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On Saturday, Michigan will host Rutgers and, in all likelihood, mercilessly pulverize a weaker team. To put it another way, it won’t be too different from what Penn State did to the Wolverines this past weekend.

Two and a half years into Jim Harbaugh’s tenure, this is the state of Michigan football: The Wolverines are decent. And that’s better than worse-than-decent, but it isn’t exactly a compliment, either, for one of the game’s pre-eminent powerhouses.