BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Michigan football coach Jim Harbaugh said all week long the Wolverines were in for a battle Saturday against Indiana.
He did his best to convince others of as much, going through the list of tight games Michigan has played against Indiana, including a loss in its last trip to Bloomington in 2020. But few listened to his warnings about the potential trap game, which Michigan opened as a 22½-point favorite before its top-10 showdown with Penn State.
Turned out, he was right.
The Wolverines got everything they could handle — plus some scary adversity when running backs coach Mike Hart collapsed on the sideline in the first half — but despite playing their sloppiest game of the season, U-M outlasted an Indiana squad spurred on by its Homecoming crowd and pulled away in the fourth quarter, 31-10, to remain undefeated.