Michigan vs Oklahoma
Game played Sep 12, 2026 · Published September 12, 2026 at 9:59 AM · 13 pages
Projected score, total and win probability for Michigan vs Oklahoma, priced against the betting line — with injuries, form and the key statistical mismatches.
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A F P L N A C O L L E G E F O O T B A L L M A T C H U P R E P O R T V S Michigan Wolverines vs Oklahoma Sooners 2026 Season G E N E R A T E D S E P T E M B E R 1 2 , 2 0 2 6 0 9 : 5 2 A M I N T H I S R E P O R T 01 Matchup Overview 02 Visual Analytics 03 SP Ratings 04 ELO Ratings 05 FPI Ratings 06 SRS Ratings 07 Advanced Team Stats 08 Returning Production 09 Team Talent 10 Team PPA 11 Player PPA 12 Team Season Stats 13 Adjusted Team Metrics 14 Michigan Wolverines Injury Updates 15 Oklahoma Sooners Injury Updates 16 Key Player Matchups 17 Michigan Wolverines Roster Updates 18 Oklahoma Sooners Roster Updates 19 Michigan Wolverines Practice and Scrimmage Updates 20 Oklahoma Sooners Practice and Scrimmage Updates 21 Michigan Wolverines vs Oklahoma Sooners Media Matchup Analysis 22 Game Conditions and Betting Context 23 Final Prediction
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01 MATCHUP OVERVIEW This section sets the stage for a Week 2 interconference game at Michigan Stadium, using the actual series record, the most recent meetings, and the listed broadcast. Michigan (Big Ten) hosts Oklahoma (SEC) on Saturday, September 12, 2026, at Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor, on FOX. 1 The Wolverines are 1-0 after a 13-12 home escape against Western Michigan; the Sooners are 1-0 after a 51-0 demolition of UTEP. 1 Oklahoma leads the series 2-0, with no ties. The meetings on record are the 1975 postseason game (played January 1, 1976), a 14-6 Oklahoma win on a neutral field, and the 2025 Week 2 rematch in Norman, a 24-13 Oklahoma win at Memorial Stadium. 1 Michigan is walking into this one with a win that looked like a loss. Three turnovers, 19:52 of possession, and a one-point margin against a MAC opponent is not a foundation — it is a warning label. Oklahoma arrives having scored 51 and allowed nothing, which is the other end of the sport. The 2025 meeting in Norman already established a recent hierarchy: the Sooners won by 11 on their own field, and they now have to finish the job in a 107,601-seat stadium that will be loud, wet, and unimpressed by last year’s result. History here is short and one-sided. Oklahoma has never lost to Michigan. Michigan has never made Oklahoma look uncomfortable. What is at stake is less a trophy than a temperature check. Michigan cannot afford a second consecutive ugly night if this roster is going to live in the Big Ten title conversation; Oklahoma cannot afford to treat a road trip to Ann Arbor like a bye week before Georgia. The FOX audience gets a ranked-versus-proud collision with rain in the forecast and a quarterback on each sideline who already has a statistical fingerprint from Week 1. The Sooners have the résumé and the series. The Wolverines have the building. That is the entire argument until kickoff. 02 VISUAL ANALYTICS Generated directly from the CollegeFootballData feeds for this matchup. The same visuals appear on every report, so numbers can be compared like-for-like from one game to the next. GAME CONDITIONS · The forecast and the ground it will be played on: temperature, wind and precipitation beside the stadium's surface, roof, capacity and elevation. Michigan Wolverines vs Oklahoma Sooners · 2026 · Matchup Report Page 2 of 13
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POWER RATING DASHBOARD · SP+, FPI and Elo side by side. SP+ and FPI are points-above-average ratings; the SP+ defensive rating counts down, so a lower bar is the better defense. EFFICIENCY PROFILE · Every advanced metric converted to a national percentile against all FBS teams, so the outer ring is always the better number regardless of which way the raw stat runs. MISMATCH MATRIX · Each offense measured directly against the defense it will face. Bars show the percentile gap; the longer the bar, the wider that specific unit-vs-unit edge. Michigan Wolverines vs Oklahoma Sooners · 2026 · Matchup Report Page 3 of 13
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SEASON FORM TREND · Week-by-week predicted points added. This is where you see a team trending up or falling apart, which season averages hide. TOP INDIVIDUAL IMPACT · The players who have actually moved the needle, ranked by total PPA. Cross-reference this against the injury and roster sections. Michigan Wolverines vs Oklahoma Sooners · 2026 · Matchup Report Page 4 of 13
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ROSTER CONTINUITY & TALENT · How much production each team returned from last season, alongside the recruiting talent composite. PROJECTED MARGIN BY SYSTEM · What each rating system independently projects, plus the market line and the blended consensus used as the model's anchor. Michigan Wolverines vs Oklahoma Sooners · 2026 · Matchup Report Page 5 of 13
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WIN PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION · The consensus margin spread across the historical error distribution for college football projections. The shaded area on each side is that team's win probability. 03 SP RATINGS SP+ is a points-above-average power rating: offense and overall run higher-is-better, while a lower defensive rating is the stronger defense. Special teams is a small additive term. TEAM OVERALL OFFENSE DEFENSE SPECIAL TEAMS Michigan 12.2 29.7 17.0 -0.5 Oklahoma 21.7 34.0 12.6 0.4 FBS average -0.13 25.9 26.0 0.01 Oklahoma holds a 9.5-point overall SP+ edge, and it is not a single-unit illusion. The Sooners’ offense sits 4.3 points ahead of Michigan’s (34.0 to 29.7) and 8.1 points above the FBS offensive mean; Michigan is a more modest 3.8 above average. 1 On defense — where lower is better — Oklahoma’s 12.6 is 4.4 points stingier than Michigan’s 17.0 and more than 13 points better than the national defensive mean of 26.0. Michigan’s defense is still well above average. It is not in Oklahoma’s class. Special teams tips the same direction: Oklahoma at +0.4, Michigan at -0.5. The Power Rating Dashboard will make the gap look clean because it is clean. A 9.5-point SP+ spread, even after a 2.4-point home-field bump, still leaves Michigan as a clear road favorite’s opponent, which is exactly how the baseline math treats this game. The defensive number is the one that should worry Ann Arbor. Michigan’s Week 1 offense already needed explosives to paper over a 43.8% success rate; sending that unit into a 12.6 SP+ defense, in rain, is how you get a total in the 30s. Oklahoma’s offensive rating is the national-caliber piece, but it is also the piece most exposed to weather and to a shuffled tackle spot. SP+ does not know about Michael Fasusi’s shoulder. It does know that, on talent and output through one week, the Sooners are the better team in every phase. 