Michigan’s biggest advantage walking into a Homecoming fistfight with Iowa might be its ugly black eye.
That’s different than eye black, stuff the Wolverines will load on extra thick when they square off against the No. 14 Hawkeyes. No, this black eye hasn’t gone away, despite plenty of concealer, including a 52-0 win over hapless Rutgers.
You get better, or you get worse, Michigan coaches loved to say down through the years. At Wisconsin, it couldn’t have gotten much worse.
The Wolverines got clotheslined across the bridge of the nose and embarrassed in the Big Ten opener. They got alternately challenged or mocked on social media, depending upon the whether the commentator involved a disillusioned U-M lover or an ardent hater.
Either way, Jim Harbaugh’s team needed to drag itself up off the canvas and make changes, quickly. How well they did so couldn’t get definitively proven against the Scarlet Knights, even if the score wound up 110-0.
