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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