The Wolverine: Covering University of Michigan Football and Sports
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Follow Michigan Sports Year-Round in THE WOLVERINE! The Wolverine covers all sports at U-M with an emphasis on football, basketball and recruiting. n You will receive 11 full-color information-packed issues from August to June. n In July you will receive The Wolverine Football Preview, a glossy, full-color, action-packed magazine full of great information about the upcoming season. n During football season, you will have access to 26 issues of The Wolverine Now, our online newsletter that is published Sundays and Wednesdays during the season. bask etball Aud io & By THe numBeRs THe seAson Air Force Michigan The writers of The Wolverine weigh in with their take on U-M football. • I'm very interested to see how the offense stacks up against the Bulldog D, one of the best in the SEC. Against some of the best defenses they faced this year — Ohio State, Iowa, Wisconsin — the Wolverines struggled to move the ball early, which, combined with the defensive struggles, put them in a huge hole. Prediction: Mississippi State 35, Michigan 21 — Andy Reid *expires 6/30/13 • The bad news is, Michigan hasn't stopped anybody on defense since the wind and slop turbo-boosted the Wolverines' effort in West Lafayette. The good news is, nobody has put a serious knock on Denard Robinson in more than a month. As has been the case all season, the latter represents Michigan's best hope against the second MSU on the U-M docket. For the year to end on an upbeat note, Robinson has to be the doit-all force he was in the season's early games. Prediction: Michigan 35, Mississippi State 31 — John Borton EXtRa p INts • Michigan has done well against non-conference opponents in the last two years under Rich Rodriguez, has seen the read option plenty in practice and will play well in its first bowl game in three years. Quarterback Denard Robinson, too, is healthy and will be able to show the same explosion he did in the early part of the year. Mississippi State did a great job slowing Auburn's Cam Newton in a 17-14 loss, but the Wolverines are going to score points. Unfortunately, so will the Bulldogs. Prediction: Mississippi State 38, Michigan 34 — Chris Balas U-M Football injury Report Games Player Injury Missed CB Troy Woolfolk Ankle/Leg 12 S Jared Van Slyke Clavicle 12 LB Mike Jones Leg 10 CB J.T. Floyd Ankle Four TB Teric Jones Knee Four S Mike Williams Head 12 WR Martavious Odoms Foot Six DT Mike Martin Ankle Three DE Craig Roh Head None TB Michael Shaw Head Two OT Taylor Lewan Head One TB Vincent Smith Head None WR Jeremy Gallon Arm One WR Darryl Stonum Ankle None WR Junior Hemingway Head One Gator Bowl? Out for the year Out for the year Out for the year Out for the year Out for the year Out for the year Possible Will play Will play Will play Will play Will play Will play Will play Will play • Under Rich Rodriguez, Michigan has played its best football coming out of fall camp. U-M started with four straight wins in 2009 and five straight wins in 2010. The 30-10 victory over UConn to start 2010 was arguably the Wolverines' most complete win of the season. Like fall camp, the Jan. 1 Gator Bowl has given Michigan five weeks to prepare for one opponent, so expect a better team than the one that took the field against Wisconsin and Ohio State. However, Mississippi State plays strong defense and will bring a balanced offensive attack — traits that have given Michigan problems throughout the season. Michigan will not have the firepower to outlast the Bulldogs in a tight game. Prediction: Mississippi State 31, Michigan 28 — Josh Helmholdt 7th By the Numbers Gator Bowl's rank among the best bowl matchups this season, according to Rivals.com college football editor Mike Huguenin. Years since multiple U-M defenders had 100 tackles or more in the same year — Sam Sword (109), Jarrett Irons (106) and Marcus Ray (104) in 1996 — until safety Jordan Kovacs (112) and linebacker Jonas Mouton (111) accomplished the feat this fall. The Big Ten's bowl record since 2003; the conference posted a losing record from 2003-08 before going 4-3 in Safety Jordan Kovacs and line2009. 