The 1898 Michigan Wolverines football team represented the University of Michigan in the 1898 Western Conference football season. With Gustave Ferbert in his second year as head coach, the team compiled an undefeated 10–0 record, outscored its opponents 205–26, and won the Western Conference championship for the first time in the school's history.

Gustave Herman Ferbert, nicknamed "Dutch", was an American college football player and coach. He was first a player from 1893 to 1896 and then the head football coach from 1897 to 1899 at the University of Michigan. His 1898 Michigan team went 10–0 and won the first Western Conference championship in the school's history. Ferbert compiled a record of 24–11–3 as head coach of the Michigan Wolverines football team. He was also co-head football coach with Joseph R. Hudelson at Indiana University for one season, in 1894, while still a student at Michigan.