Postgame Notes: #15 Michigan 48, Indiana 41 (2OT)
11/14/2015 12:00:00 AM | Football
TEAM
• With today's victory, U-M improves to 8-2 on the season and 5-1 in the Big Ten.
• Michigan has now won 20 consecutive games in the series against IU and improves to 55-9 all-time vs. the Hoosiers. U-M has won 17 of 18 meetings at Memorial Stadium and has been ranked in all 18 contests.
OFFENSE
• Michigan gained a season-high 581 yards in the game.
• Wide receiver Jehu Chesson scored three touchdowns in the first half of today's game, including a 34-yarder in the first quarter.
• Chesson entered the season with just one career touchdown and has scored via receiving (6), running (2) and kick return (1) this year. He now has 11 career scores.
• Today's game marked the 14th time in Wolverine history that a wide receiver recorded at least three touchdowns in one game (Jehu Chesson) and the first since Devin Funchess last season (Aug. 30) vs. Appalachian State.
• Chesson set single-game career highs in receptions (10), receiving yards (207) and touchdowns (4) in today's win.
• Chesson tied a school record with four touchdown receptions in a game, tying Derrick Alexander against Minnesota in 1992.
• Chesson's 207 receiving yards are good for the third-highest single-game receiving mark at U-M.
• Wide receiver Amara Darboh has at least one reception in 20 of his last 21 games dating back to 2014.
• With his eight catch, 109-yard effort today, Darboh eclipsed the 1,000-yard mark for his career (1,040 total) and the 500-yard mark for the 2015 season (567 total)
• Tight end Jake Butt has at least one catch in 13 straight games and has hauled in one or more receptions in 21 of his last 24 games.
• Butt now ranks No. 6 on U-M's all-time tight end receptions list and No. 9 on the all-time list for yardage by a Wolverine tight end. He is 10th in single-season receptions by a tight end. Butt now has six receiving touchdowns, good enough for a ninth place tie for tight ends.
• Quarterback Jake Rudock set a single-game record at U-M with six touchdown passes. No QB had more than four previously.
• Rudock set a new career high in single-game pass yardage (440) for the second week in a row (337 vs. Rutgers). The yardage is the third-highest single-game output by a U-M quarterback.
• Rudock is the first U-M quarterback to throw for consecutive 300-yard games since Chad Henne in 2004.
• Rudock's 33 completions are tied for the second most in a game at U-M (34).
• Rudock's 64-yard touchdown pass to Jehu Chesson in the second quarter serves as U-M's longest pass play of any kind this season.
• Rudock had a career-long 23-yard run in today's game.
• Over his last two games, Rudock has posted the following numbers: 51-for-71 passing for 777 yards, nine touchdowns and one interception.
DEFENSE
• Michigan allowed a season-high 527 yards in the game.
• Opponents have converted just 23.4 percent of third downs this season (33-141).
SPECIAL TEAMS
• U-M kicker Kenny Allen has converted 13-of-17 field goals and all 36 point-after attempts this season.
TEAM
• U-M's offense has converted on 95.2 percent (40-of-42) of red-zone opportunities, totaling 29 touchdowns and 11 field goals in 42 red-zone trips.
• Jourdan Lewis leads the nation in pass breakups per game (2.0) and holds the U-M single-season record with 20 PBUs.
