Michigan Football vs Maryland: Game Balls

Michigan football dominated Maryland Saturday at the Big House. Here are our game balls for the Wolverines ninth win.

By all accounts, for Michigan football defensive coordinator DJ Durkin should be able to eventually turn the Maryland program around. Until then, there’ll be days like Saturday.

Durkin brought his Terrapins into Ann Arbor for the first time since he left the Michigan football program to take the head position in College Park and apparently being an ex coworker doesn’t account for much in Jim Harbaugh’s mind.

Even though Maryland hasn’t been very good this year, there was at least the possibility that the Terps would come in chippy and wired like Colorado did and maybe throw a haymaker or two. They didn’t.

Still, there were some less than great things for the home team. Containment on the edge continues to be a problem: after rough games last week, Mike McCray and Channing Stribling both missed multiple tackles and McCray couldn’t set at all.

Stribling just didn’t look as physical as he usually does. Lavert Hill and Dymonte Thomas both got burned in coverage. Maryland could have easily had at least ten more points. Those are all tiny nits to pick from a 59-3 de-shelling, though, so there are plenty of game balls to hand out.

Here are the game balls from the Michigan football team’s 59-3 win over Maryland.