YOUR WEEKLY HARBAUGH

Longtime Colorado sports information director Dave Plati came up with one of the best media gags in recent memory this week when he put out a depth chart for the Michigan game filled with fictional characters from some of his favorite movies. It was included in Colorado’s weekly notes because Michigan does not put out a depth chart at the behest of Jim Harbaugh.

Though it was clearly intended for fun, Harbaugh doesn’t really do fun. So it’s no surprise he reacted as if Michigan had been insulted and launched into an austere explanation for why Michigan doesn’t put its depth chart on paper.

“I saw the depth chart, etc. I was trying to imagine how many people sat around and how many hours they worked on that,” Harbaugh said during a weekly radio interview on WXYT, according to the Detroit Free Press. “We found, when it comes to the depth chart, modern technology seems to make the depth chart an outdated task by about 20 years. We found that studying last week’s film of the opponent is the most accurate way of determining another team’s depth chart.”

Thanks for the heads-up, Jim.