Negative Expectations News Today

The Michigan Wolverines have reclaimed their rightful place at the top of college football. Here's what it means.

1/1/2024 – Michigan 27, Alabama 20 (OT) – 14-0, 9-0 Big Ten, Big Ten Champs, Rose Bowl Champs I didn't go to the 1998 Rose Bowl. I was a freshman in college, and thought I'd go to the Rose Bowl when I was a senior. Instead I watched the most important Michigan game since 1948 in my then-girlfriend's house. She chatted in a corner with a friend, not really paying attention. At one point her mom mentioned that if Washington State scored a touchdown she would win a quarter in the...

10/1/2022 – Michigan 27, Iowa 14 – 5-0, 2-0 Big Ten On the podcast this week we had a conversation about whether we were nervous. At any point, in a game against Iowa at Kinnick, did we feel the cold hand of death creep over us? Answers varied, with the Sklar Brothers on team "disaster may befall us at any moment" but the rest of the podcast crew fairly relaxed, with the occasional twinge of worry. In Alex's case this is easily explained: he is twenty-three and has not had tim...

Previously: Cam the Ram, the Rainbow Warriors

Something amazing happened this past weekend in Ann Arbor.  Michigan not only beat OSU, but dominated them, despite the history of the past 20 years and all the fear and rational pessimism based on recent big games and OSU games during the Harbaugh era.