2005 Michigan Wolverines football team

American college football season

2005 Michigan Wolverines football

Alamo Bowl, L 28–32 vs. Nebraska
Conference	Big Ten Conference
Record	7–5 (5–3 Big Ten)
Head coach	Lloyd Carr (11th season)
Offensive coordinator	Terry Malone (4th season)
Offensive scheme	Multiple
Defensive coordinator	Jim Herrmann (9th season)
Base defense	Multiple
MVP	Jason Avant
Captains	Jason Avant Pat Massey
Home stadium	Michigan Stadium (Capacity: 107,501)
Seasons ← 2004 2006 →

2005 Big Ten Conference football standings
v t e
Team	W		L	W		L
No. 3 Penn State $+	7	–	1	11	–	1
No. 4 Ohio State %+	7	–	1	10	–	2
No. 15 Wisconsin	5	–	3	10	–	3
Michigan	5	–	3	7	–	5
Northwestern	5	–	3	7	–	5
Iowa	5	–	3	7	–	5
Minnesota	4	–	4	7	–	5
Purdue	3	–	5	5	–	6
Michigan State	2	–	6	5	–	6
Indiana	1	–	7	4	–	7
Illinois	0	–	8	2	–	9

$ – BCS representative as conference champion % – BCS at-large representative + – Conference co-champions Rankings from AP Poll

The 2005 Michigan Wolverines football team represented the University of Michigan in the 2005 NCAA Division I-A football season. The team's head coach was Lloyd Carr. The Wolverines played their home games at Michigan Stadium. That year Michigan Wolverines football competed in the Big Ten Conference in almost all intercollegiate sports including men's college football. Despite a disappointing 7–5 finish after being ranked as high as No. 3 early in the season, Michigan did not lose a game by more than a touchdown and upset Penn State, who finished #3 in the nation, on a last second touchdown pass from Chad Henne to Mario Manningham. The team earned an invitation to the 2005 Alamo Bowl, where it lost to the Nebraska Cornhuskers by a 32–28 margin. The team's first five conference games were all decided in the final 24 seconds of regulation or in overtime.^[1]

Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent	Rank	Site	TV	Result	Attendance
September 3	3:30 p.m.	Northern Illinois*	No. 4	Michigan Stadium Ann Arbor, MI	ABC	W 33–17	110,971
September 10	12:00 p.m.	No. 20 Notre Dame*	No. 3	Michigan Stadium Ann Arbor, MI (rivalry)	ABC	L 10–17	111,386
September 17	12:00 p.m.	Eastern Michigan*	No. 14	Michigan Stadium Ann Arbor, MI	ESPN Plus	W 55–0	109,511
September 24	6:00 p.m.	at Wisconsin	No. 14	Camp Randall Stadium Madison, WI	ESPN2	L 20–23	83,022
October 1	12:00 p.m.	at No. 11 Michigan State		Spartan Stadium East Lansing, MI (rivalry)	ABC	W 34–31 ^OT	79,401
October 8	1:00 p.m.	Minnesota	No. 21	Michigan Stadium Ann Arbor, MI (Little Brown Jug)	ABC	L 20–23	111,117
October 15	3:30 p.m.	No. 8 Penn State		Michigan Stadium Ann Arbor, MI (rivalry)	ABC	W 27–25	111,249
October 22	12:00 p.m.	at Iowa		Kinnick Stadium Iowa City, IA	ABC	W 23–20 ^OT	70,585
October 29	7:00 p.m.	at No. 21 Northwestern	No. 25	Ryan Field Evanston, IL (rivalry)	ESPN	W 33–17	47,130
November 12	12:00 p.m.	Indiana	No. 21	Michigan Stadium Ann Arbor, MI	ESPN2	W 41–14	110,580
November 19	1:00 p.m.	No. 9 Ohio State	No. 17	Michigan Stadium Ann Arbor, MI (rivalry)	ABC	L 21–25	111,591
December 28	8:00 p.m.	vs. Nebraska*	No. 20	Alamodome San Antonio, TX (Alamo Bowl)	ESPN	L 28–32	63,016
*Non-conference game Homecoming Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game All times are in Eastern time

Game summaries

Michigan State

Paul Bunyan Trophy: Michigan Wolverines (2–2) at #11 Michigan State Spartans (4–0)

Period	1	2	3	4	OT	Total
Michigan	14	10	0	7	3	34
Michigan St	7	14	3	7	0	31

at Spartan Stadium • East Lansing, Michigan

Date: October 1
Game time: 12:00 p.m. EDT
Game attendance: 79,401
Referee: Dennis Lipski
TV announcers (ABC): Brent Musburger, Gary Danielson, and Jack Arute
Michigan Football

