Jim Harbaugh's coaching debut at Michigan produced the largest crowd in the history of Rice-Eccles Stadium.
It also produced the game you'd expected from a blue-collar coach still trying to get a read on college football's truest-blue program.
The result hovered somewhere between brutish and boring.
Harbaugh played it close-to-the-khakis with a team he inherited, but does not yet fully know.
He took few chances, mostly played for field position but did offer Michigan fans a glimpse of better days to come.
Better would not come Thursday, however, on the road, against a Utah team that is further down the development road.