Don't Mess With Tradition - krulmichael's Michigan Wolverines

[krulmichael]

Quote: Originally Posted by yanks26ngoin

What offense will you be choosing since you're going back to the pro-style offense? I was thinking you should choose Stanford's offense because of Jim Harbaugh, who was a starting QB under Bo at Michigan, and seems to have tried to model his system after Bo's system, except of course doing some things differently... Looking forward to seeing some games posted...

Hmm. That's actually a very interesting idea. Right now I like Pitt's playbook and I'm playing the first game right now, but afterwords I'll test out Stanford's and see how it is. Thanks for the heads up and checking in.

[krulmichael]

Week 1 - Game Preview

Saturday, September 4th, 2009, 3:30 PM (EST)
National Broadcast

Corso's Pick - Michigan
Herbstreit's Pick - UConn

Team Ratings
Overall: B
Offense: B+
Defense: B

Team Stats

Points Per Game: N/A
Total Offense: N/A
Rush Offense: N/A
Pass Offense: N/A
Total Defense: N/A
Rush Defense: N/A
Pass Defense: N/A
Turnover Diff: N/A

Key Player

QB #5 Tate Forcier (Fr.) - 86 Overall

Injuries

None

Prospects Visiting

None



Team Ratings
Overall: C+
Offense: B-
Defense: C+

Team Stats

Points Per Game: N/A
Total Offense: N/A
Rush Offense: N/A
Pass Offense: N/A
Total Defense: N/A
Rush Defense: N/A
Pass Defense: N/A
Turnover Diff: N/A

Key Player

HB #23 - Jordan Todman (Jr.) - 88 Overall

Injuries

None

Prospects Visiting

None

[krulmichael]

Week 1 - Game Report

Connecticut Huskies (0-0) at Michigan Wolverines (0-0)


Sophomore sensation QB Tate Forcier ran wild on UConn's defense.

Ann Arbor, MI (AP) - Opening Day of the 2010 College Football season is here folks! On a beautiful 65 degree sunny day in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Coach Michael Kleinbauer looks to continue his tenure as the Wolverines head coach in hopes for another winning season along with molding the team back into it's pro-style roots.

UConn would win the coin toss and elect to receive as redshirt Freshman kicker Brendan Gibbons kicked the ball off to start the season. Starting from their 22 yard, redshirt Senior QB Zach Frazier would bring his Huskies offense out on the field and start from the pistol immediately going into a no huddle offense. Michigan's defense is tested right out the gates as they look a bit shaken as Frazier moves his offense right down the field into Wolverines territory at their 35. On a 3rd and 14, UConn runs a HB Draw to pick up 13 yards as the offense stays on the field set to go for it on 4th and 1. A HB stretch play to Junior HB Jordan Todman as he gets stopped behind the line by the redshirt Freshman FS Cameron Gordon! Michigan football at their 29.

Sophomore QB Tate Forcier would head out on the field with his offense and start the season off from the I-Form, a relief to many Wolverines fans around the nation. Albeit only a 1 yard gain, they followed it with a 11 yard pass to the Junior, Junior Hemingway that is. Disaster would strike on the following play however as HB Michael Shaw was stripped of of the football with a Huskie falling on the football. Almost a repeat result of the Huskies first drive as they get down to the Wolverines 13 yard line before facing a 4th and 2 as their offense would again stay out on the field and again the Wolverines defense would hold to give their offense another shot at their own 13.

Forcier moved his team right down the field this time with his arm and legs, picking up some key first downs on 3rd down. Eventually getting all the way down to the Huskies 4 yard line. On 2nd and goal Forcier would take the snap, drop back 2 yards before throwing a laser to the redshirt Sophomore Roy Roundtree on the slant for a Wolverines touchdown! 7-0 Michigan with a little over 5 minutes remaining in the half. Michigan's defense finally held UConn's fast-paced offense to a 3 and out the next drive forcing them to punt. Starting from their 22 yard line, Forcier and co stepped onto the field once more. Not wanting to jinx Forcier, but he looked very sharp in todays game in his first start in Coach Kleinbauer's pro-style offense. Throwing accurate passes and creating some excitement with his legs as from the Huskies 37 yard line he dropped back to pass with the pressure coming he stepped up into the pocket, shifted gears and ran all the way down the sidelines stiff arming a defender before being tackled from behind at UConn's 3 yard line! Almost on cue though, Tate made his first mistake throwing into coverage for an interception giving the ball back right before halftime. The teams headed into the locker room with the Wolverines sitting with a 7-0 lead.

