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Michigan 63, Hawaii 3

Chris Evans was the star of the show (image via MLive

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I’m still in the same place I was with Wilton Speight. I have confidence that Jim Harbaugh can pick the right quarterback, so I believe Speight is the best guy for this team. However, I’m still not in love with Speight as a guy who can take this team to the next level. He started off the game with a bootleg on which he tried to dump the ball over the head of the flat defender, which ended with an interception. Okay, fine. No real harm done, but it was an inauspicious beginning to the Wilton Speight Era. By the end of the game, Speight was 10/13 for 145 yards, 3 touchdowns, and the 1 interception. Hawaii didn’t make it difficult, and Speight mostly made the right throws to the right guys. He did make another mistake when he hung a deep ball short that was intended for Darboh, but a spectacular interception turned into an incompletion when the safety couldn’t hold on. On the plus side, Speight threw a nice corner route to Grant Perry for the first TD, and he bought some time outside of the pocket to redirect Maurice Ways for a 20-yard catch. Otherwise, it was a pretty ho-hum day for a Michigan QB against an overmatched opponent.

Hit the jump for more takeaways from Saturday’s blowout of Hawaii.

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Poll results: Who will lead Michigan in rushing for 2016?

De’Veon Smith

I asked a pretty simple question a couple weeks ago: Who will lead the 2016 Wolverines in rushing? Here were your responses:

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Mini-preview: Michigan vs. Hawaii

Apologies for the shortened preview, but finishing the 2016 Season Countdown, the 2016 season predictions, etc. consumed my time this week.

TIME: 12:00 p.m. EST
TV: ESPN

LAST TIME THEY PLAYED:

Michigan beat Hawaii by a score of 48-17 in 1998, the year after the Wolverines won the national championship. Anthony Thomas ran for 183 yards and 4 touchdowns, and Tom Brady went 9/10 with 2 touchdown passes to Tai Streets.

PREDICTIONS

• Wilton Speight starts at QB
• De’Veon Smith scores the first touchdown and gains 80 yards on the ground
• Eddie McDoom scores his first career touchdown
• Dymonte Thomas makes his first career interception
• Michigan 42, Hawaii 7

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2016 Season Countdown List

Back on May 19, I started the countdown with a post about freshman defensive tackle Michael Dwumfour as the #97 most important player on Michigan’s roster. Every day (okay, most days) since then, there has been a profile of every noteworthy Michigan player. It’s a grueling process sometimes, and now that football season has started for me, sometimes I’m working 15 or 16 hour days before coming home to write a post or two. But I do it because it’s fun, so thank you for reading and arguing over the last few months.

Here’s the 2016 season countdown list (I don’t have time to include all the links, but a quick Google search will find any particular players’ profiles you want to find):

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2016 Season Countdown: #1 Jourdan Lewis

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Jourdan Lewis (image via SB Nation)

Name: Jourdan Lewis
Height: 5’11”
Weight: 186 lbs.
High school: Detroit (MI) Cass Tech
Position: Cornerback
Class: Senior
Jersey number: #26
Last year: I ranked Lewis #5 and said he would be a starting cornerback with 50 tackles, 3 interceptions, and 8 pass breakups (LINK). He started every game and ended with 52 tackles, 3.5 tackles for loss, 1 sack, 2 interceptions (1 TD), 1 forced fumble, and 18 pass breakups; he also returned 15 kickoffs for 378 yards (25.2 yards/return).

Lewis was a bona fide star in 2015, perhaps the best player in the country at his position. And he might even be underrated, even though he was an All-American. Perhaps the biggest highlight was when he wrested what appeared to be a reception away from a Northwestern receiver, somehow stayed inbounds, and raced down the sideline for a 37-yard touchdown. Behind De’Veon Smith’s 60-yard touchdown against BYU and the final play against Michigan State, it was the biggest “WTF just happened?” moment of the year. Just a week earlier, he had made a one-handed snag of a crossing route to wow the crowd at Maryland. And the week after the Northwestern game, he went toe-to-toe with Michigan State’s Aaron Burbridge and ended the game with 7 tackles and a career-high 6 pass breakups in that one game. It was a three-game stretch of a ridiculously high level of play.

Hit the jump for more on Lewis.

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