Expectations are high for Jim Harbaugh's first season at the helm of the Michigan Wolverines football program, and that's the way Harbaugh likes them.

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The team has been one of the most storied programs in the sports' history, but fell on hard times during the previous tenures of Brady Hoke and Rich Rodriguez. Harbaugh aims to fix that, and he's the right guy for the challenge. He's had success at every destination he's coached at previously, including San Diego, Stanford, and the NFL's San Francisco 49ers—where he made three consecutive NFC championship games and one Super Bowl.

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To show Wolverine fans that he feels confident and happy with their high expectations, Harbaugh basically said it is UM's civic responsibility to provide a decent football team in 2015.

We'll see if Harbaugh and company can live up to the hype this season. Reason indicates that they'll have their work cut out for them, going up against Urban Meyer and the defending national champion Ohio State Buckeyes.