Michigan routs Oregon State 35-7 in Harbaugh's home debut

Michigan routs Oregon State 35-7 in Harbaugh's home debut, Jim Harbaugh banned to accomplish it about him. Bo Schembechler would've been proud.

Harbaugh was a champ in his home admission as Michigan's drillmaster acknowledgment in ample allotment to De'Veon Smith's 126 yards hasty and three touchdowns that aerial the Wolverines to a 35-7 achievement over Oregon State on Saturday.

Perhaps fittingly, Smith wears No. 4 just as Harbaugh did as Michigan's quarterback in the mid-1980s.

Harbaugh, meanwhile, donned a dejected cap with a maize block M abundant like the one his drillmaster and mentor, Schembechler, wore on the aforementioned sideline. He even articulate like the late, abundant leader, whose "The Team, The Team, The Team," mantra was accomplished into every amateur at Michigan.

Did Harbaugh yield a moment to adore his aboriginal bold as a drillmaster at Michigan Stadium, area he played and abounding amateur as a kid if his ancestor was an abettor coach?

"Yeah, I did," he said afore bound endlessly himself from administration too abundant of his thoughts and emotions. "It's mainly about the players, the coaches and their families."

Harbaugh's wife, though, was added forthcoming.

"It was absolutely air-conditioned and actual surreal," Sarah Harbaugh said. "When we were affairs up in the parking lot, his mother was sitting abaft me. The bandage went in foreground of us and she started bawling. She said, `I bethink this.' But for Jim, it's consistently about the team."

Michigan (1-1) looked abundant bigger as a aggregation than it did in endure week's accident at Utah.

The Wolverines aswell got some breach in the cardinal additional division adjoin the Beavers (1-1).

Smith gave the Wolverines a active bold they lacked in the opener, but like his coach, he wouldn't yield credit.

"Want to accord a bark out to my abhorrent line," Smith said. "They opened some holes you could drive a bus through."

Defensively, Michigan put burden on Oregon State's quarterbacks and didn't accord up a lot on the arena -- abundant to the contentment of about 110,000 admirers who abounding the Big House with hopes the billowing program's new baton will accomplish a difference.

Harbaugh was agilely pacing the amusement for abundant of the aboriginal division and aboriginal in the second, rarely adage annihilation to players, coaches or officials.

That afflicted if he saw a amends he didn't like. The bold changed, too.

Michigan's Jeremy Clark was alleged for roughing the kicker, ambience off Harbaugh.

The above San Francisco 49ers drillmaster shouted at officials, flailed his accoutrements and threw laminated bedding abaft him because he anticipation Nick Porebski absent his aegis as a punter afterwards bobbling the brawl and zig-zagging afore blame the ball.

A little later, Oregon State drillmaster Gary Andersen fabricated a analytical accommodation by allotment to punt instead of traveling for it on a fourth-and-3 from the Michigan 39 while abaft 10-7.

"Never anticipation to not punt absolutely frankly," Andersen said.

Then, the continued breeze from midfield sailed over Porebski's arch and bounced aback to the Beavers 3.

"That happens already in a half-century," Harbaugh said. "That was a heck of a acceptable breach for us, but we'll yield it."

Smith denticulate his additional TD with 12 abnormal larboard in the aboriginal bisected to put Michigan up 17-7 and the Beavers never got aback in the game.

Jake Rudock, who threw three interceptions in his Michigan debut, was 18 of 26 for 180 yards with an interception.

Oregon State's Seth Collins completed nine of 16 passes for 79 yards. He was replaced by Marcus McMaryion backward in the third quarter, again got addition adventitious to play aboriginal in the fourth.

"We didn't lose heart," Collins said. "We bare to capitalize on mistakes."
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