Who would you rather: Michigan or Wisconsin?

There isn't much spleen on these internets coming from Wisconsin fans despite the fact that their team has lost 3 in a row rather spectacularly. This is, in large part, due to the lack of a Wisconsin blog of note combined with the fact that most Wisconsinites are generally good natured folks who don't get too worked up about this sort of thing. This is the result I got by typing in "angry Wisconsin fan" into youtube:



When this is as angry as your fanbase gets, you don't get a whole lot of internet spleen.

Michigan, on the other hand, has internet capable fans exploding into mushroom clouds of high hopes colliding violently with hard reality. Despite the fact that Michigan was expected to suck this year, most of the fanbase can be seen curled up on a public bathroom floor, kicking at nothing but their own pain. Oh - that's not a metaphor:



But, despite the spleen, Michigan was expected to suck this year. With the attrition, and the new coach, and the transfers, the fanbase - or at least the educated fanbase - saw this coming. It still hurts (witness nearly every Michigan blog for evidence of this hurting. Brian killed a guy.), but that hurting is somewhat numbed by lowered expectation.

Wisconsin, on the other hand, had a top ten team that most thought would challenge for the Big Ten. After Ohio State went down to USC, and subsequently proved that they weren't going to be world-beaters in the Big Ten, many Wisconsinites had their eyes set on Pasadena as a back-up plan. They wanted that Crystal Trophy.

Then, in one half of football against a woeful Michigan team, the wheels fell off the bus, the bus exploded, and the wheels continued to roll over every Wisconsin fan's dog before finally igniting the dairy barn's milkin' room. Things got ugly fast. Now, after those insanely high hopes, Wisconsin finds themselves 0-3 in the Big Ten, and fighting for their bowl lives. Not Rose Bowl, mind you, just plain old bowl.

They will find themselves in a bowl, no doubt, but with those sky high expectations for this team, how can the fans not be hopelessly depressed and disappointed?

So my question is, who would you rather?

Michigan: Lowered expectations vs. even lower reality

or

Wisconsin: Super-high expectations vs. crushing defeat

Answers in the poll on the sidebar, reasons in the comments.