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Michigan wide receiver Jeremy Gallon couldn't be stopped Saturday in a record-setting performance against Indiana.

(Melanie Maxwell | MLive.com)

ANN ARBOR -- When Taylor Lewan found out exactly how many yards Jeremy Gallon finished with Saturday, he was at a loss for words.

Well, actually he wasn't.

He's just not allowed to repeat his reaction in public.

"I'm not going to tell you what I said," Lewan joked Saturday after Michigan's 63-47 win over Indiana. "Because I'm on camera."

Gallon's day, a wide receiving performance for the ages, ended with 14 catches for 369 yards and two touchdowns for Michigan (6-1, 2-1 Big Ten).

Michigan's diminutive senior wide receiver found himself open time after time after time Saturday against a lowly Indiana defense, and he never stopped running.

He had two catches that went for 70 yards, he scored 2 touchdowns and he nearly matched his previous 6-game total (462 yards) in one afternoon. Only former Louisiana Tech wide receiver Troy Edwards finished an FBS game with more receiving yards (405).

In fact, if Gallon's output Saturday stood on its own for an entire career's worth of work, it'd rank No. 89 on Michigan's all-time career receiving list.

That's right, career list.

On Saturday, Gallon did in one day what plenty of receivers will never accomplish in an entire four-year college lifetime.

Asked what makes his favorite wide receiver so special and tough, quarterback Devin Gardner turned to Gallon and asked "How tall are you?" Gallon whispered in his ear, and Gardner responded with a smile.

"Since he's only 5-foot-9," he joked, as Gallon is listed at 5-foot-8 -- on a good day. "Maybe they underestimated him some. But he has all the same skills as all the taller receivers.

"He's a terror."

As for Gallon, who is normally very reserved when speaking with the media, it was just another day of football.

Albeit an extremely productive one, but just a game nonetheless. Gallon had no running catch count in his head. He wasn't aware that he was setting a Big Ten record and obliterating a Michigan record.

He was just getting open, making catches, running -- and repeating.

"I was just playing the game," Gallon said. "It's nice, that's what we play for as receivers, that's what we dream of.

"Just going out and giving it your all for your teammates, and being able to take advantage of every opportunity that comes your way. And that's what I did tonight."

For Gallon, it wasn't a perfect game -- he did have a drop over the middle and a near-miss in the end zone -- but it was pretty darn close.

And he made everything look easy. More often than not, no one was within 10 yards of him when he hauled in a pass -- something he believes was a product of the presence of 6-foot-4 Devin Funchess on the outside with him.

But, when there were defenders near him, he still found a way to catch a pass, stop on a dime, and grab extra yards almost every time without fail.

It was vintage Gallon. A small, self-made receiver who always finds himself in position to make a play, and who almost always makes a catch if the ball is anywhere near his hands.

He doesn't have the size or flash of some of the all-time great Michigan receivers, but he's starting to pile up the stats. In fact, his explosive day actually pushed him by Desmond Howard, whose No. 21 jersey he sports, on the school's all-time career receiving yards list.

Gallon's big day now puts him on pace to potentially finish with one of the all-time top wide receiving seasons in school history as well.

As it is, Gallon's 831 yards through seven games ranks him No. 19 on the school's all-time list. The Wolverines haven't had a 1,000-yard receiver since Mario Manningham put up 1,174 yards in 2007.

The all-time mark, of course, belong to Braylon Edwards at 1,330 yards in 2004.

Gallon, at this point, has a shot at both numbers.

Not that he cares.

"I guess they forgot about me (today)," Gallon said. "I don't know, I was just playing to win.

"To come back and bounce back from a loss like last week ... I was just playing football."

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