Jim Harbaugh hasn’t done many of the things that Michigan football fans wanted him to do when he was hired as the Wolverines head coach. But one thing he did do, was in back the state.
Harbaugh came to Michigan at a time when Mark Dantonio and the Spartans owned the rivalry and the Paul Bunyan Trophy. Brady Hoke was able to beat Dantonio once, but it was clear that the Spartans had surpassed Michigan as the top football program in the state.
Only once Harbaugh came back, it didn’t last long.
Sure, there was the debacle back in 2015, the season that ended with a Big Ten championship and a trip to the College Football Playoff.