Michigan thumps Delaware State, sets record for most total offense

And Ohio State lost to Purdue 18-26!! Talk about good news days!!

Tater has been saying that he thinks Michigan has a chance to beat the Buckeyes this year. I've doubted that but now it appears really possible.

Let no one say that having Delaware State on Michigan's schedule was "useless." All the backup personnel got a chance to play and gain experience. (Besides, Delaware State picked up $550,000 for three hours work. I'm sure that's a significant addition to their budget and they earned it.)

I saw about half the stadium leaving early and I can understand their boredom and their decision to (attempt) to beat traffic out of town. But if I were able to get a ticket, I'd have sat it out just to see the whole show. Main Street was traffic-clogged 10 minutes before the end of the game, so the early departure did no good in that regard.

I'm sure I'm not the only one who now feels ready to see what the Wolverines can do with the remaining games. There's no reason to believe that Michigan hasn't reloaded, thanks due mainly to having this very useful "buy week." Go Blue!!

Michigan has a good shot at winning the rest of its home games this year.

Wooooo, nice seeing many Wolverines getting in the game...HAIL TO BOILERMAKERS FOR DESTROYING THE BUCKEYES...GO BLUE!

living only 40 miles north of columbus, I will finally have a week without hearing OSU bragging about how good they are. I can handle the week of crying. There isn't any reason the Wolverines can't win the rest of our home games. GO BLUE!!!

Dave - I think you have realized by now Michigan is only 5-2, though 63 points may be enough for two games....Not that Michigan SHOULD be 7-0, but only 8 points away from a perfect season. Amazing with 70+% of the team as freshman / sophmores. I believe UM will take care of Purdue and Illinois and I can see at least one win between Penn State, Wiscy and OSU... we'll see... .but all is coming together well. Go Blue!

WOW!!You guys beet nobody today and already think about wining the rest of the games.Don't you realize that you are the joke of the BIG TEN. HA HA HA HA!!!!!

todays game was a joke though it was good to see the 5th yr seniors get in the game and to see some of the young guys play more.....shame on the fans who bought tickets and didnt show up...techincally it was a sell out but it was sad that there were alot of empty seats

We certainly have flaws, especially on defense, but the "joke" of the Big Ten? To who, you? That just shows ignorance on your part. Give me some objective facts on the field, or even other prominent media members who have stated this view to support your assertion...oh, that's right. You can't. Again, it's your own ignorant view.

I am sure that Richard Rodriguez will have no problem finding a long list of impoverished schools that are willing to engage in an embarrassing spectacle in order to obtain the funds to keep their athletic program going. As a University of Michigan faculty member, I am ashamed that our football coach, encouraged by the University president, thinks that this is an example of sportsmanship on the part of a far wealthier institution.

Penn St. is really not very good. W
Illinois is in complete disarray. W
Purdue, ok at home. No chance in Big House. W
Wisconsin, too "Lloydish." W
Like jimtrashel said, bucks are unraveling. W
10-2

re pregame ticket prices - the chatter on Twitter was that tickets were going for $5 outside the stands, and I know that people were getting rid of their tickets on Freecycle.

I need to consult with my parking yoda to see what the impact of a weak game was on residential football parking revenues.

Theo, can we PLEASE exchange email addresses? I'd love to bet you hundreds - nay, thousands - of dollars on the rest of michigan's season. i don't need any points. we can bet straight-up that michigan will absolutely not win the rest of its games, despite their humiliation of a div 1-AA school. strike that...an AWFUL 1-AA school.

if you're game, we can even make the bet public so that everyone knows how much i won. thanks pal.

So, what was the point? They get more competition in a spirited practice. Ought to put an asterisk next to that yardage record, because the opponent didn't exactly belong in the Big House.

At least in 1981, or whenever that was, Slippery Rock played Shippensburg State here, not the Wolverines.

"Michigan surprises arch-rival and perennial powerhouse Delaware State, stinging the Hornets 63-6 in a game much closer than the score shows."

Slippery Rock vs Shippensburg State (now Shippensburg U.) was 1979.

http://sumag.ship.edu/smbandday.html

"Always a showman, Canham wanted to boost the crowd for the Band Day celebration and came up with the idea of having Slippery Rock play in Ann Arbor. Because of its name, the Rock was popular with the Michigan fans and its scores were announced at the Wolverines’ home games.

The Wolverines would be playing the University of California on September 29, so with time zone differences, their fans could go to the Band Day game and still be able to tune in to the Wolverine radio broadcast."

Canham was brilliant that way.

There was an article on one of the MLive sites about how Del State was the "worst opponent ever".

http://blog.mlive.com/stoneyexpress/2009/10/wolverines_record_day_should_have_asterisks_aplenty.html

"I honestly think it is possible a real good high school team would have been almost as easy. They were the worst opponent Michigan has ever played."

This is of course preposterous. Michigan beat Buffalo 128-0 in 1901 during the Yost point-a-minute era; Buffalo didn't even have a coach, and quit fielding a football team a few years later.

