Michigan-Purdue recap: Strengths and concern points from the Wolverines' narrow win over Boilermakers

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🗓️ 4 November 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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In this episode, Zach Shaw and Alejandro Zuniga discuss the good and bad for the Michigan football team coming out of its uneven 21-16 win over Purdue.

They open with a look at the offensive side of the ball, discussing Justice Haynes' surgery, Jordan Marshall's star emergence, the multi-faceted issues plaguing Michigan's passing offense, and the top of the Wolverines' offensive bye week to-do list.

In the second half of the episode, they look at Michigan's defense and special teams in the win. They discuss some minor struggle points in coverage and the pass-rush, some serious issues on special teams, what it means for the coming weeks and more bye-week to-do list items in their eyes.

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0:00.0	Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Wolverine 24-7 podcast, your audio source for all things, Michigan football, basketball, and recruiting.
0:06.7	I'm your host, Zach Shaw. Alejandro Zinigas here with me. This is the Michigan-Purdue recap episode where we'll discuss the Wolverines 21-16 win over the boilermakers.
0:18.0	On one hand, they move to seven and two, and five and one in the Big Ten. They enter a biweek now. And as Sharon Moore said after the game, all of their goals, except maybe the Big Ten, I think they need some help with the tiebreakers in the Big Ten race. But their main goal of making the college football playoff and beating Ohio State. You know, those are, it's still in front of them.
0:39.1	So that's one way to look at it.
0:41.1	But this was very much a clunky game for the Wolverines, especially on offense and on special teams.
0:48.6	I mean, defense, I don't know.
0:50.6	I didn't.
0:51.8	They felt like they completed a lot of passes, but 16 points and what, 256 yards on 65 plays. I don't know. I didn't. They felt like they completed a lot of passes, but 16 points and what, 256 yards on 65 plays.
0:58.0	I don't, I don't know.
0:58.8	I think there's mixed reviews on defense, but offense, especially in the passing game and on special teams, definitely some room to improve.
1:07.4	And ultimately, this team, I think by the end of the game, they were down like six
1:12.1	regular starters to injury. And that's where we have to start because on Sunday afternoon,
1:17.4	it was, well, not announced by Michigan, but by the slate of national reporters who
1:23.3	clearly are plugged in that Justice Haynes is set to undergo surgery in his foot and will be
1:30.2	out for a little bit. Now, the timeline was not determined, but they play Ohio State in less
1:37.2	than four weeks. But the fact that they didn't say out for the season makes me curious about
1:42.2	what exactly that timeline might look like, but obviously a mid-season
1:46.3	foot surgery on a on your star running back, a guy who was leading the power four in rushing
1:52.5	yards per game, was also leading power four in terms of guys with enough carries in yards per
1:57.9	carry Haynes. Every game he played in fully this year,
2:02.0	he had at least 100 yards rushing and a touchdown.
2:05.9	Alejandro, we'll talk about Jordan Marshall,
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