Michigan received the football at the start of the 2nd half as fellow Sophomore QB, speedy Denard Robinson took the field as Coach Kleinbauer stated during Spring Training that he wasn't sure exactly where Denard would fit in at, but that he would get playing time. The man they call "Shoelaces" showed off his arm and legs on this drive capping it off with a great 36 yard throw to the Junior WR Darryl Stonum for the touchdown! That drive might have been a statement from Denard Robinson to his coach that he can be an effective QB as well. 14-0 Wolverines as they come out of halftime with something to prove. The Wolverines defense fed off of their offense forcing another punt on a 3 and out.

Towards the end of the 3rd quarter after both teams went back and forth for a bit, Forcier would find Junior WR Martavious Odoms wide open in the back of the endzone for a touchdown giving the Wolverines a comfortable 20-0 lead heading into the 4th quarter (the freshman kicker missed the extra point).

No more points would be scored as Michigan ran the clock down on offense while UConn's offense continued to struggle. If this game was any indication of how the Wolverines season is going to go, things are looking up for Coach Kleinbauer's Maize n' Blue. The final score in this one, Michigan shuts out Connecticut 20-0.

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Box Score
- 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0
- 0 - 7 - 13 - 0 - 20


Players Of The Game
- DE #91

Jesse Joseph - 7 TAK, 1 TFL, 1 Sack, 1 INT

- QB #5

Tate Forcier - 13/18, 140 Yds, 2 TD, 2 INT, 6 ATT, 54 Yds, 9.0 AVG


Player Stats

QB#10 Zach Frazer - 16/23, 130 Yds, 1 INT, 1 ATT, -7 Yds
HB#23 Jordan Todman - 22 ATT, 72 Yds, 3.2 AVG, 2 REC, 2 Yds, 11 YAC
DE#91 Jesse Joseph - 7 TAK, 1 TFL, 1 Sack, 1 INT
OLB#10 Greg Robinson - 1 INT



QB#5 Tate Forcier - 13/18, 140 Yds, 2 TD, 2 INT, 6 ATT, 54 Yds, 9.0 AVG
QB#16 Denard Robinson - 2/2, 55 Yds, 1 TD, 1 ATT, 11 Yds
HB#2 Vincent Smith - 19 ATT, 71 Yds, 3.7 AVG
HB#20 Michael Shaw - 5 ATT, 23 Yds, 4.6 AVG, 1 FUM
WR#12 Roy Roundtree - 5 REC, 63 Yds, 1 TD, 12.6 AVG, 27 YAC
WR#9 Martavious Odoms - 3 REC, 44 Yds, 1 TD, 14.6 AVG, 7 YAC
WR#22 Darryl Stonum - 2 REC, 43 Yds, 1 TD, 21.5 AVG, 3 YAC
CB#29 Troy Woolfolk - 3 TAK, 1 TFL, 1 INT, 1 DEF
DE#53 Ryan Van Bergen - 3 TAK, 2 TFL, 1 Sack
K#34 Brendan Gibbons - 2/3 XP

[krulmichael]

Happenings Around The Big Ten

Marshall 7 at #2 Ohio State 33
Minnesota 20 at Middle Tennessee State 3
FCS Northwest 0 at Indiana 34
FCS West 7 at #10 Iowa 47
FCS Southeast 14 at #18 Penn State 55
Illinois 16 at Missouri 17
Western Michigan 0 at Michigan State 38
#11 Wisconsin 49 at UNLV 7
Northwestern 23 at Vanderbilt 16
Purdue 14 at Notre Dame 41

Big Ten Players Of The Week

Offense: - QB#16 Scott Tolzien (rSr.) - 26/32, 292 Yds, 5 TD

Defense: - FS#22 Darius Feaster (rFr.) - 2 TAK, 2 ATK

[krulmichael]

