ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Michigan football never had a high-flying offense in the Jim Harbaugh era, and with Sherrone Moore taking over this year, the expectation wasn’t that it would suddenly, but that it would be a continuation of what came before him.
However, that’s not what’s happened. In fact, it’s gone in reverse.
The Wolverines won a national championship in 2023 with the 69th-ranked total offense out of 134 teams — exactly middling while relying on a national best defense. But in 2024, Michigan’s offensive attack ranks 130th out of the 134 teams in college football.
It hasn’t looked good on Main Street but star tight end Colston Loveland still has faith that what they see on State Street can come to fruition sometime in the next two games.
“Obviously, a lot of stuff hasn’t gone the way we wanted to,” Loveland said. “Just need two more guaranteed games to go out there and just put it on tape. I feel like we can as an offense, we got the ability to kind of — I sound like a broken record, but we got the potential. And potential doesn’t mean anything if you can’t go do it.
“But just really focused on going out there, putting really good tape on on film as an offense, working together. Rush game, run game, hitting, pass game hitting. Kind of just need that. Need everything to click. So this bye will be good. Get another week of preparation on Northwestern, go attack it.”
While seeing is believing and Loveland has seen what the offense can be behind the scenes, faith without works is dead.
Still, given the trust that the players have in each other and the work they put in, they’re confident that at some point in the next two games — hosting Northwestern or at Ohio State — these Wolverines will get the offensive payoff they’ve been waiting for and working toward.
“Trusting the process, really,” Loveland said. “We’re so close in here in the building, so I know, and all the guys know, we could really be something. We…
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