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[fans cheering]

[energetic music]

5 Star means you are the best of the best.

There's no more glorified title you can get.

5 Stars are like the rarest of the rare.

They are also 30 times more likely to be a draft pick

than all the other recruits.

COMMENTATOR: Touchdown. My goodness gracious.

He's built like a dude, he moves like a dude,

and whenever he plays,

the competition doesn't look adequate for him.

COMMENTATOR 1: Oh, my!

COMMENTATOR 2: Cuts it up. He's got some speed.

COMMENTATOR 3: Delivers downfield.

He's got a man out there.

Into the end zone! Touchdown!

If you're going to the true D1 programs

of college football, you need to be signing

the very best players out there.

You're talking like the top 32 of thousands of guys

who are going to go play D1 ball.

You have the money coming in from the university

and then all of the extra funds

coming in from endorsements off the field.

These kids can be making millions of dollars,

so the expectations are high as high can be.

ANNOUNCER: The defending Big Ten champion, Oregon Ducks.

DAN: The Big Ten is as good as it gets right now.

The last two national championships

have come out of this conference and there's great players.

-My name is Devin Sanchez. -Dakorien Moore.

-Malachi Goodman. -I'm Bryce Underwood.

I'm quarterback for the University of Michigan.

-No! No! -Go get him!

Here he comes.

Arguably the most recruited player in the nation.

COMMENTATOR 1: Dakorien Moore with a catch.

Are you kidding me? Touchdown!

MAN 1: People around the program are hyping him up

to the degree of one of the best Oregon players

in program history.

MAN 2: The most star-studded Oregon wide receiver ever.

He just got an award for Best Dressed.

COMMENTATOR 3: Talk about highly touted.

Devin Sanchez, the five-star corner,

number-one corner in the class of 2025.

DEVIN: Being at the number-one school in the nation,

it's amazing. It's also hard at the same time.

You've got a few people ahead of you,

but every position is up for grabs.

MAN: Everyone I've talked to about Malachi Goodman

has been really excited.

Absolutely incredible specimen from what I've seen.

And just physical stature.

5 Star status. They think he can be an early, early draft pick.

MAN 4: If he works like he's supposed to,

he'll be drafted in the first round.

I need to outwork the people that aren't in front of me.

-I just gotta keep going. -Bryce Underwood.

A guy with some special talent.

REPORTER: Michigan did bring in the number-one overall player

in a 2025 high school class in quarterback Bryce Underwood.

ANNOUNCER: Touchdown, Wolverines!

The athleticism and the arm are just special.

That kid's got it.

Hell, yes! We are back!

MAN: He's the chosen one for the Wolverines.

This is wild!

I love competing.

No matter what, I'm gonna compete.

MAN: We are pretty sure he'll be the week-one starter.

[cheering]

[inspiring music]

When you're a 5 Star and you step on campus,

you're seen as somebody who needs to make

a difference immediately.

My expectations for this season,

we need to be a freshman All-American.

It's college, not high school anymore,

so now it's time to step it up.

[whistle blows]

MAN: I think there's an ungodly amount of pressure

that's on these guys to perform at a really high level.

Hey, help me out with the new players for this.

It's hard to be able to make an impact as a freshman,

but if you're ready and you're good enough, you can do that.

COMMENTATOR: Dakorien Moore. Touchdown, Oregon!

I love that guy, man!

5 Star guys are the best of the best.

You get to college, it's like you gotta live up to it.

[theme song]

MAN: Just how good can Michigan be going into the 2025 season?

MAN 1: Couldn't throw the ball any worse

than they did last year.

Now in the class of 2025, the number-one overall player

is the quarterback who's now going to Michigan.

MAN 3: A lot of people want to see Bryce Underwood

be the QB1 out there.

Who takes over as Michigan's starting quarterback?

I have no idea.

I'm Bryce Underwood.

I'm from the east side of Detroit, Michigan.

Eighteen years old.

MAN: Oh, man, I'm fired up!

Being a hometown hero was always a dream,

no matter if it's NFL or college.

So it ended up being in college.

The goal at the end of the day

is to be a Hall of Famer in the NFL.

Whatever it takes, whatever I gotta go through to get there,

I've been getting prepared for it my entire life.

People don't understand how much pressure this is.

He can say what he wants.

