Thinking back to Joel Klatt saying Michigan was in a major down period from 07-14 and decided to take a quick look back on Michigan's ranking after the OSU game since 1969 to see how many playoffs we would have. I only looked at Wikipedia for season results for each year so I believe the rankings are AP poll results. Now, I understand the playoff committee may have not had the same top 4 and I want to avoid that speculation and want to just have a fun look back at history
Michigan would have played in the 4-team playoff in the following years (14 times)
1970 (no bowl game), 1971, 1973 (no bowl game), 1974 (no bowl game), 1976, 1977, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1997, 2003, 2006, 2021, 2022
OSU during the same span:
1970, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1979, 1995, 1996, 1998, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2014, 2016, 2019, 2020
Some thoughts:
I thought OSU would have more appearances under Tressel, especially those teams with Pryor at QB.
I also thought UM would have more appearances in the 80s
Bo really had a chance to win 4-5 titles if he could win a dang bowl game LOL