Game information

Michigan

Chad Henne
26/35, 256 Yds, 3 TD, INT
Mike Hart
36 Rush, 218 Yds, TD
Jason Avant
10 Rec, 96 Yds,TD

Michigan State

Drew Stanton
20/30, 282 Yds, TD, INT
Jason Teague
8 Rush, 72 Yds
Jerramy Scott
3 Rec, 80 Yds

Scoring summary

Quarter	Time	Drive			Team	Scoring information	Score
Quarter	Time	Plays	Yards	TOP	Team	Scoring information	MICH	MSU
1	8:23	10	98	3:40	Michigan	Jason Avant 2-yard touchdown reception from Chad Henne, Garrett Rivas kick good	7	0
1	7:03	2	52	0:15	Michigan	Mario Manningham 43-yard touchdown reception from Chad Henne, Garrett Rivas kick good	14	0
1	2:44	10	80	4:19	Michigan St	Drew Stanton 4-yard touchdown run, John Goss kick good	14	7
2	11:20	11	87	3:44	Michigan	Brian Thompson 5-yard touchdown reception from Chad Henne, Garrett Rivas kick good	21	7
2	5:53	12	78	5:21	Michigan St	Jehuu Caulcrick 1-yard touchdown run, John Goss kick good	21	14
2	3:30	2	67	0:49	Michigan St	Kerry Reed 61-yard touchdown reception from Drew Stanton, John Goss kick good	21	21
2	0:09	13	69	3:15	Michigan	20-yard field goal by Garrett Rivas	24	21
3	11:11	4	8	2:24	Michigan St	26-yard field goal by John Goss	24	24
4	11:29	5	80	2:09	Michigan	Mike Hart 1-yard touchdown run, Garrett Rivas kick good	31	24
4	6:43				Michigan St	Fumble recovery returned 74 yards for touchdown by Domata Peko, Kyle Mayer kick good	31	31
OT		3	7		Michigan	35-yard field goal by Garrett Rivas	34	31
"TOP" = time of possession. For other American football terms, see Glossary of American football.							34	31

Penn State

Penn State at Michigan

	1	2	3	4	Total
Penn State	0	0	3	22	25
• Michigan	0	3	7	17	27

Date: October 15
Location: Michigan Stadium, Ann Arbor, MI
Game start: 3:30 p.m. EST
TV announcers (ABC): Brad Nessler (Play-by-play), Bob Griese (Color) & Lynn Swann (Sideline)

Source: ESPN

Scoring summary

2	MICH	4:34	Garrett Rivas 35-yard field goal	MICH 3-0

3	11:10	MICH	Mike Hart 2-yard run (Garrett Rivas kick)	MICH 10-0

3	:10	PSU	Kevin Kelly 25-yard field goal	MICH 10-3

4	11:56	PSU	Michael Robinson 4-yard run (Kevin Kelly kick)	Tied 10-10

4	11:39	PSU	Alan Zemaitis 35-yard fumble return (Kevin Kelly run)	PSU 18-10

4	9:32	MICH	Mario Manningham 33-yard pass from Chad Henne (Mike Hart run)	Tied 18-18

4	3:45	MICH	Garrett Rivas 47-yard field goal	MICH 21-18

4	:53	PSU	Michael Robinson 3-yard run (Kevin Kelly kick)	PSU 25-21

4	:00	MICH	Mario Manningham 10-yard pass from Chad Henne (no kick)	MICH 27-25

Iowa

	1	2	3	4	OT	Total
• Michigan	0	7	3	7	6	23
Iowa	7	7	0	3	3	20

Date: October 22
Location: Kinnick Stadium • Iowa City, IA
Game start: 12:10 p.m. EST
TV announcers (ABC): Mike Tirico (Play-by-play), Tim Brant (Color) & Suzy Shuster (Sideline)

Scoring summary

1	9:07	IOWA	Herb Grigsby 15-yard pass from Drew Tate (Kyle Schlicher kick)	Iowa 7-0

2	13:45	MICH	Jason Avant 5-yard pass from Chad Henne (Garrett Rivas kick)	Tie 7-7

2	8:09	IOWA	Herb Grigsby 4-yard pass from Drew Tate (Kyle Schlicher kick)	Iowa 14-7

3	8:25	MICH	Garrett Rivas 27-yard field goal	Iowa 14-10

4	8:51	MICH	Steve Breaston 52-yard pass from Chad Henne (Garrett Rivas kick)	Michigan 17-14

