The Michigan Wolverines' football program picked up a dominant 49-24 win over Minnesota in Minneapolis on Saturday night, kicking off the 2020 campaign with a bang.
We've taken a second look at the contest, reviewing what went right, what went wrong and what the 'key moment' of the game was in our debut 2020 edition of Monday Morning Quarterbacking.
Key Moment of the Game:
With the game tied at 7-7 midway through the first quarter, Minnesota redshirt junior quarterback Tanner Morgan took a shotgun snap deep in his own territory and faked a handoff to redshirt junior running back Mohamed Ibrahim.
Michigan redshirt sophomore viper Michael Barrett came flying in off the edge untouched, however, and hit Morgan from his blindside, causing the ball to go flying out of his hands. It conveniently landed right into the arms of redshirt junior defensive tackle Donovan Jeter, who ran it back 15 yards for an easy touchdown to put his Wolverine crew up 14-7.
The play put Michigan on top for good, and signaled a game-changing momentum swing after the two clubs had played a fairly evenly-matched contest up to that point. U-M outscored the Golden Gophers 35-17 the rest of the way following the touchdown.
The forced fumble and scoop and score also represented the biggest play of both Barrett's and Jeter's careers, who each appear to be taking on huge defensive roles in 2020.
