{"id":22421,"date":"2024-01-09T01:30:27","date_gmt":"2024-01-09T07:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=22421"},"modified":"2024-01-09T01:30:31","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T07:30:31","slug":"highlights-michigan-defeats-washington-34-13-to-clench-college-football-playoff-national-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=22421","title":{"rendered":"Highlights: Michigan defeats Washington 34-13 to clench College Football Playoff National Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Michigan\u2019s punishing running game and swarming defense ended in a 34-13 victory over Washington in the College Football Playoff final at NRG Stadium in Houston on Monday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The game was billed as a battle between Michegan\u2019s vaunted defense, ranked No. 1 in the nation, against Washigton\u2019s Heisman Trophy-finalist Michael Penix Jr.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Wolverines pressured Penix all night and forced two interceptions, while Michigan running backs Blake Corum and Donovan Edwards rushed for 134 and 104 yards, respectively, while each scoring two touchdowns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere are over 100 Michigan men that are on this team, in uniform tonight,\u201d Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh said on the trophy presentation stage. \u201cWhat they\u2019ve done for the last 372 days is amazing. We\u2019re champions, simply known as national champions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The victory capped a turbulent 15-0 season with Michigan accused of hatching a massive sign-stealing scheme which led to a brief suspension of Harbaugh late in the campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Michigan\u2019s punishing running game and swarming defense ended in a 34-13 victory over Washington in the College Football Playoff final at NRG Stadium in Houston on Monday night. The game was billed as a battle between Michegan\u2019s vaunted defense, ranked No. 1 in the nation, against Washigton\u2019s Heisman Trophy-finalist Michael Penix Jr. The Wolverines pressured […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":22422,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5782],"tags":[22860,25723,6582,1868,24181,1227],"class_list":["post-22421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ep","tag-beat","tag-college-football-playoff","tag-finals","tag-michigan","tag-stadium","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22423,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22421\/revisions\/22423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}