Yes we were out once Mich won but I remember their game against Wash St being close with controversy at the end. Nebraska was just a monster and the way they dominated us led me to believe they should have been the consensus national champion. Mich should not have gotten the split vote.
Eli followed Archie at Ole Miss. don’t forget so did Cooper and had he not had his injury he would have been a good player there. Peyton would have also gone to Ole Miss has Coopers career not ended. As such this is a pretty good example of sons playing / wanting to play at their fathers school...
The Bowl Alliance was an agreement among college football bowl games (specifically the Sugar, Orange, and Fiesta Bowls) for the purpose of trying to match the top two teams in a national championship game and to provide quality bowl game matchups for the champions of its member conferences. The...
Yeah, but it was called something similar. Forget. TN and Nebraska were matched up in the so called championship game that year per the new voting etc. Mich and Washington did their own Big 10 AP poll thing. If TN would have won and Mich lost I think we would have been champions
Michigan hasn’t won a legitimate consensus championship since the 1940s. 97 was split and Nebraska was the real BCS champ. 23 gets a big asterisk that will stay forever
Dobbs and Hooker may not have been super loud / vocal leaders but they sure led by example and motivated teammates in a positive way. I have no doubt their teammates respected them and didn’t want to let them down. I think Milton’s teammates respected him as well but he appeared more happy go...