04 ELO RATINGS Elo is a head-to-head power rating that moves with wins, losses, and the quality of the opponent; the gap implies a points margin once converted. TEAM ELO Michigan 1686 Oklahoma 1799 Oklahoma’s 1799 to Michigan’s 1686 is a 113-point gap. 1 At the conversion used in the projection (25 Elo points per point of margin), that is about 4.5 points of pure strength. Add Michigan’s 2.4-point home-field advantage and Elo is the friendliest system Michigan has: it nets out near Oklahoma by 2, which is the -2.12 Elo component in the baseline. Elo is a slower instrument than SP+ after a single week, and that is the point. It still has Michigan as a serious club (1686 is not a mid-tier number) and Oklahoma as a better one. What the gap implies for Saturday is a close game that Oklahoma should still win. Elo is not looking at John Mateer’s 0.82 passing PPA or Michigan’s three giveaways; it is looking at the programs’ recent results against the field. That is why it is the outlier toward Michigan among the three available systems — not because it thinks the Wolverines are better, but because it refuses to overfit a 51-0 and a 13-12. If you believe Week 1 was signal, Elo is too kind to Michigan. If you believe Week 1 was two cupcakes in different uniforms, Elo is the adult in the room. Either way it still favors the visitors. 05 FPI RATINGS FPI is ESPN’s points-above-average rating against an average opponent, with efficiency components attached. | Team | FPI | Overall eff. | Offense eff. | Defense eff. | Special teams eff. | |---|---|---|---|---| | Michigan | 11.815 | 45.214 | 22.731 | 79.756 | 8.252 | | Oklahoma | 19.212 | 96.305 | 66.452 | 94.557 | 98.145 | Oklahoma’s FPI of 19.212 sits 7.4 points above Michigan’s 11.815. 1 After home field, that is the -5.0 FPI margin in the baseline — identical to the market. The efficiency splits explain why FPI is less generous to Michigan than Elo. Oklahoma’s overall efficiency (96.3) is a different sport from Michigan’s 45.2. The Sooners’ defensive efficiency (94.6) and special teams (98.1) are elite; their offense (66.5) is solid-plus. Michigan’s defense (79.8) is the only efficiency number that looks like a ranked team. The offensive efficiency (22.7) and special teams (8.3) are how you nearly lose to Western Michigan at home. Michigan Wolverines vs Oklahoma Sooners · 2026 · Matchup Report Page 6 of 13
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FPI is also shouting about schedule context: Oklahoma’s remaining strength-of-schedule rank is 4, Michigan’s is 17, and Oklahoma’s game-control rank (17) versus Michigan’s (108) tells you which locker room is used to dictating terms. 1 For this specific meeting, FPI sees a Sooners team that should be better by a field goal plus, on the road, because the Wolverines’ offensive efficiency has not yet proven it can live with an opponent that can tackle. That reading matches SP+ more than Elo, and it matches the betting market exactly. When three of your four instruments rhyme, you listen. 06 SRS RATINGS SRS is a points-based rating adjusted for schedule, independent of SP+, Elo, and FPI. No data was available for this section. 07 ADVANCED TEAM STATS These are opponent-unadjusted efficiency numbers from the season’s first game: success rate is the share of plays that stay on schedule, explosiveness is how big the successful plays are, PPA per play is predicted points added, line yards isolate the offensive line’s work, havoc is disruption rate, and points per scoring opportunity is finishing. METRIC MICHIGAN OKLAHOMA Off. PPA/play 0.236 0.387 Off. success rate 43.8% 55.0% Off. explosiveness 1.079 1.194 Off. line yards 3.40 2.88 Off. pts/opportunity 3.5 4.625 Def. PPA/play -0.037 -0.251 Def. success rate 32.9% 33.9% Def. explosiveness allowed 1.068 0.939 Def. line yards allowed 2.66 1.57 Def. havoc 15.7% 27.1% National percentiles were not supplied for these raw values, so the comparison that matters is team-versus-team and versus the obvious meaning of the numbers. 1 Oklahoma’s offense is on-schedule football: 55% success, 0.387 PPA per play, 4.625 points per chance. Michigan’s offense is a coin flip that sometimes explodes — 43.8% success, but 0.553 PPA on passing downs with a 2.63 explosiveness figure when those plays hit. That is JJ Buchanan math, not a functioning drive machine. Michigan actually won the line-yards battle (3.40 to 2.88), which means the Wolverines moved WMU’s front and then failed to finish or protect the football. Oklahoma’s stuff rate on offense (23.7%) is a yellow flag: they get hit in the backfield, and Michigan’s front will try to live there. The defensive contrast is uglier for the home sideline. Oklahoma allowed 0.00 points per scoring opportunity on five chances and generated havoc on 27.1% of snaps, with the front seven accounting for 20.3%. 1 That is a defense that takes the ball and the drive. Michigan’s defense was perfectly respectable against WMU — 32.9% success allowed, negative PPA, 1.71 points per chance — but it let the opponent run 70 plays and hold the ball for 40 minutes. Havoc at 15.7% will not bother John Mateer unless the edge rotation actually arrives. The advanced profile of this game is therefore simple: Oklahoma stays on schedule and wrecks yours; Michigan needs explosives and a clean night, two things it did not produce against a MAC staff. 08 RETURNING PRODUCTION Returning production measures how much of last season’s predicted-points output (and snap usage) came back, rather than walking out the door. | Team | % PPA returned | % passing PPA | % receiving PPA | % rushing PPA | Usage returned | |---|---|---|---|---| | Michigan | 69.2% | 103.7% | 60.1% | 58.9% | 71.1% | | Oklahoma | 63.2% | 92.1% | 41.6% | 121.6% | 74.6% | Michigan brought back more of last year’s production (69.2% to 63.2%), including an above-full-replacement passing PPA figure (103.7%) that says the quarterback production is in the building. 1 The receiving PPA return (60.1%) and rushing PPA return (58.9%) are less comforting: the skill-talent around Bryce Underwood is more rebuilt than retained, which is exactly what a portal haul of Utah receivers and a running back poached from Oklahoma would look like. Usage at 71.1% means the snaps came back even when some of the production did not. Oklahoma returned less total PPA (63.2%) but more of the snaps (74.6%), and the rushing PPA return of 121.6% is the tell — the ground production is in Norman, even if the receiving PPA return (41.6%) says the wideout room was restocked rather than kept. 1 As the Roster Continuity & Talent chart will show, neither roster is a veteran time capsule, but Michigan kept more of the passing engine and Oklahoma kept more of the run engine. For a rain game, that split matters: the team that returned rushing production is the one better built to survive a wet turf. The team that returned passing production is the one about to throw into a 27% havoc defense with a wet ball. 09 TEAM TALENT The 247 composite talent score is the recruiting base underneath the roster. No data was available for this section. 10 TEAM PPA Team PPA is predicted points added per play, split by offense and defense and by down, and the week-by-week trend is the form you cannot see in a season average. TEAM (WEEK 1) OFF. OVERALL OFF. PASS OFF. RUSH DEF. OVERALL DEF. PASS DEF. RUSH Michigan vs WMU 0.24 0.31 0.16 -0.04 -0.17 -0.04 Oklahoma vs UTEP 0.39 0.82 0.16 -0.25 -0.01 -0.15 Only one week exists, so the Season Form Trend is a single point for each team, not a slope. 1 Michigan’s 0.24 offensive PPA against Western Michigan was almost entirely a passing-downs and third-down story (0.91 PPA on third down) hiding a -0.17 on second down. That is an offense that falls behind the sticks and then hunts a miracle. The defensive PPA of -0.04 is fine; the +0.67 defensive PPA allowed on third down is not. WMU converted 8 of 18 thirds. Oklahoma will not need 18 third Michigan Wolverines vs Oklahoma Sooners · 2026 · Matchup Report Page 7 of 13
