SOUTH BEND, Ind. - If Denard Robinson's performance last week was a jaw dropper, what he did against Notre Dame on Saturday topped it.
He broke off the longest run in the history of the Irish's fabled stadium - an 87-yarder for a TD.
That's just for starters. How about a school-record 502 yards total offense for a QB, including 258 yards rushing on 28 carries and 244 more passing?
And oh, yeah, he directed the game-winning TD drive, scoring himself from 2 yards out with 27 seconds left to send Michigan (2-0) to a pulsating 28-24 victory.
"Man, I didn't even know that," Robinson said of his record-breaking day - the second week in a row he snapped single-game Michigan quarterback marks for total offense and rushing.
"Our offense came together," he said. "The offensive line blocked, the receivers catching, everything was clicking. ... I'm a team player and I don't look at stats."
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He doesn't lace his spikes, either. And he's durable.
"He's a tough kid. That's the one thing that stands out," Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly said. "You run a quarterback 25 times, you got to have toughness."
Kelly's guy was tough, too. But he just couldn't pull out the victory.
Dayne Crist missed most of the first half after getting blurry vision from hitting his head on the ground during a run in an opening TD drive. But he brought the Irish back in the second half and connected with tight end Kyle Rudolph on a 95-yard TD pass to put Notre Dame (1-1) ahead with 3:41 left.
Then Robinson led Michigan on a 12-play, 72-yard drive, capped his game-winning TD - a fitting end.
On the game-winning drive, Robinson carried to pick up a crucial first on a fourth-and-1 at the Notre Dame 35. Then on a third-and-5 from the 17, Robinson drilled a 15-yard pass to Roy Roundtree to the 2 to set up his TD.
Notre Dame (1-1) had one last chance from the Wolverines' 27 with six seconds left, but Crist threw the ball out of the end zone on the final play.
Robinson's most spectacular moment came late in the second quarter, when he took the snap from his own 13 and sprinted right past the Irish defense for second-longest run ever by an opponent against Notre Dame (Dick Panin broke off an 88-yarder for Michigan State in 1951) and the longest run ever at Notre Dame Stadium. It put the Wolverines up 21-7.
By the numbers
Another Saturday, another record-breaking game for Denard Robinson.
502
Yards of total offense against Notre Dame for the Michigan quarterback. He singlehandedly outgained every other team in the Big Ten Saturday.
SOURCE: The Associated Press
