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Michigan Monday: Game 12 vs. Ohio State
11/25/2019 11:48:00 AM | Football
#2 Ohio State (11-0, 8-0 Big Ten) at #10/#11 Michigan (9-2, 6-2 Big Ten)
Michigan Stadium • Ann Arbor, Mich.
Saturday, Nov. 30, 2019 • Noon EST
Television: Fox
Radio: Michigan/IMG Sports Network
Ohio State Game Promotions
• Flyover: EA-18G Growlers
• Senior Day
• 1969 Team Recognition
• Michigan Marching Band Halftime Show: Tradition
• Full Promotions Schedule
Monday, Nov. 25
Complete Game Notes (PDF)
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• This will be the 116th meeting between Michigan and Ohio State.
• Michigan has 16 players that hail from the state of Ohio.
• Nico Collins leads the team in receiving yards (649) and touchdowns (7).
• The back-to-back Big Ten co-Player of the Week, Shea Patterson has 750 passing yards and nine TDs the past two games (44-of-65, 67.7%).
• Michigan's offense has scored 38 points or more in four straight games.
• Josh Uche leads the team with 8.5 sacks and 11.5 tackles for loss.
• Khaleke Hudson is the team's leading tackler with 89 tackles on the year.
Wolverines and Buckeyes
• Selected as the greatest rivalry in all of sport by ESPN.com in 1999, Michigan and Ohio State will meet for the 102nd consecutive year on the gridiron this Saturday in Ann Arbor.
• This will be the 116th meeting between Michigan and Ohio State, and the Wolverines have an 58-51-6 advantage in the all-time series. The Buckeyes have won seven straight and 14 of the past 15 contests.
• The two archrivals will meet for the 59th time in Ann Arbor and for the 48th time at Michigan Stadium. U-M has compiled a 31-23-4 record against OSU in Ann Arbor and has a 23-21-3 mark at Michigan Stadium.
• This will be the 23rd time that Michigan and Ohio State take the field in a top 10 match-up. The Buckeyes hold an 11-9-2 advantage in those contests. The Wolverines have won seven of the last 10 games played between top 10 foes, but the Buckeyes have won the last three meetings.
• The two programs have played every year since 1918, a streak that ranks eighth in Division I-A for the longest uninterrupted series. The overall series dates back to 1897, when the Wolverines claimed a 34-0 victory over the Buckeyes in Ann Arbor.
• The Buckeyes are the most common opponent for the Wolverines, trailed closely by Michigan State (112 games).
Series vs. Ohio State: Michigan leads 58-51-6
Series Streak: Ohio State won 7
Last Meeting: 2018 (OSU, 62-39)
Last Michigan Win: 2011 (40-34)
Television Coverage
The Michigan-Ohio State game will be televised for the 53rd consecutive year and 64th time overall. This is the third straight year that Fox will broadcast "The Game" to a national audience. Gus Johnson (play-by-play), Joel Klatt (color) and Jenny Taft (sideline) will call the game. Since 1967, every game in the series has been televised, including 33 national television appearances. The first game ever televised between the two programs was a 21-0 win by the Wolverines in Ann Arbor during the 1947 national championship season.
In the Polls
• Michigan enters the matchup with No. 2 Ohio State ranked in the top 15 of the polls for the ninth week this season. The Wolverines are listed No. 10 in the Associated Press rankings and No. 11 in the Amway Coaches Poll.
• The Wolverines have been ranked in the national polls for 26 straight games dating back to the start of the 2018 season.
• U-M has been ranked in the AP poll for 59 match-ups with Ohio State and is 29-26-4 in those games. The Wolverines have compiled a 21-22-4 record against the Buckeyes when both teams enter the game ranked in the AP poll.
• 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 on the schedule this week.
• 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 (64 games). The Wolverines were not ranked the first four games in 2015 and four games in 2017.
