More Teams. More Games. Michigan advances to the College Football Playoff title game after Jalen Milroe is stopped on fourth down in overtime. (0:50) PASADENA, Calif. — Just over an hour after top-seeded Michigan had outlasted No. 4 Alabama in a 27-20 overtime thriller at the Rose Bowl, Wolverines quarterback J.J. McCarthy slipped back into […]
Continue readingMore Teams. More Games. Relive the biggest storylines from the Alabama Crimson Tide and Michigan Wolverines as they face off New Year’s Day in the 2024 Rose Bowl Game on ESPN. (1:05) By Paolo Uggetti, Kyle Bonagura and Adam Rittenberg LOS ANGELES — Jim Harbaugh is nowhere to be seen, but his influence is everywhere. […]
Continue readingMore Teams. More Games. Michigan interim head coach Sherrone Moore describes his team’s feelings for Jim Harbaugh and how the players wanted to beat Ohio State for him. (0:29) ANN ARBOR, Mich. — When suspended Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh addressed his team Friday night, he recited Bo Schembechler’s famous line — “The team, the team, […]
Continue readingMore Teams. More Games. Quinn Ewers rushes for two touchdowns and throws for another, leading Texas to a big win over Kansas. (1:26) Week 5 didn’t quite deliver the drama of Week 4, Notre Dame-Duke notwithstanding, but it tried. Two top-10 teams — the Georgia Bulldogs and USC Trojans — avoided road upsets, while another, […]
Continue readingCoach Deion Sanders said his Colorado Buffaloes were coming in 2023, and now they’ve arrived in our Power Rankings. The Buffaloes’ 45-42 victory in Week 1 at No. 17 TCU, the national runner-up in the 2022 season, made believers out of ESPN’s writers. Colorado, which had only one win last season, went from unranked to […]
Continue readingMore Teams. More Games. Jim Harbaugh says he watched Michigan’s win with offensive coordinator Sherrone Moore and was very happy with what he saw on the field. (1:04) Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh and offensive coordinator Sherrone Moore both were serving suspensions for the team’s opener against East Carolina, so they decided to watch together at […]
Continue readingMore Teams. More Games. Pete Thamel explains what Michigan’s self-imposed suspension for Jim Harbaugh means in the short and long term. (1:08) ANN ARBOR, Mich. — When Santa Ono’s phone pinged on Jan. 16 with intel that Jim Harbaugh would return to coach Michigan in 2023 and not bolt for the NFL, he did what […]
Continue readingThe No. 2 Michigan Wolverines have won the Big Ten championship and seemingly punched their ticket to the College Football Playoff. Michigan dominated the No. 13 Iowa Hawkeyes, winning 42-3. The offense accumulated 461 total yards, the defense forced a turnover — even the special-teams group got involved, blocking a punt in the fourth quarter. […]
Continue readingWhen Michigan plays Minnesota on Saturday (7:30 p.m. ET, ABC), it will mark the first time Jim Harbaugh opens a season as head coach of the Wolverines with a starting quarterback he recruited out of high school. Let that sink in. Harbaugh has had holdovers from the previous staff and transfers brought in in an […]
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