"Oh, I don't have no pressure." Bullshit.

You know what I mean?

He about to play in front of 100,000. With expectations.

And they don't want to hear you young.

They don't even care. Age is not even a factor anymore.

They don't care about that. Win.

I'm curious to see this though. This is what I'm curious to see.

I want to see when shit go bad, that rollercoaster ride.

But, like, this is...

This atmosphere. This is where he belongs.

The team just responds to him differently.

You know what I'm saying?

Like, from the work that he's just been putting in,

they just... it's a different feel when he out there.

-So, he run the house. -That's a lie.

He run the house. He run the house now.

-No. Hell, no. -Hey. Hey.

-"Hey, Dad, take out the trash." -Nah, he's still a puppy, man.

He's still a puppy.

When he walk through the door,

I still see him as my five or six-year-old kid.

Then I have to look again, like, hold up.

-Damn. -Yeah, yeah, yeah.

-He got a facial hair. -Yeah, like, what's going on?

Yeah, he a big dog now.

He say like, "Hold on, hold on. You smell like me."

BRYCE: Nah, for real, I'm like...

WOMAN: All of this just seems like yesterday.

This is so, so crazy. So crazy.

I think this is my favorite game.

JAY: Bryce was like five-ish.

He was in the yard just playing catch.

And just to see him just trying to throw it,

it felt like it was something extra there.

-He had no hair. [chuckling] -Nothing. Like a kid.

I did not want him to play football.

Ain't nobody hitting my kid.

But he was seven years old,

and he first put on that maize uniform, number 19.

He had the wing helmet. I just knew that was it for him.

[fans cheering]

BRYCE: I played for the Motor City Wolverines

in Little League.

And I started liking it a lot.

Then my competitiveness kicked in.

And then I took it more serious after that, so...

BEVERLY: He would get up on his own to go work out.

Maybe two or three times a day.

Nobody had to say, "Go do that." No, he wanted to.

He's telling us what he's about to get ready to go do.

I was like, oh, this boy really wants it.

This the game right here, bro.

Cass versus Belleville.

[fans cheering]

[energetic music]

BRYCE: Went to Belleville High School.

My freshman year was the first state championship

in history in Belleville.

-[shouts] -[cheering]

On the field, he's a commander, a monster, a beast.

COMMENTATOR: Underwood with the keeper.

He tries the left side. First down and more.

Finally brought down.

BEVERLY: He's so laser focused.

He's completely tuned in with the game.

And honestly, at times, I don't even recognize my own son.

He definitely turns into a different person on the field.

[fans cheering]

The scouting report on Bryce Underwood is

this is a dude.

As big and fast as he is, how well he throws the ball,

I think he's pretty clean mechanically.

Yeah. This dude's a freak.

INTERVIEWER: I was trying to find out,

what team will you be playing with this year?

I'm going to bring my talent to the Michigan Wolverines.

JAY: U of M was one of the schools

that was on our top list.

I got a phone call when he was 15, maybe 16 from U of M.

They let me know that "we are interested in your son,

but we found another quarterback."

Go!

They said that he's a better candidate than Bryce,

and this is the guy that they're going to be pursuing.

This is when Jim Harbaugh was still coach.

And when he heard that, it hurt him.

It hurt his feelings.

He put his head down a little bit about it.

He was like, "Dad, where I'ma go?"

-Yeah! [cheering] -Whoo!

January 6, 2024 is when I committed to LSU.

[cheering]

JAY: We enjoyed the atmosphere.

We enjoyed everything about it.

As we come down to the stretch,

there's still business pieces that need to be taken care of.

And just like a lot of business,

some people can't meet these expectations. All right.

Back in comes U of M.

REPORTER: The inevitable becoming official

on Saturday morning, as Sherrone Moore was introduced

as Michigan's new head coach.

The 37-year-old Moore has been on staff since 2018,

serving as OC the past three seasons,

always a player favorite.

Moore is now the man at Michigan.

SHERRONE: I've known Bryce for a very long time,

even when I wasn't the head coach.

And there was always some kind of a connection there

between him and I and some of the staff members.

As we got through the season, we'd always talk.

And we really just put a stamp on the fact that,

hey, we need to do whatever we can and recruit this kid.

MAN: Michigan, when you look at the struggles

they've had this season, you're talking about a team

that's outside the top 100 in the FBS in passing grade,

pass blocking grade, and receiving grade.

