This summer, the college football world couldn’t get enough of Michigan and coach Jim Harbaugh. Football writers focused on Harbaugh’s every move, with a big spotlight on the Wolverines’ quarterback competition.
Perhaps they missed the biggest story, though: the Wolverines defense. Michigan has made a surprising push into the Top 25 with passable offense, but the backbone of its success has been a nasty, opportunistic defensive front.
Saturday’s 28-0 shutout of Maryland, coupled with a 31-0 whitewashing of BYU, marked the program’s first back-to-back shutouts since October 2000, when Michigan blanked Indiana and Michigan State.
