Michigan
Army
Michigan Monday: Game 2 vs. Army
9/2/2019 12:32:00 PM | Football
Army (1-0) at #7/#7 Michigan (1-0)
Michigan Stadium (107,601) • Ann Arbor, Mich.
Saturday, Sept. 7, 2019 • Noon EDT
Television: Fox
Radio: Michigan/IMG Sports Network
Army Game Promotions
• Military Appreciation Game
• Black Daggers Parachute Jump
• Flyover: CH-47 Chinook, UH-60 Black Hawk and UH-72 Lakota
• Michigan Marching Band Halftime Show: D-Day from the Homefront
• Championship Recognition: Men's Gymnastics, Women's Tennis and Rowing
• Full Promotions Schedule
Monday, Sept. 2
Complete Game Notes (PDF)
Coach Harbaugh Weekly Press Conference | Watch
Inside Michigan Football Radio Show (7 p.m.) | Listen
• This will be the 10th meeting between Michigan and Army and the first match-up since 1962.
• Against Middle Tennessee State, Shea Patterson tossed TD passes to three different receivers and spread the ball around to 9 players.
• Cornerback Ambry Thomas made his first career start in the opener, collecting an interception and fumble recovery.
• Jordan Glasgow paced the defense against the Blue Raiders with two sacks and six stops.
• Freshman Zach Charbonnet led the offense against MTSU with 99 yards, 90 on the ground and nine receiving.
Wolverines and Black Knights
This will be the 10th meeting between Michigan and Army. The Black Knights, previously known as the Army Cadets, hold a slight 5-4 advantage over the Wolverines. Army won the first five match-ups, while Michigan won the most recent four meetings. This will be the first game played between the two schools since 1962, a 17-7 victory for U-M at Michigan Stadium. The Wolverines have a 4-3 record against the Black Knights at Michigan Stadium but are 0-2 in games played at Yankee Stadium.
Series vs. Army: Army leads 5-4
Series Streak: U-M won four
Last Meeting: 1962 (U-M 17, Army 7)
Last Michigan Win: 1962
Television Coverage
Fox will broadcast the game to a national audience. Gus Johnson (play-by-play), Joel Klatt (color) and Jenny Taft (sideline) will call the game.
In the Polls
• This week's polls will be released Tuesday (Sept. 3).
• The Michigan football team opened 2019 ranked in the top 10 of both national polls, listing No. 7 in the preseason Amway Coaches Poll and Associated Press rankings.
• Michigan finished last season ranked 14th in both national polls, the same position that it began the season.
• This is the 49th time since 1950 that U-M has been listed in the AP's top 25 in the preseason.
• U-M posted a 3-3 record against ranked teams in 2018, defeating No. 15 Wisconsin, No. 24 Michigan State and No. 14 Penn State while falling to No. 11 Notre Dame, No. 10 Ohio State and No. 10 Florida. The last time U-M beat three top 25 teams in the same season was 2005, and the last time it defeated three straight ranked opponents was 1997.
Game Notes Nuggets
• Michigan enters Army week with an 11-2 mark in non-conference play under head coach Jim Harbaugh, with the only defeats coming on the road.
• Army is the second of Michigan's six opponents that qualified for a bowl game last season. U-M's week-one opponent, Middle Tennessee State, also played in the postseason in 2018.
• Among 17 Wolverine debuts last weekend, five players made their first career starts: junior defensive back Ambry Thomas, sophomore tackles Jalen Mayfield (right) and Ryan Hayes (left) and their classmate, defensive end Aidan Hutchinson, and true freshman running back Zach Charbonnet. Graduate student Michael Danna also saw his first action as a Wolverine after transferring from Central Michigan.
• Charbonnet became the first Wolverine true freshman to start at tailback in a season opener since Sam McGuffie in 2008 and just the fourth since 1994, joining Gene Derricotte (1944) and Wally Teniga (1945).
• Charbonnet's 90 yards on eight carries produced an average of 11.3 yards per tote, and his 41-yard carry in the fourth quarter was Michigan's longest play of the day.
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— Michigan Football (@UMichFootball) September 1, 2019
• Quarterback Shea Patterson spread the ball around in Michigan's season-opening win. Nine different players caught passes, including three different receivers on Patterson's trio of touchdown passes -- all of which were 28 yards or longer.
• Patterson showed great rapport with junior and senior pass-catchers. Senior tight ends Sean McKeon and Nick Eubanks and junior receivers Tarik Black and Nico Collins combined for 11 receptions for 171 yards and all three touchdown passes.
• The Michigan defense was disruptive, with nine different players registering a sack, tackle for loss, turnover, pass breakup or quarterback hurry. Junior defensive back Ambry Thomas (one interception, one tackle for loss, one fumble recovery) was credited stats in several categories.
• Graduate student linebacker Jordan Glasgow continues his ascending play. After earning three sacks in 2018, including one in his first career start against Nebraska (Sept. 22), Glasgow had his first multi-sack game (2.0) in last weekend's opener.
