For the second week in a row, Michigan offensive coordinator Sherrone Moore will be the team’s acting head coach.
Michigan made the decision to accept Jim Harbaugh’s three-game suspension by the Big Ten this week, meaning that Harbaugh will not be on the sideline for the remainder of the regular season.
Moore helped lead Michigan to an emotional victory over Penn State last week, and with one week to go until the biggest game of the season against Ohio State, he isn’t overlooking Maryland on Saturday.
“I gotta keep the same mindset the players do,” Moore told Fox’s Jenny Taft before Saturday’s game. “We know this is a very good football team and this is going to be a challenge but we’re ready for it.
Aside from keeping their perfect season and College Football Playoff hopes alive, Michigan has added incentive for a win today. If the Wolverines defeat the Terrapins, it would mark the 1,000th win in program history.
Moore feels that Harbaugh deserves credit for the school’s 1,000th victory.
“I definitely want Coach [Harbaugh] to be the coach when that happens,” he said earlier this week.
“I would say to me, and to everybody else, that would be his win. It wouldn’t count as mine. He’s the head coach of this football team and I’m just standing in there to make sure we don’t mess it up.”
