78-0. Seventy-eight. To zero.
Michigan was expected to easily defeat Rutgers, but the score by which the fourth-ranked Wolverines did so was still an eye-opener. And that was just the start of the ridiculous numbers generated by Saturday’s game. Here are a few of them:
600-39 —Total yards for Michigan and Rutgers, respectively.
481-34 — Rushing yardage for Michigan and Rutgers, respectively. A quick comparison to the numbers above will reveal that, yes, the Scarlet Knights only had five passing yards.
9 — Rushing touchdowns for Michigan, tied for the most in the program’s history.
2 — Points Michigan earned on a conversion, eschewing an extra point for no apparent reason, following its fourth touchdown.
0-17 — Rutgers on third down. Michigan went 6-11 on third down.
603 — Punting yardage for Rutgers’s Michael Cintron, on a whopping 16 kicks.
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136-0 — The combined score of Rutgers’s past two games, given a 58-0 loss to No. 2 Ohio State last week.
2 — Number of games with a larger margin of victory in the 137-year history of Michigan’s program, none since 1940.
1888 — The last time Rutgers lost as badly as this, when it dropped an 82-0 decision to Princeton.
Michigan: 78-point win is its largest in a game since 1939 against Chicago when the Wolverines won 85-0.
— ESPN Stats & Info (@ESPNStatsInfo) October 9, 2016Want another number? How about zero? That is how many points were scored on an impressive punt return by Jabrill Peppers — a New Jersey native — whose tackler-eluding effort was foiled by a penalty.
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That was just about the only thing that went wrong for the Wolverines on Saturday. As for Rutgers, well, it was another embarrassing day in the Big Ten, but the school can perhaps console itself with the financial numbers that have been rolling in since it began playing football in the high-powered conference in 2014.
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