Hail to the Victors | A Michigan Wolverines Dynasty [NCAA Football 13]

[Matt_GoBlue]

Hail to the Victors | A Michigan Wolverines Dynasty

The Michigan Wolverines football program represents the University of Michigan in college football at the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (formerly Division I-A) level. Michigan has the most all-time wins and the highest winning percentage in college football history. The team is known for its distinctive winged helmet, its fight song, its record-breaking attendance figures at Michigan stadium, and its many rivalries, particulary its annual season-ending game against Ohio State, once voted as ESPN's best sports rivalry.

Michigan began competing in intercollegiate football in 1879. The Wolverines joined the Big Ten Conference at its inception in 1896, when the conference was commonly known as the Western Conference, and have been members since with the exception of a hiatus from 1907 to 1916. Michigan has won or shared 42 league titles, more than any other football program in any conference. Since the inception of the AP Poll in 1936, Michigan has finished in the top 10 a record 37 times. The Wolverines claim 11 national championships, most recently that of the 1997 squad voted atop the final AP Poll.

From 1900 to 1989, Michigan was led by a series of nine head coaches, each of whom have been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame either as a player or as a coach. Fielding H. Yost became Michigan's head coach in 1901 and guided his "Point-a-Minute" squads to a streak of 56 games without a defeat spanning from his arrival until the season finale in 1905, including a victory in the 1902 Rose Bowl, the first college football bowl game ever played. Fritz Crisler brought his winged helmet from Princeton University in 1938 and led the 1947 Wolverines to a national title and Michigan's second Rose Bowl win. Bo Schembechler coached the team for 21 seasons (1969-1989) in which he won 13 Big Ten titles and a program-record 194 games. The first decade of his tenure was underscored by a fierce competition with his former mentor, Woody Hayes, whose Ohio State Buckeyes squared off against Schembechler's Wolverines in a stretch of the Michigan-Ohio State rivalry dubbed the "Ten-Year War". After Schembechler's retirement, his longtime assistants Gary Moeller and Lloyd Carr, helmed the team for the next 18 years.

After Lloyd Carr retired in 2007, Rich Rodriguez took over as the team's head coach, and we all know how that ended up. Rodriguez led the Wolverines to a terrible 3-9 record in 2008. In 2009 he led them to a 5-7 record after starting the season 4-0, and in 2010, Rodriguez led Michigan to a 5-0 start, but wound up being only 7-5. One of the most unacceptable things people saw in Rich's brief stay as head coach of the Wolverines, was his 0-3 record against the Ohio State Buckeyes.

After Michigan's bowl game, which was the first one Rich Rodriguez had led them to in his career at Michigan, and a loss to Mississippi State, the Wolverines terminated his contract.

Michigan announced the hiring of Brady Hoke on January 11, 2011. Hoke led the Wolverines to a successful first season, beating rival Notre Dame in Michigan's first night game at Michigan Stadium in a spectacular comeback. Despite losing to Iowa and Michigan State, the Wolverines finished with a 10–2 regular season record with their first win over Ohio State in seven years. The Wolverines received an invitation to the Sugar Bowl in which they defeated the Virginia Tech Hokies, 23–20, in overtime.

Hoke is now looking to continue with this success that Michigan has been so used to seeing, but lacked for the three years RichRod was coach. A lot of things seem different in Ann Arbor. Familiar, but different. There's something in the air, and I think what you want to call it, is success. The Michigan fans, alumni, and players are all behind Brady Hoke, and believe that he can make Michigan the dominant Michigan that so many are so used to seeing.

Hail to the Victors.

Michigan Stadium | 109,901 Strong!

