Career Record: Borges v. Mattison
In this interview, Borges notes that he coached against Mattison both when he was at Auburn and Mattsion at Florida, and when he was at UCLA and Mattison at Michigan. Their career record against one another comes out at an even 1-1.
They met on September 28, 1996. Mattison's Michigan defense held Borges' UCLA offense to 3 points in a 38-9 Michigan win (with the other 7 UCLA points resulting from an interception returned for a touchdown). A cursory check of the internet didn't turn up a boxscore, but I'm sure you'd rather just watch the highlights anyway.
They also met on September 29, 2007. Borges' Auburn offense put up 20 points on the Florida defense co-coordinated by Mattison in a 20-17 Auburn win. Auburn accumulated 326 yards with 227 coming through the air from the arm of Brandon Cox, with an average of less than 9 yards per pass. The two Auburn touchdowns were on running plays from inside the 10. Mattison's defense held the Auburn rushing attack to only 2.3 yards per carry with a long of 19 yards. The Florida defense, led by Brandon Spikes, also recorded two sacks and recovered one fumble.
I'm going to watch the highlights and enjoy my night.
Edit: Can we make it a law that all highlight videos have to start with the music from Halo? That game is wicked sikk.
and thanks to WolverineHistorian
Mattison's D only gave up 3 points as the TD was on a pick 6
The other thing that really jumps out is that #2 playing both sides of the ball. That kid seems to have a bright future.
Vs ucla looks familiar, like 2010 Illinois Td familiar
great post. I have to say it was great to see a team that could punch the ball in when they found themselves in the redzone and a defense that forced turnovers and got after the quarterback. Throw in the fieldgoals going in and I have to say that those highlights look nothing like UM football over the past few years. I hope we do these things this year.
Also, damn I miss CW. What a talent and joy to watch. I have been following UM football for about 25 years and have to say he was by far my favorite wolverine to watch. Awesome to see him doing just as well in the pros as well.
up 30-40 ppg year after year under Borges. Shutting them down says something about MIchigans awesome D in the 90's. Go Blue
in 1996, they were 5-6, in Borges' first year there.
It was the next season they had their first of two 10-2 seasons with Al as OC. Bob Toledo was the coach.
You missed one:
They met on October 14, 2006, when Florida lost at Auburn 27-17 (would have been 21-17 but an Auburn linebacker returned a Chris Leak fumble for a meaningless defensive touchdown as time expired). That was Florida's only loss that year.
That would make it 2-1 Borges.
Thanks! Not sure how I missed that.