The 2002 Michigan Wolverines football team represented the

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in the

2002 NCAA Division I-A football season The 2002 NCAA Division I-A football season ended with a double overtime national championship game. Ohio State and Miami both came into the Fiesta Bowl undefeated. The underdog Buckeyes defeated the defending-champion Hurricanes 31–24, end ...

. The team's head coach was

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. The Wolverines played their home games at

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. The team was led by All-Americans

Bennie Joppru Benjamin Paul Joppru (born January 5, 1980) is a former American football tight end. He was selected by the Houston Texans in the second round of the 2003 NFL Draft out of the University of Michigan. In addition to the Texans, he has played for ...

and

Marlin Jackson Marlin Tyrell Jackson (born June 30, 1983) is a former American football player who last played for the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League. He played college football for the University of Michigan, and was recognized as a con ...

as well as team

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B. J. Askew.

Schedule

Game summaries

Washington

Iowa

*Source: Box Score

Wisconsin

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*MICH: Chris Perry 175 Rush Yds (career-high)

Ohio State

Roster

Statistical achievements

Michigan led the

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s for all games (3.2 sacks per game), while Iowa led for conference games.

John Navarre John Robert Navarre (born September 9, 1980) is a former American football quarterback who was a three-year starter for the Michigan Wolverines from 2001 to 2003, leading the Wolverines to the 2003 Big Ten Conference championship in his final year ...

set numerous single-season school records that he would break the following season: attempts (448), surpassing his own record of 385 the prior season; completions (248), surpassing

Tom Brady Thomas Edward Patrick Brady Jr. (born August 3, 1977) is an American football quarterback for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the National Football League (NFL). He spent his first 20 seasons with the New England Patriots organization, with which ...

's 1998 and 1999 totals of 214; yards (2905),

Jim Harbaugh James Joseph Harbaugh (; born December 23, 1963) is an American football coach and former quarterback, who is the current and 20th head football coach of the Michigan Wolverines. He played college football at Michigan from 1983 to 1986. He play ...

's 1986 record of 2729. He also broke the career pass attempts record (910), surpassing

Elvis Grbac Elvis M. Grbac (born August 13, 1970) is a former American football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for nine seasons, most notably with the Kansas City Chiefs. He played college football at Michigan, where he won the ...

's 835 in 1992, which he would extend the following year and which

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would eventually break in 2007. On September 14, Navarre joined Grbac as the only Wolverines with two career 4-touchdown passing games. On September 28, he tied Grbac with three such career outings and became the only Wolverine with two in the same season. Navarre broke

's single-season yards per game record of 215.5 set in 1999 with a 223.5 average. He set the current single-season interception percentage record (1.56, minimum 100 attempts), surpassing Wally Gabler's 1965 record of 1.60. He also broke Harbaugh's 1986 single-season 200-yard game total of 8 with 9 and surpassed Brady's career total of 15 by posting his 18th in his junior year.

Awards and honors

*Co-captains:

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*All-Americans: Bennie Joppru,

*All-Conference:

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, Victor Hobson, Marlin Jackson,

Tony Pape Tony Pape (born September 29, 1981) is a former American football offensive tackle who since 2010 has been an assistant football coach and in charge of the offensive line at Reavis High School in Burbank, Illinois. Pape was drafted by the Miami D ...

*Most Valuable Player: B.J. Askew *Meyer Morton Award:

*John Maulbetsch Award:

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*Frederick Matthei Award: David Baas *Arthur Robinsion Scholarship Award: Joe Sgroi *Hugh Rader Jr. Award: Tony Pape *Robert P. Ufer Award: Charles Drake, Bennie Joppru *Roger Zatkoff Award: Victor Hobson

Coaching staff

*Head coach:

*Assistant coaches:

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Erik Campbell John Erik Campbell (born January 21, 1966) is an American gridiron football coach and former player. He is currently the passing game coordinator and wide receivers coach for the Bowling Green State University football team. Campbell played c ...

Jim Herrmann James Herrmann (born December 8, 1960) is an American football coach and former player. He is currently the defensive coordinator for the San Antonio Brahmas of the XFL and was recently the defensive coordinator for the New York Guardians of ...

Brady Hoke Brady Patrick Hoke (; born November 3, 1958) is an American football coach in his second stint as the head coach at San Diego State University. He was previously the head coach at the University of Michigan from 2011 to 2014. Hoke grew up in O ...

, Fred Jackson,

Scot Loeffler Scot Loeffler (born November 1, 1974) is an American football coach and former player. He is currently the head coach at Bowling Green State University. He formerly served as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Boston College. He was ...

Terry Malone Terry is a unisex given name, derived from French Thierry and Theodoric. It can also be used as a diminutive nickname for the names Teresa or Theresa (feminine) or Terence or Terrier (masculine). People Male * Terry Albritton (1955–2005), A ...

, Andy Moeller,

Bill Sheridan William Sheridan (born January 27, 1959) is an American football coach who is currently the linebackers coach for the Arlington Renegades. Sheridan was previously the defensive coordinator for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the National Football L ...

*Trainer: Paul Schmidt *Manager: Craig Hisey (senior manager), Chris Anderson, Tom Burpee, Jeff Clancy, Brandon Greer, Joseph Harper, Michael Henderson, Brad Hoffman, Jeff Levine, Atif Lodhi, Katie McNall, Brad Rosenwasser, Davon Wilson

References

External links

2002 Football Team -- Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan Athletics History

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