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Called Shots →True freshman receiver Travis Johnson (No. 13) catches at least 1 pass in the September 5 opener against Western Michigan.
Travis Johnson finishes the 2026 regular season with more receptions than Channing Goodwin.
Andrew Marsh finishes with more receiving yards than JJ Buchanan in Michigan's September 12 game against Oklahoma.
The five offensive linemen listed as starters in Michigan's official Player Participation release for its September 26, 2026 game against Iowa are a different set of five men from all three sets Michigan has started so far in 2026 (Frazier-Link-Guarnera-Norton-Sprague, Frazier-Efobi-Guarnera-Norton-Sprague, and Link-Efobi-Guarnera-Norton-Frazier).
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Whittingham changed one starter on Monday, and it was the punt returner
Kyle Whittingham said at his Monday press conference on October 12 that Bryce Underwood remains Michigan's starting quarterback and Jason Beck remains the play-caller for Saturday's game against Penn State. The only personnel change he announced was at punt returner, where Andrew Marsh, who has lost fumbles against Western Michigan and Minnesota, will be replaced for reasons Whittingham said include injury. Right tackle Andrew Sprague, out since the UTEP game, will miss several more weeks; Whittingham said his return is \"way out there.\" Andrew Babalola returned to practice Monday for the first time in about a month, by Whittingham's count. Whittingham said more linemen hurt at Minnesota will be questionable on Wednesday's availability report. Michigan is 3-2 and 0-2 in the Big Ten, its first 0-2 conference start since 2014, with a turnover margin of minus 4; Underwood has thrown 4 interceptions and lost 2 fumbles. Tommy Carr took first-team reps in the bye and could get a series or two. Penn State, 3-3 and 0-3, visits Michigan Stadium at 3:30 p.m. Eastern on October 17.
Minnesota's blitz got seven sacks at Washington and one against Mississippi State
Michigan (3-1, 0-1 Big Ten) plays Minnesota (3-1, 1-0) at Huntington Bank Stadium in Minneapolis at noon Eastern on Fox. DraftKings has Michigan by 6.5 with a total of 43.5 at 8:12 a.m. Eastern, down from an open of 8.5 and 44.5. Minnesota blitzed on 33.9% of snaps in MGoBlog's chart of its win at Washington, where it had seven sacks; against Mississippi State's quarterback it had one and lost 38-13. Michigan lists eight players Out, four of them offensive linemen including Andrew Sprague, Manuel Beigel and Andrew Babalola. Receiver Andrew Marsh and defensive ends Dom Nichols and John Henry Daley are Questionable. Prediction: Michigan 24, Minnesota 16.
Last week Michigan's injury report did not change until two hours before kickoff
Michigan's first Big Ten availability report for Saturday's game at Minnesota, filed Wednesday, September 30, lists six players as Questionable: receiver Andrew Marsh, edge rushers Dom Nichols and John Henry Daley, and offensive linemen Andrew Sprague, Houston Ka'aha'aina-Torres and Manuel Beigel. Blake Frazier is Probable. Six players are Out, including defensive end Julius Holly. Daley and Nichols have 5.5 of Michigan's 12 sacks, per the official box scores; Nate Marshall and freshman Tariq Boney have 2 each. Under the Big Ten's 2026 rules, teams file at 8 p.m. Eastern on the three weekdays before a Saturday game and again two hours before kickoff, when the only categories are game-time decision, out and out for the first half, and an unlisted player is available. Before Iowa, Michigan filed an unchanged list on all three weekdays. In the Big Ten archive through September 26, 64 players were Questionable on a Wednesday report; 22 were still Questionable on Friday, and 15 of those were game-time decisions on game day. The other seven, four from Michigan and three from Michigan State, were settled on the game-day report: Nichols, Zeke Berry and Logan Forbes were left off as available, and Sprague was out. Michigan plays at Minnesota on Saturday at noon Eastern on Fox, so the game-day report is due about 7 a.m. Pacific.
Underwood cleared both bars against Iowa. He did it five times last year.
Bryce Underwood cleared both of the bars his 2025 Big Ten season set for him in Michigan's 20-19 loss to Iowa: 9.9 yards an attempt (17 of 28 for 276) against 7.5, and a 48.3 percent success rate (14 of 29 dropbacks) against 44.1. By yards per attempt and by CollegeFootballData's expected points per dropback (+0.56), it was the best of his 13 college games against Power 4 defenses, against an Iowa defense that had allowed 4.4 yards an attempt in its first three games. It does not settle whether he has improved, because his 2025 Big Ten line was an average of two kinds of game: he cleared both marks in five of nine (Wisconsin, USC, Washington, Northwestern, Maryland) and missed both in the other four (Nebraska, Michigan State, Purdue, Ohio State), with none in between. By success rate Iowa ranks above only the USC game among those five. His two Power 4 games this season are one of each: Oklahoma at 6.5 and 31.6 percent, Iowa at 9.9 and 48.3. Pooled, that is 41.7 percent on 48 dropbacks and 8.6 yards an attempt on 45. The yards came from the deep ball: three of six deep-tagged throws were caught for 101 yards after one of 11 in the first three games, and on his 26 attempts other than the 49- and 32-yard throws to JJ Buchanan he averaged 7.5. All four of Andrew Marsh's incompletions were broken up, three by Jaylen Watson in the first half. Underwood was sacked once in 29 dropbacks. His second-half success rate fell again, 5 of 12 after 9 of 17 before halftime. Four straight Big Ten games above both marks, starting with Iowa, would be a streak he never had in 2025.