beanman
Banned
For the douche spouting off about the 97 championship I submit this, which is what I used to shut up a Michigan fan that works with me. Didn't have much to say about that.From my experince, we had some good experiences around the golf course (where most of the tailgating was), fans were being respectful, but this is because its more of the middle/older age group, then we walked up toward the frats and houses by the stadium and that was a mess, TONS of F*CK you's and middle fingers, they started throwing stuff at us too, but we figured its just douchy college kids doing their thing, then when we got to our seats, sec 36 row 81 or so, we got blessed to sit by a very unknowledgeable crowd, including listening to one guy constatly rant about the 1997 michigan team being bettter than nebraska, saying we had a loss? wherever he got that from, and he kept going on and on, any postitve play they had or pentalty against us he would yell "this is revenge, we won the title outright," he was an idiot, the stadium itself wasnt too loud, they got up on occasion on 3rd down and got into it, but not super loud, the student section was half full until about halftime when the kids finally started coming, after the game there was a mix of sh*t talking and congratulations, there were a few nice guys in our section saying that they know whats its like to lose like this on the road and wished us luck and happy to be in the BIG, id say when it was all said and done about 75% were nice and welcomed us to the big house, while the rest didnt...not complaining because i know thats what happens at away games, not everyone has perfect fans including ourselves, im glad to be back home though, the trip wasnt super fun, but okay, i had a better time in chicago for two days before! Ann arbor was too dull, then we talked to some iowa fans on our way back home, they also said Ann arbor was one of their most boring trips to any BIG school.
12 games for 97 Michigan scored an avg. 26.83 against an avg. 9.5, 14.33 avg. margin of V.
13 games for 97 NU scored an avg. 46.69 against an avg. 16.46, 30.23 avg. margin of V.
NU Season Overview:
NU played 6 ranked opponents(final ranking): #7, 8, 18, 20, 23, 24 and beat a Tennessee team loaded with talent(Payton Manning, Jamal Lewis, Chad Clifton, Shaun Ellis, Leonard Little, etc.) by a score of 42-17 with 7 of those points coming against our scrubs on Tennessee's last possession of the game.
The Big 12 finished 2-3 in bowl games that season. NU's opponents scored an average of 8.8 pts through 3 quarters and when our scrubs got into the game the opponents averaged an average of 7.34 points in the 4th quarter.
Sidebar on the Mizzou game:
Everyone's argument against Nebraska is the Missouri game. The game in which we drove roughly 70 yds in 1:12 to tie the game up on an "illegal" kick. People fail to mention that our receiver was interfered with on the previous play at the 1 yd line(the same guy that caught the winning touchdown) and that on that "illegal" kick the guy trying the catch the ball first was interfered with again and couldn't catch the ball because his arms were pulled away. Even had we not caught the deflection in the endzone, we still had 2 seconds left and another throw to the endzone. We would have had yet another shot at the endzone had the refs not screwed up the clock around 20 seconds when our receiver got out of bounds easily but they kept the clock running anyway, forcing us to spike the ball on first down, thus losing a down and also about 5 seconds of valuable time. So you can see, not the most clearcut situation...
Michigan Season Overview:
Michigan played 3 ranked opponents(final ranking): #9, 12, 15 and escaped with a 21-16 victory in their bowl game despite being outgained in yardage by powerhouse Washington State.
The Big 10 finished 2-5 in bowl games that season. I could find no stats on opponents scoring breakdown by quarter, but I'd guess that given the relatively small margin of victory your starters were probably playing most of the 4th quarter thus skewing your defensive statistics a bit if comparing to Nebraska's.