Nooooa??. Zoltan Mesko and company's lead in net punting was slowly salted away in the Ice Bowl Saturday vs. Northwestern.

Jokes aside, it's remarkable how many top tier teams place well in this category. Eleven of the top 20 teams in net punting are in the running BCS bowl slots.

Very cool. Here's a wire photo from Michigan's 14-6 victory over Cal in the 1951 Rose Bowl. It just sold on eBay for a cool $51.66, click to see a bigger size:

The photo caption reads 'Michigan pass catches California flat-footed'. I would have dubbed it, 'Wolverines turn the Bears into Squares, Daddy-O'. [...]

There's been a lot of Sam McGuffie talk about and I've heard Fred Jackson was puzzled by the freshman's request to not play Saturday.

Here's the deala?"if McGuffie wants to leave that's fine. There were a pile of backs ahead of him on the depth chart when he arrived. From what I [...]

Harry Kipke, 1935 Wheaties Card - being auctioned on eBay

Well quite a few in the media are pounding the most-losses-in-129-years bongo. That's true of course but Rich Rodriguez's 2008 debut will not be the worst season in Michigan football history. If we're going to toss around the 129 years number, the worst season [...]

A few quick Steve Everitt stories:

* After a bowl game (I believe the 1993 Rose Bowl in Everitt's senior year), ABC was doing a post game interview when a deep voice cut in declaring, "EVERITT RULES!"

* He lost his helmet and had his jaw shattered in the middle of the 1991 Notre Dame, Desmond Howard [...]

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I went to Yost to see a rout last night, instead I witnessed a Western Michigan squad gut out a tough 2-1 win. For the biggest run down of notes and analysis you'll get anywhere, go to The Blog That Yost Built.

My takes:

* Western celebrated like they just beat the Russians after the [...]

Check out David Davis' interview on Nextbook.org with author Murray Greenberg on his new book, Passing Game: Benny Friedman and the Transformation of Football. An excerpt:

How exactly did Benny Friedman transform college football?

In the mid-1920s, at the University of Michigan, along comes Benny Friedman. He had a unique ability to grip the football and [...]

Thanks to the profileration of sports media folks in Haiti can tell you that Michigan's going to end up with its first losing season since 1967, a couple years removed from Bo Schembechler's arrival on campus in 1969. Bo started the streak and only dipped to .500 once, in 1984 when Jim Harbaugh was [...]

Sorry for the delay getting this out, a crazy week in the Big Ten and certainly a few things to make the pollsters think. The net? Penn State was definitely knocked down a few pegs but remained in the top spot. Michigan? Yes, they looked good against Minnesota but the [...]

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For those who listen to 1050AM WTKA may have noticed that the Dan Patrick Show has run the last couple days in the slot that used to be occupied by Michigan radio host Bill 'Huge' Simonson. WTKA has moved the Huge show out of the drive time slot and onto a 6-8pm window [...]

I found this article on the prolific York Daily Record website pointing out that we're upon the 50th anniversary of the two point conversion in college football. It's a great read, definitely check it out.

So why is this on MVictors? Look who pushed for the rule change:

Among those on the committee [...]

A quick version of eBay Watch, this time one of the big volume sellers on the auction site is dumping a bunch of vintage Michigan football ticket stubs. The offering is pretty impressive. What's not impressive is the seller's understanding of the significance of some of these items. Witness the (YAWN) [...]

The Angel, back on Shep, Shave and Shower on 1130AM-WDFN this morning:

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Letters continue to steam into the Ann Arbor News. I scanned the paper today and the News dropped the Rodriguez missives in their own little section. This gem from writer Leslie landed inside 'FOCUS: U-M FOOTBALL' on the Opinion page:

Ann Arbor News 11.10.07

As if Rodriguez doesn't have enough people coming after him [...]