{"id":888754,"date":"2026-10-20T11:00:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T11:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/888754\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T11:00:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T11:00:20","slug":"kyle-whittingham-reveals-why-te-zack-marshall-didnt-play-vs-penn-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/888754\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyle Whittingham reveals why TE Zack Marshall didn\u2019t play vs Penn State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Michigan Wolverines stay at The Big House this weekend for the second game of the homstand to take on the reigning national champs. Curt Cignetti and the Indiana Hoosiers provide Michigan with its biggest challenge to date, as the Hoosiers are among the best teams in the nation yet again despite coming off a loss to Ohio State.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Head coach Kyle Whittingham met with the media on Monday morning for his weekly press conference to preview this weekend\u2019s game. Here are some key things he had to say:<\/p>\n<p>Whittingham did not reveal who the starting QB will be vs IU<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Despite scoring 21 points in the second half with Tommy Carr in the game as opposed to Bryce Underwood, Whittingham did not say who the starting quarterback will be on Saturday vs the Hoosiers. He did say that they have a plan in place, but he did not want to tip his hand as far as who will be out there this weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cWe know exactly what we\u2019re doing with the plan going forward,\u201d Whittingham said. \u201cWe\u2019re not going to tip our hand to the opponent, but we have a good plan in place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">When asked a follow up later on pertaining to how he views teams that have a two-quarterback offensive system, Whittingham admitted he isn\u2019t a big fan of that and pointed to the old adage of \u201cif you have two quarterbacks, you don\u2019t have one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maizenbrew.com\/football\/125718\/michigan-football-quarterback-tommy-carr-bryce-underwood-kyle-whittingham-indiana\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> from our own Charles Post.<\/p>\n<p>On the run game standing out<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Wolverines had their best day running the football all season on Saturday, compiling 211 rushing yards and three touchdowns, with one of them being an explosive 43-yard carry from veteran running back Bryson Kuzdzal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cIt\u2019s about time we got out and had some explosive runs in the run game,\u201d Whittingham said. He also mentioned Kuzdzal\u2019s touchdown run was \u201coutstanding\u201d and that it was nice to see Savion Hiter \u201cget loose\u201d on his 41-yard run.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cIt was very positive. \u2026 It was good to see the running backs get those creases, and again, it starts up front with the offensive line.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Michigan Wolverines stay at The Big House this weekend for the second game of the homstand to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":888755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,579,103090,398,396,397,99],"class_list":["post-888754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-football","tag-michigan-football","tag-michigan-football-news","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=888754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/888755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}