Jim Harbaugh-coached teams usually play like well-oiled machines; something got caught in the gears on Saturday in Iowa City. For the first time this season, Michigan football played down to its opponent, and it paid for it in the form of a 14-13 loss at the hands of a 5-4 Kirk Ferentz-coached team.
Michigan football has now dropped four straight at Kinnick Stadium, and the last time Iowa beat a top two team was in 1985 at home against the Wolverines. Kinnick does weird things to otherwise good Wolverine squads, and playing a team with little to lose at night doesn’t help either.