Jake Moody passes Desmond Howard for career points
Saw this from Sports Illustrated: Jake Moody just passed Desmond Howard on Michigan’s list of all-time career points leaders on Saturday. According to SI, with 223 career points, he is now 23 points away from breaking into the top 10. I tried to find a list of the top 10 but could not find a source.
Moody is already top 3 for UM in both single season and single game FGs made as well as single season and career FG %, and top 5 in career FGs made. Here’s to seeing Money jump to #1 this season.
September 8th, 2022 at 12:01 AM ^
I hope he keeps making every field goal we ask him to make, but I also kind of hope we don't ask him to kick that often. Kind of a mixed bag as far as some of these records are concerned.
September 8th, 2022 at 12:17 AM ^
Let’s just get him a solid 10 or so extra points per game.
September 8th, 2022 at 6:04 AM ^
Wow, you must really hate sick children
September 8th, 2022 at 10:29 AM ^
Hawt take: Cade plays poorly in the red zone to help out Moody's point total.
September 8th, 2022 at 11:43 AM ^
He doesn't do it for Moody. He does it for the kids.
September 8th, 2022 at 11:56 AM ^
Here are the records as of 12/31/2021, but they only include players since 1940. Willie Heston scored 69 touchdowns from 1901-1904, as I discuss here.
September 8th, 2022 at 6:34 AM ^
For position players, I would guess Willie Heston would be at the top of the list with his 72 rushing TD's followed by Anthony Thomas with 55, and Wheatly 47. The kickers that would be on that list would be (in order of most FG's made) Garrett Rivas 64, Remy Hamiltion 63, and Mike Gillette 57.
Surely that list is out there somewhere. A quick search on the google machine didn't find it.
September 8th, 2022 at 8:05 AM ^
Paging WD. You're wanted in the records room - STAT!
September 8th, 2022 at 9:40 AM ^
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September 8th, 2022 at 9:13 AM ^
Yeah I tried some digging but came up empty. Not sure where SI got their information, but would love to see the list.
September 8th, 2022 at 10:24 AM ^
Also posted below, but here is the list:
It is at https://mgoblue.com/documents/2017/1/19/fbl_record_book.pdf
September 8th, 2022 at 6:49 AM ^
I found one for for all teams and the top Michigan player on that list was Garret Rivas at 354 and next was Ty Wheatley at 324
Edit: It was since 1956
September 8th, 2022 at 9:11 AM ^
Jake would need a monster year to pass Wheatley, but that’s at least doable given how stacked out offense is. If we repeat with a B1G Championship and playoff berth, all those extra games could add up to landing Moody at #2. I don’t think he could catch Rivas though.
September 8th, 2022 at 12:14 PM ^
He had 125 points last year, a little under 9ppg. He's already had 15 this year, so if he has a year like last year, then he'll get another 110 this year. That would put him at 333, which passes Wheatley. Passing Rivas is certainly doable, but it probably means that our offense is having redzone issues.
September 8th, 2022 at 1:29 PM ^
He had 23 FGs (69 pts) and 56 PATs for the 125. If he scores 132 this season he'll have the record.
Last year up until the playoff game we scored 37.6 pts per game, which is the second best of Harbaugh's tenure—the best was 2016 when we scored 525 for a game average of just over 40. This offense on paper has the talent to equal or surpass last season, but we won't know for sure until conference play starts.
September 8th, 2022 at 7:37 AM ^
Jake Moody might well be the best kicker in Michigan history. Was surprised looking at his stats that he is right up there with Remy and Rivas. Even more impressive considering he shared duties with Nordin for 3 years.
September 8th, 2022 at 8:15 AM ^
Not "might be" - he is the best kicker in the history of Michigan football. He has been money, particularly during tight games. Loved Remy Hamilton, and you can name other good ones - but Jake Moody is the best.
September 8th, 2022 at 11:41 AM ^
Will probably be indisputable after this year.
September 8th, 2022 at 8:30 AM ^
From a nostalgia point of view, I would put Ali Haji-Sheik up there in with the best kickers at Michigan. (I was at Michigan when he was our kicker). Big Ten record 78 extra points in a row and 323 career points.
September 8th, 2022 at 8:59 AM ^
Agreed. He was outstanding!
September 8th, 2022 at 10:28 AM ^
For his career at Michigan - Haji-Sheikh was 23 for 38 in FGM v FGA - 61% success. Jake Moody is 43 for 52, hitting 83% of his attempts.
I also was a Haji-Sheikh fan - but Moody is a far superior kicker.
September 8th, 2022 at 9:02 AM ^
Nordin is the kicking equivalent of Drew Henson.
