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Down-in-the-dumps Wolverines need win to avoid Big Ten cellar > Fritz Crisler beat Ohio State in 1938, his first season as Michigan's coach. Bennie G. Oosterbaan also beat the Buckeyes in his first try (1948). So did Bump Elliott (1959), Bo Schembechler (1969), Gary Moeller (1990) and Lloyd Carr (1995). (link)

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