Coach Carr was 20-8 vs top 10 teams.
7-2 vs Wisconsin including 6 straight from 1997-2002
10-2 vs MSU
6-7 vs OSU
Highlights
1995 beat #2 ohio state
1996 beat @5Colorado, @#2 ohio state
1997 beat 8 ranked teams
1998 beat #11 arkansas
1999 beat @#20 Wisconsin, #11 Purdue, @11 purdue, Ohio State and Alabama
2000 beat @19 illinois, @12 Ohio Stste, #20 Auburn
You get the drift
5 Big Ten Titles, 2 outright. AP national champion
A nothing post for the cult of Harbaugh who says it cant get better than this. For true
September 22nd, 2019 at 1:17 AM ^
I hate these stats about record vs top whatever teams. You know what Michigan has been the last 5 years? Good. Not great. Good. But good beats not good. And after a few wins over not good, you think they might be great. And when you realize your not great. You blow it up and start over. And because of that, you lose the thing that has teams like Clemson rolling. Consistency. They knew who they were. Rolled with the adversities (granted, fortunate to not have to answer to overreactions to games against msu or osu) and are running better and better players through a system they never gave up on.
that’s what Carr had. Years (with small tweaks throughout) of the same system. From bo to moeller to carr. No one blew up anything.
that’s the only thing I fault Harbaugh for. He hasn’t shown he’s committed to anything so much he’s willing to live through the lumps. Maybe this offense is it?
i had a high school coach that coached a sport for nearly 40 years now. He’s run the same program every year. He’s won state championships in 3 different decades. Bad years in between, but, consistency paired with a good Class of athletes produces. Each decade a new “way” becomes the hype and we all think the sport has passed him by. And then he wins it all, his way. Because he’s convinced so much that his way works...that it works.
September 22nd, 2019 at 9:35 AM ^
This is such a good post. Gattis' new offense has stripped this team of its identity. The team's identity used to be similar to what Wisconsin has. It needs to get back to that.
September 22nd, 2019 at 2:06 AM ^
Coach Carr, while you can't blame him for what happened today, started this trend. So STFU and go live in the past if that's what you're really trying to say.
September 22nd, 2019 at 2:34 AM ^
Lloyd had NFL teams that should have had an Alabama run.
September 22nd, 2019 at 12:01 PM ^
He inherited a stacked team and had John Cooper as his biggest competition....he had quick success and then slowly glided down to a team that was ranked #5 in the country and lost App State at home....and the Oregon at home the very next week.
Situations matter.