If you turn on a Michigan football game and watch the offense operate, it looks much different than it did a year ago. There’s the obvious of some changes in personnel, like the addition of Chip Lindsey as the offensive coordinator or Bryce Underwood at quarterback, but there’s much more of a flow this year than there was in 2024 when the forward pass was something of a foreign concept.

You can see the improvement in the stat sheet as well, as the Wolverines are averaging 419.4 total yards of offense per game (No. 30 nationally), compared to a dismal 286.2 yards per game (yes, that’s how bad it was) from a year ago.

Yet for the last several weeks and for much of the season, Michigan continues to find itself in dogfights with lesser opponents, scoring point totals in the mid-20s or low 30

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