ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- — Donovan Edwards ran for a go-ahead, 67-yard touchdown and Blake Corum had a 61-yard run for a score on consecutive snaps in the third quarter as No. 5 Michigan pulled away and beat No. 10 Penn State 41-17 on Saturday.
The Wolverines (7-0, 4-0 Big Ten) finished with 418 yards rushing, gaining 7.6 yards per carry, against a team that was giving up fewer than 80 yards rushing per game...
Bigger, stronger, faster, better, more confident.
Michigan was dominant for much of the first half......
Despite having only one first down, the Nittany Lions (5-1, 2-1) took a 14-13 lead late in the first half ...
Penn State went ahead again after the opening drive of the third quarter, but Edwards answered with a 67-yard run on the next play....
On the ensuing drive, Nittany Lions coach James Franklin went for it on fourth-and-6 from the Michigan 39 and asked Sean Clifford to attempt a difficult pass to Parker Washington downfield and toward the sideline that fell incomplete.
Associated Press is right, I was neglectful in not mentioning the degree of difficulty of that pass. The receiver was well-covered. Clifford, throwing to his right, had to loft the ball over the defender but still into Washington's arms. It was a very difficult "ask" of Clifford--but he answered in the affirmative, put the ball *right there.* I thought also in real time that maybe Washington was blinded by the defender's body until at the last moment the ball landed in his arms and he didn't have time to react. All of this just adds to the Fourth-and-Franklin-ness of the decision and the call.
On the next play, Corum sprinted through a huge hole and broke away on a 61-yard run that gave the Wolverines a two-touchdown lead midway through the third.
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Clifford was 7 of 19 for 120 yards and was replaced by freshman Drew Allar, a five-star recruit, with a 17-point deficit in the fourth.
As if it was Clifford's fault. What a cocksucker Fourth-and-Franklin is.
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THE TAKEAWAY
Penn State: The run defense that helped the team get off to an undefeated start was exposed by a superior line and explosive running backs.
Penn State gets obliterated by Michigan, revealing what the program has become
