Michigan Football Star Brushes Off Jim Harbaugh-NFL rumors

LOS ANGELES, Ca. — The end of the 2023 college football season is near, with most bowl games having already been played, and the College Football Playoff semi-finals (including the Rose Bowl) just days away. After the season, per usual, Jim Harbaugh will have the decision to make — you guessed it — regarding the swirling NFL rumors that have plagued Michigan’s program for years at the start of many offseasons. On Wednesday, Michigan football star Blake Corum, a running back for the Wolverines, showed no concern over the latest wave of rumors.

Michigan football star brushes off Jim Harbaugh-NFL rumors

“Jim Harbaugh to the LA Chargers” is likely an NFL rumor that you have seen quite often, perhaps because it has been reported that LAC has a good amount of interest in hiring Harbaugh as its next head coach after the 2023-24 season comes to an end. It remains unclear if Harbaugh is interested in taking the job on his end, though his flirtation with the NFL regularly, as well as the fact that the reported holdout in his contract signing is Michigan’s NFL stipulation (he cannot look for an NFL job this year), many assume that there is some level of interest — albeit, perhaps not much.

Blake Corum weighs in on the latest NFL buzz

As Michigan preps to face the Alabama Crimson Tide in this season’s Rose Bowl game, which could send the Wolverines to their first-ever national title game (in program history), star running back Blake Corum appears quite unconcerned with the noise about Jim Harbaugh looking to leave the University of Michigan football program.

“Nah, it’s happened a couple times, so we don’t really pay attention to it. Maybe it’s people just trying to distract us and put stuff in the media,” Corum said Wednesday in LA. “It’s happened all year. We don’t really pay attention to it.”

Jim Harbaugh and Michigan football are locked in on winning a national championship

Of course, despite the fact that the nation appears to be picking Alabama more often than not, Michigan football is still favored by a number of predictive models and even Las Vegas’s betting odds. Seeing as Michigan has not won the Rose Bowl since 1997 (a national title season for U-M), and the fact that the program is yet to appear in a national title game, it appears that the coming Rose Bowl is perhaps the most important game of Jim Harbaugh’s tenure in Ann Arbor.

NFL or not, Blake Corum and Jim Harbaugh are all-in on winning a national title this season; after all, next season (and those that follow) are not guaranteed to be nearly as fruitful for U-M football as recent seasons have been.

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