The Michigan Wolverines, a college football powerhouse with a pre-season ranking of #5 in the country, started 2007 with an ignominious opening-day loss to Division 1-AA Appalachian State University. This historic loss prompted a historic drop in the rankings - from #5 before the season to unranked after one week.
Yesterday, U of M followed up its less-than-stellar Week One performance with a 39-7 spanking, courtesy of University of Oregon.
The Michigan Wolverines are winless.
On the other hand, the Detroit Lions opened their season with a 36-21 put-down of the Oakland Raiders. That's right... U of M is winless. The Lions are undefeated.
Welcome to Bizarro World, Michigan style.
Yep - Michigan is off to an utterly remarkable start - remarkably BAD that is. When are they going to put it all together? Here's to hoping that they will emerge next week as NOT in last place by beating ND.
Posted by: frank | September 10, 2007 at 12:45 PM
Hate to tell you this, buddy, but I hear that Appalachian State is selling a lot of their college T-shirts, ballcaps, and the like here in Columbus. No joke.
http://www.mlive.com/newsflash/michigan/index.ssf?/base/news-46/1189005024246380.xml&storylist=newsmichigan
Posted by: Joel | September 10, 2007 at 01:48 PM