FootballSaturday, October 25, 2019
Free and open to the public
| wallacehouse.umich.edu/events
“The 1619 Project: Examining the Legacy
of Slavery and the Building of a Nation”
Nikole Hannah-Jones, reporter, The New
York Times, discusses her groundbreaking
work on “The 1619 Project”
“Duterte’s Facebook-Fueled Rise to
Power: Manipulating Public Opinion
to Capture an Election”
Davey Alba, reporter, The New York
Times and 2019 Livingston Award winner
“What Big Tech Owes Us: Ethics and
Transparency in the Social Age”
Kara Swisher, co-founder and executive
editor of Recode, interviews former
Facebook executive Alex Stamos
“International Trolling Networks and the
Hidden Threats to Female Journalists”
Elodie Vialle, Reporters Without Borders
and 2020 Knight-Wallace Fellow and Rana
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RACKHAM AMPHITHEATRE
WALLACE HOUSE PRESENTS
2019-2020 SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
8B
All starts in the run game
After a boon in attention at the
start of the year, Zach Charbonnet
reminded fans that he’s the most
talented freshman running back
Michigan has had in quite some
time. His two touchdowns against
Penn State marked his fifth and
sixth of the season — only trailing
Mike Hart and Tyrone Wheatley
(each with nine) for the most in
a rookie campaign. Smart money
lies on his topping that.
He looked spry against the
Nittany
Lions,
seeming
fully
recovered from an injury that
kept him limited for a few weeks.
This week seems to be a prime
opportunity for 20-plus carries,
coming against a solid — but
still vulnerable — Fighting Irish
defense.
The Irish have allowed 100-plus
yards rushing in each game this
season except one — including two
200-plus yard games. On average,
Notre Dame allows 154 rushing
yards per game, sitting a middling
64th in the country.
“Establishing the run” can
be
one
of
those
colloquial
football cliches that ostensibly
means nothing, but it would be
surprising if Michigan didn’t
make a concerted effort to involve
Charbonnet and the other running
backs early and often. This is
particularly true if Patterson’s
health permits a true read on some
of those read options.
Turnover margin
Oh, great, another football
cliche!
But one of the Wolverines’
most fatal flaws this year has
been its propensity to turn the
ball over at will. They’ve lost nine
fumbles of 17, and Patterson has
four interceptions — including a
maddening misfire on a screen
pass last week that led directly to
seven points.
Notre Dame has the best
turnover margin per game of any
team in the country — plus-1.67
turnovers per game. The easiest
way to quell a team trying to build
momentum is to snag an easy
turnover and pin Michigan in a
difficult spot, perhaps an early
deficit.
If a scenario like that unfolds,
it could be deja vu for the
Wolverines, and the clear recipe
for yet another big-game loss.
The Pick:
Michigan hasn’t lost in the Big
House in 698 days, which is also
the last time it wasn’t favored in
a home game.
The
Fighting
Irish went to
Georgia
and
nearly
beat
the
Bulldogs
between
the
hedges
earlier
this season, so
they
certainly
aren’t going to
be
frightened
by
a
road
game
against
a
limping
Michigan team.
And
they’re
better.
Maybe
not
substantially
so; maybe Michigan’s offense has
truly turned a corner; maybe the
unforced errors and turnovers
are a thing of the past; maybe the
focus is there, and the team truly
has put last week behind it; maybe
the defense is in for a signature
performance, shirking the early-
game, big-play struggles.
But that’s a few too many
hypotheticals for my liking. I’ll
take the better, more proven
football team.
Notre Dame 24, Michigan 20
From Page 7B
ALEXANDRIA POMPEI/Daily
Freshman running back Zach Charbonnet (#24) must get out to a strong start against a porous Notre Dame run defense.
Notre Dame
at Michigan
Matchup:
Michigan (5-2
overall, 3-2 Big
Ten) vs. Notre
Dame (5-1)
When:
Saturday,
7:30 ET
Where:
Michigan
Stadium
TV:
ABC