Written by Bart Doan at Bloguin
Well, Michigan has had an interesting last few weeks, now, hasn’t it?
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,” quoted Charles Dickens in A Tale of Two Cities back in 1859, probably without the slightest hint of college football on his mind. After all, we were still 10 years from Rutgers birthing the sport.
Michigan won in stunning fashion over Minnesota, by three, beneficiaries of some combination of luck, the foe self-immolating, and its own doing on Saturday night.
You’d be hard pressed in the history of college football to find back-to-back games with such emotional roller coaster-ing as Michigan has felt. Two weeks ago, it dropped a sure win against rival Michigan State in the form of a punt snap bobbled and returned for a touchdown with no time left.
This time, it was Minnesota who felt the pain, and in it, reminded us all about the angst of losing in the last moments, winning in the last moments, and thinking you lost the game you won in the last moments.
For the Gophers’ part, they were a willing sacrifice, the rabbit walking in the foxhole to get out of the rain, somehow thinking that was a good idea. On an emotional night, when it seemed Minnesota couldn’t lose the game if it tried, the Gophers somehow did.
In it was an internal response for Michigan that, while not totally erasing the burn of the loss to MSU, probably reminded the team that sometimes you’re on the right side of the ledger, and sometimes you’re not.
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