Michigan: Best Big 10 team in the past 2 decades?

[vacuum_cleaner]

Yeah that loss sucks, Fire Fran, bench everyone, blah blah blah. But holy crap Michigan is good. So much size and athleticism. Can't remember another Big Ten team I was this impressed by.

Most agree the Big Ten as a whole has never been this good. Michigan may end up with only one loss. So is this Michigan team the best team the Big Ten has seen in a decade? 2 decades? Only team in recent memory I can think of that would compare is Illinois in early 2000s when they went undefeated until championship game.

 

[fivecardstud14]

Tough to pick anyone over that Illini 5 of Brown/Williams/Head/Powell/Augustine

 

[skydog0784]

Yeah that loss sucks, Fire Fran, bench everyone, blah blah blah. But holy crap Michigan is good. So much size and athleticism. Can't remember another Big Ten team I was this impressed by.

Most agree the Big Ten as a whole has never been this good. Michigan may end up with only one loss. So is this Michigan team the best team the Big Ten has seen in a decade? 2 decades? Only team in recent memory I can think of that would compare is Illinois in early 2000s when they went undefeated until championship game.

There is no way this assertion is true.

 

[hawkisak]

The fact that no team has had to play on the road in a hostile arena full of insane fans makes this year's assessment null and void. Michigan is really good and a top notch team, but they may not have been able to come back at Wisconsin had they had a crowd. We'll never know but it's not usual for even the best teams to be more than a few games over .500 on the road.

 

[LuteHawk]

The last Big Ten tean to win a national championship was Mich. St.
If Michigan wins it this year then we can talk about it.

 

[vacuum_cleaner]

The fact that no team has had to play on the road in a hostile arena full of insane fans makes this year's assessment null and void. Michigan is really good and a top notch team, but they may not have been able to come back at Wisconsin had they had a crowd. We'll never know but it's not usual for even the best teams to be more than a few games over .500 on the road.

That's a good point. But to only have 1 loss, with the league being the strongest it's maybe ever been....fans or no fans, that is incredible.

 

[Rifler]

No,.. they won't play a full schedule and have already lost badly to the Gophers,.. They're good, but best in twenty years?,.. I don't think so.

 

[David1979]

No, there are several teams I would take over this one. I would take the Wisconsin team from '15 I believe over them. Then there is OSU in '11. Illinois in '05. Plus like others have said they won't even play a full schedule and I think some other Big Ten teams have had more difficult schedules. They haven't even played Illinois yet and looks like they will get to play them without Ayo. I think this is an overreaction to the game last night.

 

[anon_bb9wlf9kj42py]

That Kaminsky Wisconsin team was pretty good.