Embarrassing and humiliating for both teams. In terms of how this appears in the eyes of people nationwide, Michigan would have been better off taking a bye week then scheduling DSU. And as for DSU taking the $550k bribe to drop a conference game, not only did they deserve humiliation, but their conference should drop them. This sets a dangerous precedent across college football. Isn't it supposed to be more about coaching the boys to be better men than winning? How about this message. A chance at a big payday is more important than your required obligations. Sounds like something you learn on a street corner. Maybe that's why Michigan plays at the Big House. Not one single administrator, coach, teacher, fan, alum, or anyone associated with either team has anything to be proud of here. A complete and total lack of class and pride.

Here's FOX Sports:

http://msn.foxsports.com/cfb/story/10233790/Wild-day:-Delaware-St.-loses-twice,-gets-$550K

"Two losses in one day won't seem so bad once Delaware State checks its bank balance."

I'm sorry this win doesn't rank up there with the big boys but I'm perplexed with some of our "so-called fans." Obviously UM is in a no win situation with this game, but after Appy St., the lesson is never take anything for granted. For all of you getting emotional over this, why don't you petition Jim Delaney on having every b10 team schedule each other, errr, oh yeah, not enough home games so a loss of money! All college football is or represents is money. Get over it (and for some of you--yourselves) and let's move on to PSU.

And yes, THEY can win out and have a good chance to do so if, again, they don't beat themselves. If the #7 team in the nation loses to an unranked 1-5 squad today, why can't UM win out? What are some of you people watching? There are NO dominant teams in the b10. And until Iowa does what UM, OSU, PSU, and ILL couldn't do in the Rose Bowl against USC, don't try to change my mind.

Go Blue!

Raddes,

The difference, of course, being that Appalachian State was a powerhouse Div. 1-AA school and Delaware State is terrible, even in 1-AA. In the 15-years I've been shooting Michigan games on the sidelines, this was the worst piece of mess ever. I'm not even sure a half million bucks was worth the carnage for DSU. I asked one of the event staff on the sidelines if he's rather see Michigan lose a well-played, close game to a good team, or watch them slaughter some tomato can. He chose the former, as would I if I were a Wolverine fan. Give me the Oregon's, Washington's, UCLA's and Colorado's from days of yore ... at least they had some fan appeal.

Lon: Having gone to Michigan games for over 30 years, I must interject that 'back in the day' Michigan would decimate Wisconsin, Northwestern and most of the Big 10 (save OSU, Purdue and MSU). So, DSU was shelled today - that was there choice. Do I think they should be on the schedule? Of course not. Was it interesting? No, not really. But, for once in a long time, it was nice to see Michigan dominate someone. I'm tired of it always being close and interesting. Boring, dominant performances are okay with me sometimes and today was one of those times.

With the real schedule starting again, I'll restart my antacids and make sure my defibrillator is in good working order. Go blue!

Before people start bashing RR for scheduling this team, you need to know that facts. I watched this game and the commentators explained how coach didn't want to have an open date or bye week. He then proceed to schedule a quality opponent. So he contacted MAC teams & Mountain West teams etc. all of whom wanted no parts of coming to Michigan to play on a open date week. One of the few teams that was actually willing to play an away game this week was Del. St. I don't like playing these types of teams either. Nothing good can come from it, but once that whistle blows to signal the start of the game, you try to defeat the team lined up across from you. No matter who they may be. It's funny that people say this was the worst opponent that M has played when they beat teams by triple digets many, many years ago!

Birkett: To your comment that record books should only hold 1-A records; does that mean we can expunge the Appalachian State loss.
You are over doing this; Florida and any number of other 1-A teams were forced to schedule FCS teams because of the late expansion. Florida ended up with a 70+ point score, as I recall.
Michigan caught this school with an comparably young team and a backup QB starting, and so what would have been lopsided became a rout. So it goes, but lay of RR for scheduling it. It could have been a lot worse (ask LC about ASU). Just move on.

So Delaware State got paid $550,000 to play this game against U of M. How come people don't seem to mind that a half million dollars went to an out of state school when Universities in Michigan are having budget problems? Was there no other school in the State of Michigan that U of M could have scored 63 points on? Seems to me U of M could have played Wayne State, or even little Northern Michigan University and kept that half million dollars in the state of Michigan. Or do people in the state of Michigan have so much money, and so many jobs, that it was important to send this money Michigan taxpayer money out of state?

@GoBlueBeatOSU,

The Northern Michigan Wildcats crushed the hapless Tiffin Dragons 62-0 earlier this year at the Yooperdome in Marquette. I would welcome a chance for them to play football here. (Go Cats!)

To all those who struggle with this match-up/victory and say this was essentially an unfair "W", need to realize one thing--life isn't fair. Now UofM is even being ridiculed for bringing in and paying an out of state school instead of one from Michigan (see GobueBeatOSU). It's a no-win situation for UofM.

What a joke, we now have to buy victories, how pathetic. Who's next Huron High?

