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ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- It was more playground than playbook.
Drew Henson, making his first start, threw a 17-yard touchdown
pass to David Terrell with 6:42 left to give No. 9 Michigan a 13-10
victory over Wisconsin (No. 14 ESPN/USA Today, No. 17 AP) on Saturday.
|  | | Wisconsin linebacker Roger Knight watches as Michigan celebrates its go-ahead touchdown in the fourth quarter Saturday in Ann Arbor. |
Henson eluded a rush, rolled right and threw across the field on
his back foot, over two defenders and one of his receivers, to a
leaping Terrell in the back of the end zone.
"There was no diagram," Henson said. "You don't want to take
chances like that often, but I felt like it was the time to take a
chance."
Henson, who fumbled twice in the first quarter, was 15-of-27 for
257 yards and a touchdown. He played the entire game after missing
the first three games of the season because of a broken foot, and
coming off the bench last week to lead Michigan to a
come-from-behind victory at Illinois.
The Wolverines (4-1 overall, 2-0 Big Ten) became the first
Division I-A program to reach 800 wins.
The Badgers (3-2, 0-2) likely eliminated themselves from winning
a third straight Big Ten title. Since 1896, a Big Ten championship
has been won by a team with two conference losses just four times.
Michigan needed the go-ahead touchdown after Wisconsin took a
10-6 lead with 12:10 left. On a play-action pass, Brooks Bollinger
tossed a 5-yard pass to Chad Kuhns to finish a 13-play, 71-yard
drive, which took 5:47.
Wisconsin had a chance to tie it with 2:42 left, but Vitaly
Pisetsky missed a 42-yard field goal to the left by less than a
foot. Bollinger threw two interceptions in the first quarter, the
first of which was in Michigan's end zone.
"We had some real wasted chances," Wisconsin coach Barry
Alvarez said. "And I'm real concerned that we shot ourselves in
the foot. We're making mistakes and we have a small margin of
error. Against teams like this, you can't make the mistakes we
made."
Michigan's Marquise Walker caught seven passes for 130 yards,
Terrell had five receptions for 96 yards, and Anthony Thomas gained
82 yards on 29 carries.
"The defense really won the game," Terrell said. "It wasn't
my touchdown score at the end of the game that won the game."
Wisconsin played with its entire roster for the first time this
season. The NCAA suspended a total of 26 players, who served
staggered suspensions over the first four games, for receiving
unadvertised discounts at a shoe store.
Wisconsin's Michael Bennett ran for 123 yards on 30 carries.
Bollinger was 8-of-17 for 98 yards with one touchdown and two
first-quarter interceptions. Bollinger scrambled for 57 yards on 12
attempts.
"It's a tough one to swallow," said Bennett, who entered the
game as the nation's leading rusher.
Both quarterbacks had trouble taking care of the football,
especially in the first quarter. In the first 12:21, Henson fumbled
twice and Bollinger threw two interceptions.
The Badgers turned Henson's first fumble into a score. Pisetsky
kicked a 49-yard field goal to give Wisconsin a 3-0 lead with 4:26
left in the fist quarter.
Jeff Del Verne tied it with a 33-yard field goal with four
seconds left in the half. Henson directed a nine-play, 57-yard
drive over 1:09, highlighted by a 33-yard pass to Terrell, to get
in position to score.
Del Verne put Michigan ahead 6-3 on another 33-yard field goal
midway through the third quarter.
On Michigan's game-winning drive, Henson converted on two third
downs with a 21 and 20-yard passes to Terrell.
Michigan coach Lloyd Carr, like a proud father, beamed when he
was asked about Henson's performance.
"He got knocked down, he got hit, he turned the ball over,"
Carr said. "When you can do all of those things and then come back
at the end and lead your team to a winning touchdown, that says a
lot about you. He's got the right stuff I'll tell you that."
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ALSO SEE
College Football Scoreboard
Wisconsin Clubhouse
Michigan Clubhouse
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 Michigan's David Terrell gracefully goes up and grabs a game-winning pass from Drew Henson.
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Jeff Del Verne puts Michigan on the board with this 33-yard field goal.
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Todd Howard closes out the 13-10 Michigan win over Wisconsin with this interception.
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 David Terrell know his team was ready for anything at the end of the game.
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Barry Alvarez feels his team had a chance to win at the end of the game.
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