Michigan football: 2025 schedule and key games
Michigan football’s schedule and key games for the 2025 season.
Michigan’s football team had a disappointing season in 2024, particularly on the offensive line.Offensive line coach Grant Newsome wants his players to focus on having fun in 2025.Newsome hopes to have as many as 10 players prepared to be in the rotation to weather the season.
Sherrone Moore, Michigan football’s head coach, is a former offensive lineman.
He’s also a former offensive line coach. It’s not too difficult to figure out what he wants as the identity of the team.
“We tell our guys from coach Moore on down, ‘the team will go as the lines go,'” offensive line coach Grant Newsome said Monday afternoon in Schembechler Hall. “The offensive line and defensive line, that’s any good team, gotta dominate up front … that’s something that’s never lost on me or on our offensive line.”
The standard was set for the position to be elite during the Wolverines’ incredible three-year run from 2021-23, which saw U-M go 40-3, win three consecutive Big Ten championships and culminated in a national championship.
In both 2021 and 2022, when Moore was leading the unit, Michigan was named the Joe Moore Award winners as the best offensive line in the country. Though the group didn’t earn the honor in its national title year, it was still a semifinalist.
Last season was different. The Wolverines lost their six leading players on the unit going into the 2024 season including a pair of experienced guards in Trevor Keegan and Zak Zinter as well as starting center Drake Nugent, and three rotational tackles in LaDarius Henderson, Karsen Barnhart and Trente Jones.
Players like Gio El-Hadi said U-M had “a standard to uphold” but the unit came up well short. The pass blocking was below average, as U-M’s aerial attack (129.1 yards per…
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Publish date : 2025-04-01 10:06:00
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