September 8th, 2022 at 9:07 AM ^
I see where you're going, but Henson was too good ... I'd go Nordin == Tate Forcier. Mercurial, talented, erratic, ultimately took chances away from someone better
September 8th, 2022 at 10:56 AM ^
+1 for using mercurial in a sentence. Not because you used it correctly, but because it reminds me of Mercury Hayes. Also, what a set of parents to name their kids that, great choice obviously.
September 8th, 2022 at 9:09 AM ^
Not even close. Nordin was a disappointing head case who never performed consistently and never came close to matching the hype. Henson was a stud, totally lived up to the hype, especially in the 2000 season.
September 8th, 2022 at 8:17 AM ^
Moody for Heisman
September 8th, 2022 at 9:51 AM ^
Hello Heisman!
September 8th, 2022 at 10:17 AM ^
You just kick started Sparty's Heisman campaign for their kicker.
September 8th, 2022 at 11:35 PM ^
Robbins' moustache for Heisman. That thing is majestic.
September 8th, 2022 at 8:36 AM ^
This is a list from https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/schools/michigan/scoring.html as of a few minutes ago
I clipped the top 20 but it includes all185 players who have scored and seems up to date since Alex Orji is in 146th place with 6 points.
EDIT: Reading the fine print at the top, only scoring since 2000 is included. Sorry - I thought I had a source.
September 8th, 2022 at 8:51 AM ^
Still a nice list. But yeah, when i read Orji was 146th place, i knew it was wrong or bad data. No way 1 td is 146th in Michigan football history. Since 2000 sounds right though.
I also do not recall Fitz scoring that much! wow.
September 8th, 2022 at 8:59 AM ^
weird that Desmond isn't on that list........but then I too read the header
September 8th, 2022 at 9:08 AM ^
Thanks for the list, albeit incomplete. If only SI would cite their sources, huh?
Not sure where the rest of the top 10 fit, but from this Moody could easily get top 2 or 3 by the end of this season, depending on how many FGs we need. I’m hoping that our O is such a juggernaut that there’s enough points to go around and the FGs come when our 3rd stringers are in. I would think passing Rivas would be out of reach regardless of what happens.
September 8th, 2022 at 9:20 AM ^
time to start running FG fakes to Moody and boost his stats. Jay has to have a direct snap kicker pass in the playbook somewhere.
September 8th, 2022 at 10:37 AM ^
Logged in to upvote this.
Also, it doesn't help with points scored, but he was a strong-armed 3rd baseman at Northville HS and he can certainly deliver a fake FG pass (or catch one). C'mon Jay....
September 8th, 2022 at 10:59 AM ^
If it's 4th and 8 from the 10 yard line and Moody throws a TD pass out of a FG formation it wouldn't count?
September 8th, 2022 at 11:26 AM ^
If he throws a TD pass to himself and kicks the extra point, does it count for 13?
September 8th, 2022 at 11:38 AM ^
What if the moon was made of barbeque spare ribs, would you eat it then? I know I would. Heck, I'd have seconds and then polish it off with a tall, cool Budweiser.
September 8th, 2022 at 1:58 PM ^
was the Budweiser brewed on Mars?
September 8th, 2022 at 11:39 PM ^
It's a simple question, doctor, would you eat the moon if it was made of ribs?
September 8th, 2022 at 9:23 AM ^
Goody for Moody, but man. . . I think this also says a thing or two about our red zone issues.
September 8th, 2022 at 9:40 AM ^
Mike Gillette was the all time leading scorer when he graduated after the 1988 season. He made 53 field goals. (Moody already has 43 field goals)
Stat archives list Moody’s PAT’s but not Gillette’s.
Gillette also ran that fake punt in for a touchdown against Sparty. So he’s got a touchdown as well.
September 8th, 2022 at 11:01 AM ^
The best a man can get
September 8th, 2022 at 11:46 AM ^
The UM record book has Gillette's PAT numbers:
https://mgoblue.com/documents/2017/1/19/fbl_record_book.pdf. He finished his career with 130 of them.
It also indicates that he scored 57 FGs, not 53.
September 8th, 2022 at 5:25 PM ^
Thanks for sharing. I wasted far too much time on this today haha
September 8th, 2022 at 9:45 AM ^
Moody made 92% of his FG attempts last year and is second in career field goal % (more than 15 attempts) per MGOBLUE.COM. He is 0.2% behind Bob Bergeron.
If he approaches the efficiency of last year he's going to be number 1 and have a pretty solid case for being the best kicker in Michigan history.
https://mgoblue.com/documents/2017/1/19/fbl_record_book.pdf
September 8th, 2022 at 10:25 AM ^
If my math is right, making his next FG will put him at #1 for career FG%.