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Originally Posted by ILOVEPOKER929
I'm changing my projection from best 10-3 team in the Harbaugh era to 11-2. Penn State just became an autowin gentlemen.
This prediction slipped right throw Ronnie Bell's hands (and it never comes down to that without the blatant ref riggage in the 1H). Still the best 10-3 team in the Harbaugh era. Probably better than the 2003 10-3 big ten champion squad too. That 03 team beat a very good Ohio State team, but that team doesn't compare to the all-time great juggernaut we had to face this year.
Can't really say the team disappointed this year. The schedule was brutal. We had to play the two toughest teams from the West division (Wis & Iowa), along with ND & Penn St, both solid teams and then the Ohio State auto-loss. Overall it was a fun/entertaining year and the team did as good as you can expect them to do playing in the toughest division in sports. Harbaugh is a terrible in game coach--one of the all time worst--but he has this program on solid footing and he'd literally be a rock star if his Michigan squads had Clemson's yearly schedules.
Harbaugh has firmly reestablished Michigan's program to back to the Lloyd Carr days (he arguably did that from day #1 when he got Rudock), but I still think that's an understatement. I would bet a lot of money peak Lloyd Carr would have a lower winning % than Harbaugh had he come in after the 2014 season.
We should no longer be talking about what we need to do to be better. This is our final product and we should be happy about it. It's not Harbaugh's fault Ohio State is so ****ing good. So as far as The Game is concerned, from this point on it's not about us, it's about them. They need to slip up somehow, recruit more busts, run into serious injury problems, lose key staff members, run bad at Head Coach, run bad at QB and luck/variance in general. Harbaugh is doing all he can do and it would be delusional to expect better. Ohio State can't run super hot forever.