Michigan Football: 5 things we learned in blowout loss at Wisconsin

Michigan football was demolished Saturday by Wisconsin and here is a look at five things we learned about the Wolverines following the loss.

There is nothing wrong with losing to Wisconsin. It has happened to plenty of good teams over the years and it will continue to. What was disturbing Saturday was the way Michigan football lost to the Badgers.

In a game that had Big Ten championship and even College Football Playoff implications, Michigan football decided not to show up, not even after it was dogged on for two weeks. Not even that was enough to get the Wolverines fired up for this one.

Wisconsin, on the other hand, was out for blood. The Badgers remembered the 38-13 beatdown handed to them in Ann Arbor last season and they responded in kind.

Jonathan Taylor earned his third 100-yard game over Michigan by the end of the first quarter. By the time Jack Coan scampered into the end zone late in the second half, the party was on at Camp Randall and the celebration came at the Wolverines expense.

I don’t want to say there was a lack of effort, cause that’s not really fair. But there certainly seemed to be a lack of fire and there definitely wasn’t a lot of fight.

This is gut-check time for Michigan football and that’s especially true for Jim Harbaugh, Don Brown and Josh Gattis. Each is among the highest-paid coaches in their jobs and they are all failing right now.

With that said, here are five things we learned from Michigan football’s embarrassing loss.