Michigan Is Better Late, Again

Chad Henne threw two touchdown passes and Jerome Jackson’s one-yard dive in overtime lifted Michigan to a 23-20 victory over Iowa on Saturday, giving Coach Lloyd Carr his 100th victory and ending the Hawkeyes’ 22-game home winning streak.

The victory also gave the Wolverines (5-3, 3-2 Big Ten Conference) back-to-back wins for the first time this season -- the longest it has taken Michigan to win two straight in any season since 1967 -- and kept their Big Ten title hopes alive.

Iowa (5-3, 3-2) scored first in overtime when Kyle Schlicher kicked a 28-yard field goal, his second of the game. Schlicher’s first kick, a 32-yarder with two seconds left in regulation, sent the game into overtime.

But Michigan needed only five offensive plays in the extra period to claim the victory. The big play was Henne’s 18-yard pass to Jason Avant, setting up Michigan with first and goal at the four. Jackson dived across the goal line three plays later.

The oft-maligned Henne led Michigan to a second straight down-to-the-wire win. Last week he threw a last-second touchdown pass to beat then-No. 8 Penn State in Ann Arbor.