After falling behind in the first quarter, the Michigan Wolverines took charge against Michigan State in the second quarter with a 17-point outburst. A touchdown pass from Shea Patterson to Nick Eubanks gave the Wolverines their first lead of the day and a late field goal by Quinn Nordin has given Michigan a 17-7 lead on their rivals from East Lansing at halftime in Michigan Stadium.
Michigan State scored first with a short pass at the goal line from Brian Lewerke to Max Rosenthal. The lead was short-lived, however, as the Wolverines responded with their first scoring drive of the afternoon. Hassan Haskins evened the game with a short touchdown run form the goal line on a drive that saw Patterson complete all four of his pass attempts to move the ball down the field. A personal foul penalty on the Spartans gave Michigan a free 15 yards along the way.
Silly penalties hurt Michigan State on their next drive as well. After a Lewerrke pass was complete to Cody White for a gain of 20 yards to the Michigan 37-yard line, the ball moved back to the Michigan State 48-yard line due to two unsportsmanlike penalties on White and Luke Campbell. The Spartans would later punt from the Michigan 49-yard line to end the drive.
Michigan’s defense seems to have control of this one going to the second half, and Michigan State’s offense may not have enough to make a game of this in the final 30 minutes. But we’ll see what goes down next!
