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INGLEWOOD, California: On Saturday, Michigan football had a different view. Dignity Health Sports Park was replaced by SoFi Stadium, the NFL home of the Los Angeles professional clubs, for practice.

After media day, which took place earlier on Saturday at the Rose Bowl, the Wolverines are now focused on getting ready for Alabama in the College Football Playoff semifinal, which takes place in Pasadena on Monday.

The media was only permitted to see the first fifteen minutes of practice, so there wasn’t much fresh information to learn. However, Isaiah Hole of Wolverines Wire was present and managed to gain some information from Michigan’s practice.

Michigan continued to practice in shells, indicating there’s no hitting for the second straight day, which means the Wolverines have likely concluded that portion of their preparation.

At one point, Davis misplayed a handoff between him and his running back, so Harbaugh took him aside and showed him how his stance should be while in shotgun and emulated the handoff before instructing him to do it again. The second time around, Davis performed flawlessly.

Though many could protest that Harbaugh should be spending his time with J.J. McCarthy given he’ll be the one taking snaps against Alabama, it’s still great to see he’s actively coaching even those who have no shot of seeing game action.

McCarthy continued throwing with zip on his passes, at least the ones we saw, but there was one snap he actually kept the ball and ran to the left toward the end zone. It appears as if he’s moving well without any limitations — which has not been the case since early November. Given the Wolverines will really need his legs to beat Alabama, that’s a welcome development.

There were conflicting reports whether cornerback Josh Wallace was dressed at practice on Friday (we did not see him) but on Saturday, we spotted Wallace in uniform and working out as normal with the cornerbacks. So if there was any crisis there, it appears to have been averted.

On Friday, we saw Christopher Hinton at practice, and there were more special guests at SoFi Stadium on Saturday. The first starting receivers in the Jim Harbaugh era — Amara Darboh and Jehu Chesson — were watching practice. Chesson’s younger brother, Dale, is on the team. Darboh was just another alumni observer. A fellow media member shared that they saw Taco Charlton, but we did not spot him.

On Friday, we saw Jadyn Davis, Jeremiah Beasley, Jacob Oden and Cole Sullivan. While we saw them again on Saturday, we also spotted Blake Frazier and Jake Guarnera in Michigan football uniform for the first time (for us).

Like Jim Harbaugh, J.J. McCarthy has a lot on his plate, but he didn’t seem to mind sharing some information with Davis—pointing out a route, it seems. McCarthy bears the entire weight of the world once more. Davis is an internal competitor right now and plays the same position (which McCarthy may or may not give up after the season), but the junior quarterback has no trouble taking the time to pass on his knowledge to the younger players. The culture of this team is really everything.