They just never had a plan on offense

after all of the talent they lost last year.

SHERRONE: I remember sitting in my office, just me and him.

I said, I'm not letting you leave the state.

I'm not letting any great player leave the state anymore.

And then I took it back to "what's your why."

He's from 20 minutes down the road,

and his "why" is his parents and his little sister.

And we just talked about how great it would be

that you would be able to play in front of them every weekend

and be around them at any point.

Graduate!

BRYCE: Through everything, it's only been those three.

I'm a hometown kid, of course.

So me and my family came to a decision

to settle down and come to the University of Michigan.

GUESTS: Good evening.

MAN: Bryce Underwood is a Michigan Wolverine!

In your face, all the haters and the losers.

MAX: After months of rumors

that Michigan is making a Godfather-type offer,

he flips.

And this is a guy

that Michigan spent a lot of money

to flip his recruitment from LSU.

They had to lay out a plan to get Bryce to come to Michigan.

And, of course, part of that plan

was the massive NIL package.

This could be considered the biggest recruit

in the history of Michigan football.

Michigan apparently offered $12 million

over four years, double what LSU was offering.

Really big money starts getting thrown around here.

Why did they do that?

Look at him. That kid's got it.

I've been waiting for this moment

since I was six, seven years old.

It's like, this what you've been asking for your whole life.

[Bryce shouts]

With this highly touted of a recruit,

this is gonna be like a quarterback that's gonna go in

with maybe as much pressure as, like, an Arch Manning,

as a Trevor Lawrence going to Clemson, maybe even more so.

He flips from LSU to Michigan. Is he the future of Michigan?

If he's not performing well,

people are gonna talk bad about it,

not just because, "Ah, well, the guy's not playing well,"

but because they've committed millions for him to show up

and deliver wins and deliver national championships.

I mean, you talk about pressure? An 18-year-old kid?

MAN: Who's gonna be named Michigan's starter?

It's like, well, there's about 10 million reasons

are part of this decision.

MAN: The Oregon Ducks. They were 13-0.

They were number one in the country.

Big Ten champs in year one of the conference, and then...

COMMENTATOR: There is Smith roaming free.

Breaks a tackle! Ohio State strikes quickly!

Off the fake, down the middle!

Caught in stride! Egbuka touchdown!

HOST: They show up to the Rose Bowl.

A couple 40-plus yard touchdowns had that thing over quickly.

COMMENTATOR: Dan Lanning could not have seen

this knockout coming.

HOST: So now we've got an Oregon team that has lost

a program record number of NFL draft picks.

MAN: I'm not sitting here and saying, like,

"Oh, my gosh, they're doomed."

They have NFL guys in multiple positions.

It's just, is it gonna click fast enough?

LANNING: I'm excited. New team, new challenges.

New venues that we're gonna get to go play in.

It's gonna be a lot of fun. The thing you don't know

is probably what excites me the most, you know,

what are the things that we're gonna have to adapt to,

what are the adjustments we'll make,

who will become the players that we think they can become?

MAN: Who else do you think really might be bursting

onto the scene with a lot of opportunities,

snaps, and reps that are up for grabs?

DAN: Dakorien Moore is an exciting watch. I'm here for it.

There's no projection. There's no--

I think the guy is absolutely awesome.

[upbeat electronic music]

Dakorien's been a guy we've recruited

since his freshman year in high school.

Probably what made me fall in love with him, you know,

we had what we call Saturday Night Live,

and it was a camp in the summer.

And he came two years in a row, and he took every single rep.

He'd play every single down. He competed.

Whereas some of these guys, when they reach some accolades,

they wanna come and watch other people perform at camp.

But if you're a real dog, like, you go out there and fight.

And Dakorien was running every route

like it was the most important route of his life.

When he steps on the field,

you see him do some different things.

You're like, "Okay, that's different."

♪

DAMIEN: If I've got Dakorien Moore,

I'm just trying to get him the ball until everybody else

either block or get the hell out of the way.

I mean, this is a guy that can take a five-yard hitch 95 yards

on any given play.

Everyone who we recruit and bring into this program,

we believe could play in the National Football League

one day, otherwise we wouldn't recruit them.

So if he continues to come in the building every single day

working to be the best version of himself,

I don't think it's a single form.

