Michigan-Central Michigan recap: What the Wolverines' 63-3 win means for the rest of the season
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🗓️ 13 September 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Zach Shaw and Steve Lorenz break down the Michigan football team's dominant 63-3 win over Central Michigan, and what the win means moving forward for the Wolverines.
They open with a look at Michigan's offense, as they discuss Bryce Underwood, the Wolverines' vertical passing game, their dominant run game, Underwood's involvement in the run game and other key takeaways from the offensive side of the ball.
In the second half of the episode, they look at Michigan's defensive performance, including a strong start, Jaishawn Barham's potential position change, strong defensive back play, young standouts and more. They also look at larger, overall takeaways from the game, and what it means for Michigan's road trip to Nebraska next week.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Wolverine 24-7 podcast, your audio source for all things, |
| 0:04.1 | Michigan football, basketball, and recruiting. I'm your old Zach Shaw. Steve Lorenz is here with me. |
| 0:08.0 | This is the recap episode of Michigan's 63 to 3 win over Central Michigan. |
| 0:13.5 | We both predicted blowout wins. That was a bigger blowout win than we predicted, but they did |
| 0:19.0 | check a lot of the boxes that we said. You know, we talked about what they needed to show offensively and defensively for |
| 0:24.3 | it to be considered a quote unquote successful weekend. And they did pretty much all of them. |
| 0:29.0 | And then they added a few things. So yeah, I think this is a huge confidence building win for |
| 0:33.2 | the Wolverines. I think this sets them up nicely to go into their next road trip at Nebraska, |
| 0:40.5 | not just with more confidence, but maybe with more certainty of what plays work and what it's |
| 0:46.1 | supposed to look like in games against other teams, you know, stuff that works in practice. |
| 0:50.9 | You got to see it in games. |
| 0:53.1 | They got the ground game going. I felt like |
| 0:55.5 | they actually got the past game going when they needed to. I mean, they didn't, I don't know |
| 0:59.3 | how many passes they threw in the second half, but it wasn't very many. And then, you know, |
| 1:03.7 | defensively, just really other than like one drive, just an absolute clinic for the Wolverine. |
| 1:08.9 | So we'll talk about what we saw on both sides of the ball and what it means moving forward. |
| 1:13.2 | And Steve, I think we start most of these recap episodes with what we saw in the passing game. |
| 1:19.4 | You know, the stats would suggest, obviously, Michigan ran the ball a lot and that was what was more successful. |
| 1:24.7 | But I really think they figured some things out with how to make Bryce Underwood really comfortable in the past game. |
| 1:32.8 | And some of that is him going and taking off for some runs. |
| 1:36.0 | He had nine carries, 114 yards and two rushing touchdowns. |
| 1:39.6 | But you also saw Samaj Morgan, I thought, had a really nice game. |
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