2009 single game top performances?
I have a couple please feel free to add your own, I would love to see them and hold them against you at a later date.
Do you see any breakthrough days for any of the Freshman? and so on and so forth
1. Minor with a 200 yard game
2. A QB rushes for 100 yards in a game
3. Tate throws 4 touchdown passes in a game
4. Graham with 4 sacks in a game
5. Stevie Brown with an INT for a TD
1,2 and MAYBE 3. Graham will probably not even get 3 sacks in a game. Who knows about Brown?
Graham would have a lot better chance at 4 sacks if the rest of our line could force offensive lines to avoid double teaming him.
These don't sound too far fetched though... let's just get them all checked off in the first game and make a new list!
I'd love to see the team run for 400+ yards. I think it is reasonable if Michigan establishes a serious passing offense in prior games. A team may load the defense to stop the pass, then the QB, RB, WR go crazy on the ground attack to combine for 400 yards, just like the West Virginia of old.
It's "only" two TD's a quarter with another one thrown in somewhere. I have a feeling that "no mercy" sign is going to be taken very, very seriously by players who are "all in for Michigan." Maybe Sheridan could get the last TD.
The days of scoring 28 and kicking field goals for the second half are long gone. Rich is not the coaches of old. We (in the future) will get use to 45+ points a game. Throw in a few 50 and 60 point games with the chance of 70's coming. Just think of Florida in (i Think) '97 when they put 82 on the board on Central Michigan.
August 1st, 2009 at 12:12 PM ^
*Sure*
the days of scoring 28 points are long gone and so r the days of being beat by ohio state!!! GO BLUE!!1
4 is probably unlikely when he's double-teamed all game.
5 is a crapshoot.
August 1st, 2009 at 12:02 AM ^
1 and 4 are doable.
August 1st, 2009 at 12:44 AM ^
There's a fellow newbie.
I like Minor almost as much as then next person, but 200 is asking a lot especially when we have a mob of running backs on the depth chart to back him up.
August 1st, 2009 at 11:12 AM ^
200 yard in just one game? He'll do it. Hart did it somethings like 4-5 games straight didn't he? It's hard to believe he won't have 200 yards playing against defenses like WMU, Eastern, Indiana, and Delaware St.
August 1st, 2009 at 12:43 AM ^
Gallon is going to do something sick.
brendan gibbons kicks a 71 yard FG
Judging from my vast NCAA 10 experience, I think these are all probable, nearly guaranteed weekly. Judging from my own perception though, I think the least likely is Graham with 4 sacks. I'd like to see if non NCAA 10 Michigan can manage three 100 yard rushers in one game.
August 1st, 2009 at 11:13 AM ^
That would be tough. Minor, Brown, and Forcier will probably all have 100 yard games sometime this season, but in the same game, I doubt it. I think a more realistic goal would be to get 300+ rushing yards in a game.
August 1st, 2009 at 10:30 AM ^
I think there is a great chance of #2 happening.
Threet wasn't the most mobile of QBs and he had 89 yards vs Wisconsin. With a more mobile QB, I would expect he may hit over the 100 yard mark multiple times this season.
August 1st, 2009 at 10:45 AM ^
by either the offense or special teams for a game would rank high on my list of what I would like to see.
August 1st, 2009 at 11:14 AM ^
Yes. I think we'll be able to do that at least once.
August 1st, 2009 at 11:19 AM ^
Good one. Based on last year can't see it happening. Hope to see it multiple times.
August 1st, 2009 at 11:19 AM ^
Roundtree for first 100 yard receiving game
Toussaint returns kickoff for TD
August 1st, 2009 at 11:32 AM ^
How about we hang onto the ball for an entire game.
August 1st, 2009 at 12:18 PM ^
yes please
will have of over a 100 yards rushing and over 200 yrds passing with 4 total td's(2 run 2 pass, or 3 pass 1 run etc) in tha same game at least 3 times this season...Minor will have at least two 200 yard gmes and Graham will mayb 1 gme of at least 3 sacks.
Im also predicting Greg Matthews to posterize at 2 db's per game and 3 gmes of no turnovers!!
GO BLUE!!!!!!!
Denard rushes for over 100 yards in a single game.
edit: I see the OP has a QB rushing for 100. So I will go with Denard and 150 all purpose yards.
me spending 25 minutes rewatching something on my DVR because of a positive instead of a negative this year...
from 6 deep in our own endzone