Guest Spot - Dave Rivelli

Notre Dame and Michigan are no longer even mediocre.

Notre Dame…. Drubbed at home by an average (Calvin Johnson-less) Georgia Tech team.

Michigan…. their is not anyone in the college football world that has any respect for a team that pays $400 thousand dollars to a 1AA football team to come play and then lose at home to that team.

Michigan was given break after break by Appalachian State (App St.): including a dropped touchdown pass, three turnovers and a missed field goal by App St.

Still despite these opportunities Michigan did the unthinkable. They were outplayed, they were out coached and they lost to a team that isn’t bowl eligible.

App. St. plays in the same league as teams that supposedly are second-class. Well the fact is the both Michigan and Notre Dame are second-class. If you have been watching college football, since the immaculate conception of the BCS, you would know that Michigan and Notre Dame are a combined 1-6 in BCS Bowls.


With the exception of a win by Michigan in the 2000 Orange Bowl and one of the greatest Rose Bowls in recent memory, in which Texas beat the Maize and Blue on a last second field goal, Michigan and Notre dame were not even in the games. In fact they were outscored 214–112 in those six loses. That is over 100 points!!

People talk about the tradition of both schools as the two pillars of college football, but the fact is since the BCS began, neither team has done anything remotely of value.

Michigan and Notre Dame are a combined 5-19 since 2001 in their final two games of the season and with the way their seasons have started you can probably expect more of the same. The fact is after they meet Saturday September 15, one team will have two loses and be on their way to another mediocre season at best and the other most likely the same.