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