You're nuts!
Do you remember who did or didn't play in Harbaugh's first 26 well-coached games at Michigan? No sir. Do most outside of Michigan fans remember Devin Gardner on a broken leg had a shot to beat OSU with a two point conversion or the ref butt pat stuff? Not really. They just say Harbaugh is 0-2 vs. Meyer and OSU has gone on a streak against us the last decade plus. They say Harbaugh has won 10 games each of his first two seasons, and there are no asterisks.
The truth is the way Harbs and Michigan get where all of us want them to go is to play OSU in the last game of the season with as much on the line as possible and WIN. The highest path to recruiting, national prominence, and championships is to make that 4 team playoff.
Beating a ranked team regardless of injuries or suspensions or anything else is a step down that path. Florida will still trot out athletes at JerryWorld far superior to many teams' opening opponents.
The most plausible way to get to that last regular season game with 0 or 1 losses is to win the first one. Put me in the camp of pleased the odds shifted from 55% to 60%+ towards the good guys.
Do you remember who did or didn't play in Harbaugh's first 26 well-coached games at Michigan? No sir. Do most outside of Michigan fans remember Devin Gardner on a broken leg had a shot to beat OSU with a two point conversion or the ref butt pat stuff? Not really. They just say Harbaugh is 0-2 vs. Meyer and OSU has gone on a streak against us the last decade plus. They say Harbaugh has won 10 games each of his first two seasons, and there are no asterisks.
The truth is the way Harbs and Michigan get where all of us want them to go is to play OSU in the last game of the season with as much on the line as possible and WIN. The highest path to recruiting, national prominence, and championships is to make that 4 team playoff.
Beating a ranked team regardless of injuries or suspensions or anything else is a step down that path. Florida will still trot out athletes at JerryWorld far superior to many teams' opening opponents.
The most plausible way to get to that last regular season game with 0 or 1 losses is to win the first one. Put me in the camp of pleased the odds shifted from 55% to 60%+ towards the good guys.
