Pain level of Outback bowl defeat.....

I dont know why I cant get over this loss ....I wasnt this upset over the Ohio game. I mean I was angry we lost that game, but this one just stings badly for some reason....Just wondering if anybody else is still "stinging" badly over this one? Grade loss on a scale of 1-10, 1 being, "ahh, forget about it" and 10 being "worst beat ever"......
 
Im grading this one somewhere between the 7-8 mark.....Mainly because the way we lost it, everybody in the world knew they werent going for a FG, unless they absolutely had too, and we let a WR get behind 3 defenders deep.........Missed 2 potential game winning sacks as well....I dont remember screaming at the tv this loudly in a while either.....Oh well, just curious where everybody else is at with this loss.

OSU was a 10 or 11. Because we had them bastards in our hands, and blew it. I'm still not over that game.

The Ohio game was hard to take but, at least, our play-calling wasn't a source of frustration v South Carolina!
 
Ohio was FRUSTRATING...Outback Bowl was HEART-WRENCHING!! And losing our final two games leaves a really bad taste in my mouth 
 
But the Outback Bowl is going to take a while to get over...though, finishing our 2013 recruiting class, with a bang, would help 

Neither the Outback Bowl nor the Ohio game left a sting for me ... for me it was the ND game. If there's a loss that we DEFINITELY should have had a win in, it was that one.
 
Now the freaking Lucky Charms are playing in the NC game. 
 
"They are who we THOUGHT they were! And we let 'em off the hook!"

Ohio game was worse because of the play calling second half.

Sc game was good with the exceptions of the punt return, 3 deep balls down the middle and some missed tackles in the back field. Oh and denard kept tripping .

This one was about a 2 for me.  In order: 1) we play well on New Year's Day once every 10 years so not a real big surprise, 2) SC wasn't exactly a cupcake and you knew they'd be able to throw the ball on us, 3) I was on the couch with the flu so I couldn't get real cranked up anyway ;)  Ohio was WAY worse.  We could have won that game easily but the offensive "gameplan" was unforgivable.  At least in this game Borges ran a decent gameplan and we scored enough points to win.  My only real disappointment is the fact that we didn't look ready to play in the first half and we weren't sharp, which seems to be a trend with us.  It was probably the stupid a$$ uniforms. (had to add that one ;)

It sucks we lost but I'm over it. In fact, we probably out kicked our coverage in many fans eyes.

Losing to O$U always eats at my craw, especially this year considering how we lost.

Go Blue!!

Ohio loss was much worse. I was actually a bit surprised that this game was a close as it was.
 
This loss was more frustrating than painful.

We're #2 in the nation in basketball.  I'm over it.  I won't watch highlights of the game, but I'm over it.

MichFan4Life


Ohio loss was much worse. I was actually a bit surprised that this game was a close as it was.

This loss was more frustrating than painful.

Exhibit A...

Go Blue!!

The Ohio loss was way worse for me. The play calling in the second half was atrocious. Even my dad (a buckeye fan) was wondering why they changed the game plan that was working so well in the first half.
 
Anytime you buy a ticket to the game you take a chance on seeing your team lose. I guess I kind of prepare for that possibility especially after that debacle in Jacksonville. What made it easier was the classiness of the USC fans. 
 
After the game I sat by my car while waiting for traffic to clear up hanging out with some USC fans. As I praised them for how classy they all were the one guy told me, "hey we played Michigan. You guys are winners and have been for a long time. South Carolina didn't start winning until about 10 years ago." That was a level of respect I didn't see coming. They were also impressed about how classy our fans were. They do have a strong distaste for that team from Ohio though. The only fan for USC I had to deal with that was obnoxious was the guy sitting next to me. He wasn't even a real fan. Him and his buddy go to this game every year and he just picked USC. The girl next to me was sitting with her boyfriend who had the same name as I (Matt), and she kept saying, "I'm in a Matt sandwich." To which I replied, "That probably means more to him then I." She was awfully frisky though and liked hanging on me any chance she could get. She was drunk so I took it for what it was. 
 
