Michigan Monday: Bump and Bama

Sorry all for the late post, thought I had posted this but it didn't happen.

Michigan Football lost one of its greatest players and coaches this weekend when Bump Elliott passed away.   He won a Big Ten MVP and back to back National Championships as a Michigan player.  He also won the 1965 Rose Bowl as the Wolverines head coach.

Bump also went on to be Iowa's AD after coaching at Michigan.

Bump will always be loved by the Michigan faithful and clearly a class act Michigan Man.  He will be missed. RIP Michigan Man.

Now on to the Bowl game news.  

I must of fell asleep for a year and Michigan is in the CFP  against Alabama in round 1?

Michigan will get to play Alabama on New Years Day but in the Citrus Bowl, not the CFP.   I actually don't mind this match-up.  Bama is hurting and so is the Wolverines.  Neither team reached expectations this year and both are probably a bit ticked off they are in Orlando for the holidays.

You will make your own judgements about this game, but I'm sort of interested in it.   Bama of course has better players at most, if not all the positions, but will they all play?  Harbaugh needs a signature win and beating Saban at any point in his career (outside of the MSU days) will help that cause.

Bama is favored by a TD and Don Brown will be confused trying to stop their talented WR's.  Either way its a glorified scrimmage and the winner or loser doesn't matter.  I'm just going to go to the game and see what happens.  Maybe 2016 will spin around again and Michigan will beat a ranked SEC team?

Fun fact: The two college coaches with national TV advertising deals go head to head in the Citrus Bowl

• 4 star TE Theo Johnson from Windsor picked Penn State over Michigan.  Couldn't keep a TE an hour away from his home going to Happy Valley.   Not good. 

• Want to know how college football is changing?  3 Transfer QB's and a DE are Heisman Finalists.  3 of the 4 are current or former Buckeyes.   As the last bullet suggests, recruiting matters.  The presumed Heisman Trophy winner couldn't get on the field in Columbus.   Do you think we have a recruiting problem against the team down south?

• Penn State's OC got a head coaching job, Clemson's OC got a head coaching job, Arkansas hired Georgia's offensive line coach, and Missouri hired App. State's head coach who had been there one year.   Why isn't anyone calling LSU's OC or Don Brown?

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