page 8 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, November 18, 1986
Excitement
No doubts for Harbaugh,
Blue will beat Buckeyes
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By ADAM MARTIN
Jim Harbaugh said he was sick
to his stomach after Michigan's
multi-turnover affair last Saturday.
Two days later, however, he has
made a miraculous recovery.
"I guarantee we will beat Ohio
State and be in Pasadena,"
Harbaugh said.r
The Wolverines' signal-caller,
usually humble in the Michigan
mold, changed his ways just 48
hours after the Wolverines suffered
their first defeat of the season.
Yesterday he was a picture of
healthy confidence.
"I CAN JUST tell you, we're
gonna win and we're gonna go to
the Rose Bowl," said Harbaugh.
"When the odds are against us,
that's gonna produce our greatest
victory."
If such pronouncements sound
familiar, they should. Guard
Antoine Joubert predicted with
unwavering confidence that the
Michigan basketball team would
beat Michigan State in Crisler
Arena last year. But Antoine was
wrong.
Harbaugh might succumb to the
same fate, but he doesn't think
Michigan will lose, and he is not
afraid to say so.
"Hell, we're gonna do it," he
said.
Call him the witch doctor.
Blue Banter
-Harbaugh wasn't the only
Wolverine upset after the 20-17
debacle against the Golden Gophers.
Strong tackle John "Jumbo" Elliott
said he would like to burn the
Minnesota-Michigan film.
-Word has it that defensive
lineman Mark Messner was a
persona non grata in
Communication class yesterday.
When he walked in the other
students booed him, and the
professor told Messner to keep his
mouth shut - all in good fun, of
course.-
-The Wolverines' loss to
Minnesota did more than break their
13-game winning streak; the
Gophers snapped Michigan's 15-
game unbeaten string and 14-game
home winning streak also.
-Against Minnesota the
Wolverines managed only 134 yards
on the ground, their lowest total
this season and their lowest mark
since Michigan tied Illinois, 3-3,
last season.
If Your Hair Isn't
Becoming to You -
You Should Be Coming
to Us.
DASCOLA STYLISTS
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Daily Photo by SCOTT LITUCHY
Coming off his poorest performance of this season in the 20-17 loss to Min-
nesota, Michigan quarterback Jim Harbaugh has guaranteed a victory
in the showdown against Ohio State this Saturday.
Michig
By PHIL NUSSEL
The Michigan-Ohio State classic
has always been known as "the
game," but this year, for the first
time since 1980, it is truly "the
game."
There's no Iowas, Illini, or
anyone else distorting the picture
this year. The,Michigan-Ohio State
winner goes to the Rose Bowl in
Pasadena, the loser goes to the
Cotton Bowl in Dallas.
The Wolverines (6-1 in the Big
Ten, 9-1 overall) will meet the
Buckeyes (7-0, 9-2) in Columbus
Saturday at 12:17 p.m. CBS will
televise the game nationally.
Michigan is a two-point favorite.
"I KNEW unless there were
some extenuating circumstances,
that it would come down to this
game," Michigan head coach Bo
Schembechler said yesterday at his
weekly press luncheon. "We always
like to see it come down to the last
game. We like it this way."
Since "the game" was moved to
the last week of the season, it has
been "the game" 17 times. Ohio
State holds the margin, 8-7-2, in
those games. However, since
Schembechler arrived in 1969,
Michigan is 5-4-1 in "the game."
Overall, the veteran Michigan boss
is 8-8-1 against "that team down
south," as he calls them.
To many, including
Schembechler, the 1969 contest
was the most memorable. It was
Schembechler's debut against his
old mentor, Woody Hayes.
Schembechler was an assistant
under Hayes at Ohio State from
1958-63.
The Buckeyes were 8-0 and-had
one of their best teams ever, but
Michigan won the game at home,
24-12.
SINCE THEN, the rivalry has
only become greater.
"I think the 1969 game propelled
all this," Schembechler said.
"Woody had perhaps his greatest
team and we beat them. I think that
meant to everyone that Michigan
was going to be competition from
now on. And that's the way it's
turned out:"
Schembechler ended up going 5-
4-1 against his old boss until Hayes
retired in 1979 after slugging a
Clemson player in the Gator Bowl.
The two still keep in touch and
spoke last week over the phone -
they don't speak during the week of
"the game."
"I think about Woody a lot,"
Schembechler said. "Really, more
than any one individual involved in
this game, he has made it what it
is. I can recall as a young coach,
not associated with either team,
coming into Michigan Stadium for
this particular game and the stadium
was not filled.
"HE REFUELED the rivalry.
It's been good, it's fun."
When asked-about his own role
in the rivalry, Schembechler said
with a grin, "I refueled Woody."
Earle Bruce took over for Hayes
and, despite being criticized by
Ohio State fans, holds a 4-3 mark
against Michigan and has taken the
Buckeyes to a pair of Rose Bowls
in seven seasons.
The criticism mounted this year
when Ohio State started out losing
its first two games to Alabama and
Washington. Since then, the Bucks
marked up nine straight wins to set
up Saturday's clash.
Even though "the game" is back,
the days of the Big Two, Little
Eight are not, according to
Schembechler.
