Michael Cohen College Football and College Basketball Writer Shortly after the clock reached zero at the conclusion of last year’s Orange Bowl, a photo began circulating through the Michigan sector of Twitter. The picture captured wide receiver Andrel Anthony, quarterback J.J. McCarthy and running back Donovan Edwards — all of whom were freshmen during the 2021 season — watching Georgia celebrate its lopsided beatdown of the Wolverines to reach the national title game. Coupled with a postgame assurance from tailback Blake Corum that Michigan would return to the College Football Playoff in 2022, that image became synonymous with the program’s renaissance under once-maligned head coach Jim Harbaugh — a visual embodiment of how badly the Wolverines wanted to claw their way back to national relevance after winning more than 10 games in a season just once since Lloyd Carr retired. If last season served as Michigan’s long-awaited breakthrough under Harbaugh, then this…
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