Michael Cohen College Football and College Basketball Writer INDIANAPOLIS — For the third time in three years, the celebrations along Michigan’s sideline at Lucas Oil Stadium were fairly muted, tempered by a prevailing sense of anticlimax that has come to define the Big Ten’s divisional era. It wasn’t that the Wolverines and their embattled head coach, Jim Harbaugh, lacked excitement about winning a third consecutive outright conference title for the first time in school history. Nor were they apathetic about the impending College Football Playoff berth that Saturday night’s 26-0 pummeling of Iowa guaranteed. Rather, it was the manner in which Michigan extended its remarkable stranglehold over the league that rendered another conference championship game dreary, dull and drab because of the Wolverines’ unwavering dominance. From 2021 through the present, Harbaugh’s teams have emerged victorious in this setting by an average margin of 28.7 points per year: a 42-3 drubbing…
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