The Wolverine: Covering University of Michigan Football and Sports
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WOLVERINE WATCH JOHN BORTON M U-M Needs Consistency In 2014 ichigan's also stopped turning in football enough points to win team needs football games. to demonstrate that The ball movers scaring the inner produced six against demons out of the the Spartans, 13 Buckeyes in the regularversus Nebraska, season finale was no nine in regulation at fluke. The Wolverines Northwestern (before have to prove that their scrambling to a 27-19 November offensive triple-overtime win) hiatus represented and 21 at Iowa. Oh, nothing more than A strong showing in the and then 603 yards and the perfect storm of Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl 41 points against the could be a springboard Buckeyes — the fourthinjury, inexperience into next season for Devin highest point total and inefficiency at the Gardner and the U-M offense. ever by the Wolverines wrong times. PHOTO BY PER KJELDSEN The numbers are against OSU and the jarring. Michigan averaged 42.4 second-most yards the Buckeyes points a game through the first have ever surrendered in any football seven weeks of the season, an game. average dragged down by turnoverAs they used to say on the street filled efforts against a couple of called Sesame, one of these things is the worst teams they faced. Had not like the others. the Wolverines not stumbled to 28 Devin Gardner, beaten and against Akron and 24 versus UConn, battered and on his way to an they could have averaged 50 going excruciatingly painful turf toe injury into the Michigan State game. that rendered him immobile by Then the going got tough, and game's end, carved the Buckeyes the Wolverines got going in reverse. up through the air for 451 yards. From a trip to MSU right through The Wolverines tacked on 152 on a sojourn into Arctic conditions the ground, and looked like they in Iowa City, Michigan's offense had against the Irish, when the went into the deep freeze. U-M season was new and full of national stopped turning the ball over, but promise.