Unverified Voracity, Cowed By Girth

Rates. The NCAA has published this year's GSR rates. Michigan football is at 73%, up from 71% last year. This is third in the Big Ten, behind Northwestern and Penn State. The more detailed report that Jim Harbaugh and NDNation nuts used to hammer Michigan over the summer hasn't come out yet.

Most Youtubey Thing Ever. There's something low-rent about many youtube videos, as you might imagine. Set up a camera, roll tape of you in your living room drinking beer and giving your take on whatever, etc. But I've never seen something quite as goofily amateur as this:



Mock up powerpoint presentation? Check. Insert Survivor tape in cassette player from 1985? Check. Get wobbly child to hold camera? Check. We are go for launch.

For the record: Henne, you daft powerpoint enthusiast, you.

Oh, God, Terrance, noooooooo.

Post Northwestern, Terrance Taylor decides to share the ample, ample love...



...lawsuit for crushing six juniors pending.

JoePa not interested. On the forfeiture:

"I know we got licked," Paterno said Tuesday. "I don't have any interest in it. We lost. That's up to somebody else to make the decision."

The Realests are pleased.

Well, maybe it wasn't so bad. Lake The Posts on John Gill, who just got done owning our interior line:

Mel Kiper recently donned Gill as the 2nd best junior DT in all of CFB. Chris Martin has told me that scouts LOVE this kid and he may project to be one of the highest drafted picks we've ever had.

I believe it after that performance; hopefully he's just this anomalous super badass at NW and not an indication that the Michigan running game is about to crumble.

Great. Michigan now has its very own Level Of Losing in an updated Bill Simmons meme:

Level VII: The Drive-By Shooting
Definition: A first cousin of The "This Can't Be Happening" Game, we created this one four weeks ago to describe any college football upset in which a 30-point underdog shocks a top-5 team in front of 108,000 of its fans and kills its title hopes before Labor Day.

Best Example: The unprecedented "Assassination in Ann Arbor," which trumped The "This Can't Be Happening" Game for three reasons. First, it's an understatement to say that nobody saw Appalachian State coming (in some Vegas casinos, they didn't even have a line for the game). Second, it was one of the most humiliating defeats in college football history. And third, it killed any realistic chance for Michigan to win the national title, only it happened in Week 1 and the Wolverines still had to play out the rest of their suddenly meaningless season. Just for the record, the "Drive-By Shooting" can only happen in college football.

Awesome. Remember this whenever anyone defends the coaching staff that permitted The Horror to happen.

Etc.: It's Thursday, but whatever: Michigan Monday; ESPN on backup-backup-backup plan Brian Kelly; a Daily guy visits the Northwestern student section.