Michigan’s bad offense has to contend with another issue: kicking woes

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — While Michigan football struggles to put points on the board, it’s not getting much help from special teams.

More specifically, the kicking game.

Starting kicker Trey Butkowski, the transfer from Pittsburgh, started the season 4 for 4 on field-goal attempts before trailing off in recent weeks. Butkowski was just 2 of 4 in a 13-6 overtime loss to Indiana, then missed both of his attempts in a win over Rutgers.

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Those struggles opened a kicking competition in practice last week, won by freshman Jacob Baggett, the team’s kickoff specialist. And in Baggett’s first attempt of the season, a 26-yarder in the…