Ann Arbor — It didn’t take a football genius to come up with this.

And with all due respect to Biff Poggi — and his dog, Gianni — his debut as Michigan's acting head coach merely proved that point. In fact, it was Poggi who said as much after watching freshman quarterback Bryce Underwood run wild in the Wolverines’ 63-3 rout of Central Michigan on Saturday.

“I mean, I have a Labrador retriever that could coach that guy,” laughed Poggi, who was filling in for the suspended Sherrone Moore on the Michigan sideline. “He's unbelievable.”

And believe it or not, this was the plan coming in, at the behest of Moore, who began serving his two-game suspension stemming from Michigan’s sign-stealing scandal on Friday night.

Underwood was effectively withheld from the Wolverines’ run game in his

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