Game Notes Nuggets
• Sixteen players on the U-M roster are from the state of Ohio, second-most of any state (Michigan): Erick All, Matt Brown, Zach Carpenter, Jordan Castleberry, Camaron Cheeseman, Trey Harper, Will Hart, Joel Honigford, Caden Kolesar, Jake McCurry, Gabe Newburg, Brad Robbins, Greg Robinson, Nolan Rumler, Adam Shibley and Joey Velazquez.
• The Wolverines are facing the sixth-toughest schedule in the NCAA this season. Michigan's opponents have combined for a 70-41 record (.631) so far this season. That mark is tied with Ohio State for the best in the Big Ten.
• In the last eight weeks, the U-M defense has yielded 12.6 points per game, with 13 turnovers and 12 touchdowns allowed, plus another turnover forced on special teams.
• The defense rates top-25 nationally in 11 major categories with top-10 marks in scoring defense (16.2 points per game, 10th), first downs allowed (178 total, 10th), pass defense (161.1 yards per game allowed, fourth) and total defense (267.0 yards per game allowed, fourth).
• The defense has been even better in Big Ten play, ranking first, second or third in eight areas including a league-leading red-zone defense that shuts opponents down in 66.7 percent of opportunities.
• After allowing a long run of 17 yards to Indiana, Michigan has continued its streak of limiting big plays on the ground, having yielded only one rush of 20-plus yards over the last 32 quarters.
• Now 50 games into the tenure of defensive coordinator Don Brown, just one quarterback has thrown for 300 yards against Michigan (Ohio State, 2018). Teams have thrown 45 touchdowns and 43 interceptions in that time frame, and 40 of those 50 opponents have been held under 200 yards through the air.
• Indiana was U-M's third opponent in the last four weeks to be held under 100 yards rushing, and the seventh this year. No team has eclipsed 130 yards rushing since Wisconsin (Sept. 21).
• Michigan has forced opponents into 60 punts over the last eight weeks (7.5 per game) while allowing 539 rush yards (67.3 per game) on 275 carries (1.89 yards per carry).
Our top defensive plays from the B1G Win over Indiana. #GoBlue pic.twitter.com/ojRDY8N3b4
— Michigan Football (@UMichFootball) November 24, 2019
• The Maize and Blue offense is now averaging 402.6 yards per game, having eclipsed the 400-yard mark in five of the last six weeks and seven overall while scoring 38-plus points in four straight and seven overall.
• Michigan's offensive line is allowing just 4.36 negative plays per game (opponents' tackles for loss), which ranks No. 14 nationally and second in the Big Ten, and 1.82 sacks. In Big Ten play, the 1.50 sacks per game U-M is allowing is a league-leading mark.
• U-M's interior has been especially stout in pass protection with the trio of Ben Bredeson, Cesar Ruiz and Michael Onwenu combining for 20 total pressures and zero sacks allowed all season. All three have pass-blocking grades above 99.0 and pressure rates allowed below 2.0 percent, according to Pro Football Focus College.
• In the last five games, U-M is +1,101 in total yardage and +114 in total scoring against Penn State, Notre Dame, Maryland, Michigan State and Indiana.
• Quarterback Shea Patterson is playing the best football of his career, having completed 44-of-65 pass attempts (67.7 percent) for 750 yards with nine touchdowns and one interception over the last two games. Over that stretch, he has hit passes at 11.53 yards per attempt with 24 completions of 15-plus yards (54.5 percent).
• Patterson has averaged 14.09 yards per completion this season, which ranks No. 13 in the country, and his 21 passing touchdowns (26th) and 8.38 yards per attempt (24th) are also top-30 marks across the NCAA.
• Patterson has thrown for 384 and 366 yards in the last two games, the most in any two-game span in program history and the No. 5 and No. 10 all-time single-game performances, respectively.
• Patterson is up to 21 passing touchdowns, four shy of the single-season program record (25) set by Elvis Grbac in 1991 and tied by Chad Henne in 2004. Patterson is at 43 for his career, good for seventh all-time.
