The team's line that included Albert Wistert, Merv Pregulman, Julius Franks (U-M's first African-American All-American), Elmer Madar, Robert Kolesar, Bill Pritula and Philip Sharpe and was known as the "Seven Oak Posts.

"[1] On September 26, 1942, Michigan opened the season against the Great Lakes Navy Bluejackets football team.

It included 13 players who had been named All-Americans (Urban Odson and Pete Kmetovic) and some who had been playing in the NFL (Carl Mulleneaux, Rudy Mucha, and Gust Zarnas) before the war.

The game marked the debut of Bob Chappuis, who led the team on a 92-yard touchdown drive in the second quarter.

Playing in Ann Arbor in front of 39,163 spectators (the smallest crowd to see a Michigan-Michigan State game since 1935), the Wolverines defeated the Spartans, 20–0.

[4] In the third week of the season, Michigan played the football team from the U.S. Navy pre-flight school at the University of Iowa.

The Iowa Pre-Flight team was coached by Bernie Bierman, who came into the game with a 20-game winning streak, and led by quarterback Forest Evashevski, who had played for Michigan from 1938 to 1940.

[5] In the fourth week of the season, Michigan opened its Big Ten Conference schedule with a 34-16 win over Northwestern in Ann Arbor.

Merv Pregulman also scored in the fourth quarter after intercepting an Otto Graham pass and returning it 34 yards for a touchdown.

Tom Kuzma ran for touchdowns in the first and fourth quarters, and Jim Brieske converted both PATs.

[9] In the eighth week of the season, Michigan traveled to Notre Dame and defeated the Fighting Irish, 32-20 in front of a capacity crowd of 57,500.

Robinson ran for Michigan's second touchdown on a fake field goal attempt from the four-yard line.

Michigan touchdowns were scored by Tom Kuzma, Bob Wiese, Paul White, and Charles Kennedy.