T E A M S T A T S
MICH
OPP
Points/Game
42.3
10.9
First Downs/Game
22.8
13.5
Rush Yards/Game
235.3
108.6
Yards/Rush
5.2
3.0
Rushing TDs
39
4
Passing Yards/Game
215.8
137.0
Completion %
62.2%
44.2%
Yards/Pass
8.0
5.6
Passing TDs
17
9
Interceptions
4
11
Offensive Plays/Game
71.9
60.5
Total Offense
451.1
245.6
3rd-down Conversions
43.8%
21.1%
4th-down Conversions
64.7%
34.8%
Sacks/Game
3.3
1.5
Kick return average
17.3
21.0
Punt return average
16.0
7.6
Punting average
41.8
37.9
Field Goals-Attempts
14-19
7-13
Fumbles/Lost
12/4
13/5
Penalty Yards/Game
45.2
43.0
Time of Poss
33:06
26:54
I N D I V I D U A L S T A T S
PASSING
Player
Cmp
Att
Yds
TD
INT
Speight
160
257
2156
15
4
O’Korn
20
34
173
2
0
Morris
4
5
45
0
0
TOTALS
184
296
2374
17
4
RUSHING
Player
Att
Yds
Avg
Lg
TD
Smith, D.
144
750
5.2
42
10
Evans
74
547
7.4
57
3
Isaac
74
417
5.6
53
5
Higdon
65
417
6.4
45
6
Peppers
23
163
7.1
63
3
McDoom
15
154
10.3
33
0
Chesson
9
47
5.2
17
1
Henderson
5
37
7.4
13
1
Hill, K.
22
36
1.6
4
9
O’Korn
12
31
2.6
30
0
Morris
3
19
6.3
14
0
Davis
2
17
8.5
10
0
Crawford
3
15
5.0
11
0
Hirsch
1
2
2.0
2
0
Wilson
1
1
1.0
1
0
Beneducci
1
1
1.0
1
0
Hewlett
2
-1
-0.5
0
0
Gedeon
1
-2
-2.0
0
0
Allen
1
-11
-11.0
0
0
TEAM
11
-16
-1.5
0
0
Speight
26
-36
-1.4
10
1
TOTALS
495 2588
5.2
63
39
RECEIVING
Player
No.
Yds
Avg
Lg
TD
Darboh
44
758
17.2
46
6
Butt
38
460
12.1
37
4
Chesson
29
458
15.8
40
2
Perry
9
134
14.9
54
1
Hill
13
97
7.5
15
1
Evans
6
87
14.5
56
0
McDoom
5
59
11.8
33
0
Poggi
6
45
7.5
15
0
Crawford
3
43
14.3
18
1
Isaac
2
42
21.0
21
0
Smith, D.
11
38
3.5
17
0
Wheatley
2
27
13.5
21
1
Ways
2
24
12.0
22
0
Henderson
1
23
23.0
23
0
Asiasi
2
18
9.0
15
1
Hirsch
1
15
15.0
15
0
Jocz
1
12
12.0
12
0
Harris
2
11
5.5
7
0
McKeon
2
10
5.0
5
0
Bunting
2
6
3.0
4
0
Johnson, N.
1
4
4.0
4
0
Peppers
2
3
1.5
5
0
TOTALS
184
2374 12.9
56
17
PUNT RETURNS
Player
No.
Yds
Avg. Long
TD
Peppers
20
305
15.2
54
1
Jocz
1
27
27.0
0
0
Evans
1
15
15.0
15
0
Perry
0
6
--
6
1
TOTALS
22
353
16.0
54
2
INTERCEPTION RETURNS
Player
No.
Yds
Avg. Long
TD
Stribling
4
60
15.0
51
1
Hill, D.
3
36
12.0
27
1
McCray
1
22
22.0
22
0
Thomas
1
4
4.0
4
0
Lewis
2
0
0.0
0
0
TOTALS
11
122
11.1
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
9
216
24.0
55
0
Lewis
4
42
10.5
18
0
Hill, K.
3
28
9.3
13
0
Henderson
2
28
14.0
15
0
Evans
1
26
26.0
26
0
Hudson
1
6
6.0
6
0
TOTALS
18
320
17.8
55
0
KICKOFFS
Player
No.
Yds
Avg.
TB
Allen
73
4681
64.1
41
Foug
8
460
57.5
2
Tice
3
189
63.0
0
TOTALS
84
5330
63.5
43
PUNTING
Player
No.
Yds
Avg.
Lg
Allen
39
1629
41.8
56
TOTALS
39
1629
41.8
56
FIELD GOALS
Player
FG
Pct.
1-19 20-29 30-3940-49 50+ Lg
Allen
14-18 77.8% 0-0 8-8 4-6
1-3
1-1
51
Tice
0-1 0.0% 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-1 0-0 0
LEADING TACKLERS
Player
Solo Ast
Tot
TFL
SK
PBU
Gedeon
31
63
94
13.5
3.5
2
Peppers
43
22
65
16.0
4.0
-
McCray
30
33
63
11.5
3.5
5
Thomas
32
27
59
-
-
7
Hill, D.
