As the Big Ten season continues to sort its weird self out, here is the one lesson that must be remembered when ranking teams from that conference: Michigan is terrible, and beating it carries limited value.
For eternity, a victory over the winningest program in the history of college football was a big freaking deal. If you defeated the Wolverines, you did something significant. Probably something worthy of being ranked.
That ain’t the case in 2020. Michigan is 1-3, and a bad 1-3 at that. After beating a reallllly awful Minnesota team in the season opener, the Wolverines have not led for a second in any of their three subsequent losses to Michigan State (blech), Indiana and Wisconsin.