{"id":882,"date":"2006-09-10T02:14:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-10T02:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/wp\/?p=882"},"modified":"2006-10-10T13:52:16","modified_gmt":"2006-10-10T05:52:16","slug":"880-of-michigan-41-17-central-michigan-bring-on-notre-dame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=882","title":{"rendered":"[880] Of Michigan 41 &#8211; 17 Central Michigan; bring on Notre Dame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some music peep?<\/p>\n<p>Although Michigan won, <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/ncaaf\/recap?gid=200609090029\">some are unsure how to celebrate the win<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) &#8212; Michigan has won its first two games by an average of 22 points.<\/p>\n<p>The 10th-ranked Wolverines beat Central Michigan 41-17 Saturday after handling Vanderbilt in their opener, but still don&#8217;t know if they are merely good or potentially great.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is the curse of being historically great football school <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Michigan\">(tag)<\/a>. Being good is not enough. Winning is not good enough.<\/p>\n<p>The real test starts next week at South Bend &#8211; it&#8217;s the Fighting Irish; Notre Dame. Unlike the Fighting Illini \u2014 a team fighting in name only \u2014 Notre Dame will be a tough fight. Notre Dame indeed defeated Joe Paterno&#8217;s #19 Littany Lions 41-17. The Littany Lions, surprisingly, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maddruid.com\/2006\/01\/700-of-cmon-paterno.html\">was a strong team last year.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Michigan is was ranked #10 for Week 2 while Notre Dame ranked #4. Last year, #3 Michigan lost to #20 Notre Dame 17-10 at home.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the fact that the Notre Dame-Michigan game is a non-conference one, this game is important because a win for the Wolverines will boost Michigan deep into the top 10.<\/p>\n<p>More crucially, a win will get Michigan closer to #1 Ohio State and thus limiting any psychological advantage the Buckeyes might have on the Wolverines for <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michigan-Ohio_State_rivalry\">The Game<\/a> on November 18. By the way, the Buckeyes routed #2 Longhorns; Texas is the <a href=\"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/wp\/?p=703\">defending champion<\/a>. To make the Buckies&#8217; victory even more impressive, <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/ncaaf\/recap;_ylt=ApfLtNnDprOUVu6a_h2hjbbA1LYF?gid=200609090083&#038;prov=ap\">OSU won at Texas<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>AUSTIN, Texas (AP) &#8212; Before the Longhorn band played a somber &#8220;Eyes of Texas,&#8221; Ohio State offensive lineman Kirk Barton ran to the sliver of the stadium filled with Buckeyes fans and flashed the Hook &#8217;em Horns sign with both hands aimed down.<\/p>\n<p>The message was clear: Ohio State showed the defending national champions who&#8217;s No. 1.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Alrighty.<\/p>\n<p>Bring &#8217;em on.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mohd Hafiz Noor Shams. Some rights reserved\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maddruid.com\/Graphics\/reusable\/the__earthinc.png?w=580\" \/> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mohd Hafiz Noor Shams. Some rights reserved\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maddruid.com\/Graphics\/reusable\/the__earthinc.png?w=580\" \/> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mohd Hafiz Noor Shams. Some rights reserved\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maddruid.com\/Graphics\/reusable\/the__earthinc.png?w=580\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"1\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maddruid.com\/Graphics\/reusable\/ajax.gif?w=580\" \/><a name=\"8801\"><\/a>p\/s &#8211; don&#8217;t forget, Ajax &#8211; Vitesse later today.<\/p>\n<p>w00t!<\/p>\n<p>pp\/s &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/ap\/2006\/09\/10\/sports\/EU_SPT_SOC_Netherlands_Roundup.php\">Ajax Amsterdam 3 &#8211; 0 Vitesse Arnhem<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>AMSTERDAM, Netherlands &#8211; Klaas-Jan Huntelaar scored twice to help Ajax to a 3-0 win over 10-man Vitesse Arnhem in the Dutch league on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Huntelaar collected a pass from Mauro Rosales to score his first Eredivisie goal of the season in the 32nd minute.<\/p>\n<p>Ajax doubled its lead in the first-half stoppage time when Roger beat Vitesse Arnhem goalkeeper Harald Wapenaar with a low shot from close range.<\/p>\n<p>Midfielder Wesley Sneijder set up Huntelaar for Ajax&#8217;s third goal in the 55th.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ajax is now second in the Eredivisie with three wins out of three matches. AZ Alkmaar is currently first and only tops Ajax due of goal difference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some music peep? Although Michigan won, some are unsure how to celebrate the win: ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) &#8212; Michigan has won its first two games by an average of 22 points. The 10th-ranked Wolverines beat Central Michigan 41-17 Saturday after handling Vanderbilt in their opener, but still don&#8217;t know if they are merely good [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}