29
11
40
3.5
-
3
Glasgow, R.
13
24
37
8.0
3.0
1
Wormley
16
18
34
8.0
5.0
-
Winovich
10
23
33
8.5
5.0
-
Hurst
17
13
30
9.0
3.0
-
Charlton
11
18
29
8.0
6.0
1
Gary
10
16
26
5.0
1.0
-
Godin
10
14
24
2.0
1.0
-
Stribling
14
9
23
1.0
-
11
Lewis
14
5
19
2.5
-
10
Kinnel
10
6
16
1.0
-
-
Glasgow, J.
7
4
11
-
-
-
Watson
6
5
11
-
-
-
Bush
6
5
11
0.5
-
-
Clark
6
4
10
-
-
3
Metellus
6
2
8
1.0
1.0
-
Hudson
3
5
8
0.5
-
1
Furbush
3
5
8
1.0
-
-
Pearson
2
5
7
-
-
-
Mone
1
6
7
-
-
-
TOTALS
352 366 718
102
36
45
2016 SCHEDULE
HAWAII (5-7)
W, 63-3 (1-0)
UCF (6-5)
COLORADO (9-2)
PENN ST. (9-2)
WISCONSIN (9-2) at RUTGERS (2-9)
ILLINOIS (3-8)
at MICH. ST. (3-8) MARYLAND (5-6)
at IOWA (7-4)
INDIANA (5-6)
at OHIO ST. (10-1)
Noon, 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) W, 14-7 (5-0) W, 78-0 (6-0) W, 41-8 (7-0) W, 32-23 (8-0) W, 59-3 (9-0)
L, 14-13 (9-1)
Sports
The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com
Tuesday, November 22, 2016 — 7
W 20-10 (10-1)
Kalis, Magnuson looking to realize dreams
Michigan offensive linemen
Erik
Magnuson
are
hoping
they can fulfill a longtime goal
Saturday, but first, they checked
off a much smaller one.
Monday at the Wolverines’
weekly
media
availability,
Magnuson and Kalis took their
seats alongside senior tight end
Jake Butt and fifth-year senior
defensive end Chris Wormley for
a press conference in the Crisler
Center media room. Typically,
the players at the podium then
break out from there and answer
questions individually.
Not Magnuson and Kalis.
The
two
fifth-year
seniors,
roommates and good friends
stood together on one side of the
media room to answer questions
as a tandem.
“We’ve been waiting for this
moment our whole entire lives,”
Magnuson said with a smile.
A week after playing their
final game at Michigan Stadium,
they will travel to Columbus this
weekend for a showdown against
the
second-ranked
Buckeyes
on Saturday. If No. 3 Michigan
wins, it will advance to the Big
Ten Championship the following
week.
Under
head
coach
Jim
Harbaugh, the Wolverines have
tried to avoid placing more
importance on one game than
another, treating them all as
championships. But with the
stakes as high as they are this
week, that’s no longer the feeling.
“Does it feel differently? It’s
No. 2 versus No. 3!” Magnuson
said. “We’ve never been in this
position before. This is unreal!”
As Kalis said during the
podium
session,
Michigan
suffered through the “downs,”
and now it is enjoying the “ups.”
There have been plenty of both.
Three years ago, Kalis and
Magnuson were the redshirt
freshmen most often thrown
into action on a young offensive
line. Their unit took the bulk
of the criticism for a 7-6 season
in 2013 and a 5-7 finish in 2014,
and it took half of their careers
before they emerged from that
shadow.
That did not come up often
during Kalis and Magnuson’s
impromptu
joint
presser
Monday. Instead, the two talked
of the good times that followed,
the
trip
to
Columbus
this
weekend and the ends of their
wild careers.
Last week, for example, they
spoke with each other about
playing their last home game
Saturday
against
Indiana.
Magnuson is from Carlsbad,
Calif., a city on the Pacific coast
between San Diego and Los
Angeles. His hometown weather
does not mix well with Michigan
winters (though, in a photo with
the Paul Bunyan Trophy after
the Wolverines beat Michigan
State last month, he looked more
like a lumberjack than a surfer).
After
committing
to
Michigan,
Magnuson
always
dreamed of playing in the snow,
but he never had the chance
until Saturday at the Big House,
where the season’s first snowfall
covered the field and decorated
the Wolverines’ home finale.
“I
mean,
come
on,
how
romantic was that?” he said.
“It was snowing, the snow was
just perfect, the field was white,
the crowd’s yelling ‘Beat Ohio.’
We’re sitting there puffing our
chests out, just like, ‘Man, we
run this place.’ Pretty cool.”
Those kinds of memories
have come together nicely as
Magnuson and Kalis close their
careers. Those, the two said,
are the ones that will stick out
when they look back on the time
they’ve spent at Michigan.
“It was definitely something,”
Kalis said. “Fifty years from
now, if we’re both still kicking
it, drinking our sweet tea and
probably talking about that kind
of game.”
And the win? “That’ll be the
second thing we talk about (over)
our sweet tea.”
