tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35971090.post2148316856784200489..comments2023-12-21T10:20:43.344-05:00Comments on The Hoover Street Rag: The Mysterious Case of the Not-Shutout StreakGeoffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461267960136260783noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35971090.post-50315375526262469342013-10-21T16:56:49.451-04:002013-10-21T16:56:49.451-04:00I love that BYU's streak ended in a 3-0 game. ...I love that BYU's streak ended in a 3-0 game. In a weird way, games like that are kind of compelling.Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14347560939691337675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35971090.post-39281457635687018312013-09-10T11:14:25.840-04:002013-09-10T11:14:25.840-04:00Luckily with Rich Rod's offenses, this is the ...Luckily with Rich Rod's offenses, this is the one significant streak which was left intact from his tenure (unless you also count the current win streak vs. Indiana as something significant). Gone were the winning season and bowl streaks, and the Penn State streak.<br /><br />Something else a lot of people don't know about Rich Rod's tenure? Going into 2008, Michigan for years had been the all-time points leader and the all-time composite #1 in the AP Poll. Now Michigan sits behind Oklahoma and Ohio State in the all-time points category (it would take a couple of seasons of U-M in the top five and OSU unranked for U-M to climb back into #2 on the list -- basically what happened in reverse during the RR years -- and not much more than that to get back to #1, I think). Michigan still leads for all-time seasons ranked in the final poll, however.<br /><br />When you think about it, the consecutive not-shut-out streak is pretty darned impressive, particularly given the huge number of Top 10 and Top 25 games that U-M played in the 1990s, and given the vagaries of Midwestern weather in the fall. There have been several games in that streak in which U-M scored only a field goal. It wouldn't have taken much more than a sudden stiff breeze for at least one of those kicks to have gone wide and broken the streak.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16328081397168310964noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35971090.post-75111886104748168822013-09-09T13:22:11.787-04:002013-09-09T13:22:11.787-04:00Prediction: Michigan loses the shutout streak agai...Prediction: Michigan loses the shutout streak against MSU this year, yet still wins when State's offense is awarded NCAA's first negative points for a play so counter to the stated offensive goal of forward movement and scoring the refs have no other choice. Michigan wins 0 to -2.Misopogonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07852888144275755045noreply@blogger.com