The Maize Team beat the Blue Team, 7-6, in the Michigan Football Spring Game at the Big House on Saturday. Entering the first season under head coach Kyle Whittingham, fans got a chance to see the team in action for the first time.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s the recap, highlights and stats from the intrasquad scrimmage.<\/p>\n
The exhibition got underway with a four-yard rush from running back Bryson Kuzdzal, but the first explosive play of the day came moments later as quarterback Bryce Underwood found tight end Eli Owens for a 16-yard gain.<\/p>\n
Underwood nearly hit wide receiver Salesi Moa for a touchdown, but the pass fell incomplete and the Maize Team\u2019s opening drive came to an end. The Blue Team\u2019s opening play was a four-yard rush from running back Jordan Marshall.<\/p>\n
Later in the first quarter, the defensive line made an impact as edge rushers Dominic Nichols and Nate Marshall created pressure on consecutive plays. Nichols had a pair of QB pressures, while Marshall was credited with a sack.<\/p>\n
Tommy Carr came into the game at quarterback to open the second quarter, and he quickly led the first scoring drive of the day \u2014 recording a 14-yard scramble that eventually led to a 23-yard field goal from kicker Stuart Blake.<\/p>\n
On the ensuing possession, Carr led another impressive drive \u2014 marching 55 yards in the final minutes of the half to set up a field goal attempt. However, kicker Trey Butkowski missed wide right. The Blue Team led 3-0 at halftime.<\/p>\n
HALFTIME: BLUE 6, MAIZE 0<\/p>\n
Following halftime, Carr led the Blue Team on a second straight scoring drive. Even though the drive stalled out in the second quarter again, Blake connected on a field goal to put the Blue Team up 6-0 with 4:21 left in the third quarter.<\/p>\n
Carr continued to play well on the next drive, connecting with wide receiver Kendrick Bell for a 20-yard grab. Later in the third quarter, the Maize Team nearly scored a touchdown but safety Taylor Tatum had a pivotal pass breakup.<\/p>\n
With a running clock in effect, the fourth quarter flew by, but one of the best highlights of the day came on a goal-line stand as defensive lineman Bobby Kanka had a hard-hitting tackle at the line of scrimmage to force a turnover on downs.<\/p>\n
It appeared the Blue Team was going to be able to run out the remainder of the clock and secure a 6-0 win, before defensive lineman Travis Moten came up with a clutch sack on third down to give the Maize Team a chance for a go-ahead drive.<\/p>\n
The drive got started with a 30-yard gain from Carr to wide receiver Jamar Browder, and with just 17 seconds remaining, running back Tomas O\u2019Meara found the end zone for a game-winning touchdown to hand the Maize Team a 7-6 win.<\/p>\n
FINAL SCORE: MAIZE 7, BLUE 6<\/p>\n
QB Tommy Carr: 21-for-30 passing, 143 passing yards, 59 rushing yardsRB Savion Hiter: 10 carries, 44 rushing yardsRB Tomas O\u2019Meara: 9 carries, 29 rushing yards, 1 rushing touchdownWR Salesi Moa: 4 catches, 26 receiving yardsWR Jaime Ffrench: 4 catches, 26 receiving yardsTE Eli Owens: 4 catches, 28 receiving yardsDL Travis Moten: 6 total tackels, 2 sacksLB Adam Bazzi: 2 tackles for loss, 1 sackDB Kainoa Winston: 6 total tackles, 1 pass deflection<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Maize Team beat the Blue Team, 7-6, in the Michigan Football Spring Game at the Big House…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":869538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7,580,52888,49,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-869537","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-michigan-football","10":"tag-michigan-football-news","11":"tag-ncaa","12":"tag-ncaa-football"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116428532815463158","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=869537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/869538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}