The Michigan Wolverines appear as if they will be without Jim Harbaugh for several games this season.

The NCAA and Harbaugh are “working toward” an agreement where the head coach is “expected” to be suspended for four games this season for giving false statements to NCAA investigators, Yahoo Sports’ Ross Dellenger reports.

The report says that this is a preliminary resolution, which must then be approved by the NCAA Committee on Infractions.

Michigan’s football schedule opens up with four straight home games, versus East Carolina, UNLV, Bowling Green and Rutgers.

The investigation stems from allegedly dishonest statements Harbaugh made to NCAA staff about recruiting violations at Michigan.

Harbaugh initially “refused to admit that he lied to NCAA staff” and has since “maintained he didn’t recall the events when first speaking with investigators but that he was never purposefully dishonest,” according to the report.

The original investigation stemmed from a slew of proverbial misdemeanors, including meeting two recruits when it was supposed to be a dead period due to COVID-19, coaches watching player workouts on Zoom and texting a recruit at a time that it wasn’t allowed.

This has been a case where the cover-up is considered worse than the crimes, where Harbaugh’s alleged untruthfulness about the matters is a far more serious infraction than what he supposedly lied about in the first place.

Harbaugh, throughout the process, claimed that he did not lie but had suffered bouts of forgetfulness.

According to The Athletic, Michigan assistants Sherrone Moore and Grant Newsome will also receive one-game suspensions.

Michigan is coming off a season in which it went 13-1, and for the second straight year vanquished rival Ohio State en route to a Big Ten championship.

The Wolverines lost in the College Football Playoff semifinals to TCU at the Fiesta Bowl on New Year’s Eve.