Michigan Football feels like its in the Twilight Zone

It’s been hard to explain some of Michigan football’s losses under Jim Harbaugh, which leads one to ask, are the Wolverines cursed? 

Happy Halloween, Michigan football fans. Good luck with the trick or treating.

Unfortunately, the Wolverines were stuck with nothing but rotten candy on Saturday. Their trip to East Lansing was like walking up to the door of a big house, expecting a king-size Snickers and coming away with nothing but old apple slices.

It just leaves a bitter taste in your mouth.

Michigan football should have beaten Michigan State on Saturday. Yes, the refs got in the way and impacted the outcome, but the Wolverines had plenty of chances — some that literally slipped right through their fingers.

There was the Blake Corum drop on the second drive of the game.

Michigan football was already leading 7-0 and Corum was wide open out of the backfield. He would have had to make a guy miss but he dropped it and a potential touchdown disappeared.

It wouldn’t be the last time.

Every Michigan football fan will remember Aidan Hutchinson’s touchdown getting overturned, but how about RJ Moten having an interception go through his hands? Or J.J. McCarthy, Michigan’s five-star quarterback fumbling a handoff with a three-point lead in the fourth quarter?

It’s kind of hard to believe it all went wrong, just like it was hard to believe that “Trouble with the snap” actually happened. The same can be said for the JT Barrett was short (except in the eyes of replay officials) fiasco in Columbus.

You almost can’t make this stuff up. I mean seriously, is this the Twilight Zone?

What makes it even worse is that in Harbaugh’s three most-brutal losses: 2015 Michigan State, 2016 Ohio State, and the 2021 Michigan State, the Wolverines had a two-score advantage in each game and somehow, someway, found a way to lose.

Don’t even get me started on the Kordell Stewart Hail Mary or Spartan Bob. Just when will the suffering end?

Maybe never because Harbaugh seems cursed too.

Like when his punt returner inexplicably fumbled in overtime of the 2011 NFC championship game, sending New York to the Super Bowl, which it eventually won.

Harbaugh’s team then came yards away from winning the Super Bowl the next year, only again, to fall just short.

Harbaugh has won plenty of big games and he’s won some at Michigan — because Michigan State and Ohio State aren’t the only games that qualify, but after all bitterness and despair, at some point, things have to change right?

Unless there really is a curse and if there is, who are we supposed to call? Ghostbusters, Michael Scott, the exorcist, — who?

It’s supernatural and something you can’t explain, which is exactly what you can say about Jim Harbaugh’s struggles at Michigan — unexplainable.