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downs if Michigan keeps handing them the ball. Oklahoma’s 0.39 offensive PPA was a passing clinic (0.82) with a modest run game (0.16 — identical to Michigan’s rush PPA, which should end the myth that the Sooners “establish the run”). 1 The defensive PPA of -0.25 is the number that travels: -0.35 on first down, -0.17 on third down, and a rush PPA allowed of -0.15. UTEP is not Michigan, but a defense that is this disruptive on first down does not need the opponent to be helpless. It needs the opponent to stay behind the chains. Michigan already does that to itself. The form trend, such as it is, says Oklahoma’s ceiling is a blowout and Michigan’s floor is a one-score slog. Rain pushes both toward the slog. It does not flip which offense is the problem. 11 PLAYER PPA Player PPA identifies the individuals who actually moved the needle, by total predicted points added. Michigan (top by total PPA) 1 PLAYER POS TOTAL PPA AVG PPA PASS RUSH Bryce Underwood QB 13.253 0.414 7.449 5.804 JJ Buchanan WR 12.036 1.337 12.036 0 Jalen Hoffman TE 0.250 0.125 0.250 0 Jordan Marshall RB 0.070 0.006 0.510 -0.439 Channing Goodwin WR -0.347 -0.347 -0.347 0 Savion Hiter RB -1.366 -0.228 -0.371 -0.995 Andrew Marsh WR -1.497 -0.299 -1.497 0 Oklahoma (top by total PPA) 1 PLAYER POS TOTAL PPA AVG PPA PASS RUSH John Mateer QB 19.358 0.922 18.645 0.713 Isaiah Sategna WR 8.556 1.711 8.556 0 Lloyd Avant RB 5.758 0.360 0.764 4.995 Trell Harris WR 4.834 0.967 4.834 0 Rocky Beers TE 3.212 1.606 3.212 0 Hayden Hansen TE 2.449 2.449 2.449 0 As the Top Individual Impact chart shows, this game has two quarterbacks pulling the wagon and one of them is pulling it twice as hard. Mateer’s 19.358 total PPA and 1.036 passing average are video-game numbers even against UTEP; Underwood’s 13.253 is respectable and, critically, 5.804 of it is rushing. 1 That rush PPA of 0.726 per carry is Michigan’s real offensive identity until someone not named Buchanan catches the ball. Buchanan’s 1.337 average and 10.216 passing-downs PPA are the only reason Michigan’s passing chart is not a crime scene. Everyone else in maize is underwater: Marsh -1.497, Hiter -1.366, Moa -0.894. The running backs did not create. Oklahoma’s supporting cast actually exists. Sategna at 1.711 average, Harris at 0.967, Beers and Hayden Hansen combining for 5.66 PPA at tight end, Avant at 5.758 with 4.995 of it on the ground. 1 That is a structured offense. Michigan’s is a quarterback and a transfer wideout hunting explosives while the run game posts negative PPA. If the Top Individual Impact ranking is the scouting report, Oklahoma has six players you have to account for and Michigan has two. Rain knocks the passing explosives down a peg for both; it does not create a second Michigan playmaker. 12 TEAM SEASON STATS These are the raw counting stats from Week 1, useful as a check on whether the advanced numbers are lying. STAT MICHIGAN OKLAHOMA Points 13 51 Points allowed 12 0 Total yards 276 401 Yards allowed 221 198 Rush yards (att) 106 (25) 170 (39) Pass yards 170 231 Turnovers 3 1 Takeaways 0 2 Third downs 3/10 6/11 Time of possession 19:52 30:32 Penalties 9-80 3-30 Sacks (TFL) 2 (6) 4 (10) The counting stats agree with the advanced numbers in the only way that matters: Oklahoma was the adult, Michigan was the mess. 1 A 276-yard, 13-point, three- turnover night that still produced 0.24 offensive PPA means the explosives were real and the rest was sabotage. Nine penalties for 80 yards and a 19:52 possession time against Western Michigan is how you let a MAC team run 70 plays. The defense’s 221 yards allowed and 12 points allowed look like a win until you notice zero takeaways and 8 of 18 thirds surrendered. Oklahoma’s 401 yards, 5 offensive touchdowns, 6 of 11 on third down, and 10 tackles for loss are the same story the PPA told, just in football language. 1 The Sooners also scored a punt-return touchdown and posted 115 punt-return yards, which is how a 51-0 gets to 51. The disagreement between raw and advanced is small and one-sided: Michigan’s line-yards (3.40) said the OL was fine, but 106 rushing yards on 25 carries with negative backfield PPA said the backs and the scheme were not. Oklahoma’s 2.88 line yards said the OL was ordinary, but 170 rushing yards and a 4.625 points-per-opportunity figure said they finished. Saturday in rain, finishing is the whole sport. Michigan Wolverines vs Oklahoma Sooners · 2026 · Matchup Report Page 8 of 13
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13 ADJUSTED TEAM METRICS Opponent-adjusted efficiency strips out the quality of the teams you have already played. No data was available for this section. 14 MICHIGAN WOLVERINES INJURY UPDATES Medical availability only, split by source. Live web research and the stored injury feed are kept separate. Live web research: No data was available from live web research for this section. Injury feed: QB Bryce Underwood — starter, no injury concern. 22 S Rod Moore — active; played 54 snaps in the opener, progressing, paired with Makari Bracy. 2 4 DE John Henry Daley — active; 43 snaps in the opener, still ramping up from Achilles recovery. 2 7 EDGE Dominic Nichols — available and starting. 2 15 DE Carter Meadows — probable; expected to debut, expanding the edge rotation. 2 6 OT Andrew Babalola — doubtful / unlikely to play. 2 3 20 TE Hogan Hansen — questionable; unlikely to see significant snaps. 2 3 OL Andrew Sprague — available. 2 24 S Mason Curtis — active, in the safety rotation. 2 4 RB Micah Ka'apana — out for the season (leg). 2 3 OL Ace Hamilton — out for the season (leg). 2 3 The medical picture that actually affects this game is on the edges and the sixth offensive lineman, not at quarterback. Underwood is healthy; the problem with Underwood is the tape, not the trainer. 22 Meadows suiting up is the one genuine plus — Michigan wants five or six edge rushers in the rotation against a Sooners line that is already starting a replacement left tackle. 6 Daley and Nichols are the starters of that rotation, and Daley is still not at peak conditioning, which is a snap-count issue in a rain game that could become a slog. 7 Rod Moore’s return from a two-year ACL odyssey is real, and the staff is calling him half of a “Batman and Robin” pairing, but he was also called questionable earlier in the week after a 54-snap workload that may have been too much too soon. 4 24 Treat him as active and not quite whole. The losses that are already baked in are Ka'apana and Hamilton (both season-ending, both irrelevant to Saturday’s script except as depth that is gone) and Babalola, the former five-star tackle who remains on the shelf. 3 20 Hansen’s likely limitation thins the 12-personnel looks Michigan would want in the rain. None of this is a star quarterback in a boot. It is a team that is healthy enough to play its game and not healthy enough to pretend the offensive line and tight end room are at full strength against an SEC front. If Meadows is a true contributor rather than a cameo, the injury report actually helps Michigan more than it hurts them — because the unit it reinforces is the one attacking Oklahoma’s weakest remaining link. 15 OKLAHOMA SOONERS INJURY UPDATES Medical availability only, split by source. Live web research and the stored injury feed are kept separate. Live web research: No data was available from live web research for this section. Injury feed: LT Michael Fasusi — out (shoulder, re-aggravated vs. UTEP; 17 snaps in Week 1). 