It'll kind of be whatever he wants to make of the situation.

DAN: It's hard to be able to make an impact as a freshman.

It certainly has to do with what else is on the team,

where else are there great players.

And we'll see, right?

It's--It's a work in progress.

You have to remember, seeing a wide receiver

come in as a true freshman and have immediate impact

isn't something that's very common.

DAMIEN: When you're a 5 Star and you play high school football,

it's like going for a brisk walk.

Going to college is like climbing Mount Everest.

We forget. They're 18 years old.

You need months of preparation.

You have to be physically ready, mentally ready.

JENNY: Expectations are incredibly high for him.

It's a tough job to walk into.

DAMIEN: Whenever that number is called,

you better be ready.

[birds chirping]

DAKORIEN: I want you to know you're on camera right now.

No, not, like, on camera,

but, like, they can hear you.

SARIYAH: Oh. Hi, everybody.

[Dakorien snickering] You're hilarious.

DIRECTOR: Mark.

[laughs]

Feel like I was in a movie. Yeah. We're good.

- DIRECTOR: Ready. - Dakorien Moore,

wide receiver at the University of Oregon.

They're actually put together right now.

Me, on the other hand...

you know, a little rusty, straight off the field.

I got homesick when I first got here,

being that I'm not out here with family and stuff like that.

I was out here by myself.

You know, like, my mom wasn't telling me what to do

or telling me, "You can and can't do this," you know?

Like, so, just, like, getting used to that was...

kind of, like, hard to, you know, deal with.

LEE:

DAKORIEN: Bro, yes, bro. Why you--

Like, dang, bro! Nah, I did.

MARJAHN:

DAKORIEN: I swear I did! My room clean.

I just-- I just gotta--

MARJAHN: You better clean for real, Kory. This gon' be on TV!

DAKORIEN: Mom! My room is clean.

This is all my hanging clothes. I'm just putting them up.

I grew up in Dallas, Texas.

More on the Oak Cliff side,

kind of projects or the hood side.

I grew up tough just 'cause, like,

where I was from and stuff like that.

My dad passed away when I was, like, one.

I mean, of course, like, it was hard.

Definitely hard for my mom, but...

that's the reason our bond is as close as it is today.

You know, 'cause what she went through,

I tried to, you know, get her out of that.

Oregon work again or should I use a new team?

Every time you play with Oregon, you lose.

DAKORIEN: Okay. Think we should test that theory today.

Okay.

DAKORIEN: They ain't put my physicals on there

and stuff like that. It's okay, though.

We gon' wait on the update after a couple games.

I started tracking football around four or five.

Growing up, I was just, like, so fast and bigger

than most of the kids my age, so it was kind of, like,

easy to go out there and just, you know, dominate.

MARJAHN: I knew he was a little something different

probably around five.

He would run from whoopings, and I couldn't catch him.

And I'm pretty fast myself.

And so I would have to pin him in a corner

as he would do these juke moves on me.

That's how I knew he was a little something special.

[laughing]

DAKORIEN: Going into high school,

first day I stepped on campus, they put me on varsity,

you know, trying to see what I can do.

They put me out there in that water and I swam.

♪

[crowd cheering]

I had a lot of attention through all of high school,

'cause I was always ranked the number-one receiver in my class,

going to all these camps.

♪

Me and my mom bond got way closer when it came to,

like, the recruitment process and all these agents trying to,

like, get in contact with me and stuff like that.

We started, like, trying to navigate it together.

'Cause you know it's a lot of bad things that happen out here,

so we ain't wanna, you know, just hop into something that,

you know, we didn't know about.

REPORTER: The number-one wide receiver in the class,

Dakorien Moore, from Texas, but committed to LSU.

MARJAHN: He was previously committed to LSU.

The only thing that I wanted him to do when he committed early

is to keep your options open.

He didn't really know

what he was going on college campuses looking for.

He didn't know what major he wanted.

He didn't know where he saw himself

in the future besides football.

The decision was hard because he knew that

that was a school that he really wanted to go to.

It was one of his dream schools, but it was some things

that wasn't making him happy about it.

The relationship with the head coach

is what he wasn't happy about.

He felt like a lot of the other schools

that were heavily interested in him,

he had a great relationship with the head coaches.

