Geoff Zahn, the head coach at Michigan for the past six seasons, has resigned. Michigan Coach Lloyd Carr does not like to look back and use losses to derive motivation. But there was one lesson learned, one worth retaining for present and future purposes, from last year's game at Purdue. The Detroit News Michigan's Marquise Walker holds on to a pass despite pressure from Bruce Branch. It was not the most scintillating game, but 15th-ranked Michigan was not going for artistic points.
Emotion is the element that pumps college football.
Penn State had that stuff and more. And not nearly enough. From the outside, it felt an awful lot like a football weekend. But Paterno, in his 36th season as Penn State's head coach, insists that record is of little interest.