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The 1957 Michigan Wolverines football team represented the University of Michigan in the 1957 Big Ten Conference football season.In its 10th year under head coach Bennie Oosterbaan, Michigan compiled a 5–3–1 record (3–3–1 against conference opponents), finished in sixth place in the Big Ten, and outscored opponents by a combined total of 187 to 147.
Until 2006, this was the last time that major professional teams from Michigan and Ohio met in a postseason game (or series) in any sport. This was the last NFL playoff game played in the city of Detroit other than Super Bowl XL until 2024 as the Lions' other two home playoff games prior (1992 and 1994) were at the Silverdome in suburban Pontiac.
The team competes in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) and is a member of the Pioneer Football League (PFL). Butler's first football team was fielded in 1887. The team plays its home games at the 7,500 seat Bud and Jackie Sellick Bowl (historically Butler Bowl) in Indianapolis. The Bulldogs are coached by Kevin Lynch.
2018 Outback Bowl, 26-19 loss to South Carolina. On the very first day of 2018, Michigan finished the 2017 season with a loss to South Carolina, Harbaugh's first defeat to an SEC team at Michigan.
Bryant, who had transformed the Aggies from a 1–9 team in 1953 to a contender (Texas A&M was undefeated in 1956, and their two losses in 1957 were by a total of three points), would accept the job as head coach at his alma mater Alabama at season's end. No. 2 Ohio State and No. 3 Michigan State were both 8–1 in the regular season, but Ohio ...
Advertisement for the stadium's night football game on October 3, 1930. October 3: Soldier Field hosted its first night football game when the Oregon Ducks defeated the Drake Bulldogs 14–7 [7] before a crowd of 12,000. [140] This was followed by a second college football game at Soldier Field between the Loyola Ramblers and the Georgetown ...
The 1956–57 NCAA football bowl games were a series of post-season games played in December 1956 and January 1957 to end the 1956 college football season. A total of seven team-competitive games, [ 1 ] and four all-star games, were played.
Al Butler was so good in high school, that in 1996, a panel of experts voted him Section V's all-time best player.