Jedd and Michigan
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They had multiple playoff appearances and a natty under Harbaugh. They were very good before that except they had a Buckeye problem.
Nobody really expected them to dominate under a dipshit like Moore as the head coach. Like I said before, who isn’t overrated? Georgia and Alabama? Ohio State? The right coach and they will be elite again.
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Georgia, Alabama and Ohio State are right-rated. They are a notch and a half above Michigan, yet Michigan gets lumped into the conversation with them all the time.
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Really I do agree with you but I'd be more hesitant to use the "elite" word around any discussion concerning Michigan because I think they are rarely if ever that.
Yes, they had a very good last three years of Harbaugh's 9-year tenure but lest we forget just before that his seat was getting warm. Many of us on this very board were scratching our heads at how the guy who turned a program more crippled by academic standards than any outside the Ivy League into a bully couldn't get his NCAA minimum recruits to play at his alma mater. They weren't anything really special before 2021 AND they had a Buck problem. He got on it in 2021 and in '23 beat a Washington team everyone loves but which was hardly dominant (and at that, they? could have easily beaten Michigan in the game had a few things broken their way).
I'll just leave it at this: In my entire lifetime, I have not seen a Michigan team that made me say, "Oh, they're going to be very hard to beat" in the same way that Buck, Alabama, Georgia, LSU, Clemson, etc. have over the last 20 years.
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This.
We're all seeing how pedestrian the B1G schedule is. We weren't wrong all those years. It was 1 to 2 games per year. Now, with the west coast schools, it could be 1 to 4 games per year.
Michigan was a perennial 8-4 to 10-2 program for all of my lifetime. Maybe Race cares about the wins and "titles" from the early 1900s (ha, another kneeslapper about Race being old as fuck!), but modern football says Michigan isn't elite.
Ohio State is light years better, regardless of the 4 year blip this decade.
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From 1900 to 1950 Michigan was perhaps the best program going
They sucked when they hired Bo and as is well documented Bo couldn't win the big one.
They are Yale with a B1G membership
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That tends to happen when you have the most wins of any CFB program in history.
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@RaceBannon wanted Fielding Yost fired in ott three when they tied Minnesota for the Little Brown Jug.
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Michigan has been selected 19 times as national champions by NCAA-designated major selectors, including 3 (1948, 1997, 2023) from the major wire-service: AP Poll or Coaches' Poll.
Michigan claims 12 (1901, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1918, 1923, 1932, 1933, 1947, 1948, 1997, and 2023) of these championships.
Before 1926, there were generally no contemporaneous selectors.
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I see a couple of Helms and Billingsley on there
