TAMPA, Fla. -- The Michigan football team wanted a victory in the Outback Bowl to launch it right side into spring.
Instead, it will go into the offseason nursing what could have been.
The Wolverines watched a two-score second-half lead slip away Monday, allowing 20 unanswered points in a 26-19 loss to South Carolina at the Outback Bowl.
Redshirt freshman Brandon Peters had his pass intercepted in the end zone with 7:53 to go, his first interception of his career.
Michigan closes the 2017 season on a three-game losing skid, and an 8-5 record, the worst of the Jim Harbaugh era.