While all teams are ultimately measured by wins and losses, the true measure of success is improvement. Hemingway wrote, “There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”
Now, we would all take inferiority over former selves if it meant superiority over the Ohio State Buckeyes, but the point remains the same.
The 2021 Michigan Wolverines are a great example of improvement week to week. The defense used to struggle with screens (Washington), misdirection (Nebraska) and passes to the outside (Rutgers), but have cleaned up all three areas of vulnerability.