• As he continues to drill his name into the U-M record books, Patterson surpassed 5,000 career passing yards against the Hoosiers, accomplishing that benchmark in the second-fewest games (24) and fourth-fewest attempts (619) among Michigan's nine 5,000-yard passers.
• Patterson is up to seven games with 250-plus yards passing in his career, tied for fourth-most in program history with Todd Collins. Tom Brady (8), John Navarre (11) and Chad Henne (12) are the only players with more.
Shea Patterson's five touchdown passes mark his second consecutive game with four touchdown passes -- a program first.
— Michigan Football (@UMichFootball) November 24, 2019
A look back at all five right here. ??#GoBlue pic.twitter.com/DwxFDnNsjQ
• Now with back-to-back games featuring a pass-catcher with 150-plus yards receiving, the U-M aerial attack is on a roll. Ronnie Bell had nine catches for 150 yards against Michigan State, and Nico Collins hauled in six rocks for 165 yards and three scores at Indiana.
• Collins and teammate Donovan Peoples-Jones actively jostled for a share of the team receiving touchdown lead during the trip to IU. Both entered the game with four touchdowns each. DPJ caught an 11-yard score to take the lead in the first half before Collins responded with touchdown catches of 24, 76 and 19 yards to take a 7-5 lead on the season.
• Michigan has connected on 12 of its 44 (27 percent) 20-plus yard pass plays in the last two weeks (six in each game). Collins' 76-yard touchdown at Indiana is the longest play of the year from scrimmage for U-M. His 20.94 yards per catch ranks as the eighth-best mark in the nation and first in the Big Ten.
• Five Michigan pass-catchers are over 20 receptions for the season (Bell 38, Collins 31, Peoples-Jones 30, Tarik Black 24, Nick Eubanks 21), and 10 different players have a touchdown reception this year.
• Collins has at least one catch of 20-plus yards in 17 of 27 career games and at least one catch of 35-plus yards in 12 career games.
• Peoples-Jones had a 41-yard reception in the third quarter against Indiana, his longest catch of the year and second-longest play of the season (50-yard punt return against Michigan State). He is up to 13 receiving touchdowns in his career and 15 overall (two punt returns).
• Freshman wide receiver Giles Jackson's 50-yard catch in the first quarter at Indiana was the longest of his career and the longest by any U-M freshman this season. Michigan's offense has produced only five longer plays all season.
• Freshman running back Zach Charbonnet is up to 646 rushing yards and 11 touchdowns this season. He is the third-leading rusher all-time among U-M freshmen, and his 11 touchdowns are a single-season freshman record. Charbonnet is 102 yards shy of tying Ricky Powers for second all-time.
• Defensive lineman Aidan Hutchinson is up to six pass breakups after recording one at Indiana, good for fourth on the team. Lavert Hill (10), Josh Metellus (7) and Ambry Thomas (7) rank first through third, respectively. However, the trio of defensive backs is aided by a combined eight interceptions, while Hutchinson has none from his defensive line position.
• Lavert Hill ranks tied-eighth all-time in pass breakups at Michigan with 26, and Metellus lists tied-16th with 21. PFF College lists Hill's 22.0 passer rating against as first among Big Ten defensive backs and eighth in the country, more than 50 points below the NCAA average (78.2). His 40.9 completion percentage allowed is third (NCAA average is 55.9 percent), and his 27.3 percent forced incompletion percentage ranks fifth at more than double the national average (13.2 percent). Hill has done this all while playing 85 percent man-press coverage according to PFF, with zero missed tackles and zero touchdowns allowed and a paltry 0.6 yards allowed per snap in 221 coverage plays.
• With a strip-sack and fumble recovery among his five solo tackles at Indiana, Josh Uche is leading the sack department for Michigan with 8.5 on the season, averaging 0.77 per game (17th in NCAA). He is 15th in career sacks at Michigan (16.5), just 1.5 behind former teammate Chase Winovich.
• In his first career start for an injured Brad Hawkins, freshman safety Daxton Hill led the team with eight tackles and had an interception at Indiana. He also became the first freshman to start a game on defense under Harbaugh.
