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Michigan’s 10 Longest Plays vs. Northwestern

Here’s a look at the top ten longest plays over the years against the Northwestern Wildcats.

1. Jehu Chesson 96-yard kickoff return touchdown (2015)
2. Jamie Morris 80-yard kickoff return (1984)
3. Anthony Carter 78-yard punt return touchdown (1979)
4. Tyrone Wheatley 74-yard touchdown run (1991)
5. Steve Breaston 67-yard punt return touchdown (2004)
6. Elvis Grbac 65-yard pass to Amani Toomer (1992)
7. Elvis Grbac 64-yard touchdown pass to Desmond Howard (1991)
8. Jordan Marshall 63-yard kickoff return (2024)
9. Stan Edwards 62-yard kickoff return (1977)
10. Lawrence Ricks 60-yard touchdown run (1981)
11. Anthony Thomas 60-yard touchdown run (1999)
12. John Kolesar 60-yard punt return (1988)

Hit the jump to see video of the top three plays.

Michigan 31, Michigan State 20

Hail to the Victors! A win is a win, especially in a rivalry like Michigan vs. Michigan State. The better team usually wins, but I don’t really get caught up in whether a win or loss is a close one when it comes to Michigan State and Ohio State. Michigan has continued bragging rights, and the streak is at four straight games. There was an absolutely blowout win in there, and this was a relatively comfortable two-score victory. Do I think Michigan is good enough to have won by more? Yes. Do I care? No.

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Michigan 24, Washington 7

NOTE: Again, I apologize for the inconsistent posting schedule lately. Too many things going on right now. I’ve started preview posts the past two weeks and just haven’t been able to finish.

Bryce Underwood is a dude. The talent of Bryce Underwood is off the charts. Michigan has never seen anything like him on their roster. The closest is Drew Henson or Devin Gardner, but Underwood is a twitchier athlete than Henson and a better thrower than Gardner. Underwood completed 21/27 passes for 230 yards, 2 touchdowns, and 0 interceptions, and he looked to be in control the entire game. There were a few drops, but I don’t love taking away the drops and making pronouncements about what his completion percentage should be, because then you’re not comparing apples to apples when it comes to other quarterbacks or general expectations. It’s sufficient enough to describe his accuracy by saying he completed 21/27 passes.

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Michigan’s 10 Longest Plays vs. Nebraska

Michigan has now played Nebraska eleven times throughout history and has a 7-4 record against the Cornhuskers. They first played in 1962, but then did not play again until the Fiesta Bowl at the end of the 1985 season. Nebraska joined the Big Ten in 2011. Jim Harbaugh went 4-0 against the ‘Huskers.

1. Justice Haynes 75-yard TD run (2025)
2. Steve Breaston 69-yard kickoff return (2005)
3. Donovan Peoples-Jones 60-yard punt return TD (2018)
4. Dylan McCaffrey 56-yard TD pass to Ronnie Bell (2018)
5. Jordan Marshall 54-yard TD run (2025)
6. Hassan Haskins 50-yard run (2021)
7. Cade McNamara 48-yard pass to Mike Sainristil (2021)
8. Denard Robinson 46-yard pass to Roy Roundtree (2011)
9. Karan Higdon 46-yard TD run (2018)
10. Karan Higdon 44-yard TD run (2018)

Hit the jump for videos of Haynes, Peoples-Jones, McCaffrey-to-Bell, Marshall, and Haskins.

Michigan 34, New Mexico 17

The team the team the team. I’m not going to start off talking about He Who Shall Not Be Named in the First Paragraph because I want to take a more holistic look at Michigan’s 2025 team. But this looks like a complete team. I don’t think it’s a championship team, but it’s a complete team in that there are no glaring weaknesses or players who are obviously overmatched. Now some might say “Meh, it’s New Mexico and they were 5-7 last year and lost their coach and brought in a bunch of new players,” but it’s a team that had a mindset of running the ball last year (#2 in the country in 2024) and it’s one that seems to have taken on the attitude of its coach. I heard good things about Jason Eck a few years ago on the coaching clinic circuit, and the team played with some swagger, which you have to do coming into Michigan Stadium as a giant underdog. Michigan looks like a pro team in the sense that there are no easy days against pro teams. If you have an injury on your 53-man roster in the NFL, you bring in another guy who looks like a pro, because he’s been a backup or he’s a veteran who played for ten years but maybe didn’t have the right contract situation. I mentioned before that this is the deepest Michigan team I’ve seen (perhaps not the best, but the deepest), and I think that showed on Saturday night.

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