BLOOMINGTON — The scoreboard read 35-35 with 1:15 remaining in the fourth quarter. Both Michigan and Indiana had already amassed preposterous yardage, but the ball was in Michigan’s hands now — sophomore quarterback Denard Robinson’s hands, in particular.

And just as he had against Notre Dame weeks earler, Robinson did it again — leading a clutch last-minute drive to deliver a 42-35 victory for the Wolverines in the conference opener on Saturday afternoon, extending their winning streak over the Hoosiers to 17 games.

Quarterbacks coach Rod Smith recalled telling Robinson through a headset before the drive started, “Let’s go win this ballgame. Go do it for us, again.”

Three quick sprints from the speedy signal caller got Michigan just past midfield with less than 30 seconds remaining. Then, the Wolverines called for vertical routes, with redshirt junior wide receiver Junior Hemingway lined up to the far right.

Robinson had overthrown a couple of passes earlier in the quarter, but this time he threw it up and let Hemingway make a play on the ball. Hemingway adjusted to the ball and leaped to make the catch at the four-yard line.

“He threw it and I had to come back, go up, high-point it and catch it,” Hemingway said after the game.

When the team returned from a timeout, Robinson took the ball, kept it in his own hands and slipped around the left side into the end zone for the game-winning touchdown with 17 seconds remaining.

It was an ending that seemed inevitable throughout the game: whoever had the ball last would win.

Indiana entered the game with the Big Ten’s top passing attack. And fifth-year senior quarterback Ben Chappell played like it, finishing with 480 yards, setting an all-time record for passing yards against Michigan (5-0, 1-0 Big Ten).

On the very first drive, Chappell connected with his three veteran wide receivers: Tandon Doss, Damarlo Belcher and Terrence Turner. The Hoosiers (3-1, 0-1) dinked and dunked their way down the field throughout the game, taking bits and pieces here and there.

And it worked against Michigan’s defense in the first half. Indiana had three drives that lasted 10-plus plays and 70-plus yards to tie the game 21-21 at the half, including a gutsy call at the end of the half to go for a touchdown with just enough time for a single play.

While the Hoosiers were dinking and dunking, Michigan took full-sized bites out of the Indiana defense. It started with a 72-yard touchdown run that Robinson broke on the Wolverines’ second play of the game. Then, Robinson completed a 32-yard touchdown pass to redshirt sophomore wide receiver Roy Roundtree on the next drive. But the act continued.

On the third drive, Roundtree caught another pass and sprinted down to the two-yard line for a 74-yard completion.

Robinson and the offense scored touchdowns of 72, 70, 56 and 32 yards — and four of Michigan’s six touchdown drives lasted less than a minute.

“We were basically going three-and-out or three-and-touchdown for most of the game,” fifth-year senior left guard Steve Schilling said after the game. “If we’re scoring fast, we need to do it every time.”

That quick scoring left the defense on the field to face Chappell and the Hoosier offense for a long time. The 568 yards Michigan allowed is the third-most in school history.

“The stats are interesting, huh?” Michigan coach Rich Rodriguez remarked. “Thirty-five first downs for them to 15 for us. They ran 98 plays to 45 for us. I don’t like seeing that.”

In the second half, the Wolverines started to stand their ground, forcing Indiana to punt or turn the ball over on downs on four of its first five drives.

But Robinson was having trouble on offense himself, as Indiana was blitzing him more and changing up coverages. Either way, the Wolverines' explosive attack wavered, and they couldn’t extend their lead by any more than seven-points entering the fourth quarter.

So when Chappell hit redshirt sophomore running back Darius Willis for a 19-yard touchdown with 1:15 remaining, it was up to the Michigan offense to win the game.

Robinson finished with 277 yards and three touchdowns on 10-of-16 passing and 217 yards and two touchdowns on 19 rushes, remaining at the center of Wolverines’ big plays on offense.