Three Years Ago Today . . .

• Automatik

  

  Fab4Runner;469177 wrote:I don't think he was partying with the entire country at B Dubs...therefor his post is perfectly fine.

  
  lol....exactly. Please run along Team SEC.
• FatHobbit

  

  lhslep134;468740 wrote:I remember being in the Ohio Stadium concourse watching with all of the other fans who stayed after the YSU game.
  
  
  F'ing nuts.

  
  I was in the closed end of the shoe with my nine year old daughter. She was pretty tolerant of football, but not really a huge fan. I think watching that game with the OSU band was when she really started to love Ohio State.
• mucalum49

  

  I remember watching that game. My cousin always has a big cookout for the Bucks first game of the year. His one friend bet that if Michigan lost we could throw him into some disgusting lake that was behind my cousins old apartment. They put the video on youtube of it happening. I'm in the Troy Smith jersey:
  
  [video=youtube;W6F-WIm40Jk][/video]
  
  I suggest putting it on mute so you don't have to hear my cousin's wife being uber-annoying.
• CinciX12

  

  So in hindsight knowing what Michigan essentially turns into, does it diminish in anyway what this upset was at the time? I mean, still obviously huge, but does it rank as the greatest now that Michigan is like the retard in the back of the class that can't read.
  
  Yes, ND isn't much better. Skip that comment.
• ou1980

  Thom Brennemnan with one of the greatest play-by-play calls in the past 20 years....(On the blocked kick)
• redfalcon

  

  CinciX12;469772 wrote:So in hindsight knowing what Michigan essentially turns into, does it diminish in anyway what this upset was at the time? I mean, still obviously huge, but does it rank as the greatest now that Michigan is like the retard in the back of the class that can't read.
  
  Yes, ND isn't much better. Skip that comment.

  They were 5th in the nation at the time. So no, it still is huge.
• krambman

  

  redfalcon;470155 wrote:They were 5th in the nation at the time. So no, it still is huge.

  
  No, we realized the very next week when they lost their fourth straight game getting stomped at home by Oregon, and based on their results the rest of the season, we realized that Michigan wasn't close to being the #5 team in the country, and weren't nearly as good as many expected them to be. So yes, in hindsight, it probably isn't as big of an upset as it appeared at the time, but a 1-AA school winning in Ann Arbor against the winningest program of all time is still a huge upset. Definitely still one of the biggest of all time, because no matter how bad Michigan is and how good App St. is, there's no excuse for App St. even being close in a game against Michigan.
• 2quik4u

  

  standford beating usc that year was a bigger upset
• Automatik

  

  2quik4u;470197 wrote:standford beating usc that year was a bigger upset

  
  You are high. Is Stanford a 1AA team?
  
  I do agree it was a major upset.....due to it being a 40 point spread.
• Iliketurtles

  

  ASU beating Michigan was the first time that a D-1AA team had ever beaten a ranked team and ironically it was the first time UM had ever played a D-1AA opponent. ASU winning that game was this biggest upset of the year and to me in college football history. Maybe Michigan wasnt the 5th best team but before this game they were at least in the top 10 especially with the guys they had returning. Michigan still went on to finish 9-4 that year and beat #9 Florida in the Outback Bowl.
• vball10set

  LOL...Stanford's not a 1AA team, but "Standford" might be
• FatHobbit

  

  Automatik;470352 wrote:You are high. Is Stanford a 1AA team?
  
  I do agree it was a major upset.....due to it being a 40 point spread.

  
  That was huge. Does anyone remember what UM was favored by? I have to think it was a lot.
• grodt

  

  I was at Notre Dame Stadium that day. Started checking scores at about halftime of the Mich/App.St game and right before kick-off the announcer told us that Michigan had lost. Stadium went nuts. Turns out that was the biggest cheer of the day because that was the game Georgia Tech smoked us.
• vball10set

  FatHobbit;470381 wrote:That was huge. Does anyone remember what UM was favored by? I have to think it was a lot.

  from NCAA Fanhouse:
  
  "That game is usually cited as the biggest upset of the past 10 ... there was no point spread for the Michigan - App. State game. There's no way oddsmakers would give a line between a Top 5 team versus one from the 1-AA"
• lhslep134

  

  dwccrew;469026 wrote:It's funny that we are saying VY and Texas (the National Champs that year) broke our hearts and Armanti Edwards and Applachian St. (also National Champs in FCS) broke UM's heart.

  
  
  
  Uhmmmmm no.
  
  OSU/UT was in 2005
  
  UM/ASU was in 2007
• krambman

  

  vball10set;470421 wrote:from NCAA Fanhouse:
  
  "That game is usually cited as the biggest upset of the past 10 ... there was no point spread for the Michigan - App. State game. There's no way oddsmakers would give a line between a Top 5 team versus one from the 1-AA"

  
  So it was a bigger upset. Vegas decided that it was too comical to even give a spread.
• j_crazy

  

  i was blasted in my sister's pool. my BIL said 'hey come up here Michigan's gotta make a long FG to beat this no name team' (i knew who app state was, he didn't). I ran up to the TV just as the snap went and saw the whole thing. Couldn't believe my eyes.