Is this Michigan football team similar to the 2002 NC OSU team with Clarett?

I don't want to take anything away from our guys because they are having a fantastic season, and what they are doing is impressive. However, it is not unprecedented. Many teams in the modern era have had two 1,000+ yard rushers in the same season. Georgia did it in 2017 with Nick Chubb and Sony Michel.

EDIT: 2017, not 2018. Though, they also had two 1,000+ yard rushers in 2018.

I can imagine Georgia doing that. They’re giving up less than 7 points per game. Pair that with a good running game and special teams, and you can win a championship with a game manager at QB. 
Georgia’s QB may be a lot better than that. I don’t know. The first thing I think of for them is that dominating defense.

This is where feelings get in the way. We see our team, it's good, we like it, we're excited. That's great.

But this is hardly unprecedented. 2005 USC had Lendale White, who rushed for 1302 yards and scored 24 TDs. But he wasn't the star; Reggie Bush was the star. Bush rushed for 1740 yards at 8.7 a pop, scoring "only" 16 TDs (both had an additional 2 through the air, Bush also added a punt return TD). Plus they had Matt Leinart throwing for 3800 yards.

Others have mentioned Georgia, which has had multiple teams with multiple thousand yard rushers--Nick Chubb and Sonny Michel weren't that long ago. Eddie Lacy and TJ Yeldon both bested 1000 yards for Alabama in 2012. It's notable, but it's not unprecedented. 

One of my favorite 2-RB attacks to watch was 2007 Arkansas with Darren McFadden and Felix Jones. I had to look up the numbers:

• Darren McFadden, Jr.: 1,830 yards, 5.6 YPC, 16 Rushing TD, 1 Receiving TD, Doak Walker Award, All-American RB, 1st round pick (4)
• Felix Jones, Jr.: 1,162 yards, 8.6 YPC, 11 Rushing TD, 2 kickoff return TD, All-American KR, Doak Walker Semifinalist, 1st round pick (22)

The whole '1000 yds' standard is a shell of what it used to be.  It's still a great landmark, but players have three more games to get there than they used to have.  It used to be a 9 game season, then 10 games.  Now it's 12 regular season and bowl game.  It's easier to hit 1000 yards through 13 games than it is through 9 or 10 games.

Just looked at the stats for the best rushing team in the B1G that I recall in modern times football. 2003 Minnesota had Lawrence Maroney and Marion Barber both go over 1000, finishing with 17 and 10 tds, but a third back had 570 yards and 11 tds (maybe a short yardage guy). They also had a pretty mobile QB. Remember that team probably should have beat us in their dome when they ran for 450 on us which was a pretty decent run defense all year. We had some memorable trickery with a 35 yard catch and run TD caught by John Navarre, and of course some Braylon magic. But that team I believe eclipsed what we are doing rushing wise and went 10-3 at Minnesota, easily could have 11-2 if John Navarre doesn’t score on a catch and run. 

Very impressive, but definitely not unprecedented. Has happened 80+ times in cfb history

Michigan had dual 1000 yard rushers in 1975 with Rob Lytle and Gordon Bell.  They also did it again in 2011 with Denard Robinson and Fitzgerald Toussaint, off course Denard wasn't playing tailback in that offensive scheme.

Recently, Nick Chubb and Sony Michel both rushed for over 1,200 yards in 2017. D'Andre Swift also had 600 yards that year. I think Georgia did it again the following year.

unprecedented?  try harder

In 2007 Darren McFadden had 1800+ yards and 17 touchdowns and Felix Jones had 1100+ and 11 TDs. Our guys won't come close to that yardage. And they were close to that in 2006 (1600+ and 1100+, respectively).

There have been a lot of great RB tandems like this.  Even this year, Texas A&M has a guy with more yards than Corum (Spiller) and another guy with more yards than Haskins (Achane).  They each only have 5 TDs though to the 10 that each of the Michigan guys have.

Neither will get to 20 TDs with the teams we are about to face.

By accounts, he's turned his life around. From Wikipedia: 

Since his release, Clarett has become a celebrated public speaker across the country by speaking candidly about his previous struggles and successful recovery. Additionally, Clarett founded a successful behavioral health agency in both Youngstown and Columbus. He also co-hosts Business and Biceps, a top-rated business podcast.

I've never upvoted a buckeye before. This feels gross.

Argument could be made that OSU wasn't even the best team in the conference that season.  They were conference co-champs with Iowa and Iowa was winning games by much higher margins.  Iowa came to Ann Arbor and crushed Michigan by 23 points.  If they hadn't lost to Iowa State early in the season, they may have wound up ranked 2nd to OSU's 3rd in the BCS rankings.

If the B1G had a championship game between Iowa and OSU in 2002, it's a toss-up in my mind as to who would've won.

Yeah I recall them mudslinging their way through the season, something like a 12-6 victory at Purdue and they beat us (3 loss outback bowl champs) 13-9 I believe and we had the ball in red zone on the last play of the game with a chance to win. 
 

Then they got kind of lucky in the NC game when the stellar Miami back (can’t recall his name) bent his knee backwards in an all time “dear God!” injury caught on TV camera. Then I believe Miami also a controversial PI call in the last seconds that gave OSU a first down on like the 1 yard line or something for the go ahead TD in the final seconds.