Things you might not have known about Michigan football’s Big Ten Championship win

INDIANAPOLIS– Michigan football pitched its second shutout of the year, this time in the Big Ten Championship Game against No. 16 Iowa. The Wolverines stymied the already abysmal Hawkeye offense while struggling to put together drives against the stingy Iowa defense.

Still. the maize and blue prevailed, 26-0, to win their third straight Big Ten Championship in as many years.

If you were at the game or watched it on TV, you may know a lot about what happened, but certainly not the whole story. That’s where the Michigan Athletic Department has us covered with more facts and stats and trivia that you might not have known!

Michigan’s league-leading 45th Big Ten Title also marks the first time in program history with three consecutive outright Big Ten Championships.

The last stretch with three consecutive Big Ten titles for the Wolverines was 1988-92, when four-of-five Big Ten titles belonged to U-M outright (1988, ’89, ’91, ’92).

U-M is 3-0 in Big Ten Championship Games under head coach Jim Harbaugh, and 2-0 against the Hawkeyes. In the all-time series (63 games), U-M leads Iowa 45-14-4.

Michigan has achieved its second consecutive 13-0 season and second ever 13-win season.

The Wolverines have been victorious in 25 straight Big Ten games dating to 2021, the longest streak in program history and the third longest in Big Ten history.

The Big Ten Conference does not recognize the 2021, 2022, or 2023 Big Ten championship games as conference matchups, so U-M is at 22 straight Big Ten wins by the league’s record book. That figure surpassed the previous record, a mark held by Gary Moeller’s 1990-92 teams (19).

Mike Sainristil was named the game’s Griffin-Grange MVP.

The Wolverines have not trailed in the second half of a game this year and have at least three offensive touchdowns in every game.

Karsen Barnhart got his…

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Author : Wolverines Wire

Publish date : 2023-12-03 07:33:14

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