Notre Dame running back Cierre Wood has 75 yards and a four-yard touchdown run to help give the Fighting Irish a 17-7 lead over the Michigan Wolverines at halftime in the first ever game played under the lights at the Big House in Ann Arbor.
Irish wide receiver Michael Floyd added seven first-half receptions for 112 yards as the preferred target of quarterback Tommy Rees, who opened the scoring with a 7-yard touchdown pass Theo Riddick with 9:05 to play in the first quarter. Wood added a touchdown to extend Notre Dame's lead to 14-0 in the first quarter.
Rees is 13-of-22 for 166 yards in the first half, but has been intercepted twice, including once that the Wolverines' two-yard line when he tried to hit a well-covered Floyd on a first down play.
Michigan got on the board when quarterback Denard Robinson completed a 43-yard strike down the left sideline to Junior Hemingway, who made an athletic play to hit the pylon with the ball while being tackled by an Irish defender. Robinson has seven carries for 40 yards on the ground, but has completed just two of his nine pass attempts for 48 yards and was intercepted once in the first half.
The Irish will get the ball to start the second half.
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