Michigan Football: 3 takeaways from Wisconsin drubbing

The road woes continue to plague Michigan football after a humbling loss that the Wolverines didn’t seem ready for.

Everything that could go wrong in Madison did on Saturday afternoon. Michigan football got manhandled from the opening drive. Jonathan Taylor and the offensive line set the tone and didn’t let up. It was a nightmare that became a reality of what everyone witnessed two weeks ago in the Army matchup.

Michigan football shot out of the cannon on the first offensive drive with a pass caught in stride by Ronnie Bell that got the Wolverines inside the 10-yard line. Two snaps later was the beginning of the end with a Ben Mason fumble. Throw in a disputed Ronnie Bell reception on the next drive that was unbelievably overturned and Michigan was finished.

Nothing good came out of this for the maize and blue. They had two weeks to prepare for Wisconsin and flat-out got thrashed by a powerful Badger team. It feels like there is a mental block that just keeps rearing its ugly head in road games that Michigan cannot get over and will continue to haunt them for as long as Harbaugh’s term goes on.

This beatdown is reminiscent to the entire disappointing tenure to the Jim Harbaugh era thus far. In year five at the helm, Harbaugh’s program is not supposed to perform like this. The hype that his squad received heading into this season is absurdly ludicrous with what has derived on the field so far through three outings. Something drastic has to be done to somehow save the rest of the road that only gets tougher from here.