Why do I get the sense that East Lansing will experience couch burnings and near-riot conditions tonight?
Incidentally, the same outcome if the effort in the first half continued.
Hats off to the Irish for pulling out a great one. Slap in the face to State for choking this one away.
(I still think Notre Dame is overrated!!!)
Do not mock the football gods by calling games over in the middle of the second quarter. (Except for last week, when Michigan had the Irish dead and buried by the middle of the second quarter.)
The rain might help the normals. And I xgree with the small font.
In that case, I guess the answer to the title question is “NO.”
Keep in mind, we don’t want Notre Dame to lose TOO often. We want them to win enough games so that they have the chance to add another chapter to their embarrassing string of bowl game losses.
Being a Michigan fan, games like this are a win-win thing. Whichever team loses, I’m happy. Of course, whichever team wins, I’m unhappy, but I prefer to take the glass half-full approach in this case. So, to the Spartans I have this to say:
Ha ha! [/nelson muntz]
As another Michigan fan, I’m glad that Notre Dame won (even though it means that Notre Dame won). If they had lost, it would have made our win last week look a bit less impressive. For another, MSU sucks. I’m okay with this outcome.
So, is this why people talk about John L. Smith (or as I like to call him, “John-El of Krypton”) the way they do?
The thread title is now true.
Well, I try to look at the bright side. It took every single break going against us and two unlikely turnovers to lose to a team that was rated right up there. And except for a few big plays, ND was shut cold. Bring on the Illini then off to hunt Wolverines!
Bob, that’s not just looking on the bright side, that’s drinking all the Kool-Aid in one big gulp. ND had 352 yards of offense as compared to Sparty’s 356. If that’s shutting them down cold then Kevin Federline is the new Frank Sinatra. But good luck with those pesky Wolverines and Buckeyes.
Yeah, my husband & I are Big 10 as well, and he is pretty aggravated.
(Being a Catholic girl from Chicago, I have a little soft spot for ND (have relatives who went there), but even though my husband went to Catholic HS right here in the city, he just despises ND, and will root for even our most hated rivals in the Big 10 to beat them.)
Nope, no burnings here. Though it would have been kind of fun to watch.
I, myself, am not at all disappointed. In fact, I’m feeling kind of vindicated. Tailgaters are an annoying, annoying lot who set up camp almost right outside my dorm. So when they lose and get rained on, I can’t help but smile a little.
[Sandra Bullock] Let’s go blow this team! [/SB]
Isn’t that Big Televen?
First in line.
As someone who has watched some Michigan State games for almost my entire life, I can tell you that Michigan State football is unlike ANY other sports team I’ve ever seen year after year. Every year, they’re amazing at snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Every year, there’s at least one game that makes them poor Sparty fans feel like they just got punched right in the stomach. I’m so glad I’m not a State fan. I’d be reading a box of rat poison, seriously considering what it’d do to me.
Or, as I call em, the Big Eleventeen.
Right! I can’t replicate here that logo of theirs, where the words say “Big Ten,” but the negative space between the letters is an 11! 
