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Harbaugh Downplays Ohio State Rivalry

During Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh's weekly press conference, he referenced the 1969 Michigan football team, Bo Schembechler and the indelible mark quarterback Jake Rudock has made on the Wolverines.

Jim Harbaugh looked out the Crisler Center windows at the snow and referenced the 1969 Michigan football team. That year, a new coach took over Ann Arbor and began the most famed era of Michigan football.

“Today, I’m most reminded of a time I wasn’t even here,” Harbaugh said on Monday during his weekly press conference. “I just read about it and heard players from the 1969 team talk about the practice the week before The Game.