2 9 C Jake Maikkula — available; returns from MCL sprain to start at center. 2 8 9 OL Ryan Fodje — available; returns from knee injury to start at left tackle in Fasusi’s place. 2 8 9 OG Noah Best — available; true freshman slides from Week 1 center to right guard. 2 9 RB Tory Blaylock — probable (hamstring); expected to back up Lloyd Avant. 2 28 DL Danny Okoye — available, good to go. 2 26 WR Parker Livingstone — available, cleared from concussion protocol. 2 35 RB Xavier Robinson — probable. 2 The Sooners’ injury report is an offensive-line puzzle with a net that is better than it first appears and worse than a healthy Fasusi. Losing the starting left tackle on the road, in rain, against a Michigan edge group that is adding bodies, is the one availability item that can move a spread. 9 12 Fodje has played the position and is not a walk-on in a panic; Maikkula’s return at center is the actual structural win, because it lets Best go back to guard instead of snapping against a Big Ten front. 8 25 Oklahoma’s line will be “in better shape than initially expected,” which is a sentence that still admits it is not in ideal shape. 25 Skill-position health is a non-issue. Livingstone is cleared, Blaylock should be available behind Avant, Okoye is in the defensive line rotation, and there is no quarterback designation on Mateer. 26 28 35 The Sooners are not limping into the Big House. They are shuffling the five men who keep Mateer upright, and they are doing it on a wet field against a defense that just spent a week advertising an expanded edge rotation. That is a medical story with a football consequence: Oklahoma’s passing PPA of 0.82 is the best weapon on either roster, and it is the weapon most sensitive to a new left tackle and a wet ball. The rest of the report is noise. 16 KEY PLAYER MATCHUPS The defining individual battles, tied to Player PPA and the units that will actually share a hashmark. John Mateer against Michigan’s edge rotation — Dominic Nichols, John Henry Daley, and a possible Carter Meadows debut — is the game. Mateer put up 19.358 total PPA and 18.645 passing PPA in one night; Nichols has already sent the warning, and Michigan’s staff wants five or six rushers spinning against a left tackle who was not the starter last week. 1 6 41 If Fodje holds up, Mateer will throw Oklahoma to a comfortable win. If he does not, the rain and the Big House get a vote. This is the mismatch Oklahoma must not lose, and it is the one Michigan has been building all week. 39 JJ Buchanan against Oklahoma’s secondary is Michigan’s only proven explosive. Buchanan’s 1.337 average PPA and 2.554 on passing downs are outlier figures; Andrew Marsh, Salesi Moa, and Channing Goodwin all posted negative PPA. 1 Oklahoma’s assignment is not “stop Michigan’s weapons.” It is stop Buchanan and make Underwood beat a 27.1% havoc front with his legs. 40 That second part is the Underwood-versus-the-Sooners-front-seven game: his 0.726 rush PPA and 5.804 rushing PPA are the only reason David Pollack’s “make him a run threat” prescription is not empty talk. 1 78 Oklahoma stuffed 29.4% of run plays in Week 1 and allowed 1.57 line yards. Underwood can escape. He cannot repeatedly outrun that math. Lloyd Avant and Isaiah Sategna are the Sooners’ counters. 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rushing yards and 46 attempts to Western Michigan. 1 Sategna’s 1.711 average PPA is the shot play if the weather ever lets Mateer push it, and Trell Harris (4.834 PPA) is the possession complement. On the back end, Rod Moore and Makari Bracy are being sold as Batman and Robin; Moore is active and not at peak, which is a sentence Mateer can hear from the sideline. 4 The Sooners do not need all of these matchups. They need Mateer to survive the edges and Avant to make Michigan tackle in the rain. Michigan needs Buchanan to hit one and Underwood to hit two with his legs. That is a lopsided menu. 17 MICHIGAN WOLVERINES ROSTER UPDATES Non-injury roster news only. Verified portal movement first, then researched items. Verified transfer portal (incoming): JJ Buchanan WR Utah (4★, 0.94); John Henry Daley EDGE Utah (4★, 0.93); Smith Snowden CB Utah (4★, 0.92); Salesi Moa CB Utah (4★, 0.90); Taylor Tatum RB Oklahoma (3★, 0.88); Jonah Leaea DL Utah (3★, 0.87); Jaime Ffrench Jr. WR Texas (3★, 0.87); Nathaniel Staehling LB North Dakota State (3★, 0.86); Houston Ka'aha'aina-Torres IOL Nebraska (3★, 0.86); Max Alford LB BYU (3★, 0.86); Aisea Moa LB Michigan State (3★, 0.86); Brayden Fowler-Nicolosi QB Colorado State (3★, 0.85); Colin Hurley QB LSU (3★, 0.85); Chris Bracy S Memphis (3★, 0.85); plus specialists Trey Butkowski (K) and Cameron Brown (P). 1 Verified transfer portal (outgoing): Justice Haynes RB to Georgia Tech (4★, 0.95); Jayden Sanders CB to Notre Dame (4★, 0.92); Jake Guarnera IOL (4★, 0.92); Elijah Dotson CB to Missouri (4★, 0.90); Ty Haywood OT to Alabama (4★, 0.90); Brandyn Hillman S to Virginia (3★, 0.88); Cole Sullivan LB to Oklahoma (3★, 0.87); plus a long list of three-stars including Jadyn Davis (QB), Brady Prieskorn (TE), Jasper Parker (RB), and Semaj Morgan (WR). 1 Researched news: No additional non-injury roster news was available for this section. The portal ledger is the offseason in one table: Michigan imported a Utah colony (Buchanan, Daley, Snowden, Salesi Moa, Leaea) and stole Taylor Tatum from the opponent they are playing on Saturday. 1 Buchanan is already the second-most valuable offensive player on the roster by PPA; Daley is in the starting edge rotation. That is a successful raid. The outgoing side is a talent drain — Haynes at 0.95 to Georgia Tech is a real running back leaving, and Cole Sullivan walking to Norman is the subplot that writes itself. Michigan replaced volume with a specific type: Whittingham-era Utah players and a few Big Ten/SEC leftovers. The quarterback room kept Underwood and added Fowler-Nicolosi and Hurley after Davis, Warren, Keene, and Garcia left. What it means for this game is that Michigan’s identity is no longer the closed-loop roster that used to bludgeon people in November. It is a first-year portal construction with a Utah spine, a freshman-ish quarterback who has to prove he can do it against a real defense, and a running back it took from Oklahoma who has not yet shown up in the PPA table. Tatum versus his former team is a nice headline. Buchanan versus Oklahoma’s secondary is the actual transaction that already paid off. The outgoing Haynes-shaped hole is why Jordan Marshall and Savion Hiter posted a combined negative rushing PPA in Week 1. You can win a portal cycle and still have no run game in September. 18 OKLAHOMA SOONERS ROSTER UPDATES Non-injury roster news only. Verified portal movement first, then researched items. Verified transfer portal (incoming): Trell Harris WR Virginia (4★, 0.93); E'Marion Harris OT Arkansas (4★, 0.93); Parker Livingstone WR Texas (4★, 0.92); Jack Van Dorselaer TE Tennessee (4★, 0.90); Hayden Hansen TE Florida (3★, 0.88); Cole Sullivan LB Michigan (3★, 0.87); Dakoda Fields CB Oregon (3★, 0.87); Peyton Joseph OT Georgia Tech (3★, 0.86); Bishop Thomas DL Georgia State (3★, 0.86); Kenny Ozowalu EDGE UTSA (3★, 0.86); Caleb Nitta IOL Western Kentucky (3★, 0.86); Lloyd Avant RB Colorado State (3★, 0.85); Rocky Beers TE Colorado State (3★, 0.85); Mackenzie Alleyne WR Washington State (3★, 0.85). 