{"id":41099,"date":"2024-01-09T04:43:18","date_gmt":"2024-01-09T04:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=41099"},"modified":"2026-07-10T02:43:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T02:43:18","slug":"us-college-football-michigan-beats-washington-34-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2024\/01\/09\/us-college-football-michigan-beats-washington-34-13\/","title":{"rendered":"US College Football: Michigan beats Washington 34-13"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Blake Corum ran for 134 yards and two fourth-quarter touchdowns as Jim Harbaugh and No. 1 Michigan \u2014 undeterred by suspensions and a sign-stealing case that shadowed the program \u2014 completed a three-year climb to a national championship by beating No. 2 Washington 34-13 Monday night in the College Football Playoff title game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Wolverines (15-0) sealed their first national title since 1997 when Corum, who scored the winning touchdown in overtime to beat Alabama in the Rose Bowl semifinal, blasted in from the 1-yard line with 3:37 left to put Michigan up by 21 and set off another rousing rendition of \u201cThe Victors.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After nine seasons coaching his alma mater and in his third consecutive playoff appearance, Harbaugh delivered the title so many expected when he took over a struggling powerhouse in 2015 \u2014 despite missing six regular-season games this season while serving separate suspensions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And he did it with a team his old coach, Bo Schembechler, would have adored. The Wolverines ran for 303 yards against Washington (14-1), and their defense held Michael Penix Jr. and the Huskies\u2019 prolific passing game to just one touchdown while intercepting the Heisman Trophy runner-up twice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Penix\u2019s remarkable six-year college career ended with maybe his worst performance of the season. Usually unfazed by pressure, Penix was not nearly as precise against a Michigan defense that took away his signature deep throws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Penix finished 27 for 51 for 255 yards and a touchdown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Michigan\u2019s J.J. McCarthy had a modest game, throwing for 140 yards and running for 31. But it was enough for him to improve to 27-1 as a starter for the Wolverines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Michigan gave Washington a taste of life in the Big Ten, where the Pac-12 champions are heading next season, and the Huskies were up for the grind for a while.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two long touchdown runs by Donovan Edwards and 229 yards rushing in the first quarter put the Wolverines up 17-3 early in the second and conjured up memories of last year\u2019s historic Georgia blowout of TCU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Washington stabilized and didn\u2019t allow the Wolverines another point in the first half. After the Huskies stopped Michigan on a fourth-and-2 from the UW 38 with 4:46 left in the second quarter, Penix went to work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He found Jalen McMillan on a fourth-and-goal with 42 seconds left for a 3-yard touchdown. After being on the verge of getting buried by the Wolverines, the Huskies fans sang along to \u201cWho Let the Dogs Out,\u201d happily down 17-10 at half.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Will Johnson\u2019s interception of Penix on the first play of the second half gave Michigan another opportunity to open up a two-touchdown lead, but the Huskies forced another field goal by James Turner to make it 20-10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Michigan nursed a touchdown lead until halfway through the fourth quarter, when it put together 71-yard drive, capped by Corum\u2019s tackle-breaking 12-yard touchdown that finally gave the Wolverines some room with a 27-13 lead and 7:09 left.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Corum, the engine of ground-and-pound offense and heart and soul of team loaded with fourth-, fifth- and even sixth-year players, missed the CFP last year with a knee injury. He was named offensive player of the national title game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMichigan, this is for you,\u201d Corum told the Wolverines fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Blake Corum ran for 134 yards and two fourth-quarter touchdowns as Jim Harbaugh and No. 1 Michigan \u2014 undeterred by suspensions and a sign-stealing case that shadowed the program \u2014 completed a three-year climb to a national championship by beating No. 2 Washington 34-13 Monday night in the College Football Playoff title game. The Wolverines […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":41102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3295],"tags":[8153,7960,8908,9026,5247,11638,7090,8484,11294,3874,4053,3334,6831,7968,11973,13256,10227,6687,9262,6348,2354,10415,594],"class_list":["post-41099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-sport","tag-alabama","tag-case","tag-coach","tag-fans","tag-football","tag-forced","tag-games","tag-georgia","tag-injury","tag-lead","tag-mccarthy","tag-michigan","tag-missing","tag-nine","tag-one","tag-players","tag-powerhouse","tag-runner","tag-united-states","tag-us","tag-washington","tag-work","tag-who"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41103,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41099\/revisions\/41103"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}