Newsstand: Michigan football opens as massive favorite ahead of UConn week
Michigan football has not had much resistance through the first two weeks of the season. The Week 3 non-conference finale against the UConn Huskies should be another lopsided outing in favor of the Wolverines.
Michigan opened as 45-point favorites for the showdown with Connecticut with the over/under set at 59 points in Circa Sports’ opening odds for the Week 3 slate. The spread has already moved up to as many as 47 points in some sportsbooks with action suggesting this could be a spread that balloons even higher.
The Wolverines have played a pair of games against UConn, winning the head-to-head matchups in 2010 and 2013, respectively. Michigan took care of business 30-10 at home to open the 2010 season and traveled to East Hartford in 2013 and grabbed a 24-10 win. The Huskies enter Saturday’s game at 1-2 after a 31-20 loss to Utah State in the opener, a 28-3 win over Central Connecticut State and a 48-14 loss to Syracuse last weekend.
Michigan will start sophomore signal-caller J.J. McCarthy on Saturday and likely moving forward. Head coach Jim Harbaugh reviewed his performance in a 56-10 win over Hawai’i.
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“I mean he had near flawless performance,” Harbaugh said. “11 for 12, and then one was dropped. I mean that’s tough any day of the week in practice. I thought he had a great game. He’s playing really well. We’ll start JJ next week.”
Saturday’s game is set for a 12 p.m. ET kickoff and will be broadcast via ABC.
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“It started out in the game with two three-and-outs in a row. There’s a lot of guys who were playing well. It started with the run wall, that’s what it looked like to me and that’s what we’re trying to have it look like. There was a great run wall there. Mazi Smith, Kris Jenkins, Mike Morris, Upshaw. Whole bunch of guys. They went to throw, they challenged Gemon Green two or three times in the game and he’s breaking on the ball, in tight coverage. Looking back at the right time, really playing the techniques great. I thought D.J. Turner was really good as well.
“Great to see the safety play. Makari Paige, I thought he had a heck of a good ballgame along with R.J. Moten and Rod Moore, again. Mike Sainristil, he’s an animal out there. He’s everywhere. Once again, it just reminds me so much of what Dax Hill was able to do last year in that nickel position. Really, really happy with the way he’s playing and the backers are playing really good. It was fun to watch our defense tonight. They were putting the pressure on and stopping the run about as well as you can do it.”
– Head coach Jim Harbaugh on the Michigan defense against Hawai’i
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