Tag: Justice Haynes

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.

Hit the jump for more.

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 63, Central Michigan 3

Michigan is really good. No disrespect to CMU, but that was an a** kicking. Michigan dominated them physically, and that happened minus the two starting offensive guards and a potential starting left tackle in Andrew Babalola. Michigan averaged 7.7 yards per play, including 6.9 yards per rushing attempt and 9.4 yards per passing attempt. Michigan had seven players with a rush of 10+ yards, including two wide receivers in Andrew Marsh and Anthony Simpson.

Or Central Michigan isn’t good. One thing I have noticed over the years is that the weaker opponents usually have at least one guy who’s dangerous, whether it’s a tough running back who’s difficult to bring down or a speedy slot receiver or maybe a quick quarterback. That’s not the case with Central Michigan. I didn’t see anyone who made me nervous, and they couldn’t threaten the Wolverines. Defensively, they might play with enough discipline to get some wins this season, but they don’t have playmakers on offense.

Hit the jump for more.

10 Longest Plays vs. Oklahoma

I posted the other day about the lone prior matchup against Oklahoma (LINK), but now I have another game’s worth of plays to include:

1. Justice Haynes 75-yard touchdown run (2025)
2. Bryce Underwood 44-yard pass to Donaven McCulley (2025)
3. Bryce Underwood 38-yard pass to Donaven McCulley (2025)
4. Rob Lytle 25-yard kickoff return (1975)
5. Bryce Underwood 25-yard pass to Channing Goodwin (2025)
6. Gordie Bell 20-yard kickoff return (1975)
7. Andrew Marsh 20-yard kickoff return (2025)
8. Bryce Underwood 19-yard pass to Semaj Morgan (2025)
9. Rick Leach 17-yard pass to Gordie Bell (1975)
10. Rick Leach 16-yard run (1975)
11. Rick Leach 16-yard pass to Keith Johnson (1975)

Here’s a look at Haynes’s 75-yard touchdown run to open the second half:

Holy sh*t Justice Haynes is fast as hell. pic.twitter.com/oKBSRYxkc7

— College Football Report (@CFBRep) September 7, 2025

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.

Hit the jump for more.