The Wolverine

November 2013

The Wolverine: Covering University of Michigan Football and Sports

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Wolverine WATCH   john borton P Entering November, U-M Is A Mystery retend you're sitting at a ing defense, giving up 26.7 points per desk in a secure location. You game. haven't witnessed one snap • No. 99 in the country in pass of college football defense, surrendering all season long. You 255.4 yards per outhaven't even caught ing. a whiff of a tailgate • No. 88 nationally brat as it sizzled away in long passing plays on a sunny Saturday allowed (including 18 morning. for 20 yards or longer, You've been in nine for 30 or more). the football isolation • No. 88 in the nachamber. Now, you're tion in punting, at a handed a dossier on 40.08 average. the Michigan Wolver- Head coach Brady Hoke used the • A four-point win ines. The information word "inconsistent" to describe over Akron. the Wolverines this season, but supplied is incom• A three-point win for all the team's ups and downs, over UConn. plete, to be sure, but you believe it's telling. they stood 6-1 heading into • A lineup that has November. Your job as an anafeatured four differphoto by per kjeldsen lyst involves sorting ent left guards, two it out and identifying where the Wol- centers and three right guards, along verines stand just past the midway with some scrambling at the tackles mark of the regular season. The figto fill in for an injured Taylor Lewan. ures provided include the following: • A loss to a Penn State team that • Tied for No. 87 in the country n fell to Indiana and Ohio State by a turnover margin, at minus-2. combined 59 points. • Eleven interceptions, tied for Okay, enough, you say, shoving 15th-worst in the nation. the folder back across the desk. This • Seventeen total turnovers, worse is obviously a disaster, a lost season, than all but 15 of 123 teams nationone of those years where everything ally. seems to go wrong and it's all about • Tied for 105th in the nation in looking toward recruiting and buildtackles for loss allowed, with 55. ing toward bigger and better au• Tied for 63rd nationally in scortumns.

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