The Hoosiers would gain yards on their next six plays to set up first-and-goal at the five, but two incompletions sandwiched a rush that lost 2 yards and Indiana would have to settle for a short field goal attempt. Jaylin Lucas started the drive with a 39-yard rush up the middle. Two possessions later, Indiana marched again. They'd ultimately settle for a field goal. After the refs convened for about two minutes, they called offensive pass interference, which took the points off the board. On the ninth play of the drive, Bazelak connected with Aaron Steinfeldt who ran into the end zone untouched from 10 yards out. The next drive looked like the Hoosiers would score again. Indiana scored when Bazelak found Josh Henderson on an out-route from the backfield, as he beat Michael Barrett in man coverage. The Hoosiers marched 75 yards on a 10-play drive their second time with the ball, including a perfectly thrown 33-yard pass by Bazelak over the head of DJ Turner as the pass rush slammed him to the turf. "I think that was a bad call."Ī second-quarter field-goal attempt was also blocked. "I didn't see a block in the back," Harbaugh said. Michigan forced a punt on the Hoosiers' opening drive and AJ Henning had what appeared to be a nice 20-yard return, but the Wolverines were flagged for a block in the back which resulted in a 30-yard swing. Special teams was another area the Wolverines consistently won earlier this season, but seemed out of sorts Saturday. In total, the Wolverines were flagged a season-high 10 times for 85 yards. "I don't know, we can't have those penalties so I won't do it again, but Matt Judon does a celebration where he goes across his nose, that was the intent, but can't have penalties like that." "I guess the ref thought I slit, went across my throat," Harrell said after the game. The Wolverines were flagged for an average of fewer than three penalties and 27 yards per game, their 14 total was the fewest in the nation entering play. Picked up a few first downs with his legs, he was pretty much on the money." Need to clean it up responded, he was so cool and calm back there. McCarthy's hands, let him throw the ball and the receivers really responded," Harbaugh said. McCarthy finished the game 28-for-36 with a career-high 304 yards, three touchdowns and one interception. Michigan, which was able to start running downhill against a gassed Indiana front, found the end zone one final time on its last drive. Michigan put together its first nonscripted touchdown drive of the day with 9:47 to play on a Schoonmaker catch and dive into the end zone. Still, the defense got the ball back and the Wolverines offense opened the floodgates in the fourth quarter. Michigan had a chance to put the game away after starting with the ball at the Indiana 33 on its next possession, but McCarthy threw his first interception of the season when he forced a ball into double coverage looking for Bell in the end zone.
"We felt like we could move the ball on them the whole game, but especially the first half it wasn't clicking.once we got into a rhythm in the second half it was over." "Everything just started clicking for us," McCarthy said. Later Johnson made up for his mistake as he caught a crossing route and took it 29 yards into the end zone for the score to take the lead, 17-10. Cornelius Johnson dropped a wide-open pass that would've gained 25 yards on second down, but McCarthy salvaged the drive when he found Ronnie Bell for a gain of 14 to move the sticks.īell finished with a game-high 11 catches for 121 yards. Starting the drive from its own 2-yard line, the Wolverines started to march. Michigan's offense did the same thing in the second half with a fast start.
The Wolverines would manage just a field goal over the remaining 27 minutes in the first two quarters. The passing game wasn't much better, with McCarthy completing 13 of 18 first-half passes for 134 yards. On the next 16 rushing attempts in the first half, Michigan netted just 27 yards.
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