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I Will Trade This Win For A Hockey National Title

A Michigan fan reaction to a 20-19 loss to Iowa that argues the team played well but was undone by fluke plays, penalties, and special-teams mistakes — and that hockey season offers a cleaner source of hope.

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Michigan lost 20-19 to Iowa despite a high pregame win expectancy (82.8%), with several fluky plays deciding the result.

Quarterback Bryce Underwood produced an exceptional yards-per-attempt performance against Iowa’s defense but the team still fell short.

Unlucky deflected receptions and late-game miscues, plus special teams and penalty troubles, were decisive factors in the loss.

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I Will Trade This Win For A Hockey National Title | mgoblog Skip to main content Put MGoBlog on your home screen 2026 Iowa bryce underwood 100% awful stupid butt refereeing OUTRAGES argh! In times like these we must turn to the true bedrock of our society to find solace and guidance. Would you trade Michigan's basketball national championship for 20 more years of Dusty May?

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  • How many hot dogs would you eat if each one made Bryce Underwood 0.1% more likely to win the Heisman trophy?
  • It is your job to be two scores ahead of Iowa at the end of the third quarter.
  • After this game I want to see them follow up against Minnesota, hopefully without the crippling penalties and special teams mishaps.
  • After I watched Devin Gardner's career go up in smoke because of Brady Hoke, suddenly playing MSU even was the takeaway rather than not quite winning because a guy dropped a punt:
  • Michigan is 7-2 against MSU since (COVID year excluded) with all but one win by multiple scores.

What to take from it

After the initial shock had passed and I took inventory of my deepest beliefs, I felt about the same way I did after the #1 game in the above skeet: trouble with the snap. My answer to the non-hypothetical four games into Kyle Whittingham is that I'd much rather significantly outplay a team and lose, because significantly outplaying teams is the way you usually win football games. Would you change the result of the 1995 Virginia game in exchange for another year of Max Bredeson eligibility?

Example or evidence

  • He is a professional eater, so his answers will be brief and authoritative: no, yes, lots.
  • They will join us when they finish completing an inventory of their deepest beliefs.
  • One must not blithely assert answers to these questions like they are meaningless message board hypotheticals.
  • ---------------------------------------- Here is the not-at-all-hypothetical question Michigan just posed us: would you rather play terribly and win or play very well and lose?

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I refer, of course, to the Sports Message Board Hypothetical. I have probably lost most of the audience at this point. I have sent them spinning off into realms ruled by the Equation Lady.

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