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GAME STATISTICS

Indiana pass attack torches young Defense

Team Stats
First Downs
Rush/Yds
Passing Yards
Offensive Plays
Total Oftens
Kick retuns/Yds
Punt returns/Yds
Comp/Att/Int
Punts/Avg
Fum bes/Lost
Penalties/Yards
Tine of Poss
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Potals
RUSHING
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Smitht
Totalso
RECEIING
Player N
Roundtree
" Hemingay
Koger
Totals
PUNTING
Player M
Hagerup, W.
Ptytt
KICKOFF RETURNS
Player
Stonum
Totals
PUNT RETURNS
Player
TACKLES
laer S
Mouton
GordonC.
Floyd p
Ezeh
Martin
Banks
Talbtt
McColgan
Johnson
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Gotdon
Black
Patteson
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Totas
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Chappel
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Tumner
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Kiles
Replogle, T.
Beckum
Black
Barnett
40 Coucnil
Hughes
Doss
McGhee
Replogle, A.
Thomas
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15
28/297
277
4S
4/83
0/0
11/17/0
s/46.2
1/1
5/70
18:13
M I C H I G A N
C-A Yds
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IND
35
34/88
480
98
7/lAS
1/10
4s/64/1
4/32.0
0/0
3/11
41:47

TD
0

Att Hdst Agt i
9 80 8.9 56
28 297 10.6 72

No.
5
1
11

Yds
126
129
3
277

Avg
25.2
3
11.

Lg9
74
70
3
74

Int
0
0
0
TD
2
1
3
TD
1
1
0
1
3
0
0
0

No. Yds Avg Lg
4 192 48.0 58

By RYAN KARTJE
Daily Sports Editor
BLOOMINGTON - After
Michigan's 42-35 victory over
Indiana - a win that yielded the
second-most
total yards in NOTEBOOK
Michigan's his-
tory - Hoosier quarterback Ben
Chappellwas exhausted.
And rightfully so. The Big Ten's
passing leader had torched the
Wolverines' secondary for 480
yards on 45-of-64 passing -all
threeofwhich were Indiana school
records.
But the record-setting perfor-
mance maysaymore for the young,
struggling Michigan secondary
than it does for Chappell.
"They've got a fifth-year senior
quarterback and some veteran
wideouts that did a nice job and
made some nice catches," Michi-
gan coach Rich Rodriguez said
ROBINSON
From Page 1B
play of the game.
Then, Robinson completed a
32-yard touchdown pass to red-
shirt sophomore wide receiver
Roy Roundtree on the next
drive.
But the act continued.
On the third drive, Roundtree
caught another pass and sprint-
ed down to the two-yard line for
a 74-yard completion.
Robinson and the offense
scored touchdowns of 72, 70, 56
and 32 yards - and four of Mich-
igan's six touchdown drives last-
ed less than a minute.
"We were basically going
H-WORD
From Page 1B
absolutely dominating every
single player he faced.
But through five games, Rob-
inson has been, well, better.
Granted, he has 100 fewer
rush yards and two fewer touch-
downs, but that fails to account
for any of Robinson's 1,008 pass
yards. Or the fact that he's a
freaking quarterback.
It's safe to say that no one
knows how to deal with Ron-

after the game. "A few times it was
a true freshman getting worked on
a little bit. Other than a few times
that they went after the rookies, I
have to watch the film to see what
happened."
Chappell's favorite target on
Saturday, junior Tandon Doss,
played a huge part in harassing the
Wolverines' young corners, grab-
bing 15 receptions for 221 yards
- both career highs. His counter-
part on the other side of the field,
junior Damarlo Belcher, also had
his way, notching 91 yards and a
second quarter touchdown that
tied the game going into the half.
"They have a lot of young guys
in their secondary," Doss said. "So
we exposed them a lot ... Obviously
they won, but they left the middle
of the field open a lot."
Michigan coach Rich Rodriguez
has talked abouthis youngcorners'
development, insisting that guys
like freshmen Terrence Talbott,
three-and-out or three-and-
touchdown for most of the
game," fifth-year senior left
guard Steve Schilling said after
the game. "If we're scoring fast,
we need to do it every time."
That quick scoring left the
defense on the field to face Chap-
pell and the Hoosier offense for
a long time.
The 568 yards Michigan
allowed is the third-most in
school history.
"The stats are interesting,
huh?" Michigan coach Rich
Rodriguez remarked. "Thirty-
five first downs for them to 15
for us. They ran 98 plays to 45
for us. I don't like seeing that."
In the second half, the Wol-
verines started to stand their
ground, forcing Indiana to punt
tnson's astronomical stats or
domination of his opponents. A
significantly more difficult slate
lies ahead in Big Ten season that
will absolutely separate the con-
tenders from the pretenders.
But no one can stop Denard
Robinson, and Rich Rodriguez
sure won't stop using him
because he as well as anybody
knows they're going nowhere
without him. He is indeed col-
lege football's most valued
player.
How often do you hear that
about someone who's started
just five games?

