Bad loss to Wisconsin, but dominant win over Notre Dame. Competitive loss to a top-five Penn State. Decent team with positive outlook that continues to dominate inferior opponents like Wisconsin does.
Still not a Michigan believer but the middle of the rankings are pretty weak right now. Huge drop off past the first 12 teams. FPI subscribes to this theory too. The FPI #13 (Utah) has a rating of 18.6 and the FPI #15 (Washington) is all the way down at 14.5. That's as big a gap as there is between #13 Utah and #7 Oklahoma.
1/4 in Tier F: 2 losses, but they have played a much more difficult schedule than the rest of this tier. Both losses are also to teams ranked in the Top 10.