0-2 ND / 0-2 UM -- Who will keep the streak alive?

[Jimmy Medalions]

I think the Domers will post the W.

[Adelpiero]

didn't hart just guarantee a win over the domers?

[T REX]

Heard its the first time in the history of college football....

[Mikey]

I think the Domers will post the W.

Are they playing Stanford this year?

[Laxplayer]

What an ugly game that will be.

[RadioFan]

RACK the title of this thread.

[SoCalTrjn]

Im going with Michigan, unless Cheesesteak Charlie can put a spread offense in this week.
Michigan can handle a team that cant block or finish a game with positive rush yardsage

[TenTallBen]

Is it possible to have a tie anymore? 0-0???

[Danimal]

I think ND will play harder, partially because they know Weis will still be there next year. Mich definitely could win this one but they gotta start fast. If ND gets out early I can see Mich folding like a Gap-clerk. Weis needs this win almost as much as Carr, with a loss the grumbling will get loud as fuck and the Willingham/Davie-comparisons will be quickly coming.

Mich's sub-qb is a wild-card. He could lead them down the road to ruin but against a suspect ND-defense he could re-invigorate Mich a little. The game is at Mich and if he is to have any chance at staying employed this is a must-win for Carr. But Carr really needed a win this week and we see what happened.

Hell I don't know

[TenTallBen]

Just ask Jsc who he is picking and go with the other team. $$$$

[MiketheangrydrunkenCUfan]

[buckeye_in_sc]

cal wins...

[Shoalzie]

If Hart and Henne can play, I'll give the edge to the Wolverines...if not, all bets are off.

[WolverineSteve]

I laughed.

[Laxplayer]

Michigan has already quit.

[Screw_Michigan]

who gives a flying fuck who wins this game. i hope the final is 3-2 ND.

i was at the ND bookstore on friday buying a wedding present and i asked one of the girls working if the "gameday" t-shirt (with the helmets and all the ND vs. scU-M etc) would say "0-2 vs. 0-2" on them. she wasn't sure.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

WHERE'S YOUR SAVIOR NOW, MICHIGAN FAN?

[T REX]

Bring on the Repus bowl......

Dead man walking vs Rainman

[MgoBlue-LightSpecial]

Michigan isn't playing with effort, and to make things worse for them, they can't even out-talent anyone. That's 0 for 2. I think ND wins in a squeaker.

[T REX]

Henne out.....

ND by 6

ND 13
UM 7

[Cicero]

I'm taking Michigan. Mallet is a future #1 pick.

[WolverineSteve]

Claussen vs. Mallett. A bit sooner than most thought. The futures game of cfb.

[M Club]

Claussen vs. Mallett. A bit sooner than most thought. The futures game of cfb.

definitely the future. i'm glad i don't have to wait four years to catch this particular showdown between two underachievers.

[Killian]

I'm taking Michigan. Mallet is a future #1 pick.

Based on his 6-14 and 1 int performance against Oregon?

[Cicero]

He's a true Freshman and I am sure he wasnt expecting to play. Didn't help that no one on his team came to play either. In 3 years I see him being a no brainer.

[M Club]

I'm taking Michigan. Mallet is a future #1 pick.

Based on his 6-14 and 1 int performance against Oregon?

i definitely wasn't reassured watching him play. the announcers ogled when he whipped that ball 75 yards downfield, but only b/c there was nothing else to talk about. i suppose i'd ogle too: john navarre had a strong arm. in fairness, mallet's int hit manningham square in the hands, which he promptly set like a volleyball.

[Shoalzie]

Mallett with a full week of practice preparing to play will probably bring better results than what he did last week. Hart will bring it...I wouldn't expect any less. I could use the "whoever is the home team will win" in a situation like this where both teams are struggling but it's not like home field has been a difference for the Wolverines this year. This team needs to improve their play in the second quarter...they've been outscored 42-3 in the first two games and they've actually outscored the opposition in the first and fourth quarters so far. They'll face a more conventional offense so this will be a better matchup for their defensive personnel and they obviously have a better chance of containing a more traditional attack rather than the spread from the last two weeks. This will be a test for this defense if they can stop or slow down a young offensive unit. It's not going to get any easier for them with the conference schedule ahead.

