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Michigan Monday: Game 8 vs. Michigan State

Michigan Monday: Game 8 vs. Michigan State


Game Notes Nuggets

• Michigan is 7-0 in back-to-back seasons for the first time since 1974-75. It’s the third time under head coach Jim Harbaugh that the Wolverines have started with a 7-0 mark to begin the season (2016, ’21).

• U-M is scoring 42.7 points per game and allowing 12.1 points against, on average. The only teams with top-10 rankings in scoring offense and scoring defense are Georgia (second, defense; eighth, offense), Ohio State (second, offense; fifth, defense), and Michigan (third, defense; sixth, offense).

• The only teams with an average scoring differential above 30 points are Ohio State (+34.7), Georgia (+32.5), and Michigan (+30.6).

• U-M has scored points on its opening possession in six of seven games this season, including three straight at Iowa, at Indiana, and against Penn State. Five of those six scores were touchdowns. U-M is outscoring its opponents by a cumulative tally of 159 to 37 in the first half with only four offensive touchdowns allowed.

• Michigan’s +214 cumulative scoring differential trails only Ohio State (+243) and Georgia (+228) for the best in the nation. It’s the same figure posted by the 1976 squad through seven games, and the 2016 team (+238) is the only U-M team with a better mark since 1905.

Blake Corum has 666 rushing yards and six touchdowns across four Big Ten games thus far, averaging 5.87 yards per carry in conference play. Across his last 12 Big Ten games (dating to 2021), Corum has totaled 1,198 yards and 10 touchdowns on 5.95 yards per carry.

• Corum ranks second in the country in rushing yards (901), 28th in yards per carry (6.17), and first in total touchdowns (13). He also ranks second in the country in first downs (57), trailing Marshall’s Khalan Laborn (60) on 43 fewer carries.

• Corum has produced 11 of Michigan’s 39 explosive offensive plays (20-plus yards). He has at least one run of 20-plus yards in six of seven games this season; Colorado State limited him to a 19-yard rush.

• PFFCollege credits Corum with 37 missed tackles forced on 146 carries this season, tied for the second-most among Big Ten backs (Chase Brown, 54).

• So far this season, the offensive line has paved the way to an average of 6.22 yards per sack-adjusted carry, and 6.9 yards per play overall.

• The U-M offensive line has permitted 31 negative plays on 479 offensive snaps (just over four per game), or on 6.5 percent of all offensive snaps. When the line does allow a sack, it comes on an average of…

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