{"id":3836,"date":"2025-11-26T15:49:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T15:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/2025\/11\/26\/ohioan-jordan-marshall-set-to-have-his-opportunity-saturday\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T15:49:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T15:49:09","slug":"ohioan-jordan-marshall-set-to-have-his-opportunity-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/2025\/11\/26\/ohioan-jordan-marshall-set-to-have-his-opportunity-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohioan Jordan Marshall set to have his opportunity Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Jordan Marshall put himself in good company the moment he joined the Michigan football team.<\/p>\n<p>On Nov. 30, 2023, he was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohsaa.org\/news-media\/articles\/moellers-jordan-marshall-is-ohio-mr-football\">named<\/a> Mr. Football in the state of Ohio. And for the first time since Charles Woodson, that honor went to a player set to leave the state for Ann Arbor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou don\u2019t get many opportunities like this,\u201d Marshall said Tuesday. \u201cAnd for me, it\u2019s, \u2018How do I make the most of it?\u2019 You never know what tomorrow holds. You never know what the next day holds. Never know what Saturday holds. But I know each day this week I\u2019m going to go out there and prepare like I\u2019m playing Ohio State, even at practice, and just putting my best foot forward every single day. Because again, this game, for me being an Ohio kid, it just means more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Spending his entire childhood in Cincinnati, Ohio, Marshall, now a sophomore running back for the 15th-ranked Wolverines, grew up surrounded by the opposite side of the rivalry \u2014 but not necessarily a fan of hometown Ohio State.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"scaip scaip-1    \">\n<style><![CDATA[@media ( min-width: 300px ){.newspack_global_ad.scaip-1{min-height: 250px;}}@media ( min-width: 728px ){.newspack_global_ad.scaip-1{min-height: 90px;}}]]><\/style>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Stored away in Marshall\u2019s childhood home, never to be touched again, is a bag of his old clothes. Unlike most kids growing up in the area, that bag contains Georgia merchandise, his Dad\u2019s alma mater.<\/p>\n<p>After going through the recruitment process, Marshall opted to join the rivalry. As he burst onto the radar of coaches across the country while playing for Archbishop Moeller High School, both the Wolverines and Buckeyes offered 16-year-old Marshall a spot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI really liked Tony Alford,\u201d Marshall said. \u201cHe would probably be one of the reasons that I went there. I didn\u2019t like a few other people, and that\u2019s that\u2019s truly why I didn\u2019t pick there. And I think coach (Tony) Alford would tell you the same he came here and he sees the best head coach in the Big Ten, in college football, and how he carries himself and how he puts himself over the team, and it\u2019s all about culture, and that\u2019s what I wanted to be around.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ohio State\u2019s running back coach at the time, Alford, is now Marshall\u2019s position coach at Michigan. According to Marshall, that was one of not enough positives in the attempt to keep him at home. Instead, Marshall decided to deal with the flack, including some from his paternal grandfather, and ended up uniting with Alford anyway.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has been fun when people talk crap,\u201d Marshall\u2019s mom, Amy Allphin, told The Michigan Daily Nov. 12. \u201cWe\u2019re at all the other places this year, Oklahoma, Nebraska. You just ignore them. My sisters and them get all revved up. And I\u2019m like, we live in Ohio, my kid goes to Michigan. I\u2019ve heard it all. This doesn\u2019t even bother me. I just told Jordan this week. I\u2019m like, \u2018Look, I need you guys to win. I have to go back to live in this state.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"scaip scaip-2    \">\n<style><![CDATA[@media ( min-width: 300px ){.newspack_global_ad.scaip-2{min-height: 250px;}}@media ( min-width: 728px ){.newspack_global_ad.scaip-2{min-height: 90px;}}]]><\/style>\n<\/aside>\n<p>To quiet Allphin\u2019s hecklers, Marshall will be one of the Wolverines\u2019 most vital players. Tuesday, he confirmed he\u2019ll be ready to suit up in the season finale. With junior Justice Haynes out for the regular season, Marshall will be the feature back with junior Bryson Kuzdal behind him.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past four years, Michigan\u2019s starting running back has arguably been the most valuable player in every single contest. Hassan Haskins had his five touchdowns, Donovan Edwards broke off two 75-plus-yard runs, Blake Corum gave the Wolverines the lead after Zak Zinter\u2019s injury and Kalel Mullings converted a crucial third down to set up the game-winning field goal.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday will likely necessitate another herculean performance from Michigan\u2019s backfield. And if the Ohioan, Marshall, leads the Wolverines to a fifth-straight win over Ohio State, he\u2019ll be joining the company of Haskins, Edwards, Corum and Mullings as rival-slaying Wolverines heroes.<\/p>\n<aside>\n<div class=\"newspack-popup-container newspack-popup hidden  newspack-inline-popup      \" role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" style=\"background-color:#FFFFFF;color:#000\" id=\"id_162162\" data-segments=\"\" data-frequency=\"0,0,0,month\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Please consider donating to The Michigan Daily<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p><h3 class=\"jp-relatedposts-headline\"><em>Related articles<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jordan Marshall put himself in good company the moment he joined the Michigan football team. On Nov. 30, 2023, he was named Mr. Football in the state of Ohio. 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