After some pretty bad offensive football by both teams, the game was knotted up at 7-7 heading into halftime. Both teams struggled to make any big plays and the defenses seemed to do just enough to keep the opposing offenses out of the end zone.

During the second half however, Michigan found a spark on defense and turned over the Huskies three times. Michigan linebacker Cole Sullivan got it started, with an incredible play. He read Demond Williams Jr.'s eyes the whole way, and jumped a slant giving the Wolverines the ball on Washington's 14-yard line. Running back Jordan Marshall punched it into the end zone on the very next play.

On the next possession, linebacker Jimmy Rolder had tight coverage on a crossing route that was thrown behind the receiver leading to interception No. 2. Nine plays and 62 yards later, Michigan was in the end zone again. Quarterback Bryce Underwood found reserve tight end Zack Marshall for the veteran's first ever touchdown catch.

Finally, with just about four minutes left in the game and Washington in desperation mode, Williams heaved a deep ball downfield, which bounced out of the receiver's arms into Jacob Oden's lap, who had actually fallen on the ground. It was Oden's first career interception and probably the easiest one he'll ever get.

At the end of the game and with the dust settled, Michigan had earned a nice, 17-point win over a competitive and talented Huskies team. Underwood finished the day 21-of-27 for 230 yards and two touchdowns. He also added 25 yards on the ground. The freshman quarterback found seven different receivers throughout the course of the game and a few unlikely targets stepped up and made plays. Marshall, in Justice Haynes' absence, carried the ball 25 times for 133 yards and a touchdown of his own. He showed that he can absolutely be RB1 if necessary and was a major reason Michigan was able to grind it out down the stretch.

After the game, head coach Sherrone Moore had some interesting things to say. He was asked almost immediately about Rod Moore, Brandyn Hillman and Hogan Hansen not playing despite none of them being on the injury report.

"There were just game time decisions," Moore said. "With Rod, he was, you know, he was practicing these past couple days, so, but again, it's like we're always going to do whatever in the best interest of the kid, even if they want to go. So he probably could have went, but we just felt like it wasn't the right time.

"When you get to the game, they could do warm ups. They go through warm ups and feels like, 'Okay, well, that doesn't look exactly right.' So those are the things that we make the decisions off of."

Moore also talked about the efforts on both sides of the ball and explained why they were able to get a much-needed win against a solid and talented Washington squad.

"Willpower. It's just want they wanted. They wanted it more," Moore said of his team. "Again, credit to Coach [Jedd] Fisch and their football team. I think they got a really good football team and dynamic players, but our guys wanted it more. And at the end of the day, that's football, pretty simple. You've got to want it more than them. And if you do that, you can come out with victories like that."