DAKORIEN: I don't really think, you know, it's the best look,

you know, when you commit to a school, to decommit.

But sometimes it just takes time to realize,

you know, where your heart really at with it.

[applause]

When I thought of Oregon, you know,

first thing I was looking at, who was my coach gonna be?

You know, I have Coach Lanning, and I feel like

he's one of the best coaches, if not the best coach.

He felt like I could be one of the greatest of all time.

And when he told me that, it was just like,

"Yeah, I feel like this the dude I want to coach me

"for the next three to four years."

MARJAHN: Even though Oregon is 2,000 miles away,

they made me feel more comfortable

with him going far away

than some of the places that were down the street.

DAKORIEN: The pace of football,

I'm definitely still adjusting to that,

because it moves, like, way faster than I'm used to.

But I'm here to play football.

I'm here to, you know, make that name for myself,

and I feel like the only person who can stop me is myself.

That's just how I carry myself in general, if I'm being honest.

- MAN: Oh, my God. Oh, my God. - I'm good. Chill out, fool.

MAN: Oh, no. No. Go get him!

[Dakorien laughing]

DAKORIEN: I wasn't paying attention, bro.

MAN: Wait, no, no, no, no. Wait.

DAKORIEN: I was not paying attention, bro.

One, two, boogie. Yeah, shorty George.

Shorty George!

DAKORIEN: Bro, I literally looked away from the screen,

turned back, and you was running down...

MAN: Realistically, if you're the Ducks,

you probably can't go into this year thinking,

"We're going to win the Big Ten again."

Evan Stewart, the guy you were expecting to be

your number-one wide receiver, was injured in this summer

and is already out for the season.

MAN 2: I wanted to see what Evan Stewart

was going to do this year.

He was a tremendously athletic, explosive player

who had this chance to emerge as the primary target.

DAKORIEN: We both came from Texas.

We both played for the same seven-on-seven team.

When I first came here, you know, that was one thing

I was looking forward to was playing next to him.

When I seen that he got hurt and stuff like that,

it hurt me inside.

You know, just 'cause I wanted it for him

to like, be, like, that receiver that, you know,

gets everything that he wanted.

I felt like this was going to be his year.

MAN: Which player has the most pressure on him?

I would argue Dakorien Moore is the answer there,

being a freshman and expected

to step into the number-one wide receiver role.

MAN: Dakorien Moore, they're a 5 Star freshman receiver

who we all think is going to be a star.

But what if he's not?

What if Dakorien Moore doesn't step up?

BUD: For Dakorien, man, it's all hands on deck.

And there's a chance

he might have to be their number one from day one.

It creates the-- There's the stage.

That's why you were recruited.

DAMIEN: You've got that 5 Star reputation

attached to your name.

Go out and show the world that.

We brought you here because we know what you can do.

Now I really gotta,

you know, go out there and grind,

so I'm just focusing one day at a time on just getting better.

Hey, not this though.

-DAKORIEN: Ugh, ugh. -Hey, not this.

DAKORIEN: Here?

ROSS: When you're deemed as a 5 Star athlete,

you kind of grow up a little fast

because you're thrust into the limelight so early.

At the end of the day, you've gotta keep the main thing right.

You're a 5 Star athlete because you're a good football player.

So you need to continue to do things

that's gonna make you a good football player

and not really get caught up in the hype.

There it is. There it is. There it is.

You know, a lot of the things

I went through when I was 18, 19, 20 years old

is the same as the players on our team.

What's different is the notoriety and the attention

that they get and they're under the spotlight and the pressure.

It's not easy to deal with.

And I think a lot of us,

if we were in those same situations,

we wouldn't handle it well.

DAKORIEN: I'm just trying to, like, prepare myself mentally.

I know people are going to give their opinions,

but no one is on the field with us every day.

I just know noise is noise.

Come on, set.

DAN: There you go. Finish. Finish.

Up and in! Up and in!

Come on, Kori.

Ball security.

[coaches shouting]

DAN: Tuck the ball! Tuck the ball!

A hit, it's loose, man.

DAKORIEN: Okay.

It's always been high expectations in general.

It was the same, you know, when I got to high school.

I'm really just, like, going through that again.

Whatever they need me to do, I'm going to go out there and do it.

I'm taking it one day at a time.

Focusing on everything that I can get better at

before the game.

