IOWA CITY, Iowa -- On a day when the College Football Playoff became a wild scramble for inclusion, Michigan joined Clemson and Washington as teams that lost while bracketed in the latest rankings to be headed to the national semifinals.
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And the way the Wolverines were defeated was so stunningly similar to the way they lost here 31 years ago, when they were also ranked No. 2 and a walk-on kicker for Iowa lined up to ruin their undefeated season. Jim Harbaugh, the Michigan quarterback in 1985, was now its head coach.