In terms of actual football, Harbaugh and No. 12 MI continue preparations for Saturday’s game against No. 8 Ohio State. He brought back the all white road jerseys, he brought back the Wolverine helmet decals, and on Tuesday night he went one step further. Tonight, while leading fans on a tour of Forest Hill Cemetary to see the graves of MI legends, Harbaugh smashed a buckeye nut with a hammer next to Bo Schembechler’s grave. His quarterback for Saturday’s showdown, Jake Rudock, also crushed a buckeye in front of Schembechler’s grave after arriving toward the end of the event, according to The Detroit News.
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They lost to the Spartans like they did two years ago, but he says their performance at this point in the season is much stronger than it was in 2013.
Jim Harbaugh is big on MI traditions. Harbaugh spoke at the grave of Schembechler, his coach at MI in the 1980s. “Nobody had more enthusiasm than Bob Ufer did”, Harbaugh said.
Woody Hayes and Bo Schembechler would have especially loved this year’s game.
“And then Coach Schembechler’s gravesite”.
It’s rivalry week in college football, as Jim Harbaugh recently reminded us in unusual fashion.
Harbaugh again was pressed on whether this game is bigger than others.
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And this year, he claimed steak will be on his family’s Thanksgiving table. That’s the way (the pilgrims) wanted it. Then creamed corn – if we could get some creamed corn, it would be one heck of a deal. The Buckeyes could be flat following a devastating loss to MI State that ostensibly knocked them out of the national championship race.
