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Aud io &  By THe numBeRs THe seAson mIcHIGAn vs. IoWA QuARTeR-By-QuARTeR comPARIson Game-By-Game first yards yards Passes Had Summary Score Downs Rush Pass Com./att. Int. Michigan 14 11 69 200 11/27 3 Alabama 41 20 232 199 11/21 0 Air Force Michigan Massachusetts Michigan • 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 Games Injury Missed Ankle/Leg 12 Clavicle 12 Leg 10 Ankle Four Knee Four Head 12 Foot Six Ankle Three Head None Head Two Head One Head None Arm One Ankle None Head One 26 19 290 214 127 208 10/19 14/25 15 27 112 294 147 291 15/30 16/25 6 13 19 14 161 94 138 145 13/25 11/19 0 1 5/35 5/45 112,522 Home 0 1 4/1 2/0 10/69 5/40 110,708 Home 5 2 2/1 0/0 5/38 5/49 80,795 Away 1/1 3/2 Vide o En han ced Michigan 1st Qtr. 2nd Qtr. 3rd Qtr. 4th Qtr. Time of Possession 6:25 8:14 12:01 3:43 3rd-Down Conversions 3-3 3-4 3-4 0-1 4th-Down Conversions 0-0 1-1 1-1 0-0 Avg. Field Position MICH-25 MICH-19 MICH-27 MICH-21 Iowa 1st Qtr. 2nd Qtr. 3rd Qtr. 4th Qtr. Time of Possession 8:35 6:46 2:59 11:17 3rd-Down Conversions 1-3 1-3 0-2 4-6 4th-Down Conversions 1-1 0-0 0-0 0-2 Avg. Field Position IOWA-25 IOWA-30 IOWA-31 IOWA-37 2nd Half 15:44 3-5 1-1 MICH-25 2nd Half 14:16 4-8 0-2 IOWA-35 Total 30:23 9-12 2-2 MICH-23 final 29:37 6-14 1-3 IOWA-31 50,105 sITuATIon TABles Away fIRST anD Ten Rushing Passing Totals Plays yards avg. Plays yards avg. Plays yards avg. 5/45 Home U-M 19 73 3.8 10 191 19.1 29 264 9.1 2/0 What7/50 best Big Ten bowl matchup? 113,833 is the IOWA 11 32 2.9 13 79 6.1 24 111 4.6 0/0 6/55 Home THIRD-DOWn effICIenCy TCU vs. Wisconsin (Rose) 3rd &1 3rd & 2-5 3rd & 6-9 3rd & 10+ Totals 1/0 3/44 86,160 40% M/a Pct. M/a Pct. M/a Pct. M/a Pct. M/a Pct. 1/1 8/104 Away Arkansas vs. Ohio State (Sugar) U-M 1/2 50.0 5/6 83.3 1/2 50.0 2/2 100.0 9/12 75.0 1/0 7/69 48,801 27% 1/1 IOWA 100.0 4/8 50.0 1/3 33.3 0/2 0.0 6/14 42.9 2/1 9/68 Away Michigan State vs. Alabama (Capital One) 1/0 3/21 113,016 13% ReD Zone eFFIcIency BIG PlAys 1/0 3/35 Home Michigan vs. Mississippi State (Gator) (InsIDe 20-yARD lIne) (25 yARDs oR moRe) 17% Poss. TDs fGs no Score MICHIGan 1/1 2/1 thEWoLVErinE.Com 5/45 110,922 gamE WEEk poLL 331 votes U-M Top four responses shownIowa 4 4 4 2 0 1 0 1 PlAy cHART (no. oF PlAys) yards ...................................................u-M (- ) Yards...............................................................2 By the Numbers Michigan Vs. Notre Dame 0-5 Yards.............................................................35 6-9 Yards..............................................................9 all-time head to head Gator Bowl's rank among the best bowl matchups 10-19 this season, accordin Winning percentage Yards.........................................................9 School G W L T 20-29 Yards.........................................................2 Pct. ing to Rivals.com college footU-M 1,227 884 307 36 30-39 Yards.........................................................3 .7351 ball editor Mike Huguenin. ND 1,181 844 295 42 40-49 Yards.........................................................1 .7324 Years since multiple vIDeo: click play to watch on the interactive Michigan and Notre Dameor more Yards ..............................................1 edition 50 went * Both U-M defenders had 7-5 this season. 