muffed the kickoff after getting entangled
with his own teammate, Miami diving on
the ball at the Wolverines' 21. Four plays
later, Hendrix gunned a two-yard TD toss
to wideout Dawan Scott, deadlocking the
game at 10 with 7:24 left before intermis-
sion.
"[Redshirt junior] Justice [Hayes] was
communicating 'Mine, mine, mine' and
Wyatt didn't hear it," Hoke said. "One
thing I think we can do a better job at is
making sure he understands, and we do
it every Thursday, that he can fair catch
that ball. The way he had lined up, Jus-
tice was up enough that we were hoping
he would be able to field it without a fair
catch. He just didn't hear him."
Following three turnovers in a five-min-
ute span, the Wolverines' sideline alarm
went off. They marched 66 yards in six
plays, a 26-yard Gardner-to-Darboh con-
nection and a 27-yard Green run setting
up the powerful tailback's one-yard TD
plunge, putting Michigan back on top,
17-10.
U-M saw a chance to score again be-
fore the half, but a delay-of-game penalty
on fourth-and-one (coming out of a time-
out) destroyed that drive, bringing about
a smattering of boos as the teams headed
up the halftime tunnel.
The catcalls turned around late in the
third quarter, when Michigan covered 63
yards for a touchdown in just three plays.
Sophomore tight end Jake Butt, reemerg-
ing from injury in earnest after getting a