MAN: Sherrone Moore was asked about his quarterback battle

that he has with the University of Michigan.

The quote that comes from Sherrone Moore,

"Before anyone asks, it's an open competition.

There is no starter."

MAN: Sherrone Moore always plays things close to the chest.

Yesterday, he said that we're not going to announce

the starter till the week before the first game of the season.

So we'll see what happens with the quarterback position

and what comes out. And I don't know, man.

If someone runs away with it,

maybe he'll say something a little earlier.

Okay.

SHERRONE: In making this decision

for who's going to be the starter this year,

really, you're looking at a couple of things.

First, somebody that's going to be a leader.

Obviously, somebody that can be a playmaker

and not just make the off-schedule plays,

but make the plays that are necessary to go win.

Let's go.

[hip-hop instrumental]

MAN: We can't go by, you know what,

I think this guy's going to be good.

We have to go by what we see.

We really grade everything we do every day.

We have a competition every day with accuracy,

with all the things

and you say here's where-- here's where the areas

you need to improve and here's where we are right now.

MAN: These are still 17-18-year-old kids

and there's very few true freshmen even starting this year

and every year in college football.

SHERRONE: The jump in responsibility

for somebody coming from high school to college

to be quarterback at Michigan,

it's huge, you know, because all eyes on you all the time.

As soon as you walk out this building

you just don't remove the hat

of being Bryce Underwood the quarterback, you are that.

I think the responsibility is huge

and you have to carry yourself in a different way.

CHIP: For a freshman,

he had a great background from his high school days,

for sure, but at the end the day,

it's still a big jump

and the speed of the game is the thing, I think,

that's the first thing they have to get used to,

how quickly things happen.

The players are better, everybody's faster,

everybody's bigger and so forth.

SHERRONE: He's 18 years old

and he might look like he should play defensive end

and be in the NFL, but he's a kid and does kid things,

plays video games, hangs out with his friends

and for us you got to know that as coaches and as people,

to make sure we take care of them the right way.

It's really more of a when, not if question with Bryce,

I would have to think.

This could be the number-one player in the country.

CHIP: At the end of the day though,

they know they're in a competition

and they're gonna have to play well and put it on film

'cause all we can go by is what we see in practice.

[kids shouting]

SHERRONE: Thank you guys for being here, appreciate it.

It's been a really good camp, you know.

I feel like we've built some good depth

and answered some questions from position battles

and things like that, so we're really excited to go from there.

REPORTER: Can we get started with some questions?

You guys want me to answer questions?

-Just answer it. -Okay.

And you know so,

yes Bryce Underwood will be our starting quarterback.

I'll confirm that.

You know, he's--he's earned the opportunity.

It was not given to him.

For a young guy, very mature beyond his years

and he's still only 18 years old, so...

he's gonna make mistakes but that's what we're here for.

[hip-hop instrumental]

Sign right in the middle, right under there.

Yeah, I got you.

- BRYCE: Thanks. - Thank you.

No problem.

-MAN: Have a good one. -You too. Thanks.

How many autographs do you think you've signed today?

I don't know.

BEVERLY: When we got the news that Bryce won the job,

we were excited.

It's just amazing to see how his hard work paid off

and I am excited for the world to see what he has to offer.

To see my kid's dreams come true, nah, man it's unreal.

Next Saturday, he'd be able to live that

and I'd be able to be in the stands to watch that come true.

And I know I'm gonna shed a few tears in that process,

but it's so exciting to actually know

if you give everything you got, your dreams can come true.

COMMENTATOR: Well, it was a historic year.

2024, undefeated regular season.

Big Ten champions. Oh, the memories.

But that was last year.

Now we have an empty stadium. Parking lot beginning to fill.

COMMENTATOR 2: The expectations continue to grow

around this program.

COMMENTATOR 3: Wasn't that long ago, guys,

we're going, "Get to six wins.

"Get bowl eligible. Can we make it?"

Now, each year it is, "Can you go undefeated again?"

[fans shouting]

Can you get back to the final four?

Can you win a national championship?

Expectations are really, really high

and as a coaching staff as a team, that's what you want.

It's the noise. It's the excitement.

It's what we wait for each and every year.

Some new faces, some new names,

but it's Oregon football again

and the young talent has a chance to emerge

and contribute right off the bat.

