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Michigan Monday: Game 11 at Indiana
11/18/2019 11:35:00 AM | Football
#12 Michigan (8-2, 5-2 Big Ten) at Indiana (7-3, 4-3 Big Ten)
Memorial Stadium • Bloomington, Ind.
Saturday, Nov. 23, 2019 • 3:30 p.m. EST
Television: ESPN
Radio: Michigan/IMG Sports Network
Monday, Nov. 18
Complete Game Notes (PDF)
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• Michigan has an impressive 18-1 record at Memorial Stadium.
• Ronnie Bell leads the team in receiving with 37 catches for 621 yards.
• Shea Patterson shared Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week honors after a 384-yard, four-passing-TD performance against Michigan State.
• U-M's offense has gained 400-plus yards in four of the last five games.
• Khaleke Hudson leads the defense with 83 tackles, including 3.5 TFLs, two sacks and three PBUs.
• The defense is allowing an average of 228 yards and 11.4 points per game over the last seven contests.
Wolverines and Hoosiers
• This will be the 68th meeting in the all-time series with Indiana. The Wolverines lead the series, 58-9, and have won 23 straight and 38 of the past 39 games against the Hoosiers.
• Michigan's .866 winning percentage against Indiana is the program's highest vs. any conference school.
• The Wolverines have an 18-1 mark all-time at Memorial Stadium and have won 10 straight games at the facility, including a 27-20 overtime victory in their last appearance at the venue during the 2017 season.
• The last U-M loss in the series, a 14-10 setback in Bloomington, came in a match-up of top 20 teams during the 1987 season. That is also Michigan's lone loss in 19 games at Memorial Stadium.
• This will be Jim Harbaugh's third appearance as a head coach at Memorial Stadium. He also quarterbacked U-M to victories against IU in 1985 and 1986.
Series vs. Indiana: Michigan leads 58-9
Series Streak: Michigan won 23
Last Meeting: 2018 (Michigan, 31-20)
Last Michigan Win: 2018
Television Coverage
ESPN will broadcast the game to a national audience. Sean McDonough (play-by-play), Todd Blackledge (color) and Holly Rowe (sideline) will call the game.
In the Polls
• Michigan enters the matchup with Indiana ranked in the top 15 of the polls for the eighth week this season. The Wolverines are listed No. 12 in the Associated Press rankings and No. 12 in the Amway Coaches Poll.
• The Wolverines have been ranked in the national polls for 24 straight games dating back to the start of the 2018 season.
• This will be the 44th time that Michigan enters a match-up with Indiana ranked in the top 25 of the Associated Press national poll. The Wolverines have compiled a 41-2 record in those contests, with their only setbacks coming in 1954 and 1987.
• U-M has been ranked in the national polls for all 20 games against Indiana at Memorial Stadium (includes this year's match-up).
• Michigan has faced four ranked opponents this season -- No. 13 Wisconsin, No. 14 Iowa, No. 7 Penn State and No. 8 Notre Dame -- with No. 2 Ohio State remaining on the schedule.
• The Wolverines have a 2-2 record against ranked teams in 2019.
• U-M has been ranked for all but eight contests during coach Jim Harbaugh's tenure (62 games). The Wolverines were not ranked the first four games in 2015 and four games in 2017.
Game Notes Nuggets
• Linebacker Cameron McGrone is the lone Michigan player on the roster from the state of Indiana.
• Michigan's defense has been outstanding in October and November. Five of the last seven opponents have been held under 65 yards rushing, including last weekend's opponent, Michigan State (54 yards). That is the longest such streak under Don Brown (since 2016). No team has eclipsed 130 yards rushing in two months (Wisconsin, Sept. 21), and no team has hit 200 yards passing since Iowa (Oct. 5).
• On average, Michigan's defense is allowing 11.4 points per game over the last seven games, forcing 12 turnovers while allowing 11 touchdowns. After allowing 28 points to opponents off turnovers in the first two games of the season, the Wolverines have allowed 15 total points off turnovers in the last eight weeks.
• Michigan has allowed just one 300-yard passing game in 49 games under Brown (Ohio State, 2018), allowing a total of 45 passing touchdowns while intercepting 42 passes in that span.
• Since Brown joined the staff and paired with cornerbacks coach Michael Zordich, U-M has held 40 of 49 opponents under 200 yards passing; the next-closest team has accomplished that 36 times.
• Only two teams have even hit 200 yards passing against U-M this year (Iowa, 260; Middle Tennessee State, 234), and both teams needed more than 40 attempts to do so, throwing at least one interception each in the process (four total).
• U-M has already improved on 2018 season marks in the number of games with opponents held below 2.0 yards per carry (five, up from three) and games with opponents held below 4.0 yards per play (seven, up from five). The 2.78 yards per rushing attempt U-M is allowing this season are its fewest since 2006.
• Defensive back Lavert Hill is up to 10 pass breakups this season and 26 for his career after recording one PBU and an interception against the Spartans, his third pick this year. He is tied for eighth place all-time in PBUs at Michigan, matching Marion Body (1979-82), and is four shy of tying Charles Woodson (1995-97) for fifth.
