For weeks, we had been told that this Michigan football team was on the precipice of doing something great. The work was being put in. The preparation and effort in practice was at a high level. But to some of us, media included (and myself included), those words from Jim Harbaugh rang hollow until the results showed on the field.
We saw it start to percolate during the final 2.5 quarters of the effort at Penn State, but the Wolverines dug themselves too deep a hole to climb out of and didn’t make enough big plays.
They didn’t let that become an issue on Saturday night against the eighth-ranked Notre Dame Fighting Irish.