Michigan Football: Five Things to Watch as Wolverines Battle Indiana

Published on: 1st October, 2010

The history of the Michigan-Indiana series is one of quiet domination: since 1968 Michigan is 31-1. Indiana hasn’t won a matchup in the series since a 1987 upset in which Jamie Morris ran for 152 yards. A blocked punt in the first quarter allowed Indiana to win a low-scoring game ...

Michigan Football: Wolverines Still Have Room To Improve Entering Big Ten

Published on: 27th September, 2010

In stark contrast to the rich history of Michigan football, the defense over the past few years has been bad enough to instill a new generation of fans with a congenital terror—even during large blowouts, that terror manages to resurface. It appeared again Saturday, during a five minute stretch in the ...

Michigan vs. Notre Dame: Analyzing the Wolverines Defense

Published on: 16th September, 2010

Sports hyperbole is fraught with exaggerated language, but Saturday's game certainly evoked the heights of tragedy and lows of despair, a somewhat cruel reminder that the season is still delicate and fragile.Even during the worst of the Lloyd Carr years, failure merely portended a trip to the Alamo or Outback ...

Michigan vs. Notre Dame: Offensive Success Now Depends Upon Denard Robinson

Published on: 12th September, 2010

Though the Michigan vs. Notre Dame contest was in danger of becoming subordinate to other big matchups this year and falling into neglect. It actually became the most exciting game of the day, but its wild pyrotechnics and close score were just a few ways in which it shared symmetry ...

Michigan Football: Five Things We Learned From Week One

Published on: 7th September, 2010

The state of Michigan football was far less certain a few days ago. For most of the summer, the defense was in disarray, the quarterback situation was one of those known unknowns, and people spoke of Rich Rodriguez as if he had vandalized the integrity of Michigan football.Michigan is still ...

Michigan vs. Connecticut: A Saturday at Michigan Stadium

Published on: 5th September, 2010

Fandom is an irrational endeavor. It demands sacrifice for a meaningless cause, and it requires an annual trip to the school’s sacred ground under threat of intemperate weather and the kinds of embarrassing losses that are almost derogatory to your sense of self-worth and esteem. If not for a random ...

Michigan-Ohio State Rivalry Should Keep the Tradition Alive

Published on: 27th August, 2010

The Michigan-Ohio State game was always going to be the first casualty in a full scale Big Ten revolution. With the drumbeat of expansion at full bore, it was only a matter of time before the mythical Big Ten Championship Game was conjured into existence, and the rivalry would be ...

For Michigan Wolverines To Succeed, Tate Forcier Must Soar

Published on: 23rd August, 2010

Tate Forcier's grip on the starting position may well yet prevail, but first he will have to weather the vagaries of success that accompany erratic freshman play. After his game-winning touchdown against Notre Dame, it looked as if that success would come in a single garish outburst of emotions, but ...

The Heisman Gets Defensive Minded, But It’s Not Enough

Published on: 13th December, 2009

The Heisman Trophy, with its outstretched hand and the kind of running posture that seems preconditioned to promulgate the myth of its own offensive man of action, is modeled after Ed Smith, a little known running back from New York University who happened to be the man of the moment ...