Michigan offensive breakdown with Al Borges (week 11) - Northwestern recap; Maryland preview
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🗓️ 20 November 2025
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
In this week's episode, Al Borges and Sam Webb discussed Michigan's offensive performance in its 24-22 victory over Northwestern, highlighting Bryce Underwood's rollercoaster-like performance. They detailed Underwood's improved dropback passing to start the game, and both the prevalence and efficacy of RPOs. The conversation then turned to the costly turnovers and their causes . There was ample discussion of Underwood's reaction to mistakes and his inability to shake them off during a portion of the game. They then highlighted the tremendous turn by freshman wideout Andrew Marsh and his game-saving catch. Borges praised Chip Lindsey's game plan and in-game adjustments that helped get Underwood back on track. He expressed concern about the running back situation, but the conversation ended on an optimistic note about the team's growth and resilience, and look ahead to the matchup with Maryland.
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| 0:00.0 | And welcome, folks, to another edition of the Michigan Football Breakdown, |
| 0:06.0 | focused on the offense with that man. |
| 0:08.8 | They call Al gorgeous, gorgeous. |
| 0:13.7 | He is in the house. |
| 0:15.5 | He was nervous. |
| 0:16.7 | Al was nervous about Northwestern turns out. |
| 0:19.0 | I told you, you guys all wanted me to predict some outlandish score. |
| 0:23.3 | And I got experience with these guys. |
| 0:26.8 | I know how they play against Michigan. |
| 0:29.7 | I knew this was going to be closer than you want. |
| 0:32.6 | Closer than it should have been, that's for sure. |
| 0:35.2 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 0:35.9 | Turns out, you know, Al, you know a little something about something. How much, but football, yeah, football. I mean, we used to dedicate, you know, 50-something odd years of your life to it, you ought to, you know, even through osmosis pick something up, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. You did this who's going to be a close game. turned be a close game out, boy, just as... Yeah, but Sam, it really shouldn't have been. It really shouldn't have been. I mean, five turnovers, obviously. I mean, anybody knows about that. We're going to talk about that a little bit. But they had 496 yards to the 245 yards. That's why they won. |
| 1:11.5 | You said, well, they have five turnils, but they got completely outplayed. |
| 1:14.2 | Northwestern statistically. |
| 1:15.8 | They had 280 passing yards, which is really encouraging because, you know, we've been |
| 1:20.0 | talking about that every week, how that part of their game has to improve. |
| 1:23.7 | It did drastically. |
| 1:26.0 | 216 rushing yards. |
| 1:27.3 | That's fabulous balance. |
| 1:29.5 | Regardless of what Craig Ross says, they outpossessed him 33 minutes to 3306 to 2654. |
| 1:37.2 | And yes, that did have something to do with why they won. |
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