For now, Kalis and Magnuson
have one more big test on the
schedule, though as always,
they’ll choose to keep things
loose around Schembechler Hall
this week. Earlier this month,
freshman offensive lineman Ben
Bredeson called them two of the
funniest people he’d ever met,
always quick to lighten the mood
in any setting.
That includes team meetings,
practices
and
even
press
conferences, which they finally
convinced the media relations
staff to allow them to do together
Monday.
“They never let us because
they think we’ll mess around
too much, so this is like a
dream come true in the week
of maybe another dream come
true,” Magnuson said. “And last
weekend, another dream came
true, Senior Day. Come on, it’s
about the dreams coming true!”
AMANDA ALLEN/Daily
Fifth-year senior offensive lineman Kyle Kalis will play Ohio State for the final time Saturday, in the highest-stakes game of his Michigan career.
JAKE LOURIM
Daily Sports Writer
‘The Game’ supersedes borders for OSU, ‘M’
Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh
took the podium on Monday of
“Hate Week” and insisted that he
treats every game the same way,
despite embracing and enjoying
the Ohio State rivalry at the same
time.
The Michigan football players
who would address the media
next spoke a little more freely.
Four of the six hail from the state
of Ohio, and for three of them,
this would be their last crack at
beating the Buckeyes.
The game on Saturday is
important to them. Add in
the fact that it would give
Michigan a berth in the Big
Ten Championship Game in
Indianapolis (a feat that hasn’t
occurred since its inception in
2011), which alone would be
enough for the team to approach
this week with a greater sense of
urgency.
But the state line often casts
enough drama the week of “The
Game.”
The
Ohio
State-Michigan
border has caused confusion in
the football faithful for years.
Players raised in one state will
take their talents to the other,
and the predicament is a common
problem on both sides of the
rivalry. The Buckeyes’ leading
running back, Mike Weber, is
a Detroit native and Cass Tech
graduate. On the flip side, senior
running back De’Veon Smith
leads the Wolverines in rushing
yards and is from Warren, Ohio.
Even Harbaugh’s roots are in
Ohio. He was born in Perrysburg,
just outside of Toledo, in the
same hospital as Ohio State
coach Urban Meyer. Harbaugh
confirmed that the two have
talked about it. It provides
another similarity between the
two successful Big Ten coaches.
“We lived there for about a
year of my life, but I’ve always just
taken great pride in being from
Toledo, being from Perrysburg,”
Harbaugh said. “It’s where you
were born. ‘Hey, where were
you born?’ I was born in Toledo,
Ohio. … My dad was a high school
football coach at Perrysburg High
School, and he’s coached at all
those spots that I just mentioned.
He was always for his team and
take pride in being from there. I
have commonality with people
that are from there. That’s
something that has always given
us joy.”
The ties between the two
schools blur state lines and
become points of pride. Fifth-
year senior defensive lineman
Chris Wormley is also from
Toledo. He was recruited by
both Ohio State and Michigan,
but ultimately committed to the
Wolverines after growing up a
fan just five miles south of the
Michigan border.
Wormley, a co-captain of the
Wolverines, logged a career-
high
seven
tackles
against
the Buckeyes last season. He
attributed part of his dominance
in that game to being born into
the middle of the rivalry.
“Coach Harbaugh and I have
a lot of football talks, but maybe
sometime this week we’ll talk
about being from Toledo, and
what it means being right in
the middle of Ann Arbor and
Columbus,” Wormley said. “It’s
something that, growing up,
you watch, you have Michigan-
Ohio State parties, you dress up
for school in your favorite team
colors. So it’s something that’s
been with me for a while.”
If you travel south from
Toledo, you’ll eventually land
in Trotwood, a city just 80
miles west of Columbus and the
hometown of redshirt junior
Mike McCray.
It would be an understatement
to say that McCray is a little more
connected to the rivalry than
some of his teammates. His father,
Mike McCray Sr., was a linebacker
and captain at Ohio State, but
McCray Sr. hasn’t allowed it to
affect his relationship with his
son. Despite his playing days in
scarlet and gray, he’ll be rooting
on his namesake this Saturday.
McCray’s
family
isn’t
the
only one suffering from a mixed
identity. Senior tight end Jake
Butt,
Wormley’s
co-captain,
mentioned that his family would
likely be dealing with a bit of
“trash talking” this week. Butt
is from Pickerington, which is
situated just 20 miles east of Ohio
Stadium. He even remembers
growing up a Buckeyes fan and
cheering on No. 1 Ohio State in
its 2006 matchup with No. 2
Michigan with his friends.
Things
have
changed
for
Butt since then. This week,
he’ll be trying to get his hands
on any extra tickets he can for
friends and family from Ohio.
Understandably, tickets are hard
to come by among the Wolverines,
and even teammates slightly
more detached from the matchup
won’t part with them easily.
Thanks to geography, they know
what the rivalry means, and they
have more leverage because of it.
AMELIA CACCHIONE/Daily
Fifth-year senior defensive lineman Chris Wormley (#43) is one of many native Ohioans on the Michigan roster for this Saturday’s game in Columbus.
KELLY HALL
Daily Sports Editor