Oct. 2, 2004

AP Sports

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) - Michigan's Chad Henne needed one half to warm up Saturday. Then he spent the third quarter picking apart Indiana's defense.

Henne threw for 316 yards and three touchdowns, and Leon Hart returned a punt 76 yards for a score to help the No. 19 Wolverines defeat of Indiana 35-14.

The Wolverines (4-1, 2-0) retained a share of the Big Ten lead by winning their third straight game and their 13th in a row against the Hoosiers since 1987.

Indiana (2-3, 0-2) lost its third straight game this year and is 1-14 against the Wolverines at Memorial Stadium.

Henne, a freshman, had a career day despite losing two fumbles. He completed 17 of 21 passes and helped Michigan put the game away with 21 third-quarter points. He sat out in the fourth quarter.

Braylon Edwards finished with eight catches for a career-high 165 yards and caught TD passes of 69 and 38 yards.

Michael Hart ran 20 times for 79 yards and one TD.

Indiana stayed close through two quarters, but it didn't take Michigan long to change that in the second half.

Grant Mason took the opening kickoff two yards deep in the end zone, sprinted up the middle of the field, down the right sideline, then back across the field before being dragged down at the Indiana 3. Four plays later, Hart crept in from the 1 to make it 21-7.

On Michigan's next series, Edwards beat freshman cornerback Tracy Porter for a 69-yard TD catch with 6:28 to go in the third quarter.

Four minutes later, Edwards again beat Porter and Henne found him for a 38-yard touchdown to put the game away.

Michigan seemed to have control most of the game but struggled to score in the first half.

Henne moved the Wolverines 83 yards on their first series, capping it with a 40-yard TD pass to Jermaine Gonzales. It was Gonzales' first TD reception since November 2001.

Two series later, the Wolverines drove to the Indiana 2, but Henne fumbled the snap and Indiana recovered.

Then Hall fielded Beattie's 54-yard punt at the Michigan 24, made one man miss and sprinted 76 yards for a 14-0 lead.

After Henne fumbled a second time, the Hoosiers took over at the Michigan 11 late in the first half.

With one timeout, Hoosiers quarterback Matt LoVecchio ran two plays, then picked up a bobbled snap and appeared to stretch across the goal line with 9 seconds left. Replay, however, showed LoVecchio's knee touched down. So Indiana gave the ball to BenJarvus Green-Ellis for a 2-yard TD run to make it 14-7.

Replay, which is being used on an experimental basis in Big Ten play this year, was called on three times Saturday. All three calls were reversed.

Indiana closed out the scoring with a 6-yard pass from LoVecchio to Courtney Roby early in the fourth quarter.

LoVecchio finished 13-of-19 for 139 yards with one touchdown.

One member of the chain crew had to leave on a golf cart after an Indiana player was pushed into him during a punt. Indiana officials did not have an update on the man's name or condition.