[Matt_GoBlue]

2013 Season
Preseason Rank: 1
Strength of Schedule: A-

Week 1: 08/31 vs Penn State [Victory: 52-0]
Week 2: 09/07 vs #22 Notre Dame* [Victory: 28-7]
Week 3: 09/14 vs #10 Virginia Tech [Victory: 31-21]
Week 4: 09/21 @ Oregon [Victory: 31-0]
Week 5: 09/28 vs West Virginia [Victory: 34-21]
Week 6: 10/05 vs Purdue [Victory: 41-14]
Week 7: 10/12 @ #5 Nebraska [Victory: 24-0]
Week 8: 10/19 @ #11 Michigan State*
Week 9:10/26 vs Minnesota*
Week 10: 11/02 @ Northwestern
Week 11: BYE
Week 12: 11/16 vs #15 Iowa
Week 13: 11/23 @ #7 Ohio State*

Blue = B1G Game
* = Rivalry Game


2012 Season
Preseason Rank: 9
Strength of Schedule: A

Week 1: vs #1 Alabama [Victory: 24-21]
Week 2: vs Air Force [Victory: 49-7]
Week 3: vs UMass [Victory: 34-7]
Week 4: @ Notre Dame* [Victory: 24-7]
Week 5: BYE
Week 6: @ Purdue [Victory: 48-7]
Week 7: vs Illinois [Victory: 28-6]
Week 8: vs #25 Michigan State* [Victory: 42-0]
Week 9: @ #13 Nebraska [Victory: 42-13]
Week 10: @ Minnesota* [Victory: 42-0]
Week 11: vs Northwestern [Victory: 45-3]
Week 12: vs #20 Iowa [Victory: 31-7]
Week 13: @ #13 Ohio State* [Victory: 31-0]

Big Ten Championship: vs #2 Wisconsin [Victory: 35-7]
BCS National Championship: #2 Arkansas [Victory: 35-7]

Dark Blue = B1G Game
* = Rivalry Game

[Matt_GoBlue]

2013 Season: 7-0 [currently playing]
2012 Season: 14-0

[Matt_GoBlue]

2012 Big Ten Championship: vs #2 Wisconsin [Victory: 35-7]

2012 BCS National Championship: #2 Arkansas [Victory: 35-7]

[Matt_GoBlue]

Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week [Week 6 - 2013]
Frank Clark - 3 Tkls, 2 TFL, ATK, 2 Scks, FR

Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week [Week 5 - 2013]
Frank Clark - 4 Tkls, 4 TFL, 4 Scks, FF

Bednarik Award
Nagusrki Award
Lombardi Award
Craig Roh - 25 Tkls, 15 ATK 20 Sacks, FF, FR

Biletnikoff Award
Roy Roundtree - 98 Rec, 1384 Yds, 18 TDs

Outland Award
Taylor Lewan - 2 Sacks Allowed

2012 Coach of the Year Award
Brady Hoke - 13-0, Big Ten Championship

Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week [Conference Championship Week - 2012]
Fitzgerald Toussaint - 16 Car, 79 Yds, 2 TDs

Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week [Week 11 - 2012]
Denard Robinson - 18/22, 233 Yds, 5 TDs

Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week [Week 6 - 2012]
Denard Robinson - 22/28, 289 Yds, 5 Total TDs

Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week [Week 6 - 2012]
Craig Roh - 3 Tkls, 3 Sks, 1 FF

Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week [Week 4 - 2012]
Jordan Kovacs - 3 Tkls, 2 INTs

Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week [Week 2 - 2012]
Fitzgerald Toussaint - 18 Car, 179 Yds, 4 TDs

[Matt_GoBlue]

Go ahead and post if you'd like. I have done some other Michigan dynasties, but this one is going to be an awesome dynasty. The best dynasty you have ever seen, in the history of your life...

Yeah, a little much... lol

[RussellBird]

I suppose I could follow this, even if it is Michigan.

[Matt_GoBlue]

Thank you. I am working on making a nice layout in Dreamweaver and will work on a lot of things to make it interesting.

[Matt_GoBlue]

I am going to try to play a game tonight, as well as get all my preseason stuff up, but I have had a busy day, and am not sure how much time I'll have tonight. I really hope you guys will like this dynasty.

[Proof21]

Well, you did say this will be the best dynasty ever. Good luck with Michigan.