About Last Week Some of you said that Mason Graham played like a man possessed. Or that he played like a man who was angry that he’d missed two games. Or like a man trying to make up for lost time. None of these theories was exactly correct. Barron Mason Graham was playing with the fury and desperation of a man who badly needs to scratch his butt, yet cannot. And he knows that only by ending the game can he remove the club and end his suffering. Mason Graham hates the Red Hat Media Timeout Guy more than anyone. The Road Ahead Indiana (2-3, 0-2 B1G) Last week: Bye Indiana Recap: Some folks take the bye week to rest and recover. Some folks use the bye week to apply the full catalogue of ACME products to their offense. Tom Allen woke up last week and chose ACME. Out: offensive coordinator Walt Bell, a guy dedicated to the idea that you can pester a defense into submission one three-yard screen pass at a time. In: former Temple and NIU head coach Rod Carey, a guy who, in the past, ran an
Rutgers keeps on winning and is 5-2 in the Big Ten now, moving all the way up to No. 2 in our rankings behind Purdue. Here are our Volume 4 rankings from 1-through-14 with movement in every spot from 2 through 12.
Well, friends, we have once again reached the end of our stupid journey together. Michigan football plays on, as do the titular Opponents, but per tradition there is no Thanksgiving Opponent Watch, so this week marks the end of the regular season. If the winds are kind and the Gods are merciful, we may come together in a couple of weeks. If not, take care of yourselves. As always, you can find me at @pontifex on Twitter until Twitter dies in a few weeks, after which you can just open your doors and shout my name loudly in the general direction of Nashville. About Last Week It’s sometimes easy to forget that the players we cheer for and against every week are real people. Maybe its because they are such astounding athletes that seem almost superhuman compared to us mere mortals. Maybe it’s because we typically only see them either on television or in front of enormous crowds, with their every movement at the center of attention for millions of people. Maybe it’s because