IOWA CITY — Never mind escaping the field before the stampede. Not every Michigan football player was even to his feet before the throngs descended from the Kinnick Stadium bleachers on Saturday night, leaving empty beer cans and Marlboro packs in their wake, orphaning mittens in their delirious rush from the stands to the field. The Wolverines had lost for the first time in 2016, crash-landing with a 14–13 defeat, the first truly suspect effort in a previously unimpeachable season. But that bouncing, screaming mass of bodies delighting in their demise was actually the hardest thing to get by.
Its playoff path narrowed, Michigan rushes to move on from Iowa stunner