1 Verified transfer portal (outgoing): Sammy Omosigho LB to UCLA (4★, 0.91); Kobie McKinzie LB to Northwestern (4★, 0.90); Taylor Tatum RB to Michigan (3★, 0.88); Gentry Williams CB to Georgia (3★, 0.87); plus a long three-star exodus that includes Jacob Sexton OT to Oklahoma State, Michael Hawkins Jr. QB to West Virginia, Jovantae Barnes RB to Kentucky, and a cluster of offensive tackles. 1 Researched news: No additional non-injury roster news was available for this section. Oklahoma’s portal math is the mirror of Michigan’s: they added the skill pieces that already hit the PPA sheet and lost a running back to the team they play this week. 1 Trell Harris (4.834 PPA), Hayden Hansen (2.449), Rocky Beers (3.212), Lloyd Avant (5.758), and Parker Livingstone are not theoretical adds — they produced in Week 1. Cole Sullivan, arriving from Michigan, is the linebacker returning to the building he just left. The outgoing list is heavy on linemen and secondary, which is how you end up shuffling a tackle on a September Saturday even before Fasusi’s shoulder entered the chat. The Sooners replaced receiving PPA they did not retain (only 41.6% of last year’s receiving PPA came back) with a Virginia four-star, a Texas four-star, and two tight ends who already have combined PPA of 5.66. 1 That is competent roster management. Losing Tatum to Michigan is a fun narrative and a non-event for this game until Tatum shows up in the PPA table. Losing two four-star linebackers is the more serious long-term item; for Saturday it is background, because the defense that posted 27.1% havoc and 0.00 points per opportunity did not look like a unit in mourning. The roster Oklahoma is rolling out is built to throw, catch, and wreck drives. The roster Michigan is rolling out is built to rush the passer and hope Buchanan gets isolated. Both constructions will be visible in the first quarter. 19 MICHIGAN WOLVERINES PRACTICE AND SCRIMMAGE UPDATES Practice participation, installs, and camp reporting in the week leading into Oklahoma. Michigan spent the week treating the opener like a problem to be redesigned, not a result to be repeated. The staff installed a cluster of new offensive wrinkles — on the order of 15, including fresh play-action off the RPO game — and used scout-team looks that mimicked Oklahoma’s front. 57 Jordan Marshall, who posted a flat 0.070 total PPA in Week 1, was described as earning a larger rotation, which is either a vote of confidence or an admission that the backfield as currently constructed cannot block a weather game by itself. 1 57 On the other side of the ball, the edge room was the actual news: Meadows practiced, the staff talked about five or six rushers, and the plan is to keep Nichols and Daley from living at 70 snaps. 6 21 23 Safeties coach Tyler Stockton spent his podium time selling Moore and Bracy as a paired unit rather than a pitch-count project, which is the tone you take when you need the public to believe the secondary is settled. 4 The offensive line was not sold as settled. Babalola remaining on the shelf means the tackle depth they wanted as a “rhino” extra lineman is not part of Saturday’s script, and Sprague being “ready to roll” is a depth item, not a scheme item. 3 24 There were no midweek scrimmage results to quote — camp scrimmages are over — so the information that matters is participation and intent. Intent is: more wrinkles for Underwood, more bodies off the edge, more Marshall, and a safety pairing they are asking you to trust. Participation is: Meadows trending up, Babalola trending nowhere, Hansen not a full tight-end answer. That is a practice week of a team that knows Week 1 was not good enough and is trying to fix the pass rush first, because that is the one fix that collides with Oklahoma’s actual problem. 20 OKLAHOMA SOONERS PRACTICE AND SCRIMMAGE UPDATES Practice participation, installs, and camp reporting in the week leading into Michigan. Oklahoma’s week was an offensive-line rebuild disguised as a normal road prep. Maikkula and Fodje were ramped back into the starting five, Best was moved to right guard, and the public messaging was that the line will be in better shape than the Fasusi news originally implied. 8 9 12 25 That is coach-speak for “we have a plan” and also for “the plan is a true freshman at guard and a relocated starter at tackle, on the road, in rain.” Venables has been willing to call Maikkula’s absence short-term from the jump; the fact that it actually was short-term is the best practice development Norman has. 32 Danny Okoye being full-go keeps the defensive line rotation intact. 26 Michigan Wolverines vs Oklahoma Sooners · 2026 · Matchup Report Page 10 of 13
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The football quality of the week is less tidy. The running-backs room has been described as thin even with Avant producing and Blaylock trending toward available, and the defense — coming off a shutout — has still been told it needs a sharper performance, particularly in the details, with confidence remaining high. 73 75 Mateer and Avant were camp standouts before any of this, and nothing in the week’s reporting has demoted them. 74 Third-down work showed up as a practice theme, which is what you emphasize when you are about to play a team that died on third down against Western Michigan and a defense that just posted a 0.00 points-per- opportunity night. 73 There is no credible midweek scrimmage result that changes the hierarchy. Oklahoma practiced like a favorite managing a tackle injury. Michigan practiced like an underdog chasing a pass rush. Both descriptions are accurate. 21 MICHIGAN WOLVERINES VS OKLAHOMA SOONERS MEDIA MATCHUP ANALYSIS What national and local media, analysts, and coaches are actually saying about this game. The local beat is not selling a miracle. MLive’s writers split on the score (34-10 and 21-17) and agreed on the winner: Oklahoma. 76 81 They want 200 rushing yards and a clean turnover sheet from Michigan, which is a polite way of saying they watched the Western Michigan tape. Kyle Whittingham’s own line — that Oklahoma has Michigan’s work cut out — was not a podium accident, and CBS folded it into a pick of Oklahoma covering 5.5 with Underwood on notice rather than on a long-term lock. 44 45 SI FanNation’s model went 27-13 Sooners and under 43.5, citing Mateer’s efficiency and Oklahoma’s front. 43 David Pollack’s version was 24-17 Oklahoma, with the only Michigan path being Underwood as a designed run threat. 78 The dissent is the betting column, not the scoreboard column. FOX’s desk leaned Michigan +5.5 as a bounce-back home dog, arguing the Week 1 line over-punished three turnovers and zero takeaways. 77 CBS’s SportsLine simulation hammered the under at 43.5, which is the one thing the bullish and bearish sides share. 79 Taylor Lewan, who has actually played in that stadium, expected the “real Michigan” to show up physically without committing to a number. 51 The consensus of people paid to have an opinion is therefore: Oklahoma wins, the number is a field goal to a touchdown, the total is a trap, and Bryce Underwood is the variable everyone is tired of talking around. Underwood faces a “must-play-well” game in the national copy, which is columnist for “we are one more ugly tape from a quarterback controversy nobody in Ann Arbor wants in Week 2.” 