Overall the pregame, game, and post game experience was pretty good, and I had fun. The fans were classy from both teams, and the game itself was really good and exciting. USC was no chump opponent and our team played hard against them. I would say my level of disappointment would be around a "3". It always sucks when your favorite team loses, but when the fans from both teams treat each other with respect and you don't feel like you have to hide on the way to the car it always softens the blow. 

Plus while I was waiting to leave after the game I got to meet Jeremy Gallon. He was walking out with his parents and family. You could obviously tell they were very proud of him. As they should be. He is a very polite young man. Everything was "yes sir," and "thank you sir" as I told him they had nothing to be disappointed about and that they played a great game. A very good kid all around.  

SC is a good program - much better then us.  The fact that we hung around for most of the game and even had a chance to win was surprising.  
 
Ohio State still stings, as does Notre Dame.  Damn it!

alans26


Neither the Outback Bowl nor the Ohio game left a sting for me ... for me it was the ND game. If there's a loss that we DEFINITELY should have had a win in, it was that one.

Now the freaking Lucky Charms are playing in the NC game. 

"They are who we THOUGHT they were! And we let 'em off the hook!"

 
Almost forgot about that one but that was such a TO-fest by Denard, it was more FRUSTRATING than anything IMO...and convinced that Brian Kelly sold his soul to the devil this year! There's NO WAY that the Lucky Charms go unbeaten in 2013!!

OSU was way worse for me. I went into that game with the thought that we had a good chance to ruin OSU's perfect season and we SHOULD have done exactly that if it weren't for Al Borges forgetting how to call an effective game in the 2nd half.
 
This Outback Bowl was a game I wasn't expecting Michigan to win. I was hoping we'd pull off an upset but I wasn't overly confident. So the fact that we actually played good enough to win took some of the sting out of the loss for me. It was disappointing to lose in the manner we did, but, IMO, we fared better than I thought we would against a pretty good team whose only losses were to LSU and UF...
 
 

WolvyMike


We're #2 in the nation in basketball. 

 
This doesn't hurt either!!! 

About 15 years ago, I would have rated all 5 losses an 11.  Maybe I've just gotten older (not necessarily wiser, mind you) and don't let things hang over me.  I just let it sting for the day and wake up in the morning trying to build a better mousetrap.
 
If there's anything I've learned from "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer", it's that "There's Always Tomorrow (for dreams to come true)".....

Maybe it is just the compounding frustration from the Ohio loss and the outback bowl combined.....it's never easy ending the season with two losses.

And just think, the only team we played that we couldn't have beat this year was Bama. With only a few bounces are way, we could've been 11-2, 10-3 ,9-4........

I agree ND should've been exposed by now!!! I hope Bama hangs 60 on their butts!!!!

Soooo sick of hearing about them, but, I do plan on posting my ND vs BCS rankings fraud soon......I've been doing some research and I got a few questions to ask!

Stay tuned......

madlucky1
They do have a strong distaste for that team from Ohio though. 

 
You spell it, U.r.b.a.n M.e.y.e.r 
 
Great game.  I thought you guys were going to get us.  

Well, it was a great game and sad that the seniors didnt go out with a win.. Oh and yes I wanted to beat a SEC team, you know the greatest football conference EVER!!!! but lets be real it was the Outback Bowl..
The best think about a bowl game like this is the extra practice the players get who are coming back for next year....

Lonnie Utah

madlucky1
They do have a strong distaste for that team from Ohio though. 

You spell it, U.r.b.a.n M.e.y.e.r 

Great game.  I thought you guys were going to get us.  

You know I could buy that and that may be part of the equation, but out of the myriad of reasons they gave. That was not one of them. They did however mention the 2 bowl games they played against each other earlier this century and the behavior of ohio's fans. 

Not frustrated at all. Maybe because my two favorite teams played each other but i think its more that it was a very good game and neither team can walk away saying they got shafted or didnt put max effort into it. Both teams are very evenly matched Carolina just had one better play. I hope these two get together for a home and home soon.