Michigan-Northwestern recap: The good, bad and ugly from the Wolverines' win at Wrigley
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🗓️ 19 November 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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In this episode, Zach Shaw and Alejandro Zuniga break down the Michigan football team's 24-22 win over Northwestern at Wrigley Field, and both the good and bad the Wolverines showed in the win.
They open the episode with a look at the offense. They discuss Michigan's down-to-down success — including 496 yards of offense, 25 first downs and nine drives into Northwestern territory — but also the turnovers, missed field goals and other hiccups that made the game so close. They discuss the passing game's progress, the running back injury situation and Andrew Marsh's exceptional game.
In the second half of the episode, they look at Michigan's defense. They deliberate on the room's successes, but also why the lack of sacks and big plays is concerning. They also discuss some soft spots in coverage, the special teams unit's continued struggles and how to look at Michigan at 8-2 on the season.
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| 0:29.9 | Hello everybody. Welcome to the Wolverine 24-7 podcast, your audio source for all things, Michigan |
| 0:34.4 | football, basketball, and recruiting. I'm your host, Zach Shaw. Alejandro Zunegas here with me. |
| 0:38.8 | This is our Michigan Northwestern recap. |
| 0:42.7 | There was some back and forth. |
| 0:44.5 | There's plenty of concerns, I'm sure, from Michigan fans. |
| 0:48.1 | But the Wolverines did win their fourth straight game. |
| 0:51.1 | They moved to 8 and 2. |
| 0:52.0 | They beat Northwestern at Wrigley Field |
| 0:55.0 | 2422 on a last second field goal. Lots to unpack. I mean, you know, in some ways, it actually |
| 1:00.6 | was a step forward for Michigan, I would argue, in some ways, I was probably one of their more |
| 1:04.9 | concerning games of the entire season. And in some ways, it was kind of a similar trend to what |
| 1:10.6 | we've seen these past few weeks. |
| 1:12.8 | So we'll dive into it. We'll start with the offensive side, defensive side, and then we'll |
| 1:16.3 | kind of zoom out, do some big picture takeaways with two regular season games remaining. |
| 1:22.0 | Byandra, starting with the offense, there's really two ways to look at it. On one hand, |
| 1:27.1 | the offense committed four |
| 1:29.1 | turnovers, and there were five overall because there was a fumbled punt return, but four |
| 1:33.0 | turnovers from the offense, they only scored 24 points. They missed two field goals. They had |
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