Michigan Football: 3 takeaways from blowout win over Colorado State

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Sep 3, 2022; Ann Arbor, MI, USA; Michigan Wolverines head coach Jim Harbaugh catches during warmups before the game against the Colorado State Rams on Saturday, Sept. 3, 2022. Mandatory Credit: Kirthmon F. Dozier-USA TODAY Sports /

2. Jim Harbaugh refused to open the playbook

This is kind of what everyone expected heading into this game. Michigan was going to win this game with ease, so why give too much of the playbook away?

Still, fans wanted to see a little more from the passing game, I’m sure.

Michigan kept to the ground for the most part and kind of lulled Colorado State to sleep with well over 200 rushing yards and four touchdowns. Cade McNamara didn’t get to air anything out and even his lone touchdown was on a short receiver screen that Roman Wilson took 61 yards to the house. There was no real ‘wow’ play and even the run game hovered around 5-6 yards per carry for most of the game.

When you’re the clearly superior team and you’re scoring without a ton of effort, there’s no need to dig into that playbook, even more, to put style points on the board, but it kind of hampered the quarterback battle — which we’ll get to here in a minute.

The Michigan offense was very Jim Harbaugh-like.

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