11 wins next season will give Michigan historic CFB achievement

11 more wins for Michigan will put the victors in rarified air across all of college football.

Let’s see if Jim Harbaugh’s Michigan Wolverines team can go to 11 for the third year in a row.

This appears to be another golden era of Wolverines football. Jim Harbaugh has transformed his alma mater’s football program from a shameless underachiever to the cream of the crop in the Big Ten. With back-to-back Big Ten titles and consecutive College Football Playoff berths, one could easily argue that Michigan is the best team not named the Georgia Bulldogs to win it all next year.

Of course, they need to get to 11 wins first. Should Michigan be able to hit that odd number, it will be the first college football program to win 1,000 games in its history. If the Wolverines start the season out hot, that 11th victory could come against the Maryland Terrapins. However, should they drop one game before the Maryland date, Win No. 1,000 could come against … Ohio State.

To potentially get to Win No. 1,000 over Ohio State in The Big House would be absolutely perfect.

11 more wins will give Michigan Wolverines a historic program accomplishment

Although it is not really shocking for Michigan to be in a great position to reach 1,000 all-time wins, for the Wolverines to potentially do this when the program is at or approaching its apex is huge. Frankly, if Michigan does not three-peat in the Big Ten, get back to the College Football Playoff and play for a national championship, that would be a disappointing season for them.

For Michigan to be able to win its first national title since 1997, the Wolverines need a few things to happen. First, they need to take care of business, which means assert its dominance over the rest of the Big Ten, especially over Ohio State. Second, they need Georgia to regress, as well as another SEC team not emerge as dominant. And third, the Wolverines will need some luck as well.

While 2023 will be the last year the College Football Playoff will be in its four-team format, there are no excuses for the Wolverines to come out flat. They return so much talent on both sides of the ball. With this being J.J. McCarthy’s second season as the starting quarterback, they must take advantage of teams like Alabama, Georgia and Ohio State all losing their starters to the NFL Draft.

Winning it all should be Michigan’s top priority, but getting to 1,000 wins should be celebrated.

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