"It's hard for me to say that after
Minnesota," he said. "I don't think
it is that way. You play so many
good teams. I do think the Big Two
will be around, but I think the other
teams are right in there close behind
us."
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Jokisch 7 9
Mich. Opp. Morri 9 9 25
Total First Downs.....224 173 J w 10 13
Rushing 123 72 Perryman 10 5
Passing 82 80----------
Other 12 15 TEAM 10 141
Total Net Yards.. 4245 2871 OA 10 167
Total Plays 728 639
Avg. Per Play 5.8 4.5
Avg. Per Game 425 287 'Pun
Net Rushing Yards...-.2006 1097
Total Attempts 511 328 Name No Yds
Avg. PerPay 3.9 3.3 Robbins 27 119
Avg. Per game 200.6 109.7-- - - --
Net Passing Yards...... 2239 1774 (Xi' 46 1817
Att/Comp/Int..............217141/7 311/167114
Avg. Per At. 10.3 5.7Av Pe Co p 1 .106a c
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Int./Yds ............ 1412 7/30 Moeller 70 33
Fumbles/Lost......... 14110 2(13 Heren 47 17
Penal ties/Yds.......... 661604 68/563 Rivers 42 13
3DNCNVPCT 53.5 38.2 McIntyre 50 13
Time of Possession_.. 335M4 264:20 Messner 37 14
Score By Quarers 1 2 3 4- T To. Schulte 26 17
Michigan 62 101 86 62 311 Folkertsma 28 14
Opponent 33 39 19 56 147 Willingham 2613 3
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AP Top Twenty
Michigan dropped from Team
1.Miami, Fla. (56)
number-two to number-six in 2. Penn State (3)
the AP poll this week after 3. Oklahoma
being upset by Minnesota 4. Arizona State(1)
Saturday. 5. Nebraska
iatday 6. MICHIGAN
Miami, Fla., remained 7. Ohio State
number-one after defeating 8. LSU
Tulsa, 23-10, and Penn State 9. Alabama
moved up to number-two with 10. So. California
a tight 23-19 victory over 1.A ahnsas
Notre Dame. Oklahoma, 13. Texas A&M
Arizona State, and Nebraska 14. Arizona
round out the top five. 15. Auburn
16. Stanford
Ohio State moved up from 17. Baylor
number-nine to number-seven 18. UCLA
with a convincing 30-17 win 19. Clemson
over Wisconsin. 20. Georgia
Record
10-0-0
10-0-0
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9-0-1
9-1-0
9-1-0
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7-2-0
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7-2-0
7.2-0
7-2-1
7-2-0
7-2-0
8-2-0
7-2-0
7-3-0
6-3-1
7-2-1
7-3-0
Pts.
1,196
1,119
1,083
1,025
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707
641
546.
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432
405
321
232
160
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TEAM 217 141 7 2239 65.0 10 63
(All' 311 167 14 1774 53.7 8 33
Receiving
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Higgins 10 29 533 19.1
Kolaw 8 15 40226.8
White 10 32 362 11.3
The Champs*
Offensive Champion - Jamie Morris
Offensive Hustler- John Elliott
Defensive Champion - Dieter Heren
Defensive Hustler - Doug-Mallory
Kick Team Champion'Andy Borowi
Rookie Team Champion - Timnothiy Williams
Scout Team Champion - Keith Cooper'-
Week of Nov.17 ,
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BRUCE'S BUCKEYES ARE TWO-POINT UNDERDOGS
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COLUMBUS, (AP) - It isn't "YOU AL
often that an Ohio State football some points on t
team is rated an underdog when because the scor
playing in front of a partisan crowd The games arer
of 90,000 at Ohio Stadium. , anymore. There
But even though Michigan is more skilledpeop
listed as a two-point favorite Bruce also arg
heading into Saturday's showdown did not always b
with Ohio State (12:17 p.m. CBS- in the two head cc
TV), Buckeye coach Earle Bruce "Have you b
said that shouldn't have any bearing
on his team.
"I HOPE they don't look at
that," Bruce said yesterday at his
weekly, press luncheon. "I don't
think that is important. We just
want to go out and play football,
play our game."
"It's still a matter of the great
players having to play great, plus
the next level - whatever that
might be - playing above
themselves."
Ohio State, is 9-2 overall and 7-
0 in the Big Ten. The Buckeyes
have won their last nine games and
have locked up at least a share of
the Big Ten championship.
"I WOULD normally like
Michigan to come into Ohio
Stadium undefeated," said Bruce.
"They lost a tough football game to
a good Minnesota team. I don't
know if that makes it any easier for
for
SO have to put
he board these days
res have gone up.
n't 10-10 or 7-6
's more offense,
ple, more passing."
gued that the game
bring out the bland
oaches.
een to the recent
game o0
games?" Bruce said. "We are never
conservative. (Schembechler) won
the game last year when we took a
chance and blitzed and he threw a
long pass. Now is that
conservative?"
"That's the problem around here:
People got something in their heads
30 years ago and they can't get it
out."
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Bruce said his team will be
healthy by midweek. Quarterback
Jim Karsatos missed the second half
of Saturday's game with a shoulder
injury, but Bruce said he would not
miss a practice. Outside linebacker
Eric Kumerow and offensive
lineman Jeff Uhlenhake are also
expected to be at full strength after
minor injuries.
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