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Michigan football makes clutch plays late to avoid Maryland upset, 34-27

The move that sent Michigan football fans streaming toward the exits was the signature jump cut from tailback Blake Corum. He’d taken a handoff from quarterback J.J. McCarthy late in the fourth quarter of a game the Wolverines were seeking to preserve and punctuated the afternoon instead.

Corum's jump cut behind the line of scrimmage — from right to left, on a dime, with a wall of bodies ahead of him — opened a lane around the left side of U-M’s formation, the space left vacant by Maryland's desperate collapse toward the middle of the field.