Courtney Avery, Cullen Christian
and Carvin Johnson would get
playing time in Big Ten season.
But many of those young guys
struggled on Saturday. So did
more established veterans in the
secondary like senior James Rog-
ers and solhomore J.T. Floyd,
allowing receivers like Doss and
Belcher to have too much of a
pocket on man-to-man coverage.
Then, when the Hoosiers' wide-
outs cut across the middle of the
field, the Michigan's corners were
often too far behind, resulting in
an 11-of-19 mark ton third downs
for Indiana.
"I'm not concerned," second-
ary coach Tony Gibson said. "It's
a lot easier to fix it when you win.
I thought our kids, you know, we
didn't have many stops but we
came up big when we had to a few
times in the second half. We just
have a lot of work to do."
THIRD DOWN TROUBLE: It

No Yds Avg g T
4 83 20.75 28 0
4 83 20.75 28 0

or turn
on four
But
trouble
scc
n
e
Indian,
and c
Either
explosi

was exactly those Lte-downcon-
versions that gave Michigatt fits all
game long.
In addition to finishing11 -of-
19 oi third downs, the Hoosiers
also were 2-of-4 tos fourth down,
including a lateconversion to ari-
us Willis,whichtiedthegameat35
with 1:15 left on the clock.
Indiana coach Bill Lynch said
that the team had been working a
lot ott converting third downs, and
it's showed this year. Doss echoed
his coach's sentiments.
"'c worked on that a lot," Doss
said. "Every day in practice we've
been trying to get third-down
conversions, especially in the red
zone."
iDessite the I oosiers' exten-
sive practice, Rodriguez said the
amount of conversions was ttnac-
ceptlable.
"('there were) soay too many,"
Rodriguez said. "It was a little bit
their execution ... and some of it

o the ball over on downs they couldn't extend their lead
r of its first five drives. by any more than seven-points
Robinson was having entering the fourth quarter.
on offense himself, as So when Chappell hit redshirt
sophomore running back Darius
Willis for a 19-yard touchdown
with 1:15 remaining, it was up to
"If we're the Michigan offense to win the
game.
)ing fast, we Robinson finished with 277
rin we yards and three touchdowns on
eed to do it 10-of-16 passing and 217 yards
and two touchdowns on 19 rush-
very time." es, remaining at the center of
Wolverines' big plays on offense.
Robinson averaged 14 yards
every time he threw or ran the
ball.
a was blitzing him more With that, he became the first
hanging up coverages. quarterback in college football
way, the Wolverines' history to both run and throw
ve attack wavered, and for more than 200 yards twice

was probably us making some is-
takes.
LATE PENALTY: As quarterback
Dlenard Rlobinson leapt into the
end zone for the Wolverines' final,
gamoe-winning tltouhdws, not
everylthing on the play had gone as
Rodriguez would havehoped.
Riedshlir tfreslhmtan offensive
tackle Taylorl lewan W ho got
hiis second start in place of junior
Mark I uyge -commtitted a per-
sonal foul penalty, wichi gave the
I loosiers etter field posititons lotry
to tie the gamie.
When lewan ran off the field,
Rodriguez chastised hitt for tte
potentially costly penalty, but
lewsano didn't see the situation the
sane way the referees did.
"Ihat happened there was just
a iiscommtunication. Denard
scored. I was trying to get over to
im. I was stepping over the guy,
and lie grabbed my foot. 'They said
I was trying to step on him."
in his career. Robinson, widely
acknowledged as the Heisman
Trophy front-runner before
today's performance, did it in
the first half of his first season
as a starter.
"We're real confident now,"
Hemingway said. "When Indi-
ana scored and we saw it was a
(1:15) on the clock and we were
like, 'They left us too much
time.' ... And (we) got in the
huddle, kept our poise and drove
down the field."
Robinson made his case to
turn the questions from "if"
Michigan was going to score in
the final minute to "when."
And after his second game-
winning drive, his coaches and
teammates might tell you that it
was just a matter of time.
brunt of the load (when it wasn't
Robinson himself).
His 56-yarder impressed
coaches, who seemed pleased
with his overall performance
against Michigan's first Big Ten
foe.
"He's capable of (breaking long
runs), the defense just has to give
it to him," running backs coach
Fred Jackson said. "He broke that
thing pretty good, on a good read.
Something I've been telling you
guys for the last couple of weeks is
that he's reading

