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Wednesday, September 28, 2016 — 7A
T E A M S T A T S
MICH
OPP
Points/Game
52.0
13.8
First Downs/Game
23.5
14.5
Rush Yards/Game
229.8
122.5
Yards/Rush
5.4
3.4
Rushing TDs
15
2
Passing Yards/Game
238.0
147.2
Completion %
64.3%
49.1%
Yards/Pass
7.6
5.6
Passing TDs
9
4
Interceptions
1
3
Offensive Plays/Game
74.0
62.5
Total Offense
467.8
269.8
3rd-down Conversions
54.4%
12.0%
4th-down Conversions
62.5%
45.5%
Sacks/Game
4.3
1.3
Kick return average
15.7
20.0
Punt return average
23.6
17.5
Punting average
41.5
38.0
Field Goals-Attempts
4-6
2-5
Fumbles/Lost
4/1
7/3
Penalty Yards/Game
43.5
48.8
Time of Poss
32:26
27:34
I N D I V I D U A L S
PASSING
Player
Cmp
Att
Yds
TD
INT
Speight
72
114
875
9
1
O’Korn
5
8
32
0
0
Morris
4
4
45
0
0
TOTALS
81
126
952
9
1
RUSHING
Player
Att
Yds
Avg
Lg
TD
Smith, D.
39
259
6.6
42
2
Evans
29
213
7.3
43
3
Isaac
33
150
4.5
25
2
Higdon
22
145
6.6
40
3
McDoom
7
56
8.0
19
0
Chesson
5
36
7.2
17
1
Peppers
2
24
12.0
17
0
Davis
2
17
8.5
10
0
Hill
9
17
1.9
4
4
Morris
1
14
14.0
14
0
Crawford
1
11
11.0
11
0
O’Korn
3
7
2.3
3
0
Hirsch
1
2
2.0
2
0
Beneducci
1
1
1.0
1
0
Hewlett
1
-1
-1.0
0
0
TEAM
3
-4
-1.3
0
0
Allen
1
-11
-11.0
0
0
Speight
10
-17
-1.7
9
0
TOTALS
170
919
5.4
43
15
RECEIVING
Player
No.
Yds
Avg
Lg
TD
Darboh
17
248
14.6
45
4
Butt
19
234
12.3
25
3
Chesson
8
145
18.1
35
0
Perry
4
88
22.0
54
1
Hill
6
47
7.8
15
0
Poggi
4
28
7.0
15
0
Ways
1
22
22.0
22
0
Isaac
1
21
21.0
21
0
McDoom
3
20
6.7
8
0
Evans
3
19
6.3
14
0
Crawford
1
18
18.0
18
0
Smith, D.
7
16
2.3
9
0
Hirsch
1
15
15.0
15
0
Jocz
1
12
12.0
12
0
McKeon
2
10
5.0
5
0
Bunting
2
6
3.0
4
0
Asiasi
1
3
3.0
3
1
TOTALS
81
952
11.8
54
9
PUNT RETURNS
Player
No.
Yds
Avg. Long
TD
Peppers
10
227
22.7
54
1
Jocz
1
27
27.0
0
0
Perry
0
6
--
6
1
TOTALS
11
260
23.6
54
2
INTERCEPTION RETURNS
Player
No.
Yds
Avg. Long
TD
Stribling
1
51
51.0
51
1
Hill, D.
1
27
27.0
27
1
McCray
1
22
22.0
22
0
TOTALS
3
100
33.3
51
2
FUMBLE RETURNS
Player
No.
Yds
Avg. Long
TD
Hill, L.
1
9
9.0
9
0
TOTALS
1
9
9.0
9
0
KICKOFF RETURNS
Player
No.
Yds
Avg. Long
TD
Peppers
2
81
40.5
55
0
Henderson
2
28
14.0
15
0
Lewis
2
21
10.5
18
0
Hudson
1
6
6.0
6
0
Hill, K.
2
5
2.5
5
0
TOTALS
9
141
15.7
55
0
KICKOFFS
Player
No.
Yds
Avg.
TB
Allen
29
1872
64.6
17
Foug
7
403
57.6
2
TOTALS
20
1243
62.2
10
PUNTING
Player
No.
Yds
Avg.
Lg
Allen
11
456
41.5
55
TOTALS
11
456
41.5
55
FIELD GOALS
Player
FG
Pct.
1-19 20-29 30-3940-49 50+ Lg
Allen
4-6 66.7% 0-0
1-1
3-4
0-1 0-0 39
LEADING TACKLERS
Player
Solo Ast
Tot
TFL
SK
PBU
Gedeon
12
26
38
6.0
2.0
-
Peppers
22
11
33
9.5
2.5
-
Thomas
15
10
25
-
-
1
McCray
12
10
22
4.5
2.5
3
Winovich
5
14
19
4.0
2.0
-
Gary
6
9
15
4.5
1.0
-
Glasgow, R.
