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2002 Michigan Wolverines football team

2002 Michigan Wolverines football
Michigan Wolverines Logo.svg
Outback Bowl champion
Outback Bowl, W 38–30 vs. Florida
Conference Big Ten Conference
Ranking
Coaches No. 9
AP No. 9
2002 record 10–3 (6–2 Big Ten)
Head coach Lloyd Carr (8th year)
Offensive coordinator Terry Malone (1st year)
Offensive scheme Multiple
Defensive coordinator Jim Herrmann (6th year)
Base defense Multiple
MVP B. J. Askew
Captain Victor Hobson
Captain Bennie Joppru
Home stadium Michigan Stadium
(Capacity: 107,501)
Seasons
← 2001
2003 →
2002 Big Ten football standings
Conf     Overall
Team   W   L         W   L  
#1 Ohio State $#+   8 0         14 0  
#8 Iowa %+   8 0         11 2  
#9 Michigan   6 2         10 3  
#16 Penn State   5 3         9 4  
Purdue   4 4         7 6  
Illinois   4 4         5 7  
Minnesota   3 5         8 5  
Wisconsin   2 6         8 6  
Michigan State   2 6         4 8  
Northwestern   1 7         3 9  
Indiana   1 7         3 9  
  • # – BCS National Champion
  • $ – BCS representative as conference champion
  • % – BCS at-large representative
  • + – Conference co-champions
Rankings from AP Poll
1 2 3 4 Total
Washington 0 13 10 6 29
Michigan 7 7 7 10 31
Wisconsin at #12/#11 Michigan
1 2 3 4 Total
Wisconsin 7 7 0 0 14
Michigan 14 0 7 0 21

The 2002 Michigan Wolverines football team represented the University of Michigan in the 2002 NCAA Division I-A football season. The team's head coach was Lloyd Carr. The Wolverines played their home games at Michigan Stadium. The team was led by All-Americans Bennie Joppru and Marlin Jackson as well as team MVP B. J. Askew.

Michigan led the Big Ten Conference in quarterback sacks for all games (3.2 sacks per game), while Iowa led for conference games.

John Navarre 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's 1998 and 1999 totals of 214; yards (2905), Jim Harbaugh's 1986 record of 2729. He also broke the career pass attempts record (910), surpassing Elvis Grbac's 835 in 1992, which he would extend the following year and which Chad Henne 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 Tom Brady'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.


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