If Michigan football coach Jim Harbaugh could've been anywhere in the world on Saturday afternoon, it would've been at the Big House in Ann Arbor for the Wolverines highly anticipated showdown with the Ohio State Buckeyes. However, the Big House was the one place Harbaugh couldn't be on Saturday. Instead, Harbaugh was home serving the final leg of a three-game suspension handed down by the Big Ten, surely nervously watching along as the Wolverines were vying for a spot in the Big Ten title game and aiming to keep their College Football Playoff hopes alive. In Harbaugh's place, it was Sherrone Moore who led Michigan to a 30-24 win over the Buckeyes, the Wolverines' third straight win over their bitter rival, and the victory was enough for Harbaugh to heap some serious praise on his right hand man.

“I'm not saying that I'm in a position of granting who a Michigan man is or who isn't, or who a Michigan legend is or is not,” Harbaugh said on Monday during his media session, per Tom VanHaaren of ESPN. “I'm not the maker of those two lists, but I have nominated people before and I nominate Sherrone Moore as a Michigan legend.”

A statement like that may seem abrupt given Sherrone Moore's limited time in Ann Arbor (he was hired in 2018 as a tight ends coach before taking over as co-offensive coordinator in 2021), but as we've heard over and over again for the last week or so, Michigan-Ohio State carries around extra weight. You win, and you're immortalized. You lose, and you may be out of a job. Just ask Ryan Day. He's got Buckeye alums calling for his head on a spike. Meanwhile, Sherrone Moore is being crowed a Michigan legend. Six points is the difference.

Jim Harbaugh went on to reveal that he called Moore after the game and told him that he was a “a stone cold killer” who made all the right play calls and pushed all of the right buttons in the win. Harbaugh will be able to return to the sideline this Saturday when Michigan takes on Iowa in the Big Ten Championship Game on Saturday afternoon, but history surely won't forget that it was Sherrone Moore who kept the Wolverines on the winning path in Harbaugh's absence, never allowing them to flinch as they aim to bring a National Title to Ann Arbor for the first time since 1997.