100 tackles or more in the same THe wolVerIne • Page 9 year — Sam Sword (109), Jarrett Irons (106) and Marcus Ray 2010 FootbaLL sChEDuLE (104) in 1996 — until safety Date Opponent Time/TV Jordan Kovacs (112) and lineSept. 4 Connecticut W, 30-10 backer Jonas Mouton (111) acSept. 11 at Notre Dame W, 28-24 complished the feat this fall. Sept. 18 Massachusetts W, 42-37 The Big Ten's Sept. 25 Bowling Green W, 65-21 bowl record Oct. 2 at Indiana W, 42-35 since 2003; the conference Oct. 9 Michigan State L, 34-17 posted a losing record from Oct. 16 Iowa L, 38-28 2003-08 before going 4-3 in Oct. 30 at Penn State L, 41-31 Safety Jordan Kovacs and line2009. Nov. 6 Illinois W, 67-65 Current Wolverines backer Jonas Mouton both Nov. 13 at Purdue W, 27-16 that have previously topped 100 tackles this season for the Wolverines. Nov. 20 Wisconsin L, 48-28 traveled to a bowl game, inPHOTO bY ERiC bROnSOn/ Nov. 27 at Ohio State L, 37-7 bROnSOnPHOTO.COM cluding eight fifth-year seniors. Jan. 1 Mississippi State 1:30 p.m. 7th 14 19-31 IOWa 8 29 10 11 1 1 0 0 • pagE 13 The Wolverine Now, our digital newsletter, is published every Sunday (game reports) and Wednesday (scouting reports) during football season on TheWolverineOnDemand.com. Makes a ter rific gift for you r Michigan F an! Fi fth has A bi -Year Senior Je rem g impact As U- m y Gallon 's top re ceiv TH eer fu ThewOLve TuR e I s RIne.cO B R IG H M | APR IL 2013 | $3.95 T Junior Qb devin Ga Stepped rdner Up Final monin the Season's Grea t thewolveth, Show ing Promise com | rine. For october 2013 | 2013 $3.95 thewolv erine. com | dec ember 2012 | $3.9 5 Oct. 20, 2013 •3-1 U-M30 Robinson rush for 40 yards to the IOWA30 •3-17 IOWA37 Gardner pass complete to Roundtree for 37 yards to the IOWA0 •1-10 U-M39 Gardner pass complete to Gallon for 51 yards to the IOWA10 •2-4 U-M34 Gardner pass complete to Gallon for 31 yards to the IOWA35 •1-10 IOWA43 Gardner pass complete to Gallon for 31 yards to the IOWA12 •1-10 IOWA29 Gardner pass complete to Funchess for 29 yards to the IOWA0 Wild Ride Wolverines Survive Record-Setting Shootout IOWa •3-2 IOWA20 Vandenberg pass complete to Fiedorowicz for 37 yards to the U-M43 M By John Borton ichigan athletics director David Brandon probably doesn't want to invest in new stadium scoreboards this quickly, following a mega-million remake of Michigan Stadium. He'll have technicians checking the meltdown, though, after the Wolverines and Hoosiers left them smoking. U-M surged to a school-record 751 total yards in stiff-arming the high-scoring Hoosiers, 63-47. Devin Gardner fired away through the air (21-of-29, 503 yards, two 63 23 tHE WoLVERINE 1st Half 14:39 6-7 1-1 MICH-22 1st Half 15:21 2-6 1-1 IOWA-28 4/36 3/30 Nebraska 23 20 160 166 14/24 1 • Under Rich Rodriguez, Michigan has played its best football comMichigan 35 18 155 234 ing out of fall camp. U-M started with four straight12/18 in 2009 wins 1 13 14/31 0 and five Minnesotawins in 2010. 