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Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh donned a personalized AS Roma jersey Saturday in Rome.

(Nick Baumgardner | MLive)

ROME -- Jim Harbaugh's tour of the globe won't be a one-time deal.

So long as it's still legal, of course.

Michigan's head coach said Saturday in Rome that he'd like to take the team to either South Africa or Brazil next spring for a similar trip the group is currently experiencing in Rome.

"We'll get together as a team and decide, but I'd really like to go to Cape Town or Johannesburg," he said. "One of those two."

Harbaugh told reporters during Michigan's final day in Italy that he hopes other college football programs begin to embrace trips like this.

He said Michigan's top priority right now is investing its resources into the health and safety of his players and enriching their overall experience in college as student-athletes.

Michigan's players will have the entire month of May off to study abroad, get internships or jobs, go home, study in Ann Arbor or do, basically, whatever they want.

"I wanted them to have options," he said. "Like most normal humans do."

He went one step further, too.

He'd love to play a college football game overseas. Possibly here in Italy.

"Wouldn't it be great to have a football game here?" Harbaugh said outside Stadio Olimpico in Rome. "I will definitely consider that. For sure."