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New Year’s Day Will See the Wolverines Playing Against the Bulldogs
New Year’s Day has the Michigan Wolverines playing against the Mississippi State University Bulldogs in a rematch at the Gator Bowl Games. The Michigan Wolverines represent the Big 10 Conference and the Bulldogs are members of the Southeastern Conference. The overall score of the Michigan Wolverines is 7-5 and in the Big 10 Conference, 3-5. The Bulldogs totaled 8-4 in the overall and 4-4 in the southeastern Conference. Currently, the Michigan Wolverines are not in the top 25 listing of the Big 10 but the Bulldogs occupy slot 21. Last year, the Gator Bowl Games saw Florida winning over West Virginia with 33-21.
The choice of the Gator Bowl management comes as a surprise to fans who have been expecting all along that Michigan would be pitted against Florida (6-6).
This year’s Gator Bowl will be the first time for the new coach of the Michigan Wolverines, Rich Rodriguez. The team played in two previous Gator games, losing one and winning the other. In December 28, 1979 they were defeated by North Carolina 17-15. In January 1, 1997, they won over Missouri, scoring 35-3. Then they won their first Capital One Bowl Game in January 2007, defeating Florida 41-35. In all next year’s event will be the third time the Michigan Wolverines have participated in Gator Bowl Games.
New Year’s game will be the first time the two teams are pitted against each other. The total score of the Michigan Wolverines in their games against members of the Southeastern Conference is 23-5-1.
The Michigan Wolverines are among the All-Time Winningest Football Programs in the country, having bagged a total of 42 Big 10 Conference titles. They also won the National Championships 11 times. Since their win over Florida in 2007 they put out a consistently low 3-9 for the past two years under new coach, Rich Rodriguez. There are rumors that if all doesn’t go well with the coming Gator Bowl match, a forthcoming change of coach is coming for the Michigan Wolverines.
On the other hand, the Bulldogs did fairly well this year, defeating all but the most formidable members of the Southeastern Conference.
A big attendance of onlookers representing s of both teams is expected to turn up on January 1. Most of these fans are expected to be hie-hard Wolverines followers who expect to see the Michigan Wolverines winning back the games they lost this season. Although they did well during the first five matches, their endurance seems to have failed them towards the end when they lost 5 out of 7 games. It seems, the coach expects too much from quarterback Denard Robinson.
Wolverine fans are hoping that Rich Rodriguez will come up with new game strategies that will take the pressure off Robinson and distribute it more evenly to tap the potentials of his team mates. Still on his third year with the team, Rich Robinson has time to make those adjustments to his program and game tactics.
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Bobby C Barton is a retired high school coach who writes for SportsFanTreasures. Check out his North Carolina Bedding , Ohio State Bedding at SportsFanTreasures
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