21 30-10 victory over UConn to straight The 128 147 start 2010 was arguably 17 Wolverines' most181 the complete win of the Iowa 17 128 19/26 0 season. Like fall camp, the Jan. 23 Gator Bowl has given Michigan 1 Michigan 42 199 314 18/23 1 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 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 attendance 90,413 Cowboys Stadium 2/0 0/0 Michigan 44 19 304 105 8/16 0 Purdue 15 56 23/35 2 • I'm very interested to 13 how the offense 157 see stacks up against the Bulldog D, one of the best in the SEC. Against some of the 1 best Illinois 0 7 105 29 7/16 defenses Michigan this45 —21 they faced year Ohio State, Iowa, Wisconsin — the 353 174 9/15 0 Wolverines struggled to move the ball early, which, combined with Michigan State put 16 1 the defensive struggles, 10 them in a 112 hole. 21/34 huge 192 Michigan 12 16 163 163 14/30 1 Prediction: Mississippi State 35, Michigan 21 — Andy 3 Reid Michigan 9 18 95 93 9/27 U-M Football injury Report Player CB Troy Woolfolk S Jared Van Slyke LB Mike Jones CB J.T. Floyd TB Teric Jones S Mike Williams WR Martavious Odoms DT Mike Martin DE Craig Roh TB Michael Shaw OT Taylor Lewan TB Vincent Smith WR Jeremy Gallon WR Darryl Stonum WR Junior Hemingway 13 63 Michigan Notre Dame The writers of The Wolverine weigh in with their take on U-M football. 25 31 fumbles Penalties no./Lost no./yards 0/0 8/99 1/1 7/55 Only $52.99 M o vi n Ta r g e g T 47 touchdowns) and scrambled past the defensively hapless Hoosiers on the ground (15 carries, 81 yards, three TDs) for another school record of 584 individual total yards. Wideout Jeremy Gallon snagged 14 catches for a Big Ten-record 369 yards and two TDs, and the Wolverines played just enough defense in the end to win. Safety Thomas Gordon's two fourth-quarter interceptions set up Gardner's game-clinching plunge into the end zone and then put away what seemed like Indiana's 100th charge downfield. "Coach [Brady] Hoke always reminds me we need more," Gardner acknowledged. "Coach [Fred] Jackson came up to me and said it's going to be like a basketball game. You have to keep scoring." It felt like an NBA All-Star game for a while, Indiana ringing up 572 yards of offense on its own, including 288 yards passing and three touchdowns by quarterback Tre Roberson. In the end, Michigan Stadium breathed one major sigh of relief in a game that left its denizens breathless. "A lot of frustration," noted Hoke, as defensive-minded as they come. "Sickening, sick feeling, that kind of thing. You don't win championships without playing defense, and we didn't play good defense today." But they did enough, on this day, to move on at 6-1 overall and 2-1 in the Big Ten. Indiana delivered an early airmail reminder of its quick strike ability. Starting QB Nate Sudfeld (8-of-19, 122 yards) gunned a 59-yard touchdown strike to wideout Cody Latimer in the opening five minutes, putting the Wolverines in rally mode. Little did anyone know, that marked the tiniest snowflake on the iceberg, for both teams. The Wolverines wasted no time, either. Set up by a 44-yard kickoff return by sophomore Dennis Norfleet, the Wolverines covered the other 56 in five plays, Gardner bolting in on a keeper to square the scoreboard at 7-7. U-M then demonstrated big-play ability of its own, Gardner tossing a quick pass to Gallon, who bolted away for 70 yards. With the skies opening into a downpour at Michigan Stadium, Gallon then made a juggling grab redshirt junior Devin Gardner set a U-M record by passing for 503 yards in the win over Indiana, marking the first time a Michigan quarterback had thrown for even 400 yards, much less for 500. photo by lon horwedel Send to: The Wolverine • Circulation Dept. • P.O. 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