Michigan Monday: Game 11 at Maryland

Game Note Nuggets

• The U-M offense has tallied 49 performs of 20-plus yards on offense (30 receiving, 19 speeding) via 10 weeks (six in week one, 4, eight, three, seven, one, three, 4, 5, seven). Andrew Marsh leads the crew with 14 such performs (13 receiving, one speeding) on offense. He additionally has 4 through kickoff return.

• The offensive line has paved the way in which for 27 touchdowns on the bottom to date this 12 months whereas permitting 15 sacks towards within the move recreation. The unit has employed 5 completely different beginning lineups in 10 video games as a result of accidents.

• The offense is allowing opposing defenses to create a median of three.8 unfavorable performs per recreation, rating U-M fifteenth nationally in tackles for loss allowed.

• Running backs Justice Haynes and Jordan Marshall type a one-two punch. Whichever again begins for U-M has reached at the least 100 yards speeding with at the least one landing in 9 of 10 contests this 12 months (159, 125, 104, 149, 117, 152 yards for Haynes; 133, 185, 142 yards for Marshall), with the lone exception being at USC when Haynes left with an harm.

• Marshall is a plus-yardage rusher and pile-dragger. He has simply 4 yards misplaced on 143 carries this 12 months, averaging 6.1 yards per carry (twenty third, FBS). He has three straight 100-yard video games and 4 general, and a number of scores in three video games this 12 months.

• The Michigan run recreation is twelfth within the FBS, averaging 223.0 yards per contest. U-M has 200-plus yards in six contests, together with 250-plus yards in 4.

• Six completely different gamers have scored on the bottom this 12 months, and Marshall is tied with Justice Haynes for the crew lead with 10 speeding touchdowns (tied-Twenty eighth, FBS).

• Marshall ranks fourth within the Big Ten with 871 speeding yards (twenty fifth, FBS), and second in league play with 762 yards throughout the final seven contests. He additionally ranks second in speeding touchdowns in Big Ten play (eight) and leads the convention in yards per carry (6.7) in league play (minimal, 80 carries).

• Despite Haynes rating ninth in carries throughout the league and lacking almost all of 4 video games, Haynes is fifth within the Big Ten with 857 speeding yards (twenty seventh, FBS).

• U-M leads the FBS in speeding performs of 50-plus yards (eight), six of which have gone for touchdowns. Haynes and Marshall (4) are every tied for third nationally amongst particular person leaders.

• Quarterback Bryce Underwood is averaging 5.0 yards per carry with 4 touchdowns of his personal. Adjusted for sacks, Underwood averages 6.6 yards per carry (46 rushes for 305 yards).

• Altogether, U-M has 11 separate 100-yard speeding performances on the 12 months (Haynes, 6; Marshall, 4; Underwood, 1).

• Underwood’s 61.5 % completion ranking (155-of-252 passing) comes with a median of seven.74 yards per try and a move effectivity ranking of 131.7. He ranks fifth within the Big Ten with 12.59 yards per completion.

• Andrew Marsh has emerged because the crew’s most efficient pass-catcher with 36 catches for 565 yards in league play, rating him fourth in receiving yards. Marsh’s line at Northwestern (12 catches, 189 yards) set single-game receiving information amongst true freshmen at Michigan (since at the least 1979).

• His 12 catches are tied-fifth-most in a single recreation at Michigan and probably the most since Jeremy Gallon’s 14-catch recreation towards Indiana in 2013. His 189 receiving yards are probably the most since Jehu Chesson recorded 207 on 10 catches in 2015 (additionally at Indiana).

• Tight ends have mixed to catch 38 passes for 434 yards this season (11.4 yards per catch). Five completely different gamers within the room have caught a move.

• U-M has at the least one turnover compelled in 9 of 10 video games this season, and a number of turnovers in 5 contests.

• On the defensive aspect of the turnover battle, Cole Sullivan leads the crew with 4 turnovers compelled (three interceptions, one fumble restoration). Sullivan is one in every of 9 U-M linebackers to file three or extra interceptions in a season and the primary since Steve Morrison in 1991. Morrison’s 5 picks that season are a single-season file for linebackers at U-M.

• U-M is ranked seventeenth in complete protection; solely three opponents (Oklahoma, USC, MSU) have eclipsed 300 yards of complete offense towards the Maize and Blue.

• Nine completely different gamers have U-M’s 11 picks: Zeke Berry, Elijah Dotson, T.J. Guy, Brandyn Hillman, TJ Metcalf, Jacob Oden, Rod Moore, Jimmy Rolder and Cole Sullivan (three).

• Through 9 video games, 18 completely different gamers have an interception or move breakup: 4 linebackers, 4 defensive linemen, and 11 defensive backs. Zeke Berry leads the protection with 9 passes defended (eight breakups, one interception). The Wolverines are second within the Big Ten in complete move breakups (passes defended plus interceptions) with 37 (Oregon, 46).

• The move rush has averaged 2.4 quarterback takedowns per recreation (thirty ninth, FBS) after getting shut out final weekend. U-M’s 24 sacks generated are tied-sixth within the Big Ten; solely Central Michigan and Northwestern have escaped and not using a sack taken towards U-M.

• That determine has helped pad a TFL rank of thirty seventh nationally, with the protection averaging 6.2 unfavorable performs per contest. Derrick Moore leads the crew with 8.5 sacks and 9.0 TFL.

• Moore’s robust November has vaulted him as much as Tenth nationally in sacks (0.85 per recreation). That determine ranks second amongst Big Ten gamers, and first outright in convention play.

• Moore has entered the highest 10 all-time at Michigan with 19.5 profession sacks (ninth). Tim Jamison (20) is eighth on the record, adopted by 4 gamers tied with 24 profession sacks.

• The protection has additionally executed a great job of making certain minimal big-play alternatives for opponents. On the bottom, opponents have 26 rushes of 10-plus yards (Tenth-fewest, FBS); Big Ten groups occupy 5 of the highest 10 spots in that class. Opponents haven’t any rushes of 50-plus yards towards the Wolverines, tied with 26 different groups for the fewest allowed.

• Opponents have accomplished one move of 50-plus yards, making U-M one in every of six groups to permit one 50-plus yard play (speeding and passing mixed) or fewer on the 12 months. The others are Army, Central Michigan, Iowa, TCU and Washington State.

• The speeding protection is ranked twelfth, permitting 96.3 yards per contest and three.0 yards per keep it up 322 rushes.

• Linebacker Ernest Hausmann is pacing the protection with 68 tackles via 10 video games, adopted by Jimmy Rolder (54). TJ Metcalf leads the secondary (39 stops) and Rayshaun Benny (25) has probably the most amongst inside defensive linemen..