2021 — Season 2021

Record 12-1
Final Result CFP Appearance
AP Final #2 post-bowls
SP+ +11.2 last-week
Era The Harbaugh Return
The Shape — week-by-week · cumulative W–L below
W vs West Mic 47-14 W vs Washin 31-10 W vs Nort Ill 63-10 W vs Rutgers 20-13 W @ Wiscon 38-17 W @ Nebraska 32-29 W vs Northw 33-7 L @ Mich St 33-37 W vs Indiana 29-7 W @ Penn St 21-17 W @ Maryland 59-18 W vs Ohio St 42-27 W @ Iowa 42-3 L vs Georgia 11-34 CFP

Who carried it

Season leaders, 2021.

What It Meant

2021 reached the CFP — the modern era's table-stakes benchmark — and sits in Michigan's peak-tier chapters.