ANN ARBOR — Dominic Zvada was determined to remind everyone he still had the power and accuracy to convert from long distance. Midway through the third quarter on Saturday, Michigan faced a third-and-14 from the Nebraska 38.

“Let’s see if they try to get it into field-goal range here on third-and-long,” Gary Danielson said on the CBS broadcast. They already were.

The Wolverines did not try to pick up a few yards but instead called a pass play aimed at getting the first down. When Bryce Underwood’s pass fell incomplete, interim head coach Biff Poggi and special teams coach J.B. Brown looked at Zvada, Michigan’s kicker.

“I wasn’t going to take no for an answer,” Zvada said on Tuesday. “When Bryce threw that incomplete pass and it was fourth down, I immediately started walking on the field

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