The Michigan Wolverines are college football champions -- and the stats behind their title are staggering.
After defeating the Washington Huskies 34-13 in the College Football Playoff National Championship, the Wolverines became only the sixth team in college football history to go 15-0 or better in a season. That's happened four times in the past six seasons ... but before that, you had to go back to the 1800s to find the only other 15-0 squads.
Yale Bulldogs (1894)
Penn Quakers (1897)
Clemson Tigers (2018)
LSU Tigers (2019)
Georgia Bulldogs (2022)
Michigan Wolverines (2023)
Here are the key numbers behind Michigan's undefeated season.
9.5: The Wolverines' defense dominated during the regular season, allowing just 9.5 points per game, the fewest in a regular season since the Alabama Crimson Tide in 2011 (8.8).
Michigan held eight of its opponents to single-digit scores -- including two shutouts. The Wolverines' average points allowed reached 10.2 after the CFP semifinal.
89.5: Quarterback J.J. McCarthy threw for a career-high 2,851 passing yards plus 22 touchdowns and a career-low four interceptions. McCarthy also had a total QBR of 89.5, the third-best in the nation behind Oregon Ducks' Bo Nix and LSU Tigers' Jayden Daniels.
25: The score in overtime of the Rose Bowl came from a touchdown run by Blake Corum, his 25th of the season. That total is the most in a season in Michigan history and tied for fifth-most in Big Ten history.
Corum also has 56 career rushing touchdowns, the most by any Wolverines player and fourth-most all time in the Big Ten.
17: Michigan had an FBS-best turnover margin of plus-17 this season. Its defense forced 25 turnovers, while its offense only had eight.
36: It hasn't all been the Wolverines' defense this season. Michigan's offense averaged 36 points per game, second-most in the Big Ten and 14th-best in the FBS.
ESPN Stats & Information research contributed to this article.