Talk:Michigan Wolverines

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An image here would be nice! Isopropyl 06:26, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

In addition to the acclaim for the helmets, John Phillip Sousa deemed the Michigan Fight Song "The Victors" to be "the best college march ever written."

• That information is already available at The Victors article. Pentawing^Talk 23:47, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

The MGoBlue webpage stats have only 23 undefeated seasons, not 25.

"One of only two schools with a winning record against every Division 1-A conference, including independent schools such as Notre Dame" -- is this true? Just looking over this website (http://football.stassen.com/records/confres.html), I found Notre Dame, Texas, Tennessee and Nebraska could say that.Ltv100ltv100

FWIW, it appears that of those teams, only Michigan has a winning record against the Ivy League. Isopropyl 23:33, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

Well, so does Notre Dame, for starters. Nebraska has never played the Ivy League per that site; but if you are going to use the criteria that a team needs to have a wining record versus every every conference in existance, then you'd have to discout Michigan since they've never played anyone from the the current Sun Belt 1-A conference. Regardless, the Ivy League is no longer a 1-A league and, in fact, I don't believe it was ever 1-A since the NCAA split Division 1 into 1-A and 1-AA.Ltv100

Contents 1 UM Final Fours 2 UM National Championships 3 Fair use rationale for Image:Michigan BlockM.jpg 4 Vandalism

[edit] UM Final Fours

The article doesn't mention the Final Fours that were erased except during the Fab Four era part. Should they be added?

Yes, with the addition that they were later "vacated." Funnyhat 20:26, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] UM National Championships

According to the University[1], they have 11 national championships. That is out of 23 national championships that the CFBWarehouse[2] lists. While it is true that the CFBW only recgonizes 7 of those, the U does claims 11 for their own reasons. Terryfoster 13:35, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

There is no authoritative source for pre-1935 championships, which is when eight of UM's 11 claimed titles took place. CFBW is no more "official" than any other college football website. For seasons from 1936 onward, the school (like most others) uses the AP poll, and the coaches' poll (whenever it came out) as the official standards. Funnyhat 20:25, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

• • This is support for an ongoing discusson on the main football page for several years that are not currently cited on Wikipedia's NCAA page. On that page, four years are omitted. This is the support for the omitted years:

• • • http://www.ncaa.org/champadmin/ia_football_past_champs.html

• • • • 1923 California: Houlgate

Illinois: Boand, Football Research, Helms, National Championship Foundation, Parke Davis Michigan: Billingsley, National Championship Foundation

• • • • 1918 Michigan: Billingsley, National Championship Foundation

Pittsburgh: Helms, Houlgate, National Championship Foundation

• • • • 1904 Michigan: Billingsley, National Championship Foundation, Pennsylvania Helms, Houlgate, National Championship Foundation*, Parke Davis
      • 1903 Michigan: Billingsley, National Championship Foundation,

Princeton: Helms, Houlgate, National Championship Foundation*, Parke Davis

66.65.76.15 22:09, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Michigan BlockM.jpg

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A Fair Use rationale has been added and, following the advice on the bot's Talk page, I deleted the tag. JohnInDC 00:57, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism

Michigan's loss today has brought out the vandals. I put a semi-protect tag on the article. No point in letting the vandals have fun. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pownage (talk • contribs) 03:13, 2 September 2007 (UTC)