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Sights and sounds from Michigan football's Big Ten Championship win

Anthony Broomeby:Anthony Broome•12/04/22•

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(Photo credit: Chad Weaver/On3)

Michigan football captured another Big Ten Championship on Saturday night in a 43-22 win over Purdue in Indianapolis. The game was a little more of a formality than last year with a College Football Playoff ticket already punched. But the Wolverines went out and put their stamp on the conference for good measure, regardless.

This time, the trip to Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis was a business trip. And Michigan handled it while also adding some hardware to the trophy case at Schembechler Hall. In the end, it was Mich-again.

“I’ve talked about it being a happy mission, not a grim mission,” head coach Jim Harbaugh said after the game. “It’s been a mission of God. I want to thank our parents for how they’ve raised these youngsters. I mean, they are amazing. Parents, what they’ve poured into these young men from such an early age. Esteeming them when they’re young and all the practices and everything they drove them to and took them to. Just the support and love that they give them.

“It’s an amazing group of players, and I just want the parents to take a deep long bow for the kind of young men that they’ve raised.”

Michigan players were given their championship t-shirts and hats and handed newspapers commemorating their 2nd-straight conference crown.

Sophomore running back Donovan Edwards was the team’s MVP in the game, rushing 25 times for 185 yards and a touchdown.

“I have 100% confidence in my line, our line,” Edwards said during his postgame press conference. “I love those boys to death, and they play a full complete football game, you know, and that just makes it easier. They have trust in me. They have trust in J.J. and everybody else on the team. So, I mean, it’s just easy running behind those boys.”

Michigan is now headed to the College Football Playoff, but it has no interest in a participation trophy. It wants to win a national title.

“I love our chances,” quarterback J.J. McCarthy said. “Last year it was kind of the bright lights, everything was new, Big Ten Championship, College Football Playoff. Going into the offseason it gave us so much momentum, and we knew that we could get there, and we could get back. Ultimately, this whole offseason it was about winning it.

“So at the end of the day everything is great that happened today, but job is not finished. We’ve got a lot bigger plans in mind.”

Here are photos from the game courtesy of On3’s Chad Weaver.

U-M vs. Purdue highlights

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