Back in 2004, Michigan football won a share of the Big Ten title, splitting the honor with Iowa.
The season before, No. 5 Michigan football defeated No. 4 Ohio State in The Game, earning the title outright for the Wolverines and securing a spot in the Rose Bowl pitted against top-ranked USC and their daunting head coach Pete Carroll. That matchup didn’t end well.
Since 2004, crickets.
The dark ages of U-M football began immediately following Lloyd Carr’s departure in 2007. While Brady Hoke was able to conjure up 11 wins once, the light didn’t shine on The Big House until the man in the Khakis strutted down the tunnel to the cheers of hundreds of thousands of eager fans begging for relief from the many woes plaguing the program.