Michigan Monday: Recreation 7 vs. Penn State

Recreation Notes Nuggets

• Michigan is 6-0 in back-to-back seasons for the primary time since 1976-77. It is the third time beneath head coach Jim Harbaugh that the Wolverines have began with a 6-0 mark to start the season (2016, ’21).

• U-M is scoring 43.0 factors per sport and permitting 11.3 factors in opposition to, on common. The one groups with top-10 rankings in scoring offense and scoring protection are Alabama (sixth, offense; sixth, protection) and Michigan (seventh, offense; fifth, protection).

• The one groups with a mean scoring differential above 30 factors are Ohio State (+33.2), Alabama (+31.8), and Michigan (+31.7). Penn State ranks Eleventh nationally (third within the Huge Ten) on this class at +19.6.

• Michigan’s offense is among the many nation’s greatest within the following areas: crimson zone offense (90.9 %, twenty fifth), speeding offense (212.3 yards per sport, twentieth), complete first downs (146, sixteenth), and tackles for loss allowed (4 per sport, sixteenth).

• The protection has a top-25 rank in first downs (93, twenty second), crimson zone protection (18.3 % success allowed, twentieth), cross protection (165.3 yards per sport, Eleventh), staff sacks (3.67 per sport) and complete protection (247.0 yards per sport; each fifth).

• U-M has scored a landing on its opening possession in 5 of six video games this season, together with two straight at Iowa and at Indiana. U-M is outscoring its opponents by a cumulative tally of 143 to 23 within the first half with solely two touchdowns allowed.

• Michigan’s +190 scoring differential trails solely Alabama (+191) and Ohio State (+199). That determine ranks as U-M’s greatest mark by way of 5 weeks because the 1976 season (+183) and the third-best mark within the final century of Michigan Soccer (1925, +180). Michigan is one in all three groups within the nation with a mean margin of victory above 30 factors (Alabama, +37.4; Ohio State, +34.0; U-M, +33.8).

• The one groups in program historical past with a greater differential by way of six weeks are the 2016 (+238), 1976 (+214), and 1971 (+195) groups (since 1905).

• Blake Corum has precisely 500 speeding yards and 4 touchdowns throughout three Huge Ten video games to this point, averaging 5.95 yards per carry in convention play. Throughout his final 11 Huge Ten video games (courting to 2021), Corum has totaled 1,032 yards and eight touchdowns on 5.95 yards per carry.

• Corum ranks third within the nation in speeding yards (735), twenty sixth in yards per carry (6.23), and second in complete touchdowns (11). He additionally leads the nation in first downs (46).

• PFFCollege credit Corum with 25 missed tackles pressured on 118 carries this season. He additionally has 19 runs of 10-plus yards (t-fourth-most), simply three fewer than his 2021 complete (22), which got here on 144 rushes. 

• To this point this season, the offensive line has paved the best way to a mean of 5.67 yards per sack-adjusted carry, and 6.9 yards per play total.

• The U-M offensive line has permitted 24 adverse performs on an excellent 400 offensive snaps (4 per sport), or on 6.0 % of all offensive snaps. When the road does permit a sack, it comes on a mean of 5.65 seconds to throw, second-most amongst these with 120-plus dropbacks.

• Opponents have hurried or sacked a U-M passer 12 instances throughout 24 quarters of play. U-M ballcarriers have misplaced simply 51 yards on 238 rush makes an attempt (doesn’t embrace sacks).

• J.J. McCarthy’s completion proportion stays the very best within the nation amongst certified passers at 78.3 % (94-of-120) and he is recent off his first profession 300-yard passing sport (304 at Indiana). Six of his 9 passing touchdowns have come in opposition to the blitz.

• McCarthy has accounted for 10 touchdowns total with a 7.5 landing proportion by way of the air. His season-long yards-per-attempt determine (9.6) ranks eighth within the nation. He additionally ranks fifth in cross effectivity (182.1) and has an NFL passer ranking of 128.2 this season (fifth).

• When McCarthy begins and finishes a Michigan drive, U-M has produced 23 touchdowns and 6 subject targets on 46 possessions, translating to factors on 63 % of drives. In 5 begins, the staff has scored in 23 of 26 crimson zone journeys (88.5 %) with 20 touchdowns.

• Ronnie Bell leads all cross catchers in catches (30) and yards (390), whereas Roman Wilson and Cornelius Johnson are tied for the lead in receiving touchdowns (three). Wilson is the chief in yards per catch (18.7) amongst these with a number of catches. Six totally different gamers have a minimum of one landing catch.

• Wilson (3.86 yards per route run) and Bell (2.85) are among the many Huge Ten’s most effective pass-catchers. Wilson is fourth within the nation amongst these with 18-plus targets (three per sport). Luke Schoonmaker (2.41) is the No. 3-ranked tight finish within the league in that metric.

• Mike Morris (7.0) leads the group in TFLs and sacks (5.0). His 5 sacks are second-most within the Huge Ten, a half-sack shy off the lead. That manufacturing has come on 111 cross rush snaps for Morris; the convention chief has 168.

• Amongst defenders with a minimum of 45 cross rush snaps, Morris leads the Huge Ten and ranks fifth within the nation in PFFCollege’s PRP (cross rush productiveness) grade. Within the class of ‘complete pressures’, outlined by sacks, hits, and hurries mixed, he ranks fourth within the Huge Ten (22).

• Mike Sainristil has been one of many Huge Ten’s greatest slot protection gamers, permitting one reception very 13.6 snaps in protection in that a part of the sphere.

• Amongst punters with a minimum of one punt per sport (six), Brad Robbins‘ 4.38-second cling time is the very best within the nation, in keeping with PFFCollege. He’s the one punter within the nation above 4.3 seconds. The typical amongst Huge Ten punters who meet the identical {qualifications} is 3.91 seconds.

• With Robbins directing the unit, no opponent has registered a punt return of 10-plus yards since U-M performed Ohio State within the 2017 season (102 punts). To this point this yr, return makes an attempt acquire 3.4 yards on common.

• Eleven (13) of Robbins’ 18 punts have been downed, truthful caught, or rolled out of bounds. The opposite 5 have been returned for a mixed complete of 17 yards. U-M is No. 3 within the nation in internet punting (45.0 yards per try). The slim distinction between Robbins’ yards per punt (46.2) and internet yards per punt has lengthy been the veteran’s calling card.

• Kicker Jake Moody has additionally cracked the highest 10 in profession scoring at U-M with 265 factors (seventh). Subsequent up on the listing: Remy Hamilton (280 profession factors).

• PFF ranks Michigan because the No. 1 staff within the nation in tackling; third in total staff rating; fifth in run protection; sixth in complete protection, complete offense and speeding; seventh in cross protection; tied-Eleventh in particular groups and fifteenth in receiving. The service additionally offers U-M a top-25 rank in run blocking and cross rush.

• Kraig Correll and Nikhai Hill-Inexperienced are the 2 Wolverines from the state of Pennsylvania.