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JIM AND BO

n Jim Harbaugh will coach in “The Game” 

for the first time Saturday. Page 2B

OVERPOWERED

The Michigan Daily | michigandaily.com | November 23, 2015

n Michigan was outworked down low in a 
16-point loss to Xavier on Friday. Page 4B

S

TATE COLLEGE — 
Every time, it looks 
like the Michigan 

football 
team 
is at its 
breaking 
point. 
Every 
time, it 
looks 
like 
there’s 
no more 
room 
to push 
the Wolverines further up 
against the wall. And every 
time, they scratch and claw 
and push and find an extra 
inch.

That’s all they need. One 

inch.

Fifth-year senior 

linebacker Desmond 
Morgan first explained 
it three weeks ago, 
after Michigan stopped 
Minnesota just shy of the 
goal line on the final play 
of the game on Oct. 31. 
That seemed like a close 
call, until the Wolverines 
were in the same position 

two weeks later — only this 
time in double overtime, 
exhausted by Indiana’s 
up-tempo offense, playing 
without redshirt junior 
nose tackle Ryan Glasgow.

Somehow, on Saturday, 

Michigan found itself in 
that position again. The 
Wolverines led, 21-13, with 
just over eight minutes 
to play in the game. Penn 
State was driving toward a 
game-tying score and two-
point conversion. But the 
Nittany Lions had to get 
through Michigan’s wall 
first.

On 1st-and-goal from the 

six-yard line, Penn State 
quarterback Christian 
Hackenberg threw a fade 
route at Michigan junior 
cornerback Jourdan Lewis. 
That was a mistake. Lewis 
never gave him a chance.

On 2nd-and-goal from 

the six, the Nittany Lions 
gave it to running back 
Saquon Barkley on an 
outside handoff. That was 
a mistake, too. Barkley ran 
for the pylon, but Michigan 

Michigan 28 Penn State 16
 And 
now...

JAKE 
LOURIM

See LOURIM, Page 2B