NCAA Week 1 Recap

Top 25 Scores

#16 Pittsburgh 17 at #23 Utah 27
Marshall 7 at #2 Ohio State 33
FCS West 7 at #14 Miami 66
#13 USC 42 at Hawaii 21
#3 Texas 41 at Rice 0
FCS Southeast 14 at #18 Penn State 55
Western Kentucky 3 at #9 Nebraska 30
FCS West 7 at #10 Iowa 47
FCS Southeast 10 at #25 Houston 59
San Jose State 7 at #1 Alabama 38
Miami (Ohio) 17 at #6 Florida 3
#11 Wisconsin 49 at UNLV 7
FCS West 0 at #12 Georgia Tech 52
#24 Cincinnati 44 at Fresno State 20
New Mexico 16 at #4 Oregon 38
FCS West 14 at #21 Florida State 42
FCS West 16 at #20 Arkansas 45
#19 Oregon State 15 at #8 TCU 39
#22 North Carolina 27 at #17 LSU 17
Utah State 10 at #15 Oklahoma 45
#5 Boise State 21 at #7 Virginia Tech 0

RK	LW	Team/Votes	Rec	Points	
================================================
1	1	Alabama (40)	1-0	1504
2	2	Ohio State (21)	1-0	1442	
3	5	Boise State	1-0	1411
4	3	Texas           1-0     1399
5	4	Oregon          1-0	1321
6	8	TCU      	1-0     1106
7	9	Nebraska 	1-0	1033
8	10	Iowa	        1-0	978
9	11      Wisconsin       1-0	940
10	12	Georgia Tech 	1-0	870
11	13	USC     	1-0	833
12	14	Miami   	1-0	766
13	7	Virginia Tech	0-1	751
14	15	Oklahoma        1-0	715
15	18	Penn State	1-0	568
16	22	North Carolina 	1-0	497
17	20	Arkansas        1-0	474
18	23	Utah     	1-0	451
19	21	Florida State   1-0	428
20	24	Cincinnati      1-0	309
21	6	Florida    	0-1	304
22	16	Pittsburgh	0-1	303
23	17	LSU             0-1	273
24	25	Houston     	1-0	254
25	19	Oregon State    0-1	239

Dropped Out: None

Others Receiving Votes: West Virginia (213), Georgia (172), Auburn (132), Oklahoma State (93), Navy (29)

Players Of The Week

Offense: - QB#7 Case Keenum (rSr.) - 22/31, 425 Yds, 10 ATT, 74 Yds, 7 Total TD

Defense: - DT#99 Justin Edison (rJr.) - 9 TAK, 8 TFL, 4 ATK, 3 Sacks, 1 FF



1. Mark Ingram (Jr.) - HB - Alabama
Vs. SJSU W (38-7): 9 Carries, 30 Yards, 2 Receptions, 30 Yards

2. Case Keenum (rSr.) - QB - Houston
Vs. FCS SE W (59-10): 22/31, 425 Yards, 10 Carries, 74 Yards, 7 Total Touchdowns

3. Kellen Moore (rJr.) - QB - Boise State
At VT W (21-0): 28/44, 310 Yards, 3 Touchdowns

4. Terrelle Pryor (Jr.) - QB - Ohio State
Vs. Marsh W (33-7): 16/25, 185 Yards, 19 Carries, 80 Yards, 3 Total Touchdowns

5. Jake Locker (rSr.) - QB - Washington
At BYU W (47-9): 23/34, 352 Yards, 14 Carries, 48 Yards, 2 Total Touchdowns

[krulmichael]

Week 2 - Game Preview

Saturday, September 11th, 2010, 3:30 PM (EST)
National Broadcast

Corso's Pick - Michigan
Herbstreit's Pick - Notre Dame

Team Ratings
Overall: B
Offense: B+
Defense: B

Team Stats

Points Per Game: 41.0 (#23)
Total Offense: 355 (#84)
Rush Offense: 79 (#93)
Pass Offense: 276 (#63)
Total Defense: 284 (#43)
Rush Defense: 98 (#49)
Pass Defense: 186 (#49)
Turnover Diff: 0 (#54)

Key Player

WR #3 Michael Floyd (Jr.) - 97 Overall - 6 REC, 116 Yds, 1 TD, 19.3 AVG REC, 39 YAC