46 47 The media is not confused. It is waiting to see whether Michigan is a bad offensive team or merely a wet, turnover-prone one. 22 GAME CONDITIONS AND BETTING CONTEXT The forecast, the venue, what those conditions do to this specific matchup, each team’s ATS record, and the market probability against the statistical baseline. As the Game Conditions chart shows, this is an outdoor game at Michigan Stadium on artificial turf, capacity 107,601, elevation 256 meters — low enough that thin air is not a character. 1 The forecast is 71.8°F, humidity 84%, wind 7.6 mph from 182° (south), and a weather condition of Heavy Rain with 0.039 of precipitation and no snow. It is not a dome; the rain counts. Wind at 7.6 mph is not enough to outlaw the passing game by itself. Heavy rain is enough to punish downfield timing, wet the ball, and shove both coordinators toward the run and the short throw. That combination favors the better tackling defense and the more functional ground game, and it is a hard tax on Mateer’s 0.82 passing PPA and Buchanan’s explosiveness alike. Totals move down in this weather. Passing-game gaps shrink. Anyone who wants 50 points out of this turf is ignoring the sky. Michigan is 0-1 ATS with an average cover margin of -26.5 — the mathematical scar of being a massive favorite in a 13-12 win. Oklahoma is 1-0 ATS with a +10 cover margin. 1 Bovada and DraftKings have the market at Michigan +5 (market margin home -5.0) with a total of 43.5. The market’s pregame home win probability is 37.8% at a 4.5 spread; the statistical baseline home win probability is 35.9%. Those two numbers are in agreement: Michigan is a legitimate dog, not a trap-game mirage. The Projected Margin by System chart will show SP+ at Oklahoma by 7.1, FPI at Oklahoma by 5.0, Elo at Oklahoma by 2.1, the ratings consensus at -4.74, and the blended consensus (50% ratings, 50% market) at -4.87. The Win Probability Distribution around that consensus, with a 13.5-point error bar, is why a 36% home win number is not a tease. It is a favorite that can still lose on a wet afternoon if the new left tackle has a long night. The building is hostile. The forecast is hostile to the over. The number is Oklahoma -5. 23 FINAL PREDICTION Oklahoma wins this game. The statistical baseline, a 50/50 blend of the ratings consensus and the market, sits at Michigan 18, Oklahoma 23 — a consensus margin of -4.87 with a projected total of 40.8. That is the anchor. The adjustments that the ratings cannot see all run in the same direction as the weather: Fasusi is out and Fodje is a relocated starter on the road 9, Michigan is adding edge bodies with Meadows probable 6, and Heavy Rain at an open-air stadium taxes the passing PPA that made Oklahoma look like a different sport in Week 1. Those are not six-point adjustments. They are a point off the Sooners’ margin and three-plus points off the total. The counterweight is Michigan’s three-turnover, 19:52-possession opener and an Oklahoma defense that allowed 0.00 points per scoring opportunity with 27.1% havoc. 1 Net it out and the game is still Oklahoma’s, just wetter and shorter: Michigan 16, Oklahoma 20. The market is Oklahoma -5 / Michigan +5, total 43.5 (Bovada, DraftKings). Projecting Oklahoma by 4 means the play is Michigan +5; projecting a 36-point game means the play is under 43.5. Take Michigan +5. Take the under 43.5. Laying 5 with a 4-point projection is how you donate a unit to the house. The favorite is still the right side of the moneyline; it is the wrong side of a number that already has the Sooners winning by the exact margin FPI advertised before the rain and the tackle news. The case is three facts, not a vibe. First, every available rating — SP+ (Oklahoma by 7.1), FPI (by 5.0), Elo (by 2.1) — agrees the Sooners are better, and the Power Rating Dashboard does not have a hidden Michigan bar. Second, Michigan’s offense is two players (Underwood, Buchanan) and a turnover problem walking into a havoc front; Oklahoma’s offense is Mateer plus a supporting cast that already produced, even if the left tackle is new and the ball is wet. Third, Heavy Rain at the Big House is a total killer and a passing-game equalizer, not a magic trick that turns a 13-point Wolverines attack into a 28-point one. Oklahoma covers the field. Michigan covers the number. Nobody covers the over. 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THE VERDICT · The projected final score, win probability, the model's spread set against the market and the pick that comparison implies — the report's bottom line in one card. SOURCES 1. College Football Data API (CollegeFootballData) https://collegefootballdata.com 2. College football injury feed (Injury feed) https://www.rotowire.com/cfootball/news.php 3. Michigan injury updates, depth chart, keys to victory vs. Oklahoma - mlive.com (mlive.com) https://www.mlive.com/wolverines/football/2026/09/michigan-injury-updates-depth-chart-keys-to- victory-vs-oklahoma.html 4. Michigan safeties coach Tyler Stockton says Moore, Bracy form ‘Batman and Robin’ duo ahead of Oklahoma game (ClickOnDetroit) https://www.clickondetroit.com/sports/2026/09/11/michigan-safeties-coach-tyler-stockton-says- moore-bracy-form-batman-and-robin-duo-ahead-of-oklahoma-game/ 5. Michigan Could Get Huge Boost for Oklahoma Game - Detroit Sports Nation https://detroitsportsnation.com/carter-meadows-michigan-oklahoma-return/richardknight/college- sports/u-of-m-news/09/11/2026/493100/ 6. Michigan Football's Dominant Edge Unit Could Get Reinforcements vs. Oklahoma (SI.com) https://www.si.com/college/michigan/football/michigan-football-dominant-edge-unit-could-get- reinforcements-vs-oklahoma 7. 3 things we learned: Michigan injury updates, early thoughts on Oklahoma - mlive.com (MLive) https://www.mlive.com/wolverines/football/2026/09/3-things-we-learned-michigan-injury-updates- early-thoughts-on-oklahoma.html 8. Jake Maikkula, Ryan Fodje set to return from injury for OU football https://www.oklahoman.com/story/sports/college/sooners/2026/09/11/jake-maikkula-injury-update- ou-football-offensive-lineman-status-vs-michigan/91712337007/ 9. Sources: Oklahoma shuffling O-line ahead of Michigan game - ESPN (ESPN) https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/49905441/sources-oklahoma-shuffling-o-line- ahead-michigan-game 10. Oklahoma injury updates heading into Michigan Football matchup | Maize n Brew https://www.maizenbrew.com/football/122444/michigan-wolverines-football-oklahoma-sooners- injury-report-michael-fasusi 11. Game Primer: OU at Michigan - University of Oklahoma https://soonersports.com/news/2026/9/10/football-game-primer-ou-at-michigan 12. As Expected, Sooners Get Two OL Back For Michigan but Lose One https://www.si.com/college/oklahoma/football/as-expected-sooners-get-two-ol-back-for-michigan- but-lose-one-01m28sbh48mb 13. WMU C Jeremy Schleicher out for 2026 season after setback surgery (Mitten Football) https://mitten-football.ghost.io/wmu-c-jeremy-schleicher-de-noah-bishop-out-for-2026-season- lance-taylor-says/ 14. Dominic Nichols back from minor injury, expected to start (Wolverines Wire) https://wolverineswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/wolverines/football/2026/08/31/michigan- football-week-1-injury-report-babalola-rod-moore-latest/91547174007/ 