre-Dame-letter-asked-Michigan-to-teach-students-football-30864042

espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/9640836/the-historic-notre-dame-michigan-rivalry-never-really-gone

If ANYTHING, this just indicates how people hadn't really caught on to the sport yet. At that early stage of the game it literally just came down to who cared enough and put the most resources into their team.
A lot of programs didn't even have a team until the 1910's. But the ones that did, it was much more like a club sport than anything.
So what? Hurr durr... Michigan was dominant in a club sport in 1901 when nobody else cared.
It was just luck that it caught on and become the sport it is today.

people from michigan and ohio should just not be allowed to post

Hmmm all of that is really intersting stuff. Didn't know it. Thanks for the info user.

Did Michigan pick up on football really quick then or somethhing? How quickly did they adopt the game after Rutgers invented the college game because I know that is a thing or something?

DAILY REMINDER MICHIGAN HAS ONLY WON ONE NATIONAL TITLE IN THE LAST 70 YEARS

DAILY REMINDER MICHIGAN HAS ONLY WON ONE NATIONAL TITLE IN THE LAST 70 YEARS

DAILY REMINDER MICHIGAN HAS ONLY WON ONE NATIONAL TITLE IN THE LAST 70 YEARS

>They didn't fly so well

It was pretty popular in certain places. To be the guy who fucked up a 56 game unbeaten streak would be awful. He was obviously a bit emotionally unstable to begin with, so yeah. I'm sure every time someone heard his name around Michigan they remembered.

Yeah no shit but if those guys who loved the game back then hadn't spread it there might not be college football. Press F to pay respects, niggerfaggot.

dantonio > harbum

Uhh, maybe math isn't your strongest subject but 70 years would be back to 1946, which would make it 3.

Rutgers and Princeton first played the first intercollegiate football game in November of 1869.

Michigan formed a team in May of 1870 but did not play another college until 1879.

Wow... now that's funny. I actually had no clue that Michigan had so little success in the modern era. I would have at least guessed that they had won a couple in the last 70 years.
In this regard, Michigan is much more like Princeton (And certainly not in academics) than they are like Notre Dame. Won a few "Titles" more than 100 years ago but have done nothing since.

Yea, but you are basically whacking off to stats of how much this team that had played the sport for years was clobbering another club sport unit when they had just literally taught them the sport. I could do that too... I'm going to invent a sport and then go around teaching people that sport. Then after I teach it to them I am going to beat their ass because obviously I have bee playing it longer. See how it makes those stats just kind of ridiculous?

>muh claimed titles
This is when you know somebody doesn't actually know anything about college football.

1/2 title

So are they counting all those games they played against non-colleges in their all time win list?

Does anyone have a link for Sup Forums ESPN College Pick'em?

I'm not the guy who's posting about Yost and I don't think he was "whacking off" to those stats. (Who the fuck says whacking off? Are you 12?) I think he just thought it was cool. Kind of like talking about John Heisman beating Cumberland 222-0 when he coached at GT. I don't understand why everyone think football history is so neat but lose their shit any time a Michigan fan talks about it. Chill tf out fag.

seems kind of dangerous desu

Everyone counts those games, dumbass.

why are people in these threads always so butthurt about Michigan?

games.espn.com/college-football-pickem/2016/en/group?groupID=18448

spee is the pass

Looks like the michigan fans are more butthurt desu senpaii

Buck the fizon

Depends how you define success.

They still won 24 Big Ten championships since 1949 including 4 undefeated regular seasons (2 undefeated including bowl games).

Also up until 1999 or whatever all you could do was win your conference and a bowl game and hope you were voted as champion. Michigan won their conference a shit ton.

Had the 4 team playoff been around since 1964 Michigan would have been in it 16 times from 1964 to 2006. That's pretty good. They also still have the 2nd highest winning percentage all time, the most wins and only have 1 losing record against any team they've played at least 5 times (USC).

The last 9 seasons is just all most of us remember watching and caring about and Michigan has been pretty average at best in that span. But overall, even since their 1948 national title have still been very very good and appear to be trending back to that.

Michigan fans like talk about Michigan. MSU and Ohio State fans also like to talk about Michigan.

No.

They only count inter-collegiate wins which started in 1879.

Michigan wasn't even that good, either;
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Michigan_Wolverines_football_in_the_early_years#Year-by-year_results

idk seems like people always call out Michigan for being overhyped, even though Michigan fans aren't the ones doing the hyping. it's the media doing it in order to get a response from Michigan haters, since there are so many fanbases that hate Michigan (OSU, MSU, ND, etc.)

if Michigan is so shit why is everyone always whining about them? just treat Michigan like Purdue or whatever and don't talk about them.

Also, that 1997 was split with Nebraska, who would have creamed Michigan if they had played.

I also think a lot of the people that post in these threads claiming to be Michigan fans, aren't. Such as the copypasta and are either doing it to parody actual fans or just start shit.

>just treat Michigan like Purdue or whatever and don't talk about them.
we're trying to, but you guys are coming out of the woodwork and making stupid claims and literally posting black and white pictures talking about michigan's past lol

>Michigan was voted #1 in every single AP and coaches poll the last couple weeks of the season.

>Nebraska's legendary coach was retiring and everyone knew it and suddenly Nebraska gets #1 in the coaches poll to end the year with Michigan still #1 in the AP thus the split.

Nebraska fans should consider themselves lucky they even got the split and I'm not even a UM fan. But I do hate Nebraska so maybe biased.

>um posts are insufferable nonsense/spam about winning natties in 2016 or 4000 B.C.
>"herf derf lol u butthurt?"

This is also what it's like to live in this state and not be a UM fan.

yeah the Michigan copypasta poster definitely isn't a Michigan fan.

Michigan is actually like that...

Reminder that every """national title""" before the CFP should be declared null and void

>Also, that 1997 was split with Nebraska, who would have creamed Michigan if they had played.

didn't Michigan win by a larger margin against the shared opponents? That was a nasty defense the wolverines had. I think it would have been a great game against Nebraska.

>tfw no one even cares enough to talk about your Michigan school

>Michigan fans' posts are about Michigan
>MSU fans' posts are about Michigan
Exactly what it's like

>[direction] [state] university
>meme colored field
what did you expect?

it's kind of insane that a playoff system wasn't introduced earlier.

Yeah but they'll say some shit about home vs away games blah blah blah. Because Baylor had such an intimidating game environment in the 90's lol.

shameful corporate and university greed.

pls no bully

We have a grey field because "we'd play on concrete" . That's the message. We suck. But we'll beat Missouri.

Now let's look at how many of these are bogus national titles. Starting with 1901-1904, only half are legit:
>legit: 1901 and 1902
>bogus: 1903 and 1904

Hello /cfb/ just posting here to nicely remind you that Tennessee will be all your saviors from Alabama and win the cfb playoffb owl this year.

i hope so man

Next you have 1918 when the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 saw the implementation of quarantines that eliminated much of that year's college football season.
>The 1918 NCAA football season had no clear-cut champion, with the Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book listing Michigan and Pittsburgh as national champions

ugly bright faggot orange

Next you have 1923, another bogus national title for Michigan

Yeah keep trying to pass off the fact that you guys are the "real" UT and enjoy being like the 4th most relevant team in your own state.