Postgame Notes: #3 Michigan 45, #2 Ohio State 23
11/26/2022 4:20:00 PM | Football
• Michigan has won at least a share of the Big Ten East title for the third time in program history, and the second consecutive season. The Wolverines will seek their league-leading 44th Big Ten title next Saturday night at Lucas Oil Stadium.
• U-M earned its 60th win in 119 meetings with Ohio State (60-52-6) and evened up the all-time series in Columbus (28-28-2) with today's victory.
• Michigan has won back-to-back games in the series since 1999-2000, and won for the first time in Ohio Stadium since 2000, ending a nine-game road losing streak in the series.
• Prior to today's game, the Buckeyes had won every game by double-digits this season and led the FBS with a margin of victory of +29.5 points per game.
• U-M picked up its first road win against a top-five team since 2006 (at Notre Dame).
• The Wolverines ended the Buckeyes' 29-game home Big Ten winning streak which dated to the 2015 season. OSU would have been the sixth team in FBS history to reach 30 straight league wins at home.
• Both of Ohio State's Big Ten losses (two) under head coach Ryan Day have come against Michigan (2021).
• Michigan has reached the 12-0 mark for the first time since the 1997 season (12-0). It is just the fourth season in program history to produce a 12-win team (1905, 1997, 2021).
• On the season, U-M has allowed only 20 third-quarter points all season. The Wolverines kept the Buckeyes off the scoreboard in the third quarter today.
• Quarterback J.J. McCarthy registered his fourth game this year with at least three-plus touchdowns responsible for (Hawaii, at Indiana, Rutgers, at Nebraska). McCarthy's four total touchdowns (one rushing) were a career-high.
• McCarthy is the first quarterback in program history to begin his career with at least 11 wins as a starter before taking his first loss. The previous record-holder was Dennis Franklin (10 wins to begin career as a starter) in 1972.
• Michigan's scoring drive to put the game up 31-20 near the end of the third quarter and start of the fourth quarter was one of the longest of the year. It lasted 15 plays (tied-most plays in a single drive this season) and took 7:51 off the game clock. Only the 15-play, 9:26-second drive against Penn State took more time.
• Donovan Edwards ran for 216 yards on 22 carries (9.8 ypc) and two touchdowns with 207 of those yards coming in the second half.
• Michigan's first points of the day came from a 49-yard field goal by kicker Jake Moody. It was the 15th made field goal of Moody's career from beyond 40 yards, and his eighth this season. Both set new U-M career and single-season records.
• Cornelius Johnson made a 69-yard touchdown reception midway through the second quarter, marking the longest catch of the year by any Wolverine. It was Johnson's team-leading fifth touchdown catch this season.
• Johnson followed up with a 75-yard score on the next drive. It was U-M's first game with multiple touchdown passes of 60-plus yards since Western Michigan last year (69 yards, Daylen Baldwin; 76 yards, Ronnie Bell).
• The 45-yard touchdown catch from tight end Colston Loveland, the lone U-M freshman to start on either side of the ball in today's contest, was his first career touchdown as well as the longest reception of his career.
• Johnson finished the game with 160 receiving yards, the fourth-highest single-game total in rivalry history. Only Jeremy Gallon (175 yards,2013), Braylon Edwards (172 yards, 2004) and Marquise Walker (160 yards, 2001) are the only Wolverines with at least that total.
• Only Penn State (482 yards) is the only team to put more yards of total offense against the Buckeyes than U-M did this season. No one scored more points than U-M did today.
• The Buckeyes were 5-of-17 on combined third- and fourth-down opportunities.
• In his third career start, defensive back Will Johnson set a new career high with eight tackles (seven solo).
