starters

Smith
Tate
Sutton
Sheets
Hardy
Soloman
Scott
Jones

Good luck to the Goodgers!

Maize Out!

ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- In a continuing effort to bring more excitement to Michigan Stadium, the University of Michigan Athletic Department along with the Maize Rage will ask all fans attending Saturday's (Oct. 15) football game against No. 8-ranked Penn State to wear a yellow shirt, jacket or sweater to support the Wolverines with a "Maize Out."

"We have been working with the Michigan Athletic Department for a number of years to enhance the game-day atmosphere at all Michigan sporting events," said Dave Stuart, Maize Rage president. "This time, we are not only asking all U-M students to wear yellow, we would love to see all Michigan fans wear something yellow to show our support during this regionally televised game on ABC."

"We've had great support from the student body for our other efforts in creating atmosphere," said Nick Benson, Maize Rage outreach coordinator. "So, we especially hope the U-M students will be the driving force behind this 'Maize Out.'"

Week 7 Pick Ups now Up

The week 7 Pick-ups are now on the website and rosters are updated.

Also, I've taken down all references to trash talking the badgers from the blog. It could get ugly for the maroon and gold tomorrow. Please have mercy on us oh great Wisconsin. I bow down to you...

Wisconsin -40
Minnesota - 17

I know Matt hasn't made the official list of pick 'em games yet, but I have some suggestions for you...because I have nothing else to do right now:

Clemson at North Carolina State (Tonight!!)
UTEP at Tulane (Friday!)
Kansas State at Texas Tech
Rutgers at Syracuse
UNLV at Air Force
South Florida at Pittsburgh
Iowa State at Missouri
New Mexico at Wyoming
Louisville at West Virginia
Colorado at Texas
Oregon State at California
Florida at Louisiana State
USC at Notre Dame
Oklahoma State at Texas A&M
Connecticut at Cincinnati
Memphis at Houston
Stanford at Arizona
Georgia at Vanderbilt
Florida State at Virginia

PLUS THE BIG TEN OF COURSE

Pick'em winner

No need for a tie-breaker this week. It was not even close:

Andy 6 missed games (1.25 in winnings)
Matt 13 missed games
Jay 14 missed games

A counterstroke

..to Andy's helmet. I'm using one of my many alternates to face off against the Spitefires w/ their fancy design.
Eat this Andy!

Minnesota flag planted on Michigan's field -- league's 2nd incident -- brings swift response

By Thomas O'Toole

USA Today

Planting a school flag in an opponent's football field to celebrate a road victory has raised a red flag with the Big Ten. In a memo sent Monday to conference athletic directors and coaches, commissioner Jim Delany said this kind of postgame taunting must stop.

"It's happened twice already," Big Ten associate commissioner Mark Rudner said Tuesday. (Delany was unavailable.) "Jim basically said enough was enough. He basically said winning and shaking hands was enough."

Minnesota running back Laurence Maroney tried to plant a huge Minnesota flag in Michigan's field after a 23-20 win Saturday.

It didn't go in Michigan's artificial turf but the point was made nonetheless.

On Sept. 17, Michigan State players planted the school flag on the field at Notre Dame following a 44-41 overtime victory.

"We would never have encouraged our guys to do that," Michigan State coach John L. Smith told reporters after the game. "The emotions displayed at the end of that game -- that's college football. I only wish the players had channeled that energy in another way."

Beating Andy to the punch

Your top ten fav MN college or university teams other than the Gophers

1. UMD (I secretly wanted to attend UMD as a child)

2. Hamline (no disrespect towards my school, but UMD is 1)

3. Bemidji State (Any team named beavers is bound to be high on my list)

4. Mankato State

5. Macallester

6. St. Cloud State (nice stadium, shitty city. try saying shitty city 10 times fast.)
7. Augsburg
8. Gustavus
9. St. Olaf
10. MN-Morris

Spitfires Go With Alternate Helmet for Week 7

Hey, it worked last week for the Goodgers when they beat the Farmers...maybe it will work for us too. At least we'll look cool on the field.

Wednesday Predictions

I was 0-5 last week -- that is an accomplishment.

Iowa 41
Indiana 16

A little late on this bandwagon ...
PSU 34
MI 21
probably just late enough for the wheels to fall off!

MSU 21
OSU 13

NW 45
PU 28

WI 31
MN 17

Goodgers Starters

Goodgers go back to traditional Bucky helmet this week, do not mess with QB success from week 6.

QB1 Brett Basanez
QB2 Michael Robinson
RB1 Mike Hart
RB2 Albert Young
WR1 Dorian Bryant
WR2 Brandon Williams
WR3 Dion Butler
K Josh Huston

Look to be busy this Friday, Saturday so here's my likely roster.

The Big East Rankings

Time for the Big East rankings....the most uninteresting conference in the country...well, maybe the Sun Belt.

1. Connecticut -Ah, New England football.
2. Rutgers - How can you not like the State University of New Jersey
3. Pittsburgh - I wish they would...#1.get rid of Dave Wanstead, #2, go back to thier old blue and yellow uniforms with 'PITT' on the helmets.
4. West Virginia - I've always liked WV, plus we're running out of state universities in the Big East, so they have to be top 4.
5. Cincinnati - I used to like Cinicinnati a little more, but then they changed their helmets...
6. Syracuse - meh, it's upstate New York. I don't really like them, but I don't dislike them either...complete neutrality.
7. Louisville - again...meh, not really a fan.
8. South Florida - Please God, no more Florida schools!

Off Topic: Gore 2008?

They See Al Gore by a Nose in 2008
Is Al Gore coming back? If allies we talked to have their way, the former veep will be the next president. "It's Gore Time," says a political strategist and fundraiser who is opening a bid to get Gore into the race. Gore friends see his recent political and business moves as proof he's preparing to run. Allies say that in speeches, Gore has found his voice to address domestic and world issues. And in raising money for his Current TV network, which targets the critical youth market, Big Al has built an issue base and donor network that's competitive with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton 's. Our source--a top aide in the previous Bush administration--is planning meetings with Gore's team to push an early entry while Clinton runs for re-election in New York. It doesn't end there: The Gorebots want him to pick Sen. Barack Obama, the youthful Illinois African-American, as his No. 2.

Blue Ox Blog Power Rankings

1 Penn Stare – No question now
2 Michigan State – Didn’t play, that’s the best play this year
3 Ohio State – 2 tough, close loses
4 Iowa – Beat Purdue, nothing to be too proud of
5 Wisconsin – Lost to NW at NW, nothing to be proud of
6 Minnesota – From 4 to 8 to 6, I refuse to go any higher
7 Michigan – Absolutely perplexing, beat MSU at MSU then …
8 Northwestern – Great O will win some games
9 Purdue – A very bad team
10 Indiana – Better than Illinois
11 Illinois – Worse than Indiana

Planting the Flag!

The Michigan fans are upset that the Gophers "planted" the Minnesota flag on the Michigan 'M" at midfield after the game. Awwwwe, poor babies...I feel so sorry for them. : (

This is one of my favorite photos of ALL TIME!

Oh Yeah!

Mr. Jug

Jug

It's Good!

The Kick

The Jug!

The Mase