Harbaugh 'all good' with Wolverines planting flag

After Michigan defeated Ohio State 45-23 connected Saturday, linebacker Michael Barrett grabbed a elephantine Michigan emblem and ran the width of the extremity zone, waving it successful beforehand of the remaining Wolverines fans astatine the stadium.

The Michigan players past ran up the tract with the elephantine emblem flapping down them, lone to onshore astatine midfield, wherever they planted the emblem connected the artifact "O" emblem astatine the 50-yard line. It was reminiscent of Baker Mayfield planting the Oklahoma emblem aft the Sooners bushed Ohio State 31-16 aboriginal successful the 2017 season.

The determination by Mayfield caused a disturbance and irritation from the Ohio State players, truthful Michigan manager Jim Harbaugh was asked however helium felt aft his players did the same.

"I privation to get that emblem and enactment it successful our museum," Harbaugh said.

He didn't articulate however it really made him consciousness oregon if helium thought it was a atrocious idea, but helium mentioned that thing goes successful this historical rivalry.

"I deliberation there's already plentifulness of substance to the rivalry," Harbaugh said. "They person songs, the 1 astir they don't springiness a damn astir the full authorities of Michigan. It's each good. It's been going connected for a century, don't you think?

"It's each good."

It's not the archetypal clip a squad has taunted the different successful this rivalry. Then-offensive coordinator Josh Gattis said Ohio State was a finesse squad and not a powerfulness squad connected the vigor aft past season's win. It was reported that manager Ryan Day told his players they would bent 100 points connected Michigan earlier the 2020 game, but this twelvemonth was different, with minimal bulletin committee worldly provided until Michigan planted its flag.

Instead of vitriol oregon disdain, Harbaugh said helium and his squad were grateful for their hostile anterior to Saturday's crippled and kept astir of his comments complimentary towards the Buckeyes.

Those comments spell on with the mantra Harbaugh has been preaching, that this play has been called a blessed ngo and referring to his players arsenic blessed warriors. It was each smiles aft the triumph implicit Ohio State, and that mantra of being blessed and grateful is the aforesaid mindset they'll instrumentality to Indianapolis for the Big Ten title game.

"It conscionable seemed precise reflective however we're each feeling going astir our day-to-day. It wasn't a grim mission; it wasn't filled with immoderate anxiousness oregon fear," Harbaugh said. "I would conscionable ticker them spell astir their concern successful meetings and workouts and practices, and they looked happy. They looked similar they had a bounce successful their measurement and it truly resonated with maine that that's what it looked like."

The blessed ngo continues arsenic the triumph kept Michigan undefeated and propelled the Wolverines into the Big Ten title against Purdue for a accidental astatine the archetypal outright back-to-back Big Ten titles since 1992.