Michigan comes to College Park, Maryland, and comes away with a 387 victory.

Special teams played a big part with an opening kickoff return for a touchdown.

It's set the tone for Michigan.

We'll dive into that next on In the Trenches.

Let's go in the trenches with John Jansen.

The former Wolverines captain in Michigan Sports Hall of Famer will take you inside the locker room with players and coaches.

We'll be able to hit a few of our key plays that really get the run game going and we started opening up the game a little bit.

We just wanted to get after the quarterback and then put ourselves in positions where all we had to do is run to the ball and tackle.

We had some good schemes in there today, including the fake, including the kickoff return.

Big day on special team.

Once again, here's John Jansen.

Still a lot to get to, and I want to talk to Brian Bush.

Brian, what did you think of the performance today?

Yeah, John, to me, the thing that stood out most of all, Michigan's defense. They overwhelmed the Maryland team that was trying to get the ball out quickly,

trying to cultivate some semblance of a run game, trying to stay in this game in any way,

shape, and form. But other than a few plays here and there, the Wolverines overwhelmed them.

And it started from the outset, not just defensively, you alluded to it. Giles Jackson,

a kickoff return for a touchdown,

11 seconds in at 7-0 Michigan. How big was that?

Well, anytime you take the field, and most times teams like to put their defense out there

because they like to set the tone. And when you get a play like that to start the game,

I think the last one that happened like that, if I'm remembering it right,

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