Injuries

MLB #58 Brian Smith (Sr.) - 86 Overall - Sprained Elbow (1 Week)

Prospects Visiting

None



Team Ratings
Overall: B
Offense: B+
Defense: B

Team Stats

Points Per Game: 20.0 (#79)
Total Offense: 361 (#99)
Rush Offense: 166 (#54)
Pass Offense: 195 (#88)
Total Defense: 194 (#22)
Rush Defense: 68 (#33)
Pass Defense: 126 (#18)
Turnover Diff: -2 (#89)

Key Player

CB #29 Troy Woolfolk (Sr.) - 84 Overall - 2 TAK, 1 INT, 1 DEF

Injuries

None

Prospects Visiting

None

[krulmichael]

Week 2 - Game Report

Michigan Wolverines (1-0) at Notre Dame Fighting Irish (1-0)

You Want Ridiculous Turnovers? You Got Them.


Redshirt Freshman FS Cameron Gordon. You'll Remember That Name Come Seasons End.

Ann Arbor, MI (AP) - South Bend Indiana is the location for one of the greatest rivalries in sports between the Michigan Wolverines (1-0) and the Notre Dame Fighting Irish (1-0). A beautiful day for football as partly cloudy skies and a light breeze roll through Notre Dame Stadium.

The Fighting Irish won the coin toss and elected to receive first to get this game started. Michigan's defense came out the blocks slowly once again against Notre Dame's fast-paced no huddle spread offense allowing them to get to the 21 before stopping them. Just like last week against UConn, the Wolverines defense caught another break as the Sophomore K Nich Tausch missed a 38 yard field goal wide right to give the ball the Michigan's offense for the first time today. Tate Forcier and company trotted onto the field and 3 plays later they trotted right back off due to a bad pitch on an option by Forcier that gave the ball right back to the Irish's offense. After a couple plays Notre Dame found themselves on Michigan's 3 yard line, coming out in a 5-wide set, redshirt Sophomore QB Dayne Christ would make a costly mistake by throwing it to seemingly open WR before the redshirt Freshman FS Cameron Gordon jumped in front of the wayward pass with nothing but daylight in front of him for an NCAA record 100 yard interception return! 7-0 Wolverines still early in the 1st quarter as this game looks to be an exciting one.

Following the turnover score Notre Dame's offense would chug down the field again, but the Wolverines defense has been playing a bend, but don't break defense so far this season as the Irish would trust their kicker enough to try a 55 yard field goal and he certainly would redeem himself by booting it through as Michigan allowed it's first points of the season. 7-3 Wolverines. After picking up a nice first down, for the second straight week the Junior HB Michael Shaw would cough up the football on his 1st carry again! Notre Dame got great field position once more as they were on the Wolverines 47 going under a minute left in the 1st quarter as Coach Kleinbauer shook his head in disgust. Once again Notre Dame found themselves in goal line range and once more the Wolverines defense stepped up stopping them. The very sporadic Tausch this time from 22 yards out hit the uprights as he was denied and it would be Wolverines ball still 7-3, unbelievable! Another solid drive by the Wolverines in the making, but disaster almost struck again as the redshirt Sophomore HB Michael Cox got his first touches of the season in replace for the 2nd string Michael Shaw, but he fumbles as well! Luckily the Wolverines fell on the football but Coach Kleinbauer has to be livid with his HB's (aside from thge starting Sophomore Vincent Smith). 2 sacks in a row would force the Wolverines to try a long 54 yard field goal. The left-footed redshirt Freshman K Brendan Gibbons booted it right down the middle but just short as he missed it. Both teams would end up going back and forth for the rest of the half before the rising freshman FS Cameron Gordon picked off his 2nd pass of the game and Forcier got his offense into scoring range as Gibbons made the 48 yard field goal this time with both teams going into halftime with the Wolverines leading 10-3.

