Bama Links: Preview, The Podcast, FFFF Offense (chart), FFFF Defense (chart). Primer on Alabama switch D. Something's been missing from Michigan gamedays since the free programs ceased being economically viable: scientific gameday predictions that are not at all preordained by the strictures of a column in which one writer takes a positive tack and the other a negative one… something like Punt-Counterpunt. PUNT By Bryan MacKenzie@Bry Mac If you hang out in Michigan Internet circles long enough, you’ll come to the conclusion that everyone has a favorite random astrophysics fact. The kind of thing you’ll throw out at parties or social gatherings with the slightest provocation. Things like “the observable Universe is 93 billion light years across despite being only 13.7 billion years old” or “the atmosphere of a neutron star is 4 inches high” or “because of gravitational lensing we once watched the same supernova four times over the course of several months.” Now, s
Iowa Links: Preview, The Podcast, FFFF Offense (chart), FFFF Defense (chart). Iowatch Episodes 13, 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 Something's been missing from Michigan gamedays since the free programs ceased being economically viable: scientific gameday predictions that are not at all preordained by the strictures of a column in which one writer takes a positive tack and the other a negative one… something like Punt-Counterpunt. PUNT By Bryan MacKenzie@Bry Mac Today, we lose something beautiful. Something pure. Something unsullied by outside world and the excesses of modernity. A testament to a bygone era, when men wore flannel and donned massive mustaches, coffee was black, modems said BeeeeebBaBoopBabDingDingDingEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAHHHHHHHHH, and punting was winning. Before the clock strikes midnight tonight, the Big Ten West will cease to exist. The addition of Washington, Oregon, USC and UCLA gave the conference no choice but to abandon the concept of divisions, and to ins
Ohio State Links: Preview, The Podcast, FFFF Offense (chart), FFFF Defense (chart). Something's been missing from Michigan gamedays since the free programs ceased being economically viable: scientific gameday predictions that are not at all preordained by the strictures of a column in which one writer takes a positive tack and the other a negative one… something like Punt-Counterpunt. PUNT By Bryan MacKenzie@Bry Mac As a bit of a Thanksgiving family tradition, the kids and I were watching Home Alone the other night (and yes, for those of you who haven’t seen it, SPOILERS AHEAD). We got to the part where the family is still on their front porch, when Uncle Frank remarks that their flight an INTERNATIONAL flight, mind you takes off in 45 minutes. And I, as a Dad Who Has Traveled, made the obligatory snorting sound that says, “buddy you ain’t making that flight.” The derision only increases, of course, as the family sprints untouched through O’Hare Airport like Donovan
Maryland Links: Preview, The Podcast, FFFF Offense (chart), FFFF Defense (chart). Something's been missing from Michigan gamedays since the free programs ceased being economically viable: scientific gameday predictions that are not at all preordained by the strictures of a column in which one writer takes a positive tack and the other a negative one… something like Punt-Counterpunt. PUNT By Bryan MacKenzie@Bry Mac Imagine it's last Saturday, and you're Sherrone Moore. Six years ago today, you were the Tight Ends coach for Central Michigan University, and you were preparing for a Tuesday night #MACtion game at Kent State in front of 5,580 people. Three years ago, you were the Tight Ends coach for a 1-2 Michigan team coming off Michigan's first loss to Indiana since the invention of the color Crimson, and you were probably polishing your resume on the not-so-off-chance your boss got fired. And yesterday, you were Michigan's Offensive Coordinator. But five hours
PSU Links: Preview, The Podcast, FFFF Offense (chart), FFFF Defense (chart). Something's been missing from Michigan gamedays since the free programs ceased being economically viable: scientific gameday predictions that are not at all preordained by the strictures of a column in which one writer takes a positive tack and the other a negative one… something like Punt-Counterpunt. PUNT By Bryan MacKenzie@Bry Mac For the 20,653rd year in a row, the Dunning-Kruger Effect is having a banner year. The Dunning-Kruger Effect, of course, is the concept that those least competent in a certain subject area tend to overestimate their skills the most. The first recorded incident dates back to 18,630 BCE, when Krog disregarded the warnings of Gork, Selecter of Berries, stating, and I quote, "BAH, berry fine." Since then, the number of incidents of humans boldly asking the world around them, "what are you going to do, stab me?" has been, conservatively, 117 trillion. The bea