College Football Playoff 2023: Takeaways from Alabama-Michigan, Texas-Washington - ESPN
Three years ago, Jim Harbaugh was just about done. Harbaugh had rebuilt Stanford into a top-five program, led the San Francisco 49ers to the Super Bowl and quickly restored Michigan to respectability. His Wolverines had come up ever so slightly short of a Big Ten championship (and likely College Football Playoff) bid in 2016, but by the end of 2020, they had lost six of their last eight, and he had to take a pay cut to keep his job. Surely the end was in sight.
