* indicates not a per game stat, which obviously impacts rank this season
History vs. Michigan:
Michigan leads all-time series 59-9
Last meeting: 2019 at Indiana - 39-14 Michigan
This Season:
vs #8 Penn State - W 36-35 (OT)
at Rutgers - W 37-21
Penix has completed 36 of 62 (58.0%) of his passes with 408 yards and 4 TDs to 1 INT. He has 2 yards rushing with a long of 25 and 2 TDs.
Running Back: Stevie Scott III 6'2" 231 lbs (Jr.)
Scott has 41 rushes for 138 yards (3.4ypc) and 2 TDs with a long of 22. He's also had 4 catches for 6 yards.
Wide Receivers: Whop Philyor 5'11" 180 lbs (Sr.) & Ty Fryfogle 6'2" 214 lbs (Sr.)
Philyor has recorded 10 receptions for 173 yards with a TD and a long of 63 yards. Fryfogle has 6 catches for 82 yards and a TD with a long of 21.
Tight End: Peyton Hendershot 6'4" 250 lbs (RS Jr.)
Hendershot has 8 catches for 47 yards with a long of 14 and 2 TDs.
Left Tackle: Caleb Jones 6'8" 362 lbs (RS So.)
15 career starts.
Left Guard: Mike Katic 6'4" 311 lbs (RS Fr.)
2 career starts.
Center: Harry Crider 6'4" 311 lbs (Sr.)
14 career starts.
Right Guard: Mackenzie Nworah 6'4" 322 lbs (RS Sr.)
11 career starts.
Right Tackle: Matthew Bedford 6'6" 314 lbs (So.)
10 career starts.
Defensive Tackles: Jerome Johnson 6'3" 304 lbs (RS Sr.) & Sio Nofoagatoto'a 6'4" 315 lbs (So.)
Johnson has 6 tackles with a recovered fumble. Nofoagatoto'a has recorded 1 tackle and a deflected pass.
Defensive Ends: James Head Jr. 6'5" 261 lbs (Jr.) & Michael Ziemba 6'3" 258 lbs (Sr.)
Head has tallied 6 tackles with a half sack. Ziemba has 3 tackles.
Linebackers: Micah McFadden 6'2" 235 lbs (Jr.) & Cam Jones 6'3" 230 lbs (Jr.)
McFadden has compiled 16 tackles, 1.5 for a loss, with 1 INT and a pass breakup. Jones has a total of 10 tackles including 2 for a loss, a sack, and 1 pass breakup.
HUSKY: Bryant Fitzgerald 6'0" 209 lbs (RS Jr.)
Fitzgerald has recorded 5 tackles with 1 pass deflection.
Cornerbacks: Reese Taylor 5'11" 185 lbs (Jr.) & Tiawan Mullen 5'10" 176 lbs (So.)
Taylor has 11 tackles with 1 for a loss and 1 pass breakup. Mullen has 15 tackles with 3.5 for a loss and 2.5 sacks.
Safeties: Devon Matthews 6'2" 202 lbs (Jr.) & Jamar Johnson 6'1" 197 lbs (Jr.)
Matthews has totaled 14 tackles with 1 for a loss, a sack and 3 pass breakups. Johnson is at 16 tackles with 2.5 for a loss, a forced fumble, a pass breakup and an INT.
Punter and Kicker: Haydon Whitehead 6'2" 219 lbs (RS Sr.) & Chris Campbell 5'9" 171 lbs (RS So.)
Whitehead has had 10 punts with an average of 40.0 yards with a long of 47. 8 have been fair caught and 2 downed inside the 20. Campbell is 5/5 on field goals (7/7 in his career) with a long of 48.
Returners: Jacolby Hewitt 6'1" 202 lbs (RS So.) & Reese Taylor 5'11'' 185 lbs (Jr.)
Taylor has returned 2 punts for 21 yards, which was the longest, the other being 0 yards. Hewitt has returned 2 kicks for 30 yards with a long of 21.
Players to watch:
Whop Philyor - WR
Meh. Nothing too impressive from Indiana on paper. They won a turnover battle against PSU (3-2) but in every other phase of that game, were outplayed. Penn State outgained IU 488-211, outrushed 250-41 and out passed 238-170. First downs were 27-16 and TOP was 40 minutes to 19. Penix was also not very good despite his heroic game winning OT touchdown.
Last week against Rutgers they looked much better through the air but still struggled to run the ball and their defense was okay at best. Despite a 3-0 turnover margin that gave IU 14 of their points in a combined 34 yards of field, they weren't overwhelming against RU. After a pitiful 1.6 yards per rush against Penn State, they followed it up with just 2.7 on the ground against Rutgers. Their rush defense on the other hand gave up 3.7 yards per carry to Rutgers and 4.8 to Penn State. Indiana has been gifted bad QB play by both of their opponents thus far resulting in 5 interceptions and many short fields. Just as Rutgers gave them 14 points off of 34 combined yards of field off turnovers, so did Penn State on two IU touchdown drives of a combined 29 yards.
Penix was nothing special against Penn State and did about what you would expect any QB to do against Rutgers, though he actually had a lower completion percentage against Rutgers than Rocky Lombardi did. So despite how awful Michigan's pass defense was last week against the deep ball, perhaps we can take solice in the fact that Penix has only completed 2 passes for more than 20 yards so far. One was a 21 yard pass against Penn State and a 63 yarder last week.
Just don't get burned deep like last week... Don't turn it over on offense and I really don't see much of a threat. No excuses to not be able to run the ball (at least to the outside if last week is any indication). None of us saw a threat last week either but Indiana is getting a lot of love for a gritty win and not much else around it. I'm going to give Michigan the benefit of the doubt that last week was slightly flukey and that this is a team that is still good enough to take care of Indiana who is not as impressive as their ranking suggests. I also have to imagine we can't possibly have another game anywhere near as bad as last week when it comes to pass defense. I would like to think we're out for atonement. A repeat of last week and we're in trouble.
Michigan wins 35-24
This years predictions:
34-17 vs Minnesota (49-24 actual)
52-13 vs Michigan State (yikes)
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