-
13
13
1.0
0.5
-
Godin
5
7
12
1.5
1.0
-
Hill, D.
6
6
12
2.0
-
1
Wormley
6
6
12
3.5
3.0
-
Hurst
5
6
11
4.0
2.0
-
Clark
6
4
10
-
-
3
Stribling
3
5
8
0.5
-
3
Kinnel
4
3
7
-
-
-
Charlton
1
4
5
2.0
1.5
-
Watson
2
3
5
-
-
-
Bush
2
3
5
-
-
-
Glasgow, J.
3
1
4
-
-
-
Hudson
2
2
4
-
-
-
Uche
2
2
4
-
-
-
Marshall
1
2
3
-
-
-
Wroblewski
-
3
3
-
-
-
TOTALS
129
154 283 45.0 18.0
13
2016 SCHEDULE
HAWAII (1-3)
W, 63-3 (1-0)
UCF (2-2)
COLORADO (3-1)
PENN ST. (2-2)
WISCONSIN (4-0)
3:30, Michigan Stadium, ABC
at RUTGERS (2-2)
7 or 8 p.m., Piscataway, N.J.
ILLINOIS (1-2)
3:30 p.m., Michigan Stadium
at MICH. ST. (2-1)
East Lansing, Mich.
MARYLAND (3-0)
Michigan Stadium
at IOWA (3-1)
8 p.m., Iowa City, Iowa
INDIANA (2-1)
Michigan Stadium
at OHIO ST. (3-0)
Columbus, Ohio
9/3
9/10
9/17
9/24
10/1
10/8
10/22
10/29
11/5
11/12
11/19
11/26
W, 51-14 (2-0) W, 45-28 (3-0) W, 49-10 (4-0)
Lewis battling through rust from injury
Jourdan Lewis is 21 years old
and listed at 5 feet 11 inches,
186 pounds. He’s one of college
football’s top athletes at one of
its most challenging positions
— cornerback — and is in what
most people would call the best
shape of their lives.
And
yet,
speaking
to
a
group of reporters Tuesday, he
sounded like a man starting to
feel his age.
“As a freshman, I felt like I
never had to pay attention to
anything like (taking care of
my body),” Lewis said. “Just go
out there and play. But now I
have to go out there and warm
up 30 minutes before I get out
there. … I can’t eat everything
now, my metabolism is slowing
down, I’ve been getting a little
bigger.”
Lewis made his return to
action Saturday against Penn
State after missing the season’s
first three games with nagging
injuries that trace back to his
core.
He wasn’t pleased with his
performance — which saw him
record a tackle for loss and
break up a pass — and admitted
some rust. He was unabashed in
conceding he held a Penn State
receiver, due in part to that rust.
And he especially wasn’t shy in
saying that he felt his soreness
after the game.
“My first game back, it really
hurt,” Lewis said. “I have to be
honest. I haven’t been through
anything physically (challenging)
like that in a while.”
Lewis is lucky, though, to get
that rust out in a 39-point win.
His next game may not allow for
him to be so cavalier in taking or
admitting penalties.
Michigan has blown through
its
first
four
opponents,
winning by a combined margin
of 153 points. But when No.
8
Wisconsin
comes to town,
the Wolverines
will be facing
a
team
that
is
capable
of
burning them on
both sides of the
ball.
With redshirt
freshman
quarterback Alex Hornibrook
now under center, the Badgers
spread
the
ball
around
in
their 30-6 win over then-No.
8 Michigan State on Saturday.
Five different receivers had
at
least
two
catches,
led
by junior Jazz
Peavy, who had
four receptions
for 96 yards.
Peavy, listed
at 6-foot-1, is one
of many Badger
receivers
who
will
pose
a
physical
challenge
for
the
Michigan secondary. And with
the Wolverines losing their
tallest
cornerback,
Jeremy
Clark, for the season with an
ACL injury, Lewis will need to
be at the top of his game in a
hurry.
“We’re really preparing for
those receivers,” Lewis said.
“Those guys are big and physical
and fast.”
While Lewis says he normally
likes to lead by example — and
All-American play is not a bad
example to set — his injury
forced him to become more
vocal early in the season.
“If you can’t go out there and
play, you have to impact the
team in different ways,” Lewis
said. “So I definitely was more
vocal in trying to inspire those
guys to play at their best.”
Now Lewis is back on the
field, and he can go back to
letting his play do the talking.
He was not satisfied with his
first game back, saying he wants
to be more technically sound
going forward.
But Lewis’s most important
plays are no doubt ahead of him.
“I feel like I’m at full speed,”
Lewis said. “Does it hurt a little
bit? Yeah. But you have to play
through that a little bit.”
