Michigan Football: Crunching Some Unbelievable Statistics from Notre Dame Game

The Michigan Wolverines Football game last weekend can be described in many ways.

Forgettable would not one be one of them.

But that wasn't always the case during last Saturday's showdown against the Irish.

In the first night game in Michigan Stadium history, the Wolverines looked as though it was going to be a forgetful game for about the first 43 minutes of the contest.

And speaking of history, this tied the Michigan record for third largest comeback in Michigan history.

But how did Michigan pull it off?

If you said Denard Robinson, you would be correct, but there's more to it than that.

This article will take a look behind some of the astonishing statistics from this game:

0 — Fumbles lost by Michigan. Michigan did fumble the ball once inside the Irish five-yard line, but Denard Robinson scooped it up and waltzed into the end zone for a touchdown.

On the other hand, Notre Dame had four fumbles and lost three of them.

1—Catch by Roy Roundtree. Roundtree dropped a couple of passes earlier in the game, but it was his 16 yard touchdown reception with two seconds left in the game that won it for Michigan.

2—The number of passes that Denard Robinson completed in the first half. He threw seven incomplete passes.

Luckily, one of these two completions was a 43-yard touchdown strike to Junior Hemingway.

3—The number of interceptions that Denard Robinson threw in the game.

Fortunately, he threw three touchdowns in the fourth quarter and scooped up a Stephen Hopkins fumble and ran in for another score.

4—The number of fourth quarter touchdowns for Michigan.

5—Turnovers by Notre Dame. Once again this statistic came to mean more than any other as Notre Dame could not hold on to the football.

6—Fourth quarter Michigan offensive plays that went for 15 yards or more.

9—Penalties by each team. Penalties and turnovers seemed to kill Notre Dame once again this week.

11—The number of completions by Denard Robinson. Despite only having 11 completions, Robinson put up 338 yards on 11-24 passing.

His ability to overcome his 2-9 passing and hit some unbelievable passes in the second half gave his team the victory.

15—The number of passing first downs for Notre Dame. Michigan's defense looked suspect as usual, as it was gashed multiple times, but it forced five turnovers.

16—The number of total first downs for Michigan against Notre Dame; the lack of first downs for Michigan was largely due to the huge gains through the air that Michigan had in the fourth quarter.

30.72—Yards per completion by Denard Robinson for the game. Most of these yards came after the catch.

90—Total offensive yards in the first half. Michigan finished the game with 452 yards.

114—Total rushing yards that Michigan had for the game. Other than 94 rushing yards from Robinson, Michigan's running backs were non-factors. Fitzgerald Toussaint did not play in Saturday's contest.

198—Total rushing yards for Notre Dame. The Irish averaged six yards per rush against Michigan, but lost three fumbles, negating most of the gains on the ground.

290—Number of second half passing yards for Denard Robinson. Robinson's 502 total yards last year against the Irish seemed unbeatable, but he put up 290 passing yards in the second half and shredded the Irish secondary.

362—Total offensive second half yards by Michigan. Their offense seemed to reappear just in time and made a boring game into an instant classic.

452—Total offensive yards by Michigan.

513—Total offensive yards by Notre Dame. Michigan got absolutely shredded on defense. The only thing that saved them was the forcing of five turnovers.

This marks the second week in a row that Notre Dame finished a game with 500 or more yards of offense, but still came out on the losing side of the score.

965—Total offensive yards by both teams for the game. Some games you can fall asleep watching a blowout game, but that was not the case tonight.

Michigan's 2-0, Go Blue!

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