Chris Zurbrugg Christopher M . Zurbrugg ( born August 10 , 1964 ) is a former American football player . He played at the quarterback position for the University of Michigan from 1984 to 1986 . He was Michigan ' s starting quarterback in the last half of the 1984 season and led the Wolverines in the 1984 Holiday Bowl against the national champion BYU Cougars . In his second start for Michigan , Zurbrugg set a Michigan record for most passing yards in a game and tied the record with four touchdown passes in a game . Zurbrugg later became a high school teacher and football coach in Alliance , Ohio . Early years . Zurbrugg grew up in Alliance , Ohio and graduated from Alliance High School in 1983 . He accepted a football scholarship to attend the University of Michigan . University of Michigan . Zurbrugg became the starting quarterback as a redshirt freshman halfway through the season for the 1984 Michigan Wolverines football team . Jim Harbaugh sustained a broken arm , and head coach Bo Schembechler turned to Zurbrugg to lead the Michigan offense . Schembechler noted that he had been reluctant to start Zurbrugg , because he had two cracked vertebrae in his back during the spring of 1984 . In his first start on October 27 , 1984 , Zurbrugg rushed for 51 yards and scored a rushing touchdown in leading Michigan to a 26 - 18 win over Illinois . In his second start , Zurbrugg broke the Michigan single - game record with 259 passing yards against Purdue . ( Zurbrugg ' s record was broken the following year by Harbaugh . ) He threw four touchdown passes against Purdue , including three ( to Triando Markray , Vince Bean , and Sim Nelson ) in the final 4 : 08 of the game . His four touchdown passes against Purdue also tied Michigan ' s single game record for touchdown passes in a single game . The following week , Zurbrugg led Michigan to a 31 - 7 win over Minnesota . Zurbrugg completed 7 of 10 passes against Minnesota and scored on a passing touchdown to Sim Nelson and also ran for 41 yards and a touchdown . For the 1984 season , Zurbrugg completed 63 of 119 passes and 691 yards . In December 1984 , Schembechler summed up Zurbrugg ' s performance : " He ' s a competitive kid , a smart kid ; he just hasn ' t had a lot of work . He ' s played some decent football , but what he is a freshman . It hasn ' t been easy for him or us , but I think we can win the game [ the Holiday Bowl ] with him . " In the 1984 Holiday Bowl , Zurbrugg completed 7 of 15 passes for 82 yards and threw a touchdown pass to Bob Perryman . Michigan lost the Holiday Bowl by a score of 24 - 17 to the 1984 national champion BYU Cougars . With Harbaugh ' s return , Zurbrugg became a backup and completed 7 of 21 passes for 168 yards during the 1985 and 1986 seasons . He scored two rushing touchdowns in a 1986 victory over Illinois . Though eligible to complete during the 1987 season , Zurbrugg announced in early September 1987 that he would forego his final year of eligibility for personal reasons . Later years . After graduating from Michigan , Zurbrugg became a high school teacher and football coach in Alliance , Ohio . He was married in May 1990 to Christi L . Weirich in Stark County , Ohio .