• Linebacker Khaleke Hudson is up to 83 tackles (36 solo, 47 assisted) this year after having five against the Spartans -- but his fourth-quarter punt block was his highlight of the game. It marked the fifth punt block of his career, the most by any Michigan player since the stat was first captured beginning in 1997. Hudson was named a semifinalist for the Jason Witten Collegiate Man of the Year last week.
The Michigan Defense came to play yesterday.
— Michigan Football (@UMichFootball) November 17, 2019
The Top Defensive Plays from the WIN over MSU. ??#GoBlue pic.twitter.com/sw60TumkLB
• Over the last seven games, opponents have combined for 442 rush yards on 238 carries (1.86 yards per). U-M has forced 55 total punts for an average of nearly eight per game and has held opposing offenses to three-and-outs on 39 percent of drives.
• Michigan State's 54 rush yards on 30 attempts yielded their lowest rushing output on 30-plus carries since 2009. U-M has held the Spartans below 220 total yards in two consecutive matchups (94 total yards in 2018) for the first time in the last 20 years.
• Outstanding as the defense has been, it was the offense that fueled the win last weekend. Michigan's points (44), total offense (467), yards per play (seven), passing yards (384), and first downs (25) were U-M bests against Michigan State since 2007 when coach Mark Dantonio took over the Spartan program.
• U-M's 467 yards of offense doubled up the Spartans' output (220 yards) and were the second-most MSU has allowed this year (529, Ohio State). The Spartans' offensive total was their second-lowest yardage mark of the season (149 at Wisconsin).
• Michigan's offense now averages 397.8 yards per contest, having eclipsed the 400-yard mark in four of the last five weeks and six overall while scoring 38 points or more in three consecutive games and five of the last seven overall.
• In the last four games, U-M has collectively outgained the Nittany Lions, Fighting Irish, Terrapins, and Spartans by 736 combined yards, outscoring opponents 148-59 in that span.
• Quarterback Shea Patterson's 384 pass yards marked his first 300-yard game as a Wolverine and the most pass yards by a Michigan quarterback against Michigan State in program history, surpassing Tom Brady's 285-yard game in 1999. Patterson's career day also included the fifth-highest passing total by a U-M quarterback in any game ever and was more than 100 yards greater than his previous Michigan best (282, Maryland, Oct. 6, 2018).
• Before Patterson, U-M's last 300-yard passer was Wilton Speight against Maryland in 2016 (364 yards). Speight in 2016 was also the most recent Wolverine signal-caller to throw four touchdown passes, against UCF. Patterson accomplished his statistical high-water marks with eight straight scoring drives (five touchdowns, three field goals), which included 14 passing plays of 15-plus yards.
• Patterson was 24-of-33 through the air, matching his career-high completion total from earlier this season (Penn State, Oct. 19). He tied his college career high and set a Michigan best with four touchdown passes, to Nico Collins, Donovan Peoples-Jones, Nick Eubanks and Cornelius Johnson.
A great look at all FIVE touchdowns scored today!
— Michigan Football (@UMichFootball) November 17, 2019
Which was your favorite? pic.twitter.com/oLwE8Mz8KE
• Now through 23 starts, Patterson is 10th among U-M's all-time passing leaders with 4,757 yards -- just 103 yards shy of Steve Smith (4,860, 1980-83) for ninth all-time. He's on pace to break 5,000 yards passing against Ohio State.
• Elsewhere in the Michigan record books, Patterson ranks first all-time in career efficiency rating (149.9) and interception percentage (1.85), second in average yards per game (206.8), sixth in completion percentage (62.1), eighth in touchdown passes (38), and tied-ninth in touchdown percentage (6.4). He's now tied with Denard Robinson and Brian Griese for fifth-most games in U-M history with 250 yards passing or more (six).
• Wide receiver Ronnie Bell had a career day against the Spartans, hauling in nine receptions for 150 yards. Bell's 150 yards were the most by any U-M pass-catcher since Jehu Chesson had 207 receiving yards in a double-overtime matchup at Indiana in 2015.
• Bell leads the team in catches (37) and yards (621) by a considerable margin after his monster game but has not yet found the end zone in 2019. That statistical anomaly comes after Bell embarked on his freshman season in 2018 with his first two catches resulting in touchdowns of 56 and 22 yards.
• Pass-catchers Collins (four), Peoples-Jones (four) and Eubanks (three) have had no trouble finding the end zone. They lead the team in receiving scores through 10 games.
• Freshman wide receiver Cornelius Johnson had his number called in Michigan's freshman touchdown lottery draw, scoring on a 39-yarder in the fourth quarter. Johnson (four catches, 61 yards), Giles Jackson (four catches, 35 yards, one touchdown) and Mike Sainristil (six catches, 102 yards, one touchdown) have each had productive rookie campaigns among a crowded pass-catching corps.
• Freshman running back Zach Charbonnet is up to 589 yards rushing this season. That figure ranks Charbonnet fourth for single-season rushing in Michigan history among freshmen. He is just 25 yards behind Chris Evans (614 yards, 2016) for third-most and 159 yards shy of Ricky Powers (748, 1990) for second. Charbonnet already holds the freshman touchdown record (11).
