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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 27 December 2024. Football team of the University of Michigan Michigan Wolverines football 2024 Michigan Wolverines football team First season 1879 ; 145 years ago Athletic director Warde Manuel Head coach Sherrone Moore 1st season, 8–5 (.615) Stadium Michigan Stadium (capacity: 107,601) Year built ...
The university team played its first game against Racine College in May 1879, and Irving Kane Pond scored the first touchdown in Michigan football history. In 1881, the Michigan football team traveled to the East and played a series of games that marked the beginning of football as an inter-sectional game.
Michigan Stadium, where the Wolverines have played since 1927. This is a list of seasons completed by the Michigan Wolverines football team of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS). Since the team's creation in 1879, the Wolverines have participated in more than 1,200 officially ...
2018 Outback Bowl, 26-19 loss to South Carolina. On the very first day of 2018, Michigan finished the 2017 season with a loss to South Carolina, Harbaugh's first defeat to an SEC team at Michigan.
A football signed by Woody Hayes and gifted to President Gerald Ford that lists the scores of the Michigan–Ohio State game from 1932 to 1934, the three years that Ford played on Michigan's varsity team. Michigan won three of four contests between 1930 and 1933, claiming the national championship twice.
The two football teams compete for the Little Brown Jug, a five-gallon jug with the respective schools' "M"s on either side and the scores of previous games down the middle. The Little Brown Jug was the first trophy played for between college football teams. Through 2023, Michigan leads the Brown Jug series 77–25–3.
Michigan football is no stranger to national championships, but it remains unfamiliar with national championship games.. Despite a rich college football history that dates back to the program's ...
1932 national championship team including Gerald Ford (No. 48), Harry Newman (No. 46), and Willis Ward (No. 61). After Michigan compiled a 3–4–1 record (2–3 Big Ten) in 1928, Michigan athletic director Fielding H. Yost announced in May 1929 that head football coach Tad Wieman would not be a member of the coaching staff in the fall. [1]