Maryland players offered by Michigan include: LB Neeo Avery, OL Aliou Bah, WR Jalil Farooq, RB Iverson Howard, DE Zahir Mathis, DT Joel Starlings, RB DeJuan Williams
Maryland DT Joel Starlings was committed to Michigan at one time but signed with North Carolina before transferring to Maryland this season
Maryland OC/QB Coach Pep Hamilton coached at Michigan from 2017-2018
Maryland assistant WR coach Derek Kief was recruited by Michigan in the class of 2014
Former Maryland all-Big Ten performer Will Likely is now a defensive assistant for the Terrapins
Maryland players from the state of Michigan include: RB Nolan Ray (Birmingham Brother Rice)
Michigan players from the state of Maryland include: DE/LB Jaishawn Barham, DE Devon Baxter, DB Jeffrey Chukwu, DE Lugard Edokpayi, DE Derrick Moore, DE Dominic Nichols, LB Nathaniel Owusu-Boateng, S Kainoa Winston
Michigan DE/LB Jaishawn Barham played his freshman and sophomore seasons (2022-2023) at Maryland
LAST TIME THEY PLAYED . . .
On November 18, 2023, Michigan beat Maryland by a score of 31-24
QB J.J. McCarthy completed 12/23 passes for 141 yards and 1 interception
Maryland LB Jaishawn Barham (now playing for Michigan) intercepted McCarthy
RB Blake Corum ran 28 times for 94 yards and 2 touchdowns
WR Semaj Morgan ran for a 13-yard touchdown
Michigan recorded 5 sacks and 2 interceptions of Maryland QB Taulia Tagovailoa (21/31, 247 yards, 0 TD, 2 INT)
Michigan is 10-1 against the Terrapins after they started playing each other in 1985. The Terps eventually joined the Big Ten in 2014, winning that first game against the Brady Hoke-led Wolverines before losing five in a row.
Giles Jackson 97-yard kickoff return TD (2019)
A.J. Henning 81-yard kickoff return TD (2021)
David Long 80-yard interception return (2017)
Cade McNamara 77-yard TD pass to Donovan Edwards (2021)
Jehu Chesson 66-yard TD run (2015)
Tony Boles 64-yard TD run (1989)
Wilton Speight 56-yard pass to Chris Evans (2016)
Ty Isaac 53-yard TD run (2016)
Joe Kerridge 52-yard run (2014)
Shea Patterson 51-yard pass to Nico Collins (2018)
Shea Patterson 51-yard pass to Nico Collins (2019)
I was almost half right. My score prediction was 24-13 in favor of Michigan in my game preview, which I never posted because I only finished half of it. So I got Michigan’s score correct, but Northwestern was able to put a few more points on the board than I expected.
It helps to get 5 turnovers. Michigan is apparently the first FBS team ever – ever!!! – to win a football game while giving up 5 turnovers and creating 0 turnovers. The offense was actually pretty productive on a down-to-down basis, but Bryce Underwood threw 2 interceptions, there was a fumbled exchange with the backup to the backup running back Bryson Kudzdal, and there was just a bad play on an end around exchange with Andrew Marsh. Three of those turnovers were bad plays by Underwood, who played pretty darn well otherwise. It was a bit of a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde game for him, because he completed 21/32 passes for 280 yards and ran 9 times for 30 yards and 1 touchdown. Those are season/career highs in attempts and yards, and it ties a career high in completions. The most inexcusable turnover was the handoff to Kudzdal, on which Underwood put the ball up at chest level, so Kudzdal never had a chance. That’s just a basic play for a quarterback that really shouldn’t ever happen. (That being said, the offensive line got its butt kicked on that play, and Kudzdal probably would have been stopped for a loss to end the drive, anyway.)
This is a pretty basic play, but I like looking at X’s and O’s, so I decided to draw up Jordan Marshall’s 54-yard touchdown run against Purdue.
With a 1st and 10 on their own 46-yard line, Michigan put 11 personnel (1 running back, 1 tight end) on the field. Wide receiver Andrew Marsh lines up wide left, WR Channing Goodwin lines up in the slot to the left, and TE Max Bredeson lines up as a wing to the left side. This is already a good look for Michigan to run the ball, because Purdue only has six guys in the box and Michigan has six guys to block them (5 linemen + Bredeson), not to mention QB Bryce Underwood and RB Jordan Marshall.
Michigan puts Goodwin in jet motion across the formation, which gets the two-high safeties to rotate. The weakside safety rocks down to be prepared for Goodwin coming across the formation, and the strongside safety drops back to the middle of the field. Michigan doesn’t even need to block the defensive end to the offense’s right since he’s a) removed from the play by formation and b) needs to respect the bootleg from Underwood.
The key block here is Bredeson on the nickel. As long as the offensive line can get a hat on a hat, the play just requires the 250 lb. Bredeson to block the 6’0″, 195 lb. nickel Smiley Bradford in space. With Bredeson making contact and blowing Bradford out of the way, now Marshall just has to beat the deep safety to the alley, which he does.
