Iowa holds on as Michigan loses second consecutive game
Michigan football coach Rich Rodriguez, sporting some pink as part of the Breast Cancer Awareness campaign, watches the Wolverines warm up before today's game.
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Fourth quarter Iowa 38, Michigan 28: Michael Meyer kicked a 30-yard field goal, with 2:53 left in the game to put Iowa up by 10 points.
Iowa 35, Michigan 28: Tate Forcier ran in from 3 yards out as Michigan scored on a six-play, 69-yard drive. The key play: A 31-yard lob from Forcier to Junior Hemmingway.
Iowa 35, Michigan 21: Junior Hemmingway, wide open along the sideline, scored on a 45-yard pass from Tate Forcier.
Iowa 35, Michigan 14: Derrell Johnson-Koulianos' third touchdown catch of the day came on a 19-yard play. It didn't take Iowa long to score after Michigan's touchdown - 60 yards in four plays.
Iowa 28, Michigan 14: Stephen Hopkins scored on a 2-yard run, the first rushing touchdown against Iowa this season. Michigan moved the ball 85 yards in 12 plays with Tate Forcier at quarterback.
Third quarter Iowa 28, Michigan 7: Adam Robinson scored his second touchdown of the day on an 11-yard run.
Second quarter Iowa 21, Michigan 7: Adam Robinson, who ran 15 yards on a third-and-14 play earlier in the drive, scored on a 4-yard run to cap a 48-yard, nine-play drive. Robinson has 77 yards rushing on 13 carries.
Iowa 14, Michigan 7: Derrell Johnson-Koulianos broke free for a 31-yard, over-the-shoulder touchdown pass from Ricky Stanzi.
First quarter Michigan 7, Iowa 7: Derrell Johnson-Koulianos scored on a 14-yard pass from Iowa quarterback Ricky Stanzi.
Michigan 7, Iowa 0: Michigan quarterback Denard Robinson hit Vincent Smith with an 8-yard touchdown pass. On Michigan's first offensive series, the Wolverines covered 75 yards in 13 plays and converted on a fourth-and-one play to keep the drive alive.
First drive: No. 14 Iowa opened today's game at Michigan Stadium on offense. Big cheers from the homecoming crowd at Michigan Stadium when the Hawkeyes were forced to go three-and-out. Michigan's offense opened its first series on its 25-yard line.
Pregame
It's quite a test for the Michigan football team.
Iowa, a veteran team that was 11-2 last year and features six seniors starting on its Big Ten-best defense, enters today's game (3:36 p.m., ABC) at Michigan Stadium with a 4-1 record, 1-0 in the conference.
On defense, Iowa allows just 10.2 points a game, the best in the nation. On offense, senior quarterback Rick Stanzi. He threw 15 interceptions and completed just 56.2 percent of his passes in 2009. This year, Stanzi is 82-of-121 passing for 1,226 yards, 10 touchdowns and just two interceptions. He's completed 67.8 percent of his passes and trails only Boise State's Kellen Moore and Auburn's Cameron Newton in passing efficiency.
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Michigan players out for today's game: Mike Jones (leg), Martavious Odoms (foot), Fitzgerald Toussaint (shoulder), Jared Van Slyke (clavicle), Mike Williams (head), Troy Woolfolk (ankle)
Weird stat of the day: Michigan leads the series 40-11-4 and is 27-6 at home against the Hawkeyes. But Iowa has a 5-3 record at Michigan Stadium on U-M’s homecoming.
Comments
miatamich
Sat, Oct 16, 2010 : 8:26 p.m.
Let's go to the run and shoot.
Sean T.
Sat, Oct 16, 2010 : 6:13 p.m.
BillMK, That so-called modren football did much of nothing until a pocket-passer came in and we used a proset. Then we came alive and played a little of Good Ole' Michigan Football. The modern football you speak of is a "one trick pony" and has done nothing but deflate the efforts of the program. Whether RR stays or not isn't up to me but if I were Dave Brandon, I'd be telling RR to used his pro-sets 60% more to get some wins and effective play. We made it a game when we went to a pro-set and brought in Forcier, go figure..... RR has the guns to give us a shot all along.
D21
Sat, Oct 16, 2010 : 6:11 p.m.
Nice try but not enough. Thanks Billy Martin and Mary Sue Coleman for RR. Ain't mad but it just didn't work out unless Michigan is secretly in negotiations with Big East. GO BLUE! Hire Ron English back as def coordinator and let him recruit & teach the players for the defense.
Jaxon5
Sat, Oct 16, 2010 : 5:58 p.m.
BillMK, Darn right. And if not NC contenders at that time, then 2 years after that, or 2 years after that, or 2 years after that, or 2 years after that...
