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Kornacki: Harbaugh's Two Bad Memories of Iowa City

ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Michigan and Iowa sat atop the Associated Press college football poll midway through the 1985 season and met at Kinnick Stadium in a showdown game on a cool, drizzly mid-October afternoon in Iowa City.

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Brent Musburger and former Notre Dame coach Ara Parseghian called the game on CBS-TV, and there was such high national demand for press box seating that Tom Slade and Tom Hemingway had to call the game for WUOM radio from the roof in an auxiliary booth.

So much has changed in 31 years, but there are two constants as the Wolverines return to Iowa City Saturday night (Nov.