You gotta have those guys become veterans

and become alphas.

Can't wait to get it started.

DAKORIEN: I mean, coming out the tunnel, if I'm being honest,

I'll be nervous, my first time in an environment like that.

You wanted to see, like, what this is gonna be like.

The only things that I'm thinking about is,

"What's my job during the play?"

What coverage are they in?

What technique do I want to use?

How do I want to get off the line?

What's my job during the play?

COMMENTATOR: And here's a little end around.

A little reverse.

Dakorien Moore. The 30.

Inside of the 25.

Fly action. Inside of the 25.

Dakorien Moore almost busted that.

COMMENTATOR 2: First collegiate touch

and he gets a first down for the Ducks.

DAKORIEN: The little jitters that they say for the freshman,

like, that went away.

I really, like, felt like it was just football at that point.

I was just out there playing a game.

COMMENTATOR: Dante. Throw high. It's gonna be close.

He gets by the tackle. He gets the first down.

Tries to hurdle and does hurdle a player.

Boy, I tell you, the quickness of Dakorien Moore

coming back making a guy miss and getting up the field

is what created that play.

Get out of my way.

Limar in the backfield and he will get the handoff.

Cuts it out. Trying to get an edge.

Gonna have to run hard. Does. 10. First down. Touchdown.

And a quick throw out.

This is going to be Sadiq for the catch.

Bounces off a tackle and will score!

Here's first down at the 14.

Back to throw. Quick. And get away from a tackle at the 10.

Touchdown!

Gary Bryant Jr.

COMMENTATOR 2: Dakorien Moore on the outside block.

A true freshman uproots the defensive back.

DAKORIAN: The dude was running past me

that I was supposed to be blocking.

So my first thought was just like,

next man, go block him.

And then boom, I dunked him in the end zone.

I love it.

And you took him to the end zone.

COMMENTATOR: Today the Ducks did what they were coached to do.

And that is play Oregon football.

59-13 the final score here.

DAN: I was really proud of the fact

that we got to see a lot of players in this game today.

A lot of guys go out there and compete.

I think there's still a lot for us to go clean up.

And overall we're proud of the product.

REPORTER: What goes through your head

when you see Dakorien hurdle a dude?

Ball security.

REPORTER: I'm not sure if you've seen the film yet,

but on Gary's touchdown in the third quarter

Dakorien had a pancake block.

DAN: I'm really proud of that play.

He's blocking the wrong guy, but he's blocking his ass off.

[reporters laugh]

Dakorien's going to be a really special player for us.

I don't think anybody's surprised to know that.

But to see the effort.

We talked about you're going to tell us how much

you love your teammates by the way you block on the perimeter.

But it's just one game. So I'm more excited

about the growth that goes on moving forward

beyond what just happened between now and fall camp.

COMMENTATOR: We're, along with 110,000 of your friends,

here at the Big House.

It's Michigan and New Mexico

to kick off the 2025 college football season

here in Ann Arbor.

It's a buzz in the air.

Everybody's excited here at the Big House.

-You've got to get a picture. -That's your baby.

-MAN: Go! Go, Bryce! -WOMAN: Go, Bryce!

Go, Bryce!

[fans cheering]

BRYCE: It's really amazing

to have that love and support, of course.

But at the end of the day, like...

I can't feed off of the energy too much or get too high.

Because it's like, I'm a quarterback.

I've got to stay mellow. I've got to stay calm.

COMMENTATOR: Here come the Wolverines

out of that eastern tunnel.

It's Michigan and New Mexico, and the 2025 season is underway.

We worked all week, all week for this shit.

Now let's get it.

[fans cheering]

COMMENTATOR: True freshman, Bryce Underwood,

the pride of Belleville High School

and the nation's top overall recruit,

tonight becomes the fourth true freshman

to start a Michigan opener at quarterback.

BRYCE: Going into the first play,

I've been preparing for this moment

since I was six or seven years old

when me and my dad playing football on the front lawn.

COMMENTATOR: Bryce Underwood fires quickly.

And he's got his man. That's Semaj Morgan.

Through a hole at the 25

and tripped up close to first down yardage

on the first play from scrimmage.

Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Yes, sir!

BRYCE: We was going over that play

for the last two or three months

before going into the season.

We practiced it. We studied it.

And we worked on it.

COMMENTATOR: And he's running left.

