Michigan football rushes to first outright national championship since 1948

Houston, we have a national champion as the Michigan Wolverines rushed to glory to cap off a tumultuous season perfectly, defeating the Washington Huskies 34-10 to capture their first outright national championship since 1948.

The victory placed team 144 as the greatest in school history, as they finished the season with an unblemished record at 15-0 behind a great defense and the rushing attack of Blake Corum and Donovan Edwards.

Edwards finished the game toting the rock six times for 104 yards and two touchdowns. Corum, on the other hand, did what he has always done, which was put the entire offense on his back as he carried the ball 21 times for 134 yards and two scores himself.

Corum’s biggest score came in the fourth quarter when he capped off a 71-yard drive by playing human pinball during a 12-yard touchdown run to extend the Wolverines lead to 14.

The senior captain was named the 2024 College Football Playoff National Championship Most Valuable Player for the offensive side of the ball.

Wolverines defense

This Michigan Wolverines defense has held all 15 of their opponents to 24 or fewer points behind some key players stepping up and showing out, like the 2024 College Football Playoff National Championship Most Valuable Player on the defensive side of the ball in shutdown corner Will Johnson, who opened the second half with a crucial interception of Heisman finalist Michael Penix Jr.

His running mate, defensive back Mike Sainristil, had the play of the day on the defensive side of the ball as he nearly took one of two Penix interceptions to the house in the national championship game on Monday.

To have a team overcome unwanted obstacles for 14 weeks only to cap it off in week 15 for the biggest prize in college football is one for the ages, which is why football legend Charles Woodson dawned the 2023 team as the greatest in program history.

The team, which featured Woodson and Tom Brady in 1997, split that year’s title with the Nebraska Cornhuskers. But he feels that this year’s team is the cream of the crop. “If they go on and win this game, they’re the greatest team in Michigan history,” said Woodson during his appearance on the Rich Eisen show. “Hands down. One of the reasons is because we didn’t get a chance to play in the playoff and play No. 1 versus No. 2 or whatever that is.”

Woodson continued: ”We went out and played in the Rose Bowl, played Washington State, and we’ll always have that kind of ‘Co-champ’ connected with us as national champions. This would be a team that went through the gauntlet. This would be a team that went through the playoffs.”

How do you feel about team 144? Do you agree with Woodson’s hot take? How are you celebrating the Wolverines national championship victory? Let us know in the comment section.