Michigan has closed the talent gap in the Ohio State rivalry in most areas except for one.
Quarterback.
We need a quick aside before getting further into this.
One of the more frustrating media narratives of the Jim Harbaugh era is his supposed inability to develop a quarterback, despite that being his expertise.
It’s as if the first 22 games of his tenure in Ann Arbor don’t count. Despite inheriting three Al Borges quarterbacks in Shane Morris, Wilton Speight and the already-committed Alex Malzone, Harbaugh made Dalwhinnie Scotch out of moonshine dirt in his first two years.