ANN ARBOR -- Ben Mason leaped a defender. Shea Patterson pulled a reverse, circled around and hit Donovan Peoples-Jones in stride.
By the time it was all over Saturday, the Michigan football team had scored 40-plus points for a fourth time in its last five games.
Five games after the season-opening loss at Notre Dame, the 12th-ranked Wolverines have rebounded with five straight wins and are playing a different brand of football. They host No. 15 Wisconsin for a prime-time showdown Saturday in Ann Arbor (7:30 p.m., ABC).
"We've settled in a lot more," said starting left guard Ben Bredeson.