Michigan 28, Notre Dame 17

God help 'em if they lose Saturday because the Lions will come in next week and smoke 'em and put them to 0-4.

[PSUFAN]

UM is going to be an extremely difficult game for PSU, regardless of what goes down this weekend.

[Terry in Crapchester]

I honestly don't know what to make of this one. The resistable force meets the moveable object, I guess. At least when ND has the ball.

I was thinking about the Clausen v. Mallett angle as well, and assuming that both stay for all four years, this may be the first time ever that two QB's will end up starting against each other for four seasons in a row. At least, I can't recall the last time that has happened in any series.

We showed some improvement against Penn State, but we still have a long way to go, especially on offense. Starting out at the opponent's 5 yard line and failing to punch it in is inexcusable.

While I don't see either of these teams going winless for the entire season, the loser will have an awfully tough road to hoe just to get to seven wins. And that's probably the best case scenario for the loser of this game.

[Y2K]

All is not lost for Michigan, With 8 home games they could rally a solid 2 win season and earn another Top 10 Pre-season ranking for the 08 season.

[SoCalTrjn]

I think Michigan wins this one 20-7 with NDs 7 points coming off special teams or from their defense. Michigan will lose to Penn State the next week though

[Laxplayer]

This one's going to remind me of two little kids fighting over a ball on the playground. Neither team is going anywhere. Shit, maybe send the losers to the principal's office and suspend them for the rest of the year.

[RumpleForeskin]

Luther has the best explanation of how this game will play out...

I'm BBQ'ing some chicken on my Weber, and I'm on my deck drinking some whiskey. I then hear some loud grunts and a yell and I instinctively look over to the Autistic home and see two boys, in their teens, locked in a grappling clinch.

"Honey, you better come outside, we got tards fighting over the trampoline."

Mrs. Luth hurries outside just in time to see both boys throwing punches to beat the band. Windmill type of punches...where their heads are down and you swing wildly with everything you got. They are pushing and pulling each other, both holding on to the shirts etc. It isn't the typical street fight where people are yelling things like, "You c*cksucker, I'll kick your ass, f*ck me? ...no f*ck you" etc. All I'm hearing is, "NNNNNNGGGGGUUUUUHHHHNNNNN NNNNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGGG NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG."

One of the boys lands a punch to the other guys ear, and he goes down....flat on his back. The other kid is now running laps around the trampoline, with both of his arms extended way back and he's yelling, well, the same sh*t as what I typed earlier. The kid on his back has his arms straight up but he's not saying anything. It is like the tard language of submission, the tard de sac equivalent of a UFC "tap out."

"The tard tapped out, hon."

Mrs. Luth just looked at me and said, "What?"

"Nevermind."

Then 3 staff members come running outside and there is a bevy of activity. I see Doug my neighbor watching from the backdoor of his garage. Doug sees me and yells (with a tinge of tarness in his voice) "CHHHHHEEEEESSSEEEEBURGER." Louise the old blister who lives next to Doug comes out on her deck to watch the festivities and I'm laughing holding my whiskey and a cigar.

The staff escort the fallen tard back into the house and the two remaining staffers stay to try to calm down the running/yelling winner. After they calm him down, they walk him back toward their rear door to the house. One of them looks up at me and I just shake my head.

I may call Hollywood and offer up a screenplay for a daytime soap opera about my life, and call it: THE EDGE OF TARDNESS.

Rip City

[OUMO]

Is it possible to have a tie anymore? 0-0???

Yes.

The game is going 0 to 0 through a googolplex of of overtimes, during that period Bud Selig will have become the ultimate leader of all sports and call the game a tie.

[indyfrisco]

In 3 years I see him being a no brainer.

3 years ago, people were saying the same thing about Henne. Now, Henne is a laughing stock. You have no idea what is happening in 3 years.

[RumpleForeskin]

I wonder if McGuffie and other verbal commitments for '08 are probably looking elsewhere right now.

[MgoBlue-LightSpecial]

3 years ago, people were saying the same thing about Henne. Now, Henne is a laughing stock. You have no idea what is happening in 3 years.

Word. Don't underestimate Lloyd Carr's ability to turn a high level recruit into something mediocre.