<Tr> <Th> Website </Th> <Td> MGoBlue.com </Td> </Tr> <P> The Michigan Wolverines football program represents the University of Michigan in college football at the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (formerly Division I-A) level . Michigan has the most all - time wins in college football history and the highest winning percentage among FBS teams . The team is known for its distinctive winged helmet, its fight song, its record - breaking attendance figures at Michigan Stadium, and its many rivalries, particularly its annual, regular - season - ending game against Ohio State, once voted as ESPN's best sports rivalry . </P> <P> Michigan began competing in intercollegiate football in 1879 . The Wolverines joined the Big Ten Conference at its inception in 1896, and other than a hiatus from 1907 to 1916, have been members since . Michigan has won or shared 42 league titles, and, since the inception of the AP Poll in 1936, has finished in the top 10 a total of 38 times . The Wolverines claim 11 national championships, most recently that of the 1997 squad voted atop the final AP Poll . </P> <P> From 1900 to 1989, Michigan was led by a series of nine head coaches, each of whom has been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame either as a player or as a coach . Fielding H. Yost became Michigan's head coach in 1901 and guided his "Point - a-Minute" squads to a streak of 56 games without a defeat, spanning from his arrival until the season finale in 1905, including a victory in the 1902 Rose Bowl, the first college football bowl game ever played . Fritz Crisler brought his winged helmet from Princeton University in 1938 and led the 1947 Wolverines to a national title and Michigan's second Rose Bowl win . Bo Schembechler coached the team for 21 seasons (1969--1989) in which he won 13 Big Ten titles and 194 games, a program record . The first decade of his tenure was underscored by a fierce competition with his former mentor, Woody Hayes, whose Ohio State Buckeyes squared off against Schembechler's Wolverines in a stretch of the Michigan--Ohio State rivalry dubbed the "Ten - Year War". </P>

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