3 takeaways from Michigan's agitating win over Purdue

59 seconds is all it took for Michigan to score its first 14 points of the game on Saturday night. Jordan Marshall caught a pass from Bryce Underwood and took it 25 yards down the sideline. On the next snap he burst through a hole that was created by Blake Frazier and Gio El-Hadi on the left side, 54 yards to the house for an easy six.

The next possession was a 41-second drive, thanks to a shanked punt that went out of bounds inside Purdue territory. Marshall blasted it in from three yards out before the half expired. Purdue was content to be down a score on the road as three-touchdown underdogs.

Quarterback Ryan Browne almost blew a field-goal oppurtunity to begin the opening series of the second half for the Boilermakers. Browne was called for intentional grounding on third down, which resulted in a successful 50-yard attempt by Spencer Porath.

Late in the third, Underwood was on a path to the endzone when the ball was punched out of his mitts and caromed into the end zone for a touchback. When they got the ball back, Marshall forged his way to the goal line for six more to stretch the lead out to 11. Purdue would retaliate, though, but failed to convert the two-point conversion, keeping it a two-possession game.

Shortly thereafter, Michigan's offense closed the game with 10 consecutive runs to burn the rest of the clock and capture the victory. Here are three of the takeaways from Michigan's disappointing win over the basement dwellers of the Big Ten.