Breaking a tackle. It's Justice Haynes!

Touchdown, Wolverines!

And the key blocker on that, Bryce Underwood.

BRYCE: Overall, I'm an aggressive player.

The opportunity presented itself.

Get the blood flowing a little bit.

I just love aggression.

COMMENTATOR: Well, we'll get a chance to see Bryce

in a two-minute situation.

This will be a no-huddle situation.

COMMENTATOR 2: Underwood takes the snap. Back to pass.

Sets up a screen to Haynes.

And he is swallowed up right away.

In fact, yards.

Interesting to see how long of a lease they have

for Bryce Underwood on this drive.

COMMENTATOR: Second and 12. Underwood back to pass.

Looking. And now he's gonna get corralled

and sacked for another loss.

And Coach Eck is gonna take a timeout

with 1:31 to go in the half

as this drive is going backwards.

Teamwork! Teamwork! Teamwork!

COMMENTATOR: Third down and 14 for Michigan.

Fires and he's got his man. Goodwin at the 40, to the 50.

Splits some defenders into New Mexico territory.

Bryce Underwood. What a rocket that was to Channing Goodwin.

A gain of 38 on third and long.

30 seconds to go in the half.

He's looking left, and it's delivered.

Into the end zone for a Michigan touchdown.

COMMENTATOR 2: Underwood has his first of many.

Let's go, my guy! Let's go, my guy!

COMMENTATOR 2: Makes it 24-10.

Underwood on that drive-- Five for five, 68 yards,

and his first career college football touchdown.

♪

Underwood takes the snap. Hand-off up the middle.

It's Justice Haynes across the 40 to the 50.

Now down the near sideline.

40, 35, foot race, 20, 15, 10.

Justice Haynes wrangled down.

They're going to say down at the 1.

First and goal from the 1.

Snap. Hand off to Haynes

who burrows into the end zone for a Michigan touchdown.

ANNOUNCER: Michigan touchdown. Justice Haynes.

COMMENTATOR 2: The poise that he's playing with

is off the charts for a guy who just turned 18 years old.

COMMENTATOR: Back to pass. Wolverines blitz.

He's in trouble, and down he goes.

And that will end the ball game.

And Michigan closes out a 34-17 victory

here at the Big House.

Wolverines winning this debut

of highly-touted freshman quarterback Bryce Underwood.

He finishes 251 yards and a touchdown.

I feel like there was no nervousness

going into that game.

I feel like I prepared for that moment,

you know, since I was six.

So I just feel like it just came naturally.

It's just like playing football on the front lawn, you know.

You saw some of the reels.

You saw, like, some of the big-time throws.

I think they got a dude, man.

The fact that he looked comfortable in there

in that first college start, I think is really encouraging.

Sherrone, when you see Bryce

throw that shoulder pad to shoulder pad block,

does that make you cringe a little bit?

It does make you cringe.

You don't want your quarterback doing that,

but it kind of perks you up a little bit,

understanding and knowing, like, he loves that part of the game.

How would you describe how you performed today?

A C-plus today.

Why that low?

Um, there's a lot of things I've got to work on

and also us as a team as well.

So we're going to go back to the drawing board.

We're gonna come back better next week.

No, but that's how he is.

I'll give you more on Monday.

I'm going to let us enjoy this one.

-All right, thanks, guys. -SHERRONE: Thank you.

I obviously could have stayed in Texas.

I chose to come 17, 18 hours away.

You know, I believe that up here

is where I can play my best ball.

I'm his dad, but I'm always coaching.

That guy runs through your zone, what should you have done?

-What? -Should've touched him.

We want him to make it. We need him to make it.

ANNOUNCER: This is the best team that James Franklin's ever had.

-Penn State's got one here. -Hut! Hut!

-Get out there! -I'll be at his draft party.

He'll be drafted in the first round.

I know that he wants to show what he has,

but it's going to take more hard work,

and he's gonna have to continue to grind,

and he has everything it takes.

There definitely is times of frustration and like,

what do I need to do better?

COMMENTATOR: Go play defense and win the ball game.

Defense has been fantastic.

Texas scores a touchdown,

it's a whole different ball game.

We're gonna see a real freshman.

COMMENTATOR: Manning gets the snap.

Drops back at the 6 to throw. Pressure's coming.