[Ed. I don’t know if this helps or hurts your Saturday hangover, but reader Daniel shared this via email today and I had to post it. Great Stuff] ** Guest post by Daniel Florip ** As depressed as we are about the 31-0 butt-kicking Saturday night, let’s also continue to be depressed about the end of this very hotly contested and entertaining rivalry. I decided to look at the numbers, and it’s amazing how even the modern rivalry was. Take a look at the 31 modern games in the series, from 1978 to 2014: The wins and losses were right down the middle: M 15, ND 15, 1 tie The points scored were pretty even too, over 31 games: M 716, ND 660. The per-game average score of M 23, ND 21 suggests a whole lot of very close contests and a very even series. Each school defended its home turf at pretty much the same clip:* M Record in Ann Arbor: 10-5* ND Record in South Bend: 10-5-1 And this was not a streaky series by any means:* Longest ND Winning Streak: 4 (1987-1990)* Longest M Winning Streak: 3 (2009-2011)* (No other streaks longer than 2 games.) The records were pretty close no matter the margin of victory. Blowout wins (def: Generally 18 points or more, but also given…