No. Yds Avg

Lgs
0

TDo
0

Solo
4
8
12
1
1
7
3
5
5
2
2
2
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
0
0
64

0
4
B
z
1
1
7
3
5
S
z
z
z
z
a

Asst
7
4
3
0
1
6
2
2
2
3
2
i
0


Tot
11
12
15
1
2
13
5
7
7
5
4
3
2
2
2
2
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
93

1 t
1 1
t 0
7 0
i 0
1 0
1 0
1 0
0 1
0 1
39
1 N D I A N A

So temper your expectations
a bit, maybe he won't keep this
pace up.
But the Terrelle Pryors and
Ryan Malletts of the world have
tougher schedules, too, and they
don't have Robinson's enormous
head start.
The truth is, he's running
away with it after five weeks,
and I'm not scared to say it any-
more.
It's time to start talking Heis-
man.
Kartje can be reached
at rkartjeICumich.edu

SMITH
From Page 1B
been back there working. It's nice
to be able to break him out for one
long one like that, too."
Of course, even as the featured
tailback, Smith took a backseat to
the most dynamic back on Michi-
gan's roster, Robinson.
He had a 72-yard touchdown
run on his first carry of Saturday's
game, just one

C-A Yds TD Int
45-64 480 3 1
45-64 480 3 1

Att
18
6
2
1
7
34

Yds
59
21
11
2
.5
88

No. Yds
15 221
10 91
7 56
7 53
3 22
1 27
1 5
1 5
45 480

.5
5
1.0

1L9
24
193
10
274
L8
46

TD
2
0
0
0
0
2
TD
0
1
0
1
1
0
0
0
3

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of his eight better. When the
highlight-reel right read comes,
worthy rush- "W hen the right he's going to
ing touch- make the run.
downs of the read comes Michigan
season so far. I coach Rich
Robin- (Sm ith)'s going to Rodriguez said
son leads the g igt he hopes Shaw
nation (yes, make the run." willhbe back by
even running next weekend's
backs) with game because of
905 rushing Smith's youth,
yards. He's on pace to absolutely something that excites him, but
shatter former West Virginia also worries him when injuries
quarterback Pat White's single- force his hand.
season quarterback rushing "It was such a tight ball-
record of 1,335 yards set in 2007. game," Rodriguez said. "It's
That's quite a workload for a good to put the younger guys
running back - much less a quar- in there, but we've got to force
terback, who also has to concen- ourselves to play those younger
trate on the passing game. backs because we have some tal-
In recent weeks, the Wolver- ent there, and I think they can
ines tried So get actual"running give us a boost."
backs involved in the rushing Its will be interesting to see
attack. Against Massachusetts, how the carries shake out dur-
Smith, junior Michael Shaw and ing upcoming conference games,
redshirt junior Kelvin Grady com- because when the game's on the
bined for 186 yards on the ground. line, the ball tends to stay in Rob-
The following week against Bowl- inson's hands.
ing Green, six different running And that's the way Rodriguez
backs putup 283 yards. likesit.
A knee injury to Shaw and a "(The running backs) all have
shoulder injury to battered fresh- some explosive ability," Rodri-
man Fitzgerald Toussaint left guez said last Monday. "Nobody's
Michigan without enough backs as explosive as Denard.
to run by committee against Indi- "When you compare who has
ana's weak rush defense. the most explosive ability, it is No.
So it was Smith who took the 16."

No. Yds Avg Lg
4 128 32.0 41
4 128 320 41

No.
S
1
1
9
Solo
3
3
3
2
3
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
0
0
0
0
25

Yds
111
19
15
145
Asst
4
2
4
3
0
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
0
0
0
1
1
1
1
24

Avg
22.2
19

Ls
36
19

Tot
7
5
7
5
3
3
2
2
2
2
2
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
49


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