As part of a wild day in college football, with three of the top four teams in the country going down, No. 3 Michigan lost at Iowa’s Kinnick Stadium.
Michigan made a bit of a show of covering up the pink walls of Iowa’s visiting locker room, which I wrote about thusly:
The walls, lockers, and just about any other flat surface are covered with a combination of posters, flags, blown up art, and maybe even some Fathead-style wall-graphics. To top it off, “The Victors” is apparently blaring from somewhere. Whether or not this provides the winning edge for the Wolverines, it hopefully illustrates just how dumb a tactic the pink locker room is. Or maybe Harbaugh was the first coach overbearing enough to try this?
Now, I don’t really believe for a second that the locker room had anything to do with Michigan’s defeat. But as I watched the game, I was kicking myself for not pointing out that by acknowledging the pink locker room to the point of covering it up, Harbaugh and the Wolverines (worst band name ever) were tacitly admitting that it was in their heads.
That’s not a great message!
Another school noticed the locker room issue as well, and made sure to rub it in on Twitter post-game:
Ouch!
I guess Michigan took more than one L on Saturday.