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Good point.  A very small meteor, properly targeted at the 50 yardline at kickoff, would suffice.

My 4th grade teacher said that Iowa didn't exist. It was on a map, but it was a non-entity. Iowa wasn't actually a thing. It was just something that people said existed but nobody ever went to verify.

That's pretty much the entire state of Oklahoma to me. Technically, I've been there... But for all I know it was really North Texas or West Arkansas or South Kansas. I'm not actually 100% sure it's a state; it might just be pretending.

Earlier on this site, I always ragged on Iowa for not touching a Great Lake, like all of the other Big1T1en schools did.

My solution was to create one, centered right about here:

I will say that if ever in your life you find yourself in the position of saying "boomer sooner" in anything other than a mocking way, it's time for you to seriously reconsider your life choices and start changing your ways.

It was a harmless exclamation until Billy Sims? kept yelling it during Bradford's Heisman night.  Good god.  THAT'S what my mind says when I read "boomer Sooner" now and forever.
UGH.

My gut feeling is that Michigan blows Oklahoma out Saturday night in Norman with a freshman QB who just turned 18 and Venables is fired on Sunday.  MDot feels the same way but doesn’t have the balls to admit it.

nah. legit got a bad feeling about this one. think Bryce is an absolute unit who is going to be a true superstar- but kid just turned 18 years old like two weeks ago. this is his second college start- and his first road game ever. going on the road in a hostile environment for a night game vs a top notch OU defense is a really tough ask for anyone- let alone an 18 year old making his first road start. Venables may or may not get fired after this year and he may or may not be a shit head coach, jury is still out on that one- but one thing he is and has been for decades is a top tier DC. he'll have some stuff schemed up that will have Underwood confused. i can guarantee it.

I really wish I could delete all of your posts in here and ban you- because your bullshit is just tempting the internet message board troll gods and Michigan is going to lose for certain now because of it. damn you. bastage.

Michigan could win- but if they did it'd be a very close game not a blow out- and it'd be because OU o-line issues remerge and they just cannot run the ball at all on Michigan's front 7 and Mateer gets no help and pressure is on him to be Heisman level special and play a pitch perfect game and he fails to do so and makes a couple mistakes.

one thing to note on John Mateer, while it's true he's a veteran senior QB, he's only started 13 games in his collegiate career including the one last week. 

2 of those starts were vs FCS teams, 8 of those starts were vs Mountain West teams, and only 3 have been vs P4/formerly P5 teams: Texas Tech (B12), Washington (B1G), and Oregon State (Pac 2). He's never started a game vs a ranked opponent nor a top 25 total defense. Of the three starts he's had vs P4/P5 opponents- Texas Tech was the #126 total defense last year (there are only 133 teams), Oregon State was the 98th ranked total defense last year, and Washington was the #28th ranked total defense last year. 

Mateer was 17 of 34 (50% completion) passing for 245 yards and 1 TD vs 1 INT in a close win vs Washington. 

He was 9 of 19 (47% completion) passing for 115 yards and 1 TD vs 1 INT in a big win over Texas Tech. Not a great day passing but he did happen to torch them on the ground with 21 carries for 197 yards and 1 TD. 

Last but not least he was 17 of 23 (73.9%) passing for 250 yards and 2 TD's with no interceptions in a loss to Oregon State. By far his best day stat wise passing- but in a losing effort. 

I have no doubt he'll be playing with better talent at OU at WR and whatnot- but this is the first legit defense he's going up against in his entire career. Michigan was ranked in the top 10 in total defense last year, is returning a ton on defense and right now SP+ ranks them the 4th best defense in CFB. And OU right now might be having issues with RB/OL and run game- which doesn't bode well for helping a QB out- puts a lot of pressure on the QB to be flawless to win a game if the run is non-existent. 

this game really is one of the most interesting matchups all year- lot of unknowns for both teams. 

8 of those starts were vs Mountain West teams

You just can't get out of your own way,Michigan just munched on a Mountain West Team. But Underwood racks up stats vs one of them and everybody should sit up and take noticeM-kay, Mateer hasn't had an O-Line like the Weasels either,so Tamato/Tomato

Your use of italics reminds me of the court cases in the civics textbook we used last year.

Imagine a book of all of the rivalry shit-tossing.  All of it.  All of the pros for each school's side and all of the cons from their rivals, read like a court case.

That might sell.

I kind of love this idea. I was conscious of the italics issue when I wrote it because I use italics that way daily. On the other hand, I really intended it to emphasize, not to look like Univ. of Mich. v. The Ohio St. Univ., 35 CFB 3d. 427 (C.D. NCAA, Sept. 5, 2025). 

It would be a ton of fun putting together a collection of trial briefs (and replies, just to give everyone a fair shake) trying to establish the righteousness of their side of the big college football rivalries.

NERDS!!!!