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The digital editions are now optimized for viewing on a computer monitor or tablet. | june/july 2012 | $3.95 Junior Qb devin Ga Stepped rdner Up Final mo in the Season's Great Pro nth, Show ing mise For 2013 IOWa •3-2 IOWA20 Vandenberg pass complete to Fiedorowicz for 37 yards to the U-M43 • Page 9 331 votes Top four responses shown Oct. 21, 2012 thewolve rine.com Michigan Vs. Notre Dame all-time head to head in Winning percentage School G W L T Pct. U-M 1,227 884 307 36 .7351 ND 1,181 844 295 42 .7324 * Both Michigan and Notre Dame went 7-5 this season. KicKing The habiT 2010 FootbaLL sChEDuLE Date Sept. 4 Sept. 11 Sept. 18 Sept. 25 Oct. 2 Oct. 9 Oct. 16 Oct. 30 Nov. 6 Nov. 13 Nov. 20 Nov. 27 Jan. 1 Opponent Connecticut at Notre Dame Massachusetts Bowling Green at Indiana Michigan State Iowa at Penn State Illinois at Purdue Wisconsin at Ohio State Mississippi State • pagE 13 The Wolverine Now, our Internet-based newsletter, is published every Sunday (game reports) and Wednesday (scouting reports) during football season on TheWolverineOnDemand.com. Wolverines Snap Ugly Streak On Game-Winning Field Goal everybody ran on the field." Time/TV By John Borton his one wasn't about bruRobinson, who rushed 20 W, 30-10 nette girls, the tougher times for 96 yards and went W, 28-24 team, or even shutting up the 14-of-29 passing for 163 yards, W, 42-37 green-clad neighbors. This kept his eyes wide open leading W, 65-21 was about freeing Paul Bunup to the historic kick. Trailing W, 42-35 yan, held hostage in East Lan10-9 with exactly two minutes L, 34-17 sing for four long years, and remaining, Robinson had one L, 38-28 preventing an unprecedented last chance. He'd snapped off L, 41-31 Michigan State win streak in a a 44-yard run on Michigan's W, 67-65 bitter rivalry. truly previous possession, only to W, 27-16 For Michigan, there was see penalties torpedo a shot at L, 48-28 more, when redshirt junior a game-winning field goal. L, 37-7 placekicker Brendan Gibbons Now, after Michigan's de1:30 p.m. slammed through a 38-yard fense secured a crucial stop, field goal with five seconds rethe Wolverines saw one more maining, giving the Wolverines opportunity, from their own a wildly celebrated 12-10 win. 38. Senior Vincent Smith imIt was about another step tomediately broke off a 12-yard ward the prize for the 5-2 Wolrun, and Robinson himself verines, who are still perfect in stretched out on a crucial twothe Big Ten at 3-0. yard pickup to the MSU 40 on "It's an in-state rival," U-M third down. head coach Brady Hoke afRobinson then scrambled firmed, stiff-arming a chance and found the giant killer of to revel. "But we have bigger the day — junior wideout Drew expectations." Dileo (four catches, 92 yards), Those hopes almost took a redshirt junior placekicker Brendan Gibbons provided the winning margin when who snagged a 20-yard pass to forearm to the throat against he booted a 38-yard field goal with five seconds remaining. the MSU 21. photo by lon horwedel Michigan State (4-4 overall, "We knew their DBs didn't 1-3 Big Ten), whose defense didn't yield nard Robinson admitted. "I just took a really cover once the quarterback started a touchdown all afternoon. When Gibbons knee and prayed. I was just thanking the scrambling, so I just got open, he found hit the clincher, some couldn't even look. man above for giving us the opportunity to me, threw a good ball, and I caught it," "I didn't watch," senior quarterback Destep on the field today. I didn't see it until Dileo noted. T | december 2012 | $3.95 Seconds later, he made another huge catch — as the holder for Gibbons' gamewinner. "Drew is not the biggest guy, he's not the fastest guy, but the one thing Drew is, he is a football player," Hoke said. The Wolverines all stood a little taller, after surviving a head-knocking defensive struggle that saw the Spartans' Le'Veon Bell rush 26 times for only 68 yards, and MSU quarterback Andrew Maxwell go 12 10 21-of-34 for 192 yards and the game's only touchdown. This one was about hanging on, and the Wolverines did so at times like a man clinging to a skyscraper ledge. The game turned dramatically early in the fourth quarter on MSU's longest run of the day — not by Bell, but by Michigan State punter Mike Sadler. The U-M defense had done its job, bottling up the Spartans at their own 23-yard line. With the clock ticking away, it looked as if Michigan would get great field position with a 9-7 lead. Instead, Sadler took the long snap and bolted right, finding no resistance from the Wolverines' punt return team. He rumbled 26 yards for a first down, the key play in MSU's 90-yard, 18-play, field goal drive. "They saw we weren't leveraging the outside … that got them some hope, got them in the game," Hoke said. 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