15. Dominic Nichols available, likely starter (Maize n Brew) https://www.maizenbrew.com/football/121406/michigan-football-injuries-john-henry-daley-rod- moore-dominic-nichols-andrew-babalola-ace-hamilton-micah-kaapana-western-michigan 16. Rod Moore will play but not at pre-injury level (Maize n Brew) https://www.maizenbrew.com/football/120987/kyle-whittingham-previews-michigan-football- coaching-debut-western-michigan 17. John Henry Daley 100% healthy, full go for opener (Blue Water Healthy Living) https://bluewaterhealthyliving.com/news/local-news/michigan/kyle-whittingham-offers-injury- updates-ahead-of-michigan-season-opener/ 18. No other major injuries reported for Michigan (ClickOnDetroit) https://www.clickondetroit.com/all-about-ann-arbor/2026/09/01/head-coach-kyle-whittingham- talks-michigan-football-opener-andrew-babalola-injury-big-ten-title-goal/ 19. OT Chad Schuster recovered from shoulder surgery, expected to start at left tackle (Mitten Football) https://mitten-football.ghost.io/wednesday-notebook-western-michigan-um-ol-plans-week-1-portal- 43. Oklahoma vs. Michigan Football Game Preview and Analysis (SI FanNation) https://www.si.com/fannation/college/cfb-hq/picks/oklahoma-vs-michigan-football-prediction-game-preview 44. Michigan vs. Oklahoma prediction, picks, odds, spread, where to watch live - CBS Sports (CBS Sports) https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/oklahoma-michigan-prediction-picks-odds-spread-where-to-watch-live/ 45. Kyle Whittingham Says Oklahoma Has Michigan’s Work Cut Out https://roundtable.io/sports/ncaa/oklahoma/news/kyle-whittingham-says-oklahoma-has-michigan-s-work-cut-out 46. Michigan football news: Bryce Underwood faces 'must-play-well' game vs. Oklahoma https://clutchpoints.com/ncaa-football/michigan-football-news-bryce-underwood-faces-must-play-well-game-vs-oklahoma 47. Michigan Football Mailbag: Will QB Bryce Underwood get benched? | Maize n Brew https://www.maizenbrew.com/football/122263/michigan-football-oklahoma-sooners-john-mateer-bryce-underwood- mailbag-questions-answered 48. Oklahoma Sooners vs. Michigan Wolverines Live Score and Stats - September 12, 2026 Gametracker - CBS Sports https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/gametracker/playbyplay/NCAAF_20260912_OKLA@MICH/ 49. Even though it's been ugly, Michigan has to stay the course with Bryce Underwood https://gbmwolverine.com/even-though-it-s-been-ugly-michigan-has-to-stay-the-course-with-bryce-underwood 50. Michigan Football Discovers a 'Damn Good Football Player' on Defense https://www.si.com/college/michigan/football/michigan-football-discovers-a-damn-good-football-player-on-defense 51. After shaky opener, ESPN’s Taylor Lewan expects ‘real Michigan’ to show up vs. Oklahoma - mlive.com (MLive) https://www.mlive.com/wolverines/football/2026/09/after-shaky-opener-espns-taylor-lewan-expects-real-michigan-to- show-up-vs-oklahoma.html 52. 2026 Oklahoma Sooners Football Depth Chart | Ourlads.com https://www.ourlads.com/ncaa-football-depth-charts/depth-chart/oklahoma/91556?bcsi-ac- cde40c890bd19f3d=2719301D000000022tFuoLXjo1j2rWhhwprB67tdWJ6yZgAAAgAAAE3ygQGEAwAAAwAAAMOlOAA%3D 53. Sooners Pre-Michigan Notebook: Cole Sullivan, David Stone, Jason Witten and Sonny Brown Updates https://www.si.com/college/oklahoma/football/sooners-pre-michigan-notebook-cole-sullivan-david-stone-jason-witten- and-sonny-brown-updates-01m2693r3cbk 54. Sources: C Maikkula returns, LT Fasusi out as OU sees O-line shake-up | ESPN Tri-Cities https://www.espntricities.com/2026/09/11/sources-c-maikkula-returns-lt-fasusi-out-as-ou-sees-o-line-shake-up-2/ 55. Michigan experiments with OL shuffle, five-man front in final pre-Oklahoma practice (The Michigan Insider (247Sports)) https://247sports.com/college/michigan/article/michigan-football-practice-report-oklahoma-week-lineup-changes- 2460241/ 56. Will Johnson returns to full practice; Derrick Moore limited in red jersey (MLive (Michigan Live)) https://www.mlive.com/wolverines/2026/09/michigan-practice-update-will-johnson-full-go-derrick-moore-limited.html 57. Sherrone Moore: 15 new offensive wrinkles installed for Oklahoma, Marshall's role grows (Wolverine Digest (On3)) https://www.on3.com/teams/michigan-wolverines/news/sherrone-moore-presser-oklahoma-week-new-wrinkles-marshall- role/ 58. Davis stays in pocket; Warren practices bootlegs; Hansen features in 12-personnel (The Michigan Daily) https://www.michigandaily.com/sports/michigan-football/practice-report-sept-9-quarterback-bootlegs-tight-end- packaging/ 59. Michigan receivers drill contested catches vs press-man; Morris, Smiley stand out (Detroit Free Press) https://www.freep.com/story/sports/college/michigan-wolverines/2026/09/09/umich-football-practice-contested-throws- morris/1234567/ 60. Official Week 2 depth chart: Warren starts, Edwards leads RB room, OL still open at LT (Wolverine Chronicle (FanNation / SI)) https://www.si.com/college/michigan/football/michigan-depth-chart-oklahoma-week-sept-8-2026 61. Graham and Barham limited Monday with soreness, projected for full return Thursday (Maize n Brew (SB Nation)) https://www.maizenbrew.com/football/2026/9/7/243568/michigan-injury-report-monday-sept-7-graham-barham-limited/ 62. In the Trenches 602 - Oklahoma Preview Transcript - University of Michigan Athletics https://mgoblue.com/news/2026/9/10/mgoblue-podcasts-in-the-trenches-602-oklahoma-preview-transcript 63. Matt Leinart explains how Michigan can unlock Bryce Underwood https://wolverineswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/wolverines/football/2026/09/11/matt-leinart-explains-how- michigan-can-unlock-bryce-underwood/91715200007/ 64. Michigan has more problems than a clock controversy with Oklahoma coming to the Big House - CBS Detroit Michigan Wolverines vs Oklahoma Sooners · 2026 · Matchup Report Page 12 of 13
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era-prep-freshmen-to-look-out-for/ 20. Andrew Babalola ruled out for Oklahoma game (Wolverines Wire / USA Today) https://wolverineswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/wolverines/football/2026/09/07/michigan- football-injury-updates-ahead-of-oklahoma-game/91649386007/ 21. Michigan expects expanded edge rotation vs Oklahoma; Carter Meadows may return (Maize n Brew) https://www.maizenbrew.com/football/24480860/michigan-football-lewis-powell-edge-rushers- dom-nichols-carter-meadows-john-henry-daley-oklahoma 22. Bryce Underwood remains starter, no injury concerns (SI.com / Oklahoma) https://www.si.com/college/oklahoma/football/michigan-coach-says-bryce-underwood-is-our-qb- right-now-but-that-s-not-set-in-concrete-01m1yre7x4r5 23. Carter Meadows practices Tuesday, hopes to play vs Oklahoma (The Michigan Daily) https://www.michigandaily.com/sports/football/lewis-powell-fired-up-for-defensive-ends-to- continue-momentum-against-oklahoma/ 24. Rod Moore questionable for Michigan vs Oklahoma (Maize n Brew) https://www.maizenbrew.com/football/91515/michigan-football-injury-update-oklahoma-sooners- sherrone-rod-moore-hogan-hansen-andrew-sprague 25. Oklahoma's offensive line will be in better shape than initially expected for Michigan https://stormininnorman.com/oklahoma-offensive-line-will-be-in-better-shape-than-initially- expected-for-michigan 26. OU football injury updates: Sooners DL Danny Okoye 'good to go' (The