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I always find it best when I am feeling badly about my team, to focus on other programs having worse times than us....

The 78-point margin was the biggest in an FBS-on-FBS game this millennium, according to the database at Sports Reference.

Rutgers had 6 (SIX!) yards of offense in the first half. Rutgers lost 7 yards on the first five plays of the second half, crossing into negatives for the day. The Scarlet Knights didn't for good get into the black in total yardage until about midway through the third quarter. They finished with a sterling 39, including 5 passing yards.

Rutgers did not get a first down until the fourth quarter.

Six Michigan players had more individual yards (in passing, rushing, or receiving) than all of Rutgers did, in total.

Rutgers' longest play of the night went for 12 yards

Rutgers punted 16 (!) times.

Rutgers' twitter account stopped providing live updates of the Michigan game at 14-0. Seven touchdowns ago

Rutgers outgained Michigan by 3 yards...
on punts. 603 punting yards to 600 offensive yards for Michigan.

And to to it off, there was Jim Harbaugh going for two with a four-score lead

And this is the team SMU decides to schedule for 2018 lol

Schedule Louisville and Alabama while you're at it SMU lol

regret this Michigan promotion
Michigan wide receiver Jehu Chesson (86). (AP)
Michigan wide receiver Jehu Chesson (86). (AP)
Michigan fans in Ann Arbor are in for a treat at the expense of a fancy restaurant chain.
Yesterday, fine-dining steak chain Ruth’s Chris posted a promotion on Facebook stating that for the rest of the season, fans in Ann Arbor will get a percentage discount off their bill equal to the Michigan margin of victory of the prior game — an innocent enough promotion to drive some traffic to a dining establishment that prices out a fair amount of people.
Ruth’s Chris executives were probably thinking that at this juncture of the season, they were looking at 10-20 percent discounts at the most with all the tough Big 10 opponents Michigan will be facing.
Tough Big Ten opponents like Rutgers.
Little did they know that the Wolverines would torch the Scarlet Knights, 78-0, the first week that the promotion launched. If my second-grade math is still fresh, that is a point differential of 78 points, meaning Ruth’s Chris Ann Arbor would be handing out a staggering 78-percent discount on their bills.
Obviously there are terms and conditions, but they aren’t ridiculously exclusionary and a good number of people will be able to get their very affordable steak.
Let’s walk through this step-by-step. Say you really wanted to impress your Ann Arbor sweetheart with a nice steak dinner at Ruth’s Chris from Sunday through Thursday after this game. You go to the restaurant, look at the menu, order two juicy ribeye steaks and share the signature sweet potato casserole. The bill usually comes back at a cool $110.83. However, since your favorite Michigan Wolverine team demolished Rutgers by 78 points, you now only have to pay $24.60 for your entire meal pre-tip.
You feel for the restaurant for a second, but then you realize that Michigan has had some huge margin of victories this year. They beat Penn State by 39, but they only beat Wisconsin by seven points. That’s is probably why Ruth’s Chris got a little cocky.
Still, if they were confident enough to offer this promotion with one of the best Michigan teams in recent years, they should be humble enough to own up to it when it backfires. One has to wonder whether a certain Wolverine head coach was aware of this promotion and decided to dangle a chance for cheap steak for his players while they prepared for Rutgers.
Either way, who has a plane ticket to Ann Arbor? You get the flight, I’ll get the steak.

They capped it at 50% discount. Still a great deal.

Go to Ruth Chris for happy hour. Fill up on appetizers that are 50% off.

There has never been a school more woefully unprepared to make the jump from G-5 to P-5 than Rutgers. Their athletics department has been, and remains, a complete mess. Unlike Utah or TCU, Rutgers had no laid even close to the kind of groundwork necessary to make the jump to a P-5 conference. They'll get the Big-10 money (at least for as long as that lasts). . . but they'll be a doormat.

1983 Cotton Bowl wrote:There has never been a school more woefully unprepared to make the jump from G-5 to P-5 than Rutgers. Their athletics department has been, and remains, a complete mess. Unlike Utah or TCU, Rutgers had no laid even close to the kind of groundwork necessary to make the jump to a P-5 conference. They'll get the Big-10 money (at least for as long as that lasts). . . but they'll be a doormat.

I take that in a heartbeat. $$$ is kind in today's sports economics especially in the going concern realm. I fear if we don't get better revenue that one day we will be closing shop because the AAC isn't pulling near enough. I'm hoping when we have contract renegotiations we will be better as a conference and can see if NBC (not a fan of them but they don't have any good sports) that they might take a large gamble with us.

SMU_Alum11 wrote:

1983 Cotton Bowl wrote:There has never been a school more woefully unprepared to make the jump from G-5 to P-5 than Rutgers. Their athletics department has been, and remains, a complete mess. Unlike Utah or TCU, Rutgers had no laid even close to the kind of groundwork necessary to make the jump to a P-5 conference. They'll get the Big-10 money (at least for as long as that lasts). . . but they'll be a doormat.

I take that in a heartbeat. $$$ is kind in today's sports economics especially in the going concern realm. I fear if we don't get better revenue that one day we will be closing shop because the AAC isn't pulling near enough. I'm hoping when we have contract renegotiations we will be better as a conference and can see if NBC (not a fan of them but they don't have any good sports) that they might take a large gamble with us.

NBC offered more money to the AAC last go around but ESPN offered close to P5 TV coverage and only paid 126m for 5 years. All of SMU's games are on ESPN TV and the less important ones at least are on ESPN3 web.

Except unt

So over the past 2 weeks, Rutgers has been outscored 138-0 by Ohio State and Michigan. Wow!! That's impressive. . . even to someone who's been following SMU these past 20 years.

Pony Boss wrote:And this is the team SMU decides to schedule for 2018 lol

Brady Hoeke was still their coach when we scheduled it. Man [deleted] McGee was still busy running Big Blue into the ground then.

1983 Cotton Bowl wrote:There has never been a school more woefully unprepared to make the jump from G-5 to P-5 than Rutgers. Their athletics department has been, and remains, a complete mess. Unlike Utah or TCU, Rutgers had no laid even close to the kind of groundwork necessary to make the jump to a P-5 conference. They'll get the Big-10 money (at least for as long as that lasts). . . but they'll be a doormat.

Neither Maryland nor Rutgers were prepared to make the commitments necessary to prepare for the Big 10. The year Maryland made the commitment to join their football budget was $8.5 million compared with Ohio State at $34 million. Maryland athletic department was in more than $120 million in debt. Rutgers had similar problems with more than $130 million in unfunded debt for their newly remodeled football stadium. Both saw $$$$$$ to answer their existing debt, but there is little resolve with either football program to really compete. Maryland was beautifully situated in the AAC with both basketball and football and Rutger has never been situated in any conference for either sport.

blackoutpony wrote:

Pony Boss wrote:And this is the team SMU decides to schedule for 2018 lol

Brady Hoeke was still their coach when we scheduled it. Man [deleted] McGee was still busy running Big Blue into the ground then.

We should have known big programs always find a way to come back and with our luck we get the most potent Michigan team in a long time lol
I guess recruit our asses off and hope we can give em a battle for 4 quarters or pull an Appy St on em (doubt it with Harbaugh)