WATCH: Michigan head coach Sherrone Moore press conference, USC week

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Michigan Wolverines football head coach Sherrone Moore met with the media Monday morning for his weekly press conference, previewing Saturday’s game against USC. Watch video from his session with reporters in the player at the top of the screen.

Sherrone Moore updates

• Moore weighed in on how Michigan will approach travel ahead of the USC game.

“We’re going to leave Thursday,” Moore said. “Last year, the West Coast trip to Washington, we felt like [we were] a little groggy, a little slow start. The guys played well, but felt like we needed a little more time.

“I talked to a lot of different people during the offseason and, obviously, having [defensive coordinator] Wink [Martindale] here with his NFL background, we’re going to leave Thursday. We’re going to do everything normal on Thursday. I know guys probably want to leave early Thursday, but they have to go to class; they’re still student athletes. So, they’ll go to class, do all that. We’ll leave Thursday, be there Friday.

“We’ll get a chance to practice at ‘The Bolt,’ which is cool. I know [the Chargers] have an away game [at Miami Sunday]. So, that’s another great Michigan connection. ‘Michigan West.’

“We’ll leave Thursday, get there Friday, spend all day Friday and make it as normal as possible for the kids and then play on Saturday.”

• Moore also discussed injuries to graduate left guard Giovanni El-Hadi and sophomore tight end Hogan Hansen.

“I think both of them are probable,” Moore said. “That’s where I would state them right now. So, we’ll see as we go through the week.

“I feel good about their statuses and where they’re going to be, but we’ll just progress as we go through the week.”

• Moore said he’s not sure what the offensive line will look like this coming weekend, but that he feels the Wolverines have some fixable mistakes to clean up coming off the win over Wisconsin.

“Consistency,” Moore said of the ups and downs. “And it’s all very fixable things that we can correct, whether it’s a front-side base block on two plays, whether it’s just the ID of where we’re going. It’s nothing Earth-shattering that you have to fix. But what you do love to see is the big plays and the big holes happening. It means the progression is there. You still rush for 175 yards and you feel like, dang, we have so much more out there.”