Michigan football traveled to Maryland in Week 11 and came away with a big win, improving to 8-2 on the year. What’d we learn?
Everyone has been quick to dub the Michigan Wolverines “overrated” this season, but they just keep winning when it matters. No, they haven’t beaten the big boys in the conference (Michigan State and Penn State), but the Wolverines are winning the games that they should.
On Saturday evening, they traveled to College Park to take on the Maryland Terrapins and former Michigan defensive coordinator DJ Durkin. The game was heading toward a major blowout, but the Terrapins stepped up in the second half and kept it respectable.
However, Michigan was just too much for the ailing Terrapins to handle as the Wolverines won big and improved to 8-2 on the season and 5-2 in conference play.
Here’s what we learned from Michigan’s road win over Maryland in Week 11.
3. Still no clear No. 1 receiver
This has to be frustrating for Jim Harbaugh. Here you have a team filled with four and five-star recruiting talent, but there’s no one stepping up as the No. 1 receiver. Junior tight end Zach Gentry led the team in receiving for most of the game and that’s just not going to cut it.
A tight end that doesn’t have the same skill set as a Donovan Peoples-Jones, Grant Perry or Eddie McDoom making more plays than those three? That’s not good news for this offense. It might have something to do with the quarterback situation as well, but someone needs to step up.
Perry had been injured in the previous two weeks and he was looked at as the team’s top option, but no one else has been able to step up and help the young quarterback out. This team can’t be led in the receiving game by tight ends if it wants to be at a championship-level.