Postgame Notes: #19 Michigan 56, Nebraska 10

• Saturday's game marked the 10th all-time meeting between Michigan and Nebraska and the first since 2013. It was the first time the teams opened Big Ten play against one another. Michigan's 56 points are the Wolverines' highest point total against the Cornhuskers.

• The 56 points are the fifth most in Michigan's history of Big Ten openers and the most since a 58-0 victory over Minnesota on Oct. 1, 2011.

• The Wolverines are 4-0 in Big Ten openers under head coach Jim Harbaugh and have won 12 of the last 13 and 35 of the last 37 overall to start conference play.

• Today's announced attendance of 111,037 marks the 283rd consecutive game at Michigan Stadium with a crowd in excess of 100,000.

• In the 17 possessions that spanned the second half against SMU and first half against Nebraska, Michigan scored 15 times with 12 touchdowns.

• Michigan tallied over 200 yards rushing (285) and passing (206) for the first time since the 2017 season opener against Florida when the Wolverines had 215 rushing and 218 receiving.

• Senior Karan Higdon recorded his 20th career touchdown on a 44-yard run in the first quarter. Higdon notched his seventh career 100-yard rushing game, finishing with 136 yards and one touchdown on 12 carries.

• Sophomore Ben Mason tallied his first career multi-touchdown game as he scored three times against Nebraska. He doubled his career touchdown total and now has six. The last U-M player with three rushing touchdowns in a game was Karan Higdon at Indiana in 2017. Mason finished with a career-high six carries and 18 yards, including a career-long rush of six yards on the opening drive.

• Junior running back Tru Wilson had a career-high rush of 26 yards at the end of the first quarter.

• Senior tight end Zach Gentry extended his reception streak to eight games. Gentry hauled in his first touchdown reception of the season and third of his career.

• Freshman Ronnie Bell hauled in a 56-yard touchdown on his first career reception. Bell became the second WR for U-M this year to catch a TD on his first career pass from Dylan McCaffrey (Jake McCurry vs. Western Michigan).

• Three quarterbacks saw game action: junior Shea Patterson, sophomore Dylan McCaffrey and junior Brandon Peters.

• The Wolverines held Nebraska scoreless in the first half, marking the second time this season an opponent (Western Michigan) failed to score in the first half against Michigan. U-M has held opponents scoreless in eight of 16 quarters this season.

• The last time the Michigan defense held an opponent to negative rushing yards in a quarter was against Ohio State (Nov. 25, 2017) with a total of -12 yards in the first quarter. The Wolverines held Nebraska to -5 yards in the first quarter and -1 yard in the second quarter.

• Michigan's defense tallied four sacks in the game, three of which came on third down to end drives.

• Senior Jordan Glasgow earned his first career start on defense. On Nebraska's second series of the game he tallied his first career sack for a loss of 14 yards on third down.

• Junior Josh Metellus recorded an interception for the second straight game, the second of his career. The last time that a Michigan player had interceptions in two consecutive games was in 2015 with Jourdan Lewis against Maryland (Oct. 3) and Northwestern (Oct. 10).

• Late in the second quarter, Michigan scored a team safety on an illegal forward pass by Nebraska QB Adrian Martinez. The last time Michigan scored a safety was against Cincinnati in 2017.

• Sophomore Donovan Peoples-Jones returned a punt 60 yards for a touchdown in the third quarter. Peoples-Jones is the 10th Michigan Wolverine to return two punts for a touchdown in his career. The return gives U-M two special teams touchdowns in 2018, as Ambry Thomas returned a kickoff 99 yards for a touchdown at Notre Dame.

• Sophomore Jake McCurry tallied his first career caused fumble on a Nebraska punt return at the end of the first quarter. The fumble was recovered by sophomore Ambry Thomas.

• Junior Quinn Nordin made a 50-yard field goal in the second quarter, his third career made field goal of at least 50 yards. Nordin tied Bob Bergeron (1984-87) for the second-most 50-yard field goals made in a career at U-M. The all-time leader is Hayden Epstein (1998-2001) with four.

• Making their collegiate debuts for the Wolverines in the game were junior defensive lineman Dane Drobocky, sophomore defensive back Hunter Reynolds, freshman running back Christian Turner and freshman linebacker Cameron McGrone. Turner had 10 carries for 55 yards in the game.