Ian
Sat, Oct 16, 2010 : 5:57 p.m.
Please no more HOT PINK on uniforms. Look ridiculous and probably doesn't do much for testasterone levels. Sorry to be blunt.
BillMK
Sat, Oct 16, 2010 : 5:55 p.m.
"As far as a successor benefiting from RR's 3 year tenure, I'm not sure what legacy RR is leaving that would benefit the next coach. Explain?" A potentially first-rate offense suited for modern college football, a group of physically talented defensive backs who are gaining early-career experience, speed. This team will be an NC contender in two years.
Sallyxyz
Sat, Oct 16, 2010 : 5:22 p.m.
Hey everyone, there is a great game on CBS this afternoon, Arkansas and Auburn.
Sallyxyz
Sat, Oct 16, 2010 : 5:19 p.m.
I don't think there is much question that RR is finished this year. He's lucky they gave him 3 years, given his record. Yes, BillMK, it's about success, and in NCAA football, that's measured by winning games. As far as a successor benefiting from RR's 3 year tenure, I'm not sure what legacy RR is leaving that would benefit the next coach. Explain?
BillMK
Sat, Oct 16, 2010 : 4:56 p.m.
Irrespective of the outcome of this game, I say with much sadness that Michigan football needs a new coach and staff. I am not an RR-hater by any means, and I loath those who are they never gave him a chance, and their objections and grudges were based on prejudices and inconsequentialities. Neither am I convinced that Michigans misfortunes are entirely his fault. In addition, it is quite possible that replacing the staff may lead to a series of short tenures, as happened at Michigan State and Notre Dame. Nonetheless, the misfortunes and misadventures persist. A lack of concentration and play discipline, a secondary that is not only inexperienced but disinclined to tackle, the hiring of an inept defensive coordinator all these can be attributed to the coaching staff. A longstanding shortage of first-rate talent antedates this staff, and amplifies the effect of injuries. But whatever the problem, failure requires change. When one is recruited to a research faculty position at Michigan, one is typically given everything available and the expectation that one will be producing after three years or so. If one is unlucky though talented, if one does not fit in with existing personnel, if the grants just arent there, if one is a nice person all these may generate sympathy and even affection. But one must still produce. Conversely, if one is unsympathetic or simply not liked, but productive, he stays. The typical tenure review begins after five years, but the handwriting is usually on the wall by three. If one wants to be in Ann Arbor for the full seven years of an assistant professorship, one may be able to leave the job or lab one was recruited for, and do something less desirable for a while. And tenure itself, at least in the medical center, guarantees a title but not necessarily a budget or a lab. Too bad RR could not be the offensive coordinator. He has moved the program in the right direction. If dismissed, and it would be unfair to him that his successor should benefit from his efforts, as would the whole program. But this is not about fairness, it is about success.
Jon Saalberg
Sat, Oct 16, 2010 : 4:53 p.m.
I think RR isn't going to get that fourth year. This game is clearly showing that he cannot lead UM to victory in any game that counts, whether it be MSU, OSU, or now, apparently, even IU. He has turned UM into a lower tier Big Ten team, and that is very sad.
mr sparty
Sat, Oct 16, 2010 : 4:40 p.m.
Sure I want to bring Rich Rod back for another season.....
Sallyxyz
Sat, Oct 16, 2010 : 4:16 p.m.
dowel: I had the same question. We can pretty much forget about beating Wisconsin and OSU, so that leaves Illinois and Purdue. Would that be your prediction, Mitch?
dowel
Sat, Oct 16, 2010 : 4:09 p.m.
Mitch. Just curious who is it you think they're going to beat for those 2 more wins?
scooter dog
Sat, Oct 16, 2010 : 4:06 p.m.
Our local high school jr varsity has more defence than michigan does.
dowel
Sat, Oct 16, 2010 : 4:04 p.m.
Hapless on defense. One trick pony offense. What can you say? This game is over.
Sallyxyz
Sat, Oct 16, 2010 : 3:28 p.m.
I stand by my predictions: Michigan goes 5 and 7 on the season.
Terry Calhoun
Sat, Oct 16, 2010 : 2:46 p.m.
The headline says "Game Underway as Unbeaten Michigan Takes on Iowa"... I don't follow football much, but I could have sworn that I heard that Michigan State beat Michigan just last weekend. MSU fans even had a great, technicolor sunset to watch as they headed home. Did I just live through a week of alternative reality? Headlines are SO hard to proof :)
AloeKitty
Sat, Oct 16, 2010 : 2:44 p.m.
Um, yeah... that's the first thing I noticed too... Where were you last weekend?
David
Sat, Oct 16, 2010 : 2:42 p.m.
Unbeaten Michigan?