Michigan Monday: Orange You Glad We Lost To Iowa

Yes, that is me being sarcastic.   That one night when our QB couldn't throw the ball in the ocean from the beach, when the weather was cold, when our WR's forgot how to catch, when our offensive line forgot how to block, and Michigan decided to get stupid penalties.     That one night with pink locker rooms cost Michigan a spot in the football final 4.    It is what it is. 

This weekend's games pretty much went the opposite of what Michigan needed to sneak into the playoffs.   I knew the Colorado game was over as soon as their QB goes down in the first series.   At about 9:30 on Saturday, I was ready to call all League Championships useless and over rated and then both Penn State and VA Tech started their respective comebacks and made each a game again. 

Having Penn State jump Michigan is hilarious and at the same time irrelevant.

College Football seems to love putting Michigan in Florida against an instate team.   They will play Florida State in Miami on the Friday Night before New Years Eve.    Michigan also opens against Florida in Dallas next year.   So they will play Florida teams back to back, with about 8 months in-between games.

Florida State is a nice named match-up against two teams that had playoff aspirations.   We will dive into the match-up in the next 25 days. 

When it was clear that Michigan was heading to the Orange Bowl on Saturday night, the first thing that popped into my mind, was that Michigan will have to guard against a Florida type let down that we saw in the Citrus Bowl last year.   Michigan's squad is full of draft eligible seniors that will be thinking about their NFL futures.    It's hard to believe that could happen on a Harbaugh coached team but we have seen it happen to many programs that barley missed the playoffs or BCS games.

Orange Bowl Tickets:

The best value I have seen are the Michigan allotment at $120 per ticket at Mgoblue.   That probably means you end up in the 3rd deck or end zone.  You don't know where you are sitting until they send the tickets to you via email before 12/15.     The issue with re-sellers and ticketmasters are the high add on charges.    Saw some lower bowl tickets for around $175 but those had high extra charges. 

Paying nearly $1000 for a family of 4 to go to the Orange Bowl seems crazy to me.  Michigan offered some folks a $245 ticket for a guaranteed lower bowl seat.  I could see that for a playoff game, not the Orange Bowl.  

• Michigan juniors with an NFL decision to make seems to be Mason Cole, Mo Hurst and Peppers.  We know Jabrill is most likely headed to the NFL as a first round pick but as of right now Cole and Hurst are leaning to comeback.    It will be interesting what the NFL feedback is on both guys.

• Michigan plays Cincinnati in game two next season and they are now officially in the market for a new head coach, as Tommy Tuberville resigned this weekend.   This seemed to be a forced resignation as Tommy said in his statement he still wants to coach. 

• Where in the world is Jimmy? On Friday he was in Utah to visit 4-star DT Jay Tufele  and Saturday night he witnessed in person Valor Christian's and Dylan McCaffrey's state championship win.  In fact, he wasn't even on the Orange Bowl teleconference on Sunday.  Which is fine with me, keep recruiting!

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