Michigan football player 'jumped' in postgame tunnel by several MSU Spartans
Things got ugly at Michigan Stadium after the Wolverines’ 29-7 win over MSU. Minutes after a bit of a postgame skirmish on the field, an unidentified Michigan player was “jumped” in the tunnel by several Spartans on the way off the field.
“I’m told by eyewitnesses that one Michigan player was walking up the tunnel and jumped by an MSU player. 6-7 MSU players were kicking the Michigan player while he was down, I’m told,” WolverinesWire’s Isaiah Hole said.
After the game, police were standing in front of MSU’s locker room with head coach Jim Harbaugh waiting for answers.
Story developing…
Michigan vs. MSU game recap
First quarter
Michigan won the coin toss and elected to defer to the second half, putting its defense on the field first. MSU ran five 5 plays, but 4 penalities derailed their efforts to start the game. The Wolverines took over on offense, but senior wideout Cornelius Johnson fumbled on a screen pass, giving MSU the ball with 9:03 to go in the first quarter at the MSU 37-yard-line. The Spartans would turn the ball over on downs, giving Michigan the ball at the MSU 46-yard line with 7:01 to go in the quarter.
U-M responded with an 8-play, 41-yard drive that ended in the contest’s first points. Graduate kicker Jake Moody hit a field goal from 22-yards out to give the Wolverines a 3-0 lead at the 2:20 mark of the opening quarter.
The Spartans fired right back and took their first lead of the night on the next drive. MSU went 75 yards in 6 plays, thanks to a pair of grabs by wideout Keon Coleman. He found the endzone on a 26-yard pass from Payton Thorne to give MSU a 7-3 lead after the extra point with 18 seconds left in the quarter.
Second quarter
Michigan fired back on its next drive, going 80 yards in 8 plays and a 2-yard shovel pass from J.J. McCarthy to running back Blake Corum to take a 10-7 lead after Moody’s extra point with 11:58 left in the quarter. MSU came back on a 10-play, 68-yard drive down to Michigan’s 7-yard line, but turned the ball over on downs with 7:31 on the clock. U-M’s next drive went 86 yards in 15 plays, capped off by a 25-yard field goal from Moody with 1:08 remaining the half to extend the lead to 13-7.
MSU was unable to get anything going before the half ended, sending the two teams to the locker room at 13-7 after two quarters.
Third quarter
Michigan started the half on offense and put together another scoring drive. The team went 57 yards in 11 plays and settled for a 39-yard field goal from Moody, his third of the night. U-M took a 16-7 lead with 9:15 to go in the third after the Moody score. The Spartans went 3-and-out on their next drive, which was countered by another Michigan field goal. Moody hit his fourth of the game, extending the lead to 19-7 with 3:58 remaining in the third.
Another MSU 3-and-out gave U-M the ball on the Michigan 29-yard line. The Wolverines ran 5 plays for 27 yards before the quarter expired, leading 19-7.
Fourth quarter
Michigan started the 4th on MSU’s 36-yard line. The Wolverines would settle for Moody’s fifth field goal, a strike from 54 yards out. U-M’s lead over MSU grew to 22-7 with 14:45 left in the game. MSU went 3-and-out again, then fumbled a snap that the Wolverines recovered at the MSU 8-yard line. Michigan scored 2 plays later on a Corum rush and extended its lead to 29-7 with 12:47 left in the game.
That would be how the game ended.
