Michigan’s Chesson has 7 TDs in team’s 3-game winning streak

Chesson was the Big Ten’s co-Offensive Player of the Week, which was announced Monday, sharing the honor with MI quarterback Jake Rudock.

UM gave up 307 yards rushing in a 48-41, two-overtime win Saturday at Indiana.

To start off the second half, a minute and a half into the third quarter, IN junior wide receiver Mitchell Paige returned Michigan’s first punt of the second half 51 yards for a touchdown to draw to within a one point deficit at 24-23. The Hoosiers game tonight is actually an on-campus game for the 2015 Maui Invitational, with the Hoosiers set to eventually head to Maui later this month. Again. “Coach Wilson keeps saying we’re knocking at the door”, linebacker Tegray Scales said, “but it’s about time we knock it down”. Better yet, it’s coming at the ideal time as MI preps for Penn State and Ohio State to close out the regular season. “If you lost you had to go to the side and pick a new team”. What will it take to finally … finally … break through?

MI receiver Jehu Chesson is not what one might call a “stats guy”. “We need to have a good week”. We’ve got a bounce in our step. The bright spot is that IU can watch film of two teams that have had success against this defense.

Jordan Howard put IN in position for a signature victory. The only negative is that the team just fired OC Pep Hamilton who also coached under Harbaugh at Stanford, but I think the coach can look past that.

Down 16-20 in the closing seconds, Harbaugh heaved a hail mary pass from the Pittsburgh 29-yard line, but Bailey was unable to secure the catch as the football hit the end zone turf in what’s now known as one of the most deflating plays in Colts franchise history. “We have to make a play”. And if they don’t, is there a change in the making?

“Stop. Just stop yourself”, Harbaugh said. Both Purdue and Maryland are teams that are struggling at best. Howard couldn’t wait for this moment. 7 MI State and then-No. “I thought that was going to be the one”. It wasn’t enough. It never is. And can UAB transfer Jordan Howard be effective against the top-ranked MI run defense, just like he was against Iowa’s very good run defense? Then the Hoosiers returned to submission form and Rudock regained his rhythm. Rudock was 33 of 46 for 440 yards with a school-record six TD passes against the Hoosiers.

NOTE: Harbaugh said that running back Derrick Green didn’t travel because “he’s working through something that he got last game”. “He just does not flinch. It does not matter what the situation is”. He’s got ice water in his veins. For a team that’s trying to find a way to turn around a program, that’s huge.

It was the Cowboys’ fifth win in five road games after trailing in the second half. It won’t happen, of course. The Terps have turned the ball over 35 times this season, and their minus-19 figure in the turnover margin is second only to Hawaii’s minus-21 for the worst in the nation. Still, a bowl game, any bowl game, would be progress.