Michigan
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Michigan Monday: Game 5 at Wisconsin
9/27/2021 2:15:00 PM | Football
#14 Michigan (4-0, 1-0 Big Ten) at Wisconsin (1-2, 0-1 Big Ten)
Camp Randall Stadium • Madison, Wis.
Saturday, Oct. 2, 2021 • 11:00 a.m. CDT
Television: Fox
Radio: Learfield Michigan Sports Network
Monday, Sept. 27
Complete Game Notes (PDF)
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• Michigan moved up five spots in the national polls and enters the week ranked 14th.
• The Wolverines will head to Wisconsin for their first road trip of the 2021 season, and are looking for their first win at Camp Randall Stadium since 2001.
• Blake Corum continues to lead the NCAA in all-purpose yards and is ninth in rushing yards per game.
• Aidan Hutchinson ranks third nationally in sacks.
• The Wolverines rank fourth nationally in scoring defense.
Wolverines and Badgers
• This will be the 70th meeting between Michigan and Wisconsin, with the Wolverines holding a 51-17-1 lead in the all-time series.
• U-M has claimed victories in 19 of the last 28 games played between the two schools and 33 of the last 43 match ups.
• Michigan holds a 19-8-1 advantage all-time over Wisconsin at Camp Randall Stadium, and a 22-8-1 mark in games played in Madison.
• The Wolverines are looking to claim their first victory at Wisconsin since 2001, when they won a 20-17 affair against the Badgers.
Series vs. Wisconsin: Michigan leads 51-17-1
Series Streak: Wisconsin won 2
Last Meeting vs. Wisconsin: 2020 (Wisconsin, 49-11)
Last Michigan Win: 2018
Television Coverage
Fox will broadcast the game to a national audience. Gus Johnson (play-by-play), Joel Klatt (color) and Jenny Taft (sideline reporter) will call the game.
In the Polls
• Michigan moved up five spots this week and enters the Wisconsin game ranked 14th in both national polls.
• U-M has been ranked for all but 13 contests under head coach Jim Harbaugh (76 games). The Wolverines were not ranked the first four games in 2015, four games in 2017 and 2020, and the first two games of the 2021 season.
• Over the last six seasons (2015-20), Michigan has faced more teams that have finished in the top 15 of the national polls (17) than any other program.
Game Notes Nuggets
•The Michigan offense has scored 161 points through four weeks (40.25 per game), which ranks 16th nationally and second in the Big Ten. That scoring figure represents the fifth-highest total in the last 50 seasons at U-M (since 1971). The following teams are the only ones to score more in the first month of their respective seasons: 2016 (208 points), 1976 (192 points), 1992 (175 points), and 2010 (166 points).
• The offensive line remains among the nation's best, having allowed just one sack (third nationally) and nine tackles for loss (first), both of which lead the Big Ten. They pave the way for the fifth-ranked rushing offense in the country (290.8 yards per game), another Big Ten-best.
• Overall, the offense has 21 plays of 20-plus yards this season (11 rushing, 10 passing), including four on Saturday against Rutgers (Sept. 15) -- all through the air. U-M is 11th in yards per completion (16) and 19th in red zone offense (94.1 percent).
• Michigan's defense ranks fourth in the country in scoring defense, allowing 11.8 points per contest, and is also top-25 in pass defense (171.5 yards allowed per game), pass efficiency (111.33 rating allowed), and fourth-down conversion percentage allowed (14.3 percent).
• The 47 points the Wolverine defense has surrendered thus far in 2021 are among the lowest since 1980. Seven U-M teams allowed lower totals in the season's first month: 44 points allowed (1987, '96, '03, '17), 38 points (2015), 21 points (1985), and 20 points (1997).
• Blake Corum leads the nation in all-purpose yards (180.75), and he's also among the country's best in rushing touchdowns (seven, fifth), rushing yards per game (118.8, ninth), kick return average (31.8 yards, ninth), total points (42, 13th) and yards per carry (6.88, 19th).
• Corum's 475 rushing yards are the most through the first four weeks by any U-M running back since Karan Higdon's 479 yards in 2018 season. Prior to Higdon, it's the highest opening-month rushing total since Mike Hart had 655 yards in the first four weeks of the 2007 season.
• Cade McNamara has thrown 124 consecutive pass attempts without an interception to begin his career. U-M is one of two teams (BYU) to play turnover-free through the first month of the year. Rutgers had zero turnovers heading into last weekend before David Ojabo ended the game with a key forced fumble in the fourth quarter.
.@DavidOjabo called game.
— Big Ten Network (@BigTenNetwork) September 25, 2021
No. 19 @UMichFootball gets the late turnover here. pic.twitter.com/gNFpJxNGWl
• McNamara has completed passes of 20-plus yards to five different receivers this season. For all five, a new career long reception was achieved: Cornelius Johnson (87 yards), Ronnie Bell (76), Mike Sainristil (51), Roman Wilson (38), and Erick All (24).
• Aidan Hutchinson is tied for second in the NCAA with 5.5 sacks. He has more this season in six starts than he did in 14 previous starts during his career (4.5).
• Hassan Haskins had two rushing touchdowns last weekend, making him the first Wolverine since Devin Gardner (2013) with at least one rushing score in each of the first four games of the year. Gardner's streak lasted the first five games that year. Haskins' six rushing touchdowns rank 11th nationally.
• With his pass breakup last weekend, defensive lineman Donovan Jeter became the 13th Wolverine with at least one PBU so far this season.
• Punter Brad Robbins had a 51-yard long punt last weekend, his third punt of 50-plus yards on 11 attempts so far this season with just 12 return yards allowed. He has 21 punts of 50-plus yards in his career.
• Tight end Max Bredeson (Hartland) and running back Isaiah Gash (Green Bay) are the only two Wolverines who hail from the state of Wisconsin.
Nebraska Game Time, TV Announced
Michigan's game at Nebraska on Saturday, Oct. 9, has been announced as a 6:30 p.m. CDT (7:30 EDT) start. ABC will televise the game from Memorial Stadium in Lincoln, Neb.