Michigan received the ball and started from the 22 to start the half. Just like last week after the half, Sophomore QB Denard "Shoelaces" Robinson stepped onto the field to run the offense. The results weren't nearly as good as last week's though as after picking up a quick first down the offense stalled and were forced to punt the ball back. The Wolverines defense continued to frustrate Crist though as he threw his 3rd pick of the game, this time to another redshirt Freshman, CB Justin Turner giving his offense the ball at their 40. Robinson trotted back onto the field as it looks like Coach Kleinbauer wanted to give him another shot. After picking up a huge gain through the air Robinson would run an option and just like Forcier did in the first half, pitched it right to the defender to give the Fighting Irish offense another shot. This game has been turnover mania. On that note, Crist threw his 4th pick of the game, this time it was to the stud Sophomore DE Craig Roh who was playing the flats and had daylight as he returned it 39 yards highstepping his way into the endzone giving his team a little breathing room, 17-3 Wolverines.

Few extra notes from the game:

Both teams went on a scoring tear in the 4th quarter.
Cameron Gordon picked off Crist for a 3rd time (Crist threw 6 total).
A total of 9 turnovers this game (6 from Notre Dame, 3 from Michigan).

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Box Score
- 7 - 3 - 7 - 10 - 27
- 3 - 0 - 0 - 13 - 16


Players Of The Game
- FS #4

Cameron Gordon - 4 TAK, 3 INT, 1 TD, 1 DEF

- OLB #5

Manti Teo - 8 TAK, 1 TFL, 1 FF, 1 FR


Player Stats

QB#5 Tate Forcier - 10/15, 150 Yds, 6 ATT, -15 Yds, -2.5 AVG, 1 FUM
QB#16 Denard Robinson - 2/3, 42 Yds, 3 ATT, -11 Yds, -3.6 AVG, 1 FUM
HB#2 Vincent Smith - 18 ATT, 89 Yds, 4.9 AVG, 1 FUM
HB#20 Michael Shaw - 6 ATT, 40 Yds, 1 TD, 6.6 AVG, 1 FUM
HB#15 Michael Cox - 1 ATT, 3 Yds, 1 FUM
FS#4 Cameron Gordon - 4 TAK, 3 INT, 1 TD, 1 DEF
CB#29 Troy Woolfolk - 1 INT
DE#88 Craig Roh - 3 TAK, 1 TFL, 1 INT, 1 TD
CB#2 Justin Turner - 5 TAK, 1 INT, 1 DEF
CB#12 J.T. Floyd - 6 TAK, 1 TFL, 1 Sack
K#34 Brendan Gibbons - 2/4 FG, 3/3 XP, 46 Long



QB#10 Dayne Crist - 31/45, 349 Yds, 1 TD, 6 INT, 6 ATT, 4 Yds, 0.6 AVG
HB#5 Armando Allen - 9 ATT, 69 Yds, 7.6 AVG, 5 REC, 27 Yds, 5.4 AVG, 27 YAC
WR#18 Dubal Kamara - 6 REC, 79 Yds, 1 TD, 13.1 AVG, 31 YAC
DT#67 Louis Nix - 3 TAK, 3 TFL, 2 Sacks
DT#95 Ian Williams - 5 TAK, 2 TFL, 1 Sack
OLB#45 Darius Fleming - 3 TAK, 3 TFL, 1 Sack, 1 FR
FS#26 Jamoris Slaughter - 6 TAK, 1 FF, 1 DEF
FS#15 Dan McCarthy - 3 TAK, 1 FF
OLB#5 Manti Teo - 8 TAK, 1 TFL, 1 FF, 1 FR
SS#22 Harrison Smith - 9 TAK, 1 FR, 1 DEF
K#40 Nick Tausch - 1/4 FG, 1/2 XP, 55 Long

[krulmichael]

Happenings Around The Big Ten

Big Ten Week 2 Recap

FCS Northwest 10 at Purdue 44
FCS Midwest 17 at Northwestern 41
FCS West 3 at Minnesota 28
FCS Northwest 10 at Illinois 45
#15 Penn State 13 at #1 Alabama 34
Florida Atlantic 9 at Michigan State 17
#12 Miami 3 at #2 Ohio State 29
Iowa State 6 at #8 Iowa 20

Big Ten Players Of The Week

Offense: - HB#21 Jason Ford (Jr.) - 26 ATT, 212 Yds, 3 TD

Defense: - FS#5 Cameron Gordon (rFr.) - 4 TAK, 3 INT, 1 TD, 1 DEF