There’s no argument that Michigan needed a little bit of luck to get past Western Michigan 13-12.Bryce Underwood received a second Hail Mary opportunity as officials determined that a Western Michigan defended touched his first throw in the final moments with one second left on the clock.
Underwood found J.J.Buchanan for the game-winning score.Is that a real reason to storm the field and act like you beat Ohio State? An emphatic no, says Carton, whose "Craig Carton Show" premieres on OutKick on Tuesday.
Carton put it better than I could.CRAIG CARTON: I'M BRINGING MY 'UNWAVERING, UNAPOLOGETIC' OPINIONS TO OUTKICKMichigan fans celebrate a narrow win over Western Michigan on Sept.5, 2026.
(Getty Images)"The thing that bothers me more than the hubris of adding a second to the game and giving Michigan another opportunity to win that game was the fact that there was 110,000 people at Michigan for that game and at the end of the game they stormed the field like they were Western Michigan knocking off a Big Ten team on the road," Carton said."And it just was a good reminder to me that even though Michigan is thought of as a top educational experience for the kids that take the six years they normally take to graduate, the reality is that they’re a bunch of morons."Now, we already know that Michigan is a corrupt athletic program.
We know that it’s a dirty athletic program.We know that coaches like to sleep with coeds there.
Coaches like to steal signs there.Coaches like to cheat there.
But what I didn’t know as a fact until Saturday night is that that 18-27 year olds that call Michigan their undergraduate home are morons.The fact that you would storm the field when barely beating and, let’s be honest, needing the Big Ten to cheat for you to win the game, the fact that you would storm the field when you won by a single point because you were given an extra second of time while 27-point favorites tells me everything I need to know about the type of kid that go...