4	:00	IOWA	Kyle Schlicher 32-yard field goal	Tie 17-17

OT		IOWA	Kyle Schlicher 28-yard field goal	Iowa 20-17

OT		MICH	Jerome Jackson 1-yard run	Michigan 23-20

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Personnel

Coaching staff

Head coach: Lloyd Carr
Assistant coaches: Erik Campbell (assistant head coach), Mike DeBord,[Jim Herrmann] Ron English, Fred Jackson, Ron Lee, Scot Loeffler, Andy Moeller, Steve Stripling, Steve Szabo
Trainer: Paul Schmidt

Roster

2005 Michigan Wolverines football team roster

Players

Coaches

Offense

Pos.	#	Name	Class
WR	`16`	Adrian Arrington	So
WR	`8`	Jason Avant	Sr
WR	`18`	Antonio Bass	Fr
WR	`15`	Steve Breaston	Sr
RB	`3`	Kevin Grady	Fr
QB	`12`	Matt Gutierrez	Sr
RB	`20`	Mike Hart	So
QB	`7`	Chad Henne	So
G	`57`	Adam Kraus	Jr
G	`67`	Matt Lentz	Sr
OT	`77`	Jake Long	Jr
WR	`86`	Mario Manningham	Fr
TE	`88`	Tim Massaquoi	Sr
G	`60`	David Moosman	Fr
OT	`71`	Mark Ortmann	Fr
OL	`72`	Rueben Riley	Sr
OT	`79`	Adam Stenavich	Sr

Defense

Pos.	#	Name	Class
S	`22`	Jamar Adams	So
DT	`80`	Alan Branch	So
LB	`6`	Prescott Burgess	Jr
LB	`2`	Shawn Crable	Jr
LB	`37`	Chris Graham	So
CB	`29`	Leon Hall	Jr
LB	`45`	David Harris	Sr
DE	`90`	Tim Jamison	So
CB	`13`	Grant Mason	Fr
S	`21`	Ryan Mundy	Jr
CB	`25`	Johnny Sears Jr.	Fr
DT	`67`	Terrance Taylor	Fr
CB	`14`	Morgan Trent	So
DT	`78`	Gabe Watson	Sr
DE	`56`	LaMarr Woodley	Jr
LB	`99`	Pierre Woods	Sr

Special teams

Pos.	#	Name	Class
P	`41`	Zoltán Meskó	Fr
K	`38`	Garrett Rivas	Jr

Head coach

Lloyd Carr

Coordinators/assistant coaches

Legend

(C) Team captain
(S) Suspended
(I) Ineligible

Injured
Redshirt

Roster

Statistical achievements

The team led the conference in kick return average in all games (23.4), while Michigan State led in conference games.^[3] Mike Hart set the school record for career 200-yard games (4), passing Ron Johnson's 3 set in 1968. He extended the record, which is still standing, to 5 in 2007.^[4] His 200-yard game came after missing two and a half games due to injury. During the three injury-affected games Michigan lost to Notre Dame and Wisconsin and slipped out of the polls for the first time since 1998, snapping the nation's longest streak of 114-straight poll appearances.^[5]

Awards and honors

Co-captains: Jason Avant, Pat Massey
Academic All-American: Avant (second team)^[6]
All-Conference: Jason Avant, Matt Lentz, Adam Stenavich, Gabe Watson
Most Valuable Player: Jason Avant
Meyer Morton Award: Tim Massaquoi
John Maulbetsch Award: Chad Henne
Frederick Matthei Award: Leon Hall
Arthur Robinson Scholarship Award: Paul Sarantos, David Schoonover
Hugh Rader Jr. Award: Adam Stenavich
Robert P. Ufer Award: Tim Massaquoi
Roger Zatkoff Award: David Harris
Dick Katcher Award: Alan Branch

References

^ Lopresti, Mike (October 23, 2005). "Six unbeatens must fit into two slots for shot at title". USA Today. Retrieved July 12, 2010.
^ "Iowa's Home Win Streak Ends With OT Loss". ESPN. Retrieved April 27, 2013.
^ "Big Ten Conference Football Full Media Guide". CBS Interactive/Big Ten Conference. January 5, 2010. p. 59. Archived from the original on July 3, 2010. Retrieved July 8, 2010.
^ "Record Book" (PDF). CBS Interactive. January 5, 2010. p. 115. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 7, 2010. Retrieved July 8, 2010.
^ "Spartans' first loss at hand of nemesis Wolverines". ESPN. October 1, 2005. Retrieved July 10, 2010.
^ "Michigan's Academic All-Americans". CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on July 18, 2010. Retrieved July 10, 2010.

External links

2005 Football Team -- Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan Athletics History
2005 Michigan at NCAA.org
2005 statistics at ESPN.com

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