My favorite was the delay of game penalty late in the 4th quarter with two timeouts remaining.

/season

Which plays were those? The "spread 5 wide and throw to a speedy WR on an inside slant" (the first App St TD -- the 68 yard pass to Dexter Jackson, along with App Sts second TD, to Batichon -- both two step cut inside slants), which has always worked against Michigan because we don't bother covering the middle of the field when teams spread 5 wide against us, or "Spread 5 wide and have our speedy QB run a draw play" (see Armanti Edwards all day), which has always worked against Michigan because we don't bother covering the middle of the field when teams spread 5 wide against us?

Sorry, I don't mean to be a sarcastic douche, but look at the post-game quotes. Pretty much every [censored] App St. player said the same thing: "boy, I'm sure glad Michigan didn't change anything with their defense; we watched some tape and noticed Michigan has a bunch of gaps when teams spread 5 wide against them, so we know when we spread a bunch of WR, Michigan can't stop it."

You're right: In some kind of rational world where our coaches make these magical things called "adjustments", those huge plays wouldn't happen again. But, of course, they happen all the time against us, because at Michigan, our coaches don't know what "changes" are. Bo laid out the path in 1969, and apparently the Michigan coaching staff believes football really hasn't changed much since.

Like I said, we're just lucky the Big 10 still generally disfavors speed, mobile QBs, and creativity, or else last Saturday would be a much more frequent occurrence.

Yah I was gonna say all this; thanx for saving me the time. Just b/c Mich. "would win the majority of the time" doesn't mean the game was full of ridiculous fluke "Murphy's Law" type stuff. The fact that App St. made as many mistakes as they did is part of what makes the outcome so astounding. It wasn't like Villanova shooting 85% against Georgetown.

Yeah, I think with a team like Appy State that it would be reasonable to say that breaking slants like that for enormous touchdowns wouldn't happen again, for the most part. I know Michigan is vulnerable to them, but I just don't think App is good enough to consistently break those plays wide open if this game was played over and over again. If we're talking OSU of last year or USC, then I think this is a different story. Then again, the rest of this year could prove me wrong and Michigan could be that bad. Let's hope not.

That was brutal. If memory serves, that was on a 3rd and 5 play when we were in likely 4 down territory, in a situation where a first down wins the game. I like and defend Henne more than a lot of UM fans, but that was inexcusable. DVaut mentioned that horribly INT he threw, made even worse because it occured on a first down if memory serves. I am willing to blame the coaches for almost everything, including the weather, but Henne made mistakes that a senior just cannot make.

The game on Saturday will be so interesting. Will we finally make some adjustments against a mobile QB and quick WR's? I saw that Dixon ran for over 140 yards against Houston. He must be counting the minutes to get a chance against our D.

A few interesting stats. The last time we lost 3 consecutive games was in 1979. In our current 3 games losing streak we have given up 108 point. The most in any 3 game stretch since 1959.

lol... espn's bottom ten... i like their helmet. also... you think notre dame deserves to be there too?

Any predictions? I'm gonna say Michigan 38 Oregon 17

Michigan 34 Oregon 26

Oregon 51, Michigan 35.

I am not an optimist.

hard to say, really...i assume they come out fired up, ready to put up some points, but then, the defense still has to stop people...

mich 31 ore 21

Paul McGuire shocked that Michigan runs bad pass patterns. Welcome to Michigan football Paul.

holy [censored]

Go Ducks!!!

How do they not review the spot on that run to the goaline?

Are you sure?

Lori

Michigan = Sucks

Rofl this is so bad.

this is embarrassing.

HIT SOMEONE ON DEFENSE PLEASE.

omg...

as i'm typing that, another 60yard td..

looool

Happy birthday, Lori.

LOL this is awesome

loooooooooooooooooooolz

This is just amazing. Hopefully Lloyd Carr will retire immediately. I've been hating Lloyd Carr for many year, but even I never thought it would get this bad. Michigan is becoming a running joke. Even Jay Leno did a Michigan joke on the Tonight Show last week. One of my biggest fears now is that this is going to kill recruiting. We have a lot of early commitments. I am afraid some might have second thoughts.

wow...my girl just got home, saw me, and then the score, and asked, 'were they supposed to be this bad?, oh, no wait, they were ranked 5 last week weren't they?'

i threw her out the window.

only thing left now is osu on november 18th..

I feel so sorry for Mike Hart. The guy is all heart. He plays hard and plays great on every snap. He is one of the greatest Michigan players ever. He shouldn't have to suffer for everybody else's total incompetence.

Henne is really overrated. He is not a good qb at all.