You’ve made your phone calls to U-M fans.

You’ve made toasts to Armanti Edwards.

You’ve ordered your Mountaineers T-shirt.

Now it’s time to put it all behind us.

We, as MSU students, have done absolutely nothing to warrant the insane amount of celebration that has accompanied U-M’s loss. In case you all forgot, MSU defeated Alabama-Birmingham last week with a 55-18 score. Why not celebrate that?

I’m guilty just as much as anybody else of the extreme satisfaction derived from Big Blue’s collapse. While in the press box last week, I paid more attention to ESPN GameCast during the second half than the game I was covering (but don’t tell my editors). When I learned of the final to the U-M game, it felt as if the world were knocked off its axis and I was floating away to some mythical never-never land.

It was bliss.

But this post-apocalyptic soiree can only last for so long. At some point, we need to come back down to earth.

I’m cutting off the helium for all of you right now. Your highs need to end here.

By creating Facebook groups, custom ordering Appalachian State apparel and being an overall nuisance to Wolverines fans (don’t get me wrong, it’s my favorite pastime) we are sending the wrong message. We are showcasing an inferiority complex that U-M students have always accused us of harboring.

Many people at this university probably once aspired to don the maize and blue and, eventually, be one of those tear-stained 100,000-plus fans at the Big House on Saturday (and we all knew this upset would occur, so I can justifiably write that it would have happened and you would have been crying more than … well, fans of a football powerhouse losing to a second-tier school). So, if you have any hatred toward those in Ann Arbor because they didn’t let you in, don’t display it – that just makes the rest of us look pathetic because we take more joy from their team failing than ours succeeding.

Let’s not forget, also, that if you’re here, you’re most likely a Spartans fan. Where was all this rejoicing after the blowout last week? Hardly anybody spoke of it. When the U-M score rolled in, the game thousands of students had just witnessed firsthand at Spartan Stadium was shoved aside like people standing in Louie Anderson’s way at an Old Country Buffet.

Did you forget senior running back Jehuu Caulcrick’s four-touchdown masterpiece?

Did you forget junior quarterback Brian Hoyer completed his first 10 passes in his inaugural game as the team’s official signal caller?

Did you forget that the Spartans defense held UAB to just 12 net yards on the ground?

The players don’t want to hear about U-M’s loss. Oh sure, they smiled when asked about it, but you could tell that’s not their focus. The Spartans have 11 more games to play, including one against those Wolverines.

I know, I know – The WOLVERINES lost to APPALACHIAN STATE! Well, I don’t care that much anymore. Yes, it’s great, it’s sad, it’s funny. But will it be funny if the Wolverines trounce the Spartans in East Lansing in November? Probably not.

It’s OK to be happy with U-M’s loss, Spartans fans. But put the party on hold – MSU hasn’t won anything yet.

Ah, right. That’s not what this party’s about.

Zack Colman is a State News football reporter. Reach him at colmanz1@msu.edu.