Northern Michigan vs UM, not a bad idea but I'd prefer Grand Valley State Lakers as UM's future opponent.

I also am still laughing at some of the haughty posts that aren't truthful as many fans told me they enjoyed seeing UM beat DSU and would like to see it happen again on a daily basis in the near future.

One patsy per season as a dessert course is needed (let the scrubs play as part of their reward) after so many main entrees.

Let's see. If Paranoid Lloyd was coaching this team in this game, the final score would have been Michigan 27 Delaware State 17. We would have needed a late touchdown to go up by 10. No back ups would have played , let alone any 4th and 5th stringers who give up their blood, sweat and broken bones during practice all year. I hate to see so much second guessing. Seriously? You rather play UCLA and lose by 3 in a close game. Right, you don't even believe that. This was a great time for a game like this for a young team that need to get "Healthy" physically and emotionally. And they did. WINS all around for Saturdays game. And the band at halftime was awesome!! We have 5 tough games remaining. We're 5-2. We need to win 3 out 5 to play on New Years Day. Let's stay focused people!! Stop whining!

Ed Vielmetti "Northern Michigan Wildcats crushed the hapless Tiffin Dragons 62-0"...they did!!!...Northern has a chance at having a winning record this year. To bad they lost to Hillsdale this weekend.

D21 Grand Valley State has been playing very good ball for their division but they also dropped a game to Hillsdale. I think overall Grand Valley would stay in the game longer vs. U of M than Northern. The end result would be the same.

It would be fun to see Northern or Grand Valley play U of M. For the kids at those two schools it would be a great experience.

$550,000 would do a lot to help both those schools as they are hurting with the state funding cuts. $550,000 would mean a lot to little Northern. Wouldn't it be nice for U of M, built on the back of MI taxpayers, to return some of the MI taxpayers investment by giving these smaller in state schools the extra $550,000. Those schools could use that money to help the kids that can't get into U of M, but who are more likely to stay in the State of Michigan.

I know that I am a moron -- so you don't have to say it again. Last week I said that we should rest Tate and that Delaware State is a glorified scrimmage. Well, we did rest Tate.

I do NOT like playing really crummy teams -- as it throws off your focus. This game does not prepare UM to play Penn State. But it is good to rest your star QB.

Mich State played a terrible Montana State team to open the season -- that threw the Spartans off. They thought that they were so good and it set them up to lose to CMU.

Michigan must re-focus to play a real football game!

Western, Eastern and MSU aren't schools in Michigan? Sounds like you're looking for something to complain about...

Look, I don't like playing 1-AA schools either, but just about everyone does it. Iowa played Northern Iowa, MSU played Montana State, PSU played Eastern Ill., etc. I think it's practically mandatory in the SEC. Even our "good friends" in Columbus routinely schedule Youngstown State. It happens. Time to move along and look toward PSU.

This game is a big 'SO WHAT'. Who cares? Obviously some of your fanatics who only throw names at those of us who may dare criticize holy Michigan. THis game should NOT have been scheduled, period end. It is an embarrassment to competition--how in the world is Delaware State supposed to look its athletes in the eyes and say that they are supported, when they are forced to take a forfeit loss to have played that game?

And basically, Michigan will not play any good team, outside of Notre Dame, in a home and home. They have admitted as such, and why they are afraid of good competition, I don't know. If they are sick of losing these games, what does that say about the team and the quality of the wins we actually do get? Does anyone really believe that crushing Delaware State makes us a top 50 team? And by the way, that App State and next year's Mass games should not have been scheduled either, IMO. Div I schools should play other Div I schools--Florida, LSU, and other such schools notwithstanding. USC sure does not have a problem in doing so.

And what does Bill Martin and RRod see? Is Eastern and Western not enough creampuff competition in one year? Is the almighty dollar trumping improvement by competition? Obviously that's what it says. And you apologists who claim that everybody does it--well, you are deceiving yourselves. Yesterday was a day of shame for that football program, not for the victory and for the players, but for the reasons behind it. Yes, of course it was good to see people who work hard get some PT. But, all the talking heads could say were excuses. Let's see PSU hand it to Michigan next week, and we can all go back to wondering why we have no running game. Or perhaps, we can give up our B10 membership and become the national champs in Div II (not Div IAA--they probably would be afraid of App State).

Okay, some are taking this way too seriously... It is afterall just a football game and it would be pretty silly to be shamed about the whole thing. They didn't want a bye week - they filled it up last minute - whatever. And thanks for the news flash that the almighty dollar has influence in college sports? Really? Hadn't heard that before..

As for the 'no running game' comment, this is the best Michigan has been on the ground in ages. And if Molk wasn't injured it would've been even better. But it's true, the DSU game doesn't prove anything and the PSU game will be a better measuring stick. It seems pretty clear that this year, unlike last, Michigan has a chance to win every game.

It is an abomination that this game should even count. Maybe next year you can play Pioneer and feel good about yourselves, too.