Grades: Michigan football team gets best marks on offense

Defense Too many problems to count. Indiana rolled up 467 yards of total offense and Darius Willis more than doubled his career output with 152 yards rushing. The tackling was poor and big plays were a problem. Only holding the Hoosiers to four field goals on trips inside the red zone keeps this from being an F. Grade: D Special teams A mixed bag. Zoltan Mesko was solid as usual. He benefitted from one long roll and had a punt touched dead at the 2. Darryl Stonum had a couple big returns as well. But Indiana hit a couple nice returns of its own, and Michigan took a careless offsides on kickoff. Grade: C-plus Coaching Michigan looked ill prepared for Indiana’s pistol offense from the opening series. The Hoosiers were more creative with their play calls, and Michigan seemed to get out of rhythm by rotating its quarterbacks and running backs. On the plus side, coaches dialed up the right play call on Forcier’s final touchdown pass. Grade: D Unsung hero J.T. Floyd played most of the final three quarters in place of an ineffective Boubacar Cissoko at cornerback. Ryan Van Bergen (a sack on Indiana’s second-to-last series) and Brandon Graham (six tackles) made more splash plays, but Floyd gave a big lift to Michigan's reeling secondary. Dave Birkett covers University of Michigan football for AnnArbor.com. He can be reached by phone at 734-623-2552 or by e-mail at davidbirkett@annarbor.com. Follow him on Twitter @davebirkett.