Oklahoman) https://www.oklahoman.com/story/sports/college/sooners/2026/09/07/ou-football-injury-updates- sooners-dl-danny-okoye-to-play-vs-michigan-oklahoma-wolverines/91652939007/ 27. Oklahoma Sooners injury report: OL status vs Michigan - SECFB (SECFB) https://secfb.com/oklahoma-sooners-injury-report-week-2/ 28. Tory Blaylock Injury: Expected to be available in the Big House | RotoWire (RotoWire) https://www.rotowire.com/cfootball/headlines/tory-blaylock-injury-expected-to-be-available-in-the- big-house-229427 29. Oklahoma Football injury updates on OL Jake Maikkula and Ryan Fodje (Sooners Wire) https://soonerswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/sooners/football/2026/09/08/oklahoma- football-injury-update-jake-maikkula-ryan-fodje/91657760007/ 30. Oklahoma football news: Key John Mateer protector returning vs. Michigan https://clutchpoints.com/ncaa-football/oklahoma-football-news-key-john-mateer-protector- returning-vs-michigan 31. Barnes back at UTEP but status for week one is still uncertain (KFOX14/CBS4) https://kfoxtv.com/news/local/barnes-back-at-utep-but-status-for-week-one-is-still-uncertain 32. Oklahoma’s Brent Venables Thinks Jake Maikkula Injury ‘Short Term’, Backups Versatile (SI Sooners) https://www.si.com/college/oklahoma/football/oklahoma-s-brent-venables-thinks-jake-maikkula- injury-short-term-backups-versatile-01m0krcbpjst 33. Oklahoma Sooners Football Projected Depth Chart After Fall Camp Ahead of Week 1 vs. UTEP (Roundtable.io) https://roundtable.io/sports/ncaa/oklahoma/news/oklahoma-sooners-football-projected-depth- chart-after-fall-camp-ahead-of-week-1-vs-utep 34. Takeaways From Oklahoma's Depth Chart Ahead of Opener vs. UTEP (SI Sooners) https://www.si.com/college/oklahoma/football/takeaways-from-oklahoma-s-depth-chart-ahead-of- opener-vs-utep-01m1byh1qmv5 35. Parker Livingstone (Stormin in Norman) https://stormininnorman.com/oklahoma-vs-utep-injury-report-whos-out-who-has-to-step-up-for- sooners 36. Oklahoma State left tackle Jacob Sexton out for season with broken leg (Sports Illustrated (OSU site)) https://www.si.com/college/oklahomastate/football/oklahoma-state-week-2-injury-report-latest- updates-practice-status-replacement-options 37. Oklahoma State tackle Braydon Nelson unavailable for Oregon game (Sports Illustrated (OSU site)) https://www.si.com/college/oklahomastate/football/what-will-oklahoma-state-offensive-line-do- without-jacob-sexton 38. Jacob Sexton Out for Season with Leg Injury (Pistols Firing Blog) https://pistolsfiringblog.com/jacob-sexton-is-out-for-the-year-what-does-that-mean-for-oklahoma- states-offensive-line/ 39. Three Matchups Oklahoma Must Win Against Michigan https://www.si.com/college/oklahoma/football/three-matchups-oklahoma-must-win-against- michigan-01m28zfae9kd 40. Which of Michigan’s Weapons are Most Important for Oklahoma to Neutralize? https://www.si.com/college/oklahoma/football/which-of-michigan-s-weapons-are-most-important- for-oklahoma-to-neutralize-01m289mh8g4d 41. Michigan Defender Sends Bold Warning to Oklahoma QB John Mateer - Detroit Sports Nation https://detroitsportsnation.com/dom-nichols-warning-john-mateer-michigan- oklahoma/richardknight/college-sports/u-of-m-news/09/11/2026/492904/ 42. What To Watch For: Oklahoma https://www.michigandaily.com/sports/football/what-to-watch-for-oklahoma-2/ https://www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news/michigan-has-more-problems-than-a-clock-controversy-with-oklahoma/ 65. Oklahoma LT Smith probable for Michigan after full practice (247Sports) https://247sports.com/college/oklahoma/Article/oklahoma-sooners-football-michael-smith-injury-practice-michigan-2026- 234567/ 66. Freshman QB Johnson gets increased first-team reps in practice (The Oklahoman) https://www.oklahoman.com/story/sports/college/sooners/2026/09/11/oklahoma-football-kade-johnson-practice-reps- michigan/123456/ 67. Oklahoma holds Friday practice; third-down focus, two DBs limited (The Oklahoman) https://www.oklahoman.com/story/sports/college/sooners/2026/09/11/oklahoma-football-practice-weather-third-down- caden-davis-spencer-webb/123457/ 68. Sooners practice against simulated Michigan blitz looks (Sooners Illustrated) https://soonersillustrated.com/oklahoma-sooners-football-practice-michigan-blitz-preparation-2026-98765/ 69. Freshman RB Thompson shines in midweek scrimmage (Sooners Illustrated) https://soonersillustrated.com/oklahoma-freshman-rb-xavier-thompson-scrimmage-performance-2026-65432/ 70. Oklahoma WR Anthony, TE Stogner fully practice after ailments (University of Oklahoma Athletics) https://soonersports.com/news/2026/9/8/football-weekly-injury-report-anthony-stogner-practice.aspx 71. Oklahoma defense inconsistent in third-down practice drill (Sooners Now (FanNation)) https://www.si.com/college/oklahoma/football/oklahoma-practice-thoughts-third-down-struggles-2026-54321/ 72. OU football practice notes: Sooners dinged up on offense https://tulsaworld.com/sports/college/ou/article_02e23da0-cb94-4003-8dae-60bc97888464.html 73. Oklahoma's Defense Needs Sharper Performance Against Michigan, but Confidence Remains High https://www.si.com/college/oklahoma/football/oklahoma-s-defense-needs-sharper-performance-against-michigan-but- confidence-remains-high-01m24pge7v6y 74. OU Football: Defense, John Mateer, Lloyd Avant among early fall camp standouts - News9.com https://www.news9.com/sports/university-of-oklahoma/ou-football-fall-camp-practice-takeaways-mateer-defense- running-backs 75. Oklahoma Running Backs Room Remains Thin and Other Observations From Tuesday's Practice https://www.si.com/college/oklahoma/football/oklahoma-running-backs-room-remains-thin-and-other-observations-from- tuesday-s-practice-01kzrfn71bmj 76. MLive beat writers split on score but both pick Oklahoma (MLive) https://www.mlive.com/wolverines/football/2026/09/michigan-vs-no-11-oklahoma-score-predictions-from-mlife-s-beat- writers.html 77. FOX Sports betting leans Michigan +5.5 in bounce-back spot (FOX Sports) https://www.foxsports.com/stories/college-football/oklahoma-vs-michigan-prediction-odds-pick-college-football-week-2 78. Pollack: Michigan must make Underwood a run threat to have a chance (SI FanNation) https://www.si.com/fannation/college/cfb-hq/news/david-pollack-details-one-way-michigan-can-beat-oklahoma-in-week-2 79. CBS Sports betting model simulates Under 43.5 in Oklahoma-Michigan (CBS Sports) https://www.cbssports.com/betting/news/oklahoma-man-neglect-prediction-odds-time-2026-week-2-college-football- picks/ 80. Michigan injury roundup Battle: Carter Meadows trending, key skill players out (MLive) https://www.mlive.com/wolverines/football/2026/09/mich-index-injuries-depth-chart-keys-to-victory-vs-oklahoma.html 81. Michigan vs. No. 11 Oklahoma score predictions from MLive’s beat writers - mlive.com https://www.mlive.com/wolverines/football/2026/09/michigan-vs-no-11-oklahoma-score-predictions-from-mlives-beat- writers.html 82. Oklahoma vs. Michigan odds: Proven model reveals picks for Week 2 game - CBS Sports https://www.cbssports.com/betting/news/oklahoma-michigan-prediction-odds-time-2026-week-2-college-football-picks/ 83. Getting to know Oklahoma ahead of matchup vs Michigan | Maize n Brew https://www.maizenbrew.com/football/122325/michigan-football-oklahoma-sooners-preview-john-mateer-brent-venables- cole-sullivan Michigan Wolverines vs Oklahoma Sooners · 2026 · Matchup Report Page 13 of 13
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