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HC Sherrone Moore makes history with victory over MSU

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HC Sherrone Moore makes history with victory over MSU

It’s been a rough first season for Michigan head coach Sherrone Moore, but the new 38-year-old CEO of Wolverine Football just accomplished a feat that eluded his predecessor and mentor Jim Harbaugh, as well as the legendary Bo Schembechler.

With Michigan’s 24-17 victory over rival Michigan State on Saturday night, Moore became the first Wolverines head coach to win his debut against the Spartans since Bennie Oosterbaan in 1948. Each of the previous six UM head coaches lost in their first meeting with MSU , including the 27-23 defeat of Harbaugh in 2015 and the 23-12 defeat of Schembechler in 1969.

After the match, Moore spoke about the performance and what it meant to him individually.

“Unbelievable,” he said. “I mean, it means a lot. Every win means so much to me, to win something for this program and win a game for this program, but it means a lot to be able to have that, to have that record. But really the The most important thing is that we got the win and we will be ready to play next week.”

Michigan Wolverines football head coach Sherrone Moore

Michigan head coach Sherrone Moore lights up fans before the Michigan State game at Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor on Saturday, Oct. 26, 2024. / Junfu Han / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images

During that 1948 season, Oosterban and the Wolverines opened their year with a 13-7 win over Michigan State on their way to a perfect 9-0 season and a second straight national championship. Since then, however, Michigan head coaches had gone 0-6 in their debut games against MSU.

With former Oregon State head coach Jonathan Smith taking over at Michigan State this past season, the 2024 meeting between the two in-state rivals was the first in which both programs had first-year coaches since 1995, when Nick Saban’s Spartans took on the Wolverines by Lloyd Carr. , 28-25.

Michigan head coaches’ other unfortunate first-year results against Sparty in the past 75 years include Bump Elliott’s 34-8 defeat in 1959, Gary Moeller’s nail-biting 28-27 defeat in 1990, the 35-21 Rich Rodriguez’s shortcoming in 2008 and Brady Hoke’s 28-14 defeat in 2011.

However, Moore and the Wolverines bucked the trend on Saturday night to give Michigan its third straight win over Michigan State, the longest winning streak for the Wolverines in this series since a six-game stretch from 2002-2007.

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