Michigan-New Mexico recap: Takeaways from the Wolverines' season-opening win
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🗓️ 3 September 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Zach Shaw and Steve Lorenz break down the Michigan football team's 34-17 win over New Mexico to open its 2025 season.
They open with a look at the Wolverines’ offense. They break down what they saw from Bryce Underwood in his collegiate debut, what it could mean for the rest of the season, as well as the significance of some key returning pass-catchers and offensive linemen stepping up. They also discuss Justice Haynes’ star-caliber Michigan debut at running back, and why that could arguably be a bigger deal than Underwood’s debut.
In the second half of the episode, they look at some key takeaways from the defensive side of the ball. They discuss why the box score might not be as pretty as expected, but why that may not matter much moving forward. They look at New Mexico’s success on screen plays and in play-action, but also Michigan’s palpable speed and depth on defense.
They also discuss the Wolverines’ special teams blunders, Jaishawn Barham’s suspension, penalties and other observations from the season-opening win.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Wolverine 24-7 podcast, your audio source for all things, |
| 0:04.5 | Michigan football, basketball, and recruiting. I'm your host, Zach Shaw. Steve Lorenz is here with me. |
| 0:09.1 | This is our recap episode for the Michigan football team's 34 to 17 win over New Mexico. |
| 0:16.0 | If you are new to our podcast, the general format is the first half of the episode. |
| 0:20.5 | We talk about what we saw and what it means from the offensive side of the ball. |
| 0:24.5 | Second half, we look at the defensive side of the ball, what we saw, what it means. We'll have a separate Oklahoma preview episode, but a lot of our narrative is going to be this worked in this game. |
| 0:37.2 | Can it work the next week or this didn't work? |
| 0:39.7 | Can they fix it by next week? So yeah, Michigan won 3417. They led the entire way. They did not |
| 0:46.5 | cover the spread. I think the spread was like 35 and they did not meet our score predictions. |
| 0:50.9 | So we'll talk about what worked and what didn't. But Steve, it'd be really |
| 0:55.0 | silly if we didn't start with Bryce Underwood in the passing game. Obviously, that's what all |
| 0:59.8 | the focus was on ahead of the game is, you know, what does this freshman quarterback look like? |
| 1:05.8 | First year offensive coordinator, at least at Michigan and Chip Lindsay. You know, we'll talk about Justice Haynes. |
| 1:11.7 | He was also making his Michigan debut. |
| 1:14.0 | But yeah, Bryce Underwood, he went 21 for 31, 251 yards, one touchdown. |
| 1:20.0 | I think a lot of people, maybe who didn't watch the spring game or hadn't seen his |
| 1:23.6 | highlights, I think the common thing I heard is obviously the velocity was there. |
| 1:28.8 | Felt like there was touch, especially on a couple of those sideline throws to get it over the |
| 1:32.9 | defender. And then just like the quick release and the ease of the throws, you know, he could |
| 1:38.2 | throw it 25 yards downfield, you know, on the run. And it did look like he had to like do like |
| 1:43.9 | a crow hop or anything for it. So yeah, I think he brought, I mean, it was just very palpable how, how improved the potential this passing game is, but also right away. I mean, they were already completing passes that, you know, you look back at last season. That was just not a factor, not a piece of their offense. And even the easier |
| 2:01.8 | throws, the screenplays, you know, getting the ball there half a second quicker, that could be the |
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