Wisconsin native Bredeson ready for Badgers
March 1, 2014, is a day
that Wisconsin native Ben
Bredeson will never forget. It
was the day that the football
team he rooted for as a child,
the
Badgers,
gave
him
a
scholarship to play football.
But a lot can change in two
years. Instead of suiting up in
Wisconsin red and white, he’s
playing for the No. 4 Michigan
football team as a left guard.
There are many factors that
went into his choice to play
for the Wolverines, with their
brand new coaching staff being
the main determinant.
So far, the decision is paying
off.
Most
true
freshmen
offensive linemen don’t get
the opportunity to play, but
Bredeson has appeared in every
game this season as relief for
an experienced line. This week,
he will prepare for the eighth-
ranked Badgers in the first top-
10 matchup of his career.
“I’ve been getting texts since
the beginning of the year from
people who are excited about
the game,” Bredeson said. “Not
anyone who’s on the team, but
just friends from back home.
The majority — I think like a
third of my graduating class —
all went to Madison, so I have
a lot of friends from the school,
and I’m pretty excited about it.”
Bredeson has a lot of friends
and family coming out to Ann
Arbor for the weekend, and
though they may have always
rooted for Wisconsin growing
up in Hartland, he’s giving
them a reason to question their
fandom — if friends of the
Bredeson family didn’t already
have enough.
Ben’s brother, Jack, is a
sophomore right-handed pitcher
for the Michigan baseball team.
“I was going to come here
anyway,” Ben said. “But (having
Jack on campus) has helped a
lot. He’s given me the lay of the
land and it’s nice to have a close
family member here, so when
you just need someone from
home, you can call him.”
The brothers played hockey
and football together often, but
Ben never dabbled in baseball.
He says he’s “very awful,
terrible” at his brother’s game,
and on top of that, he’s afraid of
the ball.
He grew up playing hockey
instead,
starting
the
game
when he was three years old.
He says it was his first love,
and though he decided to shift
his focus to football once high
school started, the skating
skills have transferred over to
the gridiron.
“Hockey
is
all
footwork
there,” Bredeson said. “It’s not
really the same style, but just
being light on your feet and
being able to change direction
quick. Being able to read plays
before it happens and read
body language and then just
reacting to it. It translates to the
offensive line world pretty well
— surprisingly well.”
Despite the move from high
school to college, which included
a move from left tackle to guard,
Bredeson seems to have a handle
on his role on the football team.
Having his brother on campus
definitely helps, but the support
from his teammates has been
incalculable.
Fifth-year senior Ben Braden
has taken Bredeson under his
wing. Though they’re battling
for the same job, Bredeson is not
surprised at all about Braden’s
willingness to help.
“(Braden has helped) a lot
more than you can imagine,”
Bredeson said. “He and I roomed
together all camp and we room
together
in
the
hotel
for
game
nights.
He’s
helped
me with plays,
protections,
pre-game tests,
life — basically
everything. He’s
helped me a ton.
“He has gone
far out of his
way to help me,
mentally and physically, with
the game.”
But Bredeson isn’t just being
helped out by the older players
on the team.
He remembers jumping off
the walls of his high school on
National Signing Day when
he
found
out
that
freshman
defensive
end
Rashan
Gary
also committed
to
Michigan.
That was before
Bredeson
even
really
knew
Gary. Now, the
two
practice
together
all
week.
“Rashan and I are great
friends,” Bredeson said. “Just
to watch him compete, it’s so
much fun to watch. He has that
intensity and that fire in him
every single play, and you can
see it. It’s real visible, and you
can really appreciate it going
against him.”
Though
many
Wolverines
maintain that they’re preparing
for Wisconsin the same way they
prepared for earlier opponents
this season, the game will be a
little different for Bredeson.
“I’m from the state and I grew
up watching them all the time,
but it’s just going to be a huge
game for us,” Bredeson said.
“It’s a big top-10 matchup and
they’ve been coming out strong
at the beginning of the year, and
so have we, so it’s gonna be a
heck of a game on Saturday.”
True freshman offensive lineman to match up Saturday against the team he grew up rooting for
AMANDA ALLEN/Daily
Freshman offensive lineman Ben Bredeson (74) has appeared in every game this season as a substitute at left guard.
KELLY HALL
Daily Sports Editor
“I have a lot of
friends from
(Wisconsin),
and I’m pretty
excited about it.”
All-American cornerback says he’s back to full speed but having to take better care of his body
SAM MOUSIGIAN/Daily
Senior cornerback Jourdan Lewis is back in the starting lineup after missing the first three games with injuries, but he’s still working to regain his rhythm.
“My first game
back, it really
hurt. I have to
be honest.”
MAX BULTMAN
Managing Sports Editor