Michigan Football: 3 takeaways from a depressing loss to Indiana

During the first 30 minutes, it was all Hoosiers. Michigan's defense took their best punches and were trailing 17-3 at halftime. It could have been a lot worse. Included in that fiasco was a head-scratching challenge by Sherrone Moore where Alex Orji clearly fumbled the ball and it caused a raucous as to why he egregiously wasted a timeout.

Flip the script to the second half and it was all Michigan football for the most part. Dominic Zvada made a pair of field goals to cut the deficit to one possession. One came from 56 yards and the other was because of a Zeke Berry interception, that set them up inside the 10-yard line.

In the fourth, Michigan football got within two points on a one-yard touchdown plunge by Kalel Mullings on fourth and goal. The two-point conversion failed, but the maize and blue were in business. Indiana punted back to Davis Warren and company, but they couldn't move the ball. Tommy Doman had his worst punt of the day and the Hoosiers returned it inside Michigan territory, but only could manage three points to advance the lead to five.

In Michigan's last shot, Warren found Peyton O'Leary open on fourth and long, but he didn't have enough room to reach the first down sticks and the Hoosiers are off to their first 10-0 start in program history. Morale victories mean nothing, but Michigan football was forced to taste some humble pie with this heartbreaking loss.

Here's three of the takeaways.