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The Michigan Daily | michigandaily.com | October 24, 2016

Stadium Sundays

At the Big House on Sunday 

mornings, a community 

cleans up and builds a family

» SportsMonday Column, 

Page 2B

Home Cooking

Michigan won the series 
opener against Michigan 
Tech on Friday, 4-3, and then 
rallied for a tie Saturday
» Page 3B

De’Veon Smith ran left on 

the first play. De’Veon Smith 
ran right on the second. Wilton 
Speight threw on the third. Jim 
Harbaugh threw convention 
out the window on the fourth.

Three plays were all it took 

for the Michigan football team 
to reach into its bag of tricks 
and runs circles around Illinois 
for an easy touchdown drive. 
Some coaches may have waited 
until later in the game. Some 
coaches may have waited until 
next week at Michigan State, 
a more formidable opponent 
than the Fighting Illini were 
in a 41-8 blowout Saturday at 
Michigan Stadium.

Harbaugh, of course, does 

not coach by convention. He 
didn’t hesitate to use three 
quarterbacks, play a defensive 
player at two positions and even 
roll out the now-famous “train” 
formation on the first series.

“Our coaches dial up plays 

for us that work,” said fifth-
year 
senior 
wide 
receiver 

Amara Darboh. “I think us 
driving down like that is like 
a statement — we always want 
to start off the game executing, 
not 
getting 
three-and-outs, 

going down and putting points 
on the board.”

The Wolverines began their 

first drive with the power 
running attack, which may 

well have been enough to win 
the game on its own. Smith 
ran over left guard for seven 
yards and then over right guard 
for nine. Redshirt sophomore 
quarterback 
Wilton 
Speight 

threw behind fifth-year senior 
wide receiver Jehu Chesson for 
an incomplete pass — and then 
he came out of the game.

In 
came 
redshirt 
junior 

quarterback Shane Morris for 
the fourth snap. He tossed right 
to redshirt junior running back 
Ty Isaac, then promptly ran 
right as a 6-foot-3, 213-pound 
lead blocker.

On 
3rd-and-4, 
freshman 

wide receiver Eddie McDoom 
entered the game, which looked 
like a return to the predictable. 
Michigan has run the fly sweep 
to McDoom almost a dozen 
times this season and hardly 
used the speedster for anything 
else. On this play, McDoom 
went in motion before the snap, 
and everyone in the stadium 
prepared for the same play. 
Instead, 
before 
he 
reached 

Speight, McDoom cut back to 
the outside, caught a pass in the 
flat and ran it for 33 yards.

The Wolverines weren’t done 

yet. In the red zone by that point, 
they inserted redshirt sophomore 
all-purpose man Jabrill Peppers 
as the wildcat quarterback — the 
third player to take the snap in 
a six-play span. He gained four 
yards. Sophomore running back 

JAKE LOURIM

Managing Sports Editor

Michigan 41
Illinois 8

Michigan rolls to early lead, sets up 
rivalry trip to East Lansing next week

See ILLINOIS, Page 2B

