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The Wolverine Podcast

Five Takeaways From Michigan Football's 31-6 Win Over Bowling Green

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🗓️ 17 September 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

TheWolverine.com's Clayton Sayfie breaks down five takeaways from Michigan Wolverines football's 31-6 win over Bowling Green. Sayfie discusses J.J McCarthy's struggles, the run game improvement, the defense taking matters into its own hands in the third quarter, offensive line tweaks and why there's no reason to panic.

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0:00.0

What is going on, Michigan fans? It's Clayton Safey with the Wolverine.com here with five takeaways from the Wolverines' 31 to 6 win over Bowling Green Saturday night in the 14th ever night game in Michigan Stadium history. The new lights.

0:15.2

You had the scoreboards lit up at night for the first time. So it was a pretty cool environment at the big house on

0:21.6

Saturday night. We'll get into Michigan's game. Make sure to like this video on YouTube.

0:26.1

If you're excited that Jim Harbaugh is back as your head coach this week against Rutgers to kick off

0:31.6

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0:36.5

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0:42.1

month. All right, let's get into it. Takeaway number one. J.J. McCarthy was pretty sloppy in this game

0:48.8

and that comes on the heels of two fantastic outings to start the season. Things went really smooth for him the first couple games, but he faced some

0:56.9

adversity here.

0:58.4

Tonight, the Michigan offense starts out with four runs on their first drive.

1:02.4

They score a touchdown.

1:03.7

We'll get into the run game in just a little bit, but second possession, they get

1:06.8

all the way down to the goal line and a spacing issue.

1:10.1

J.J. McCarthy throws his first interception

1:12.8

of the night it looked like a j barner didn't quite run his route exactly where he was supposed to be

1:18.8

his defenders able to come off of his guy and then j jay going for roman wilson and it gets intercepted

1:24.9

so sharon more called that a spacing issue the second second one, trying to go Cornelius Johnson a little bit deeper on a post route, and it just wasn't there. He just wasn't open. It was a bad read. He kind of underthrew it as well. Cornelius didn't really have a chance to come back and try to break that ball up. And then the third one, he's trying to throw the ball out of bounds after getting flushed from the pocket and evading the pass rush. And he just doesn't have enough oomf on it and it gets intercepted. And JJ said next time he's throwing that thing into the 300 level. But you definitely need to do that. It's a lesson that needs to be learned. and he said it's something he's done in practice a little bit early on in the season.

2:06.3

But, you know, it's easier to learn that lesson, I think, in games.

2:10.9

He also had a couple other misses.

2:12.2

He could have hit Tyler Morris before the half on a deep ball.

2:14.9

He was wide open, didn't put enough air under it.

2:17.0

And then kind of missed that throw. Even his touchdown to Cornelius Johnson. before the half on a deep ball. He was wide open, didn't put enough air under it, and then

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