Michigan football fans want to know how the Wolverines’ quarterback controversy will play out. It turns out, so do coaches around college football. ESPN’s Adam Rittenberg did a piece where they surveyed opposing coaches across the sport, asking for what they think about each team’s quarterback. Of course, in Ann Arbor, it’s not a settled …
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Michigan football is well into fall camp and the season is swiftly approaching. There are plenty of position battles happening, like at quarterback, and players are trying to put themselves into better spots on the depth chart before week one. Buy Wolverines Tickets The Wolverines lost a lot on the defense from the 2021 season, …
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ANN ARBOR, Mich. — With all of the talk of Michigan football having a ‘no-star defense,’ there are certainly a few candidates to emerge as veritable stars in 2022. While all eyes are on Mazi Smith, who landed as the No. 1 ‘freak’ on The Athletic’s ‘freaks’ list, another player is poised to break out. …
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Death, taxes, and a Michigan football defensive lineman at or near the top of Bruce Feldman’s annual ‘freaks’ list. Like Thanos, these things are inevitable. Last year, Aidan Hutchinson, the second-overall NFL draft pick, was No. 2 in The Athletic’s perennial look into the freakiest athletes in college football. The year before, Kwity Paye was …
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ANN ARBOR, Mich. — This offseason, all we’ve heard about the Michigan football defense is that it will suffer greatly with Aidan Hutchinson and David Ojabo no longer there to rush the passer. What’s more, Hutchinson’s leadership will be missed. Parts of that are certainly true, but what if someone else stepped up this fall? …
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There has seemed to be a quarterback battle in Ann Arbor for a long time, and going into the 2022 season has been no different. But why shouldn’t there be one? The Wolverines were led by Cade McNamara last season and the incumbent starter led Michigan to a 12-2 season. The maize and blue defeated …
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ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Michigan football has been under fire for its recruiting efforts in the 2023 cycle, and it’s somewhat deservedly so. Coming off of a College Football Playoff appearance and Big Ten championship, the Wolverines are lagging, missing out on a lot of high-profile recruits. The biggest being in-state quarterback Dante Moore, a …
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Every year, in probably every college football team, a first-year player comes in and makes an instant impact. At Michigan, we’ve seen several. In 2021, Andrel Anthony and Junior Colson; in 2020, Blake Corum and Roman Wilson; in 2019, Zach Charbonnet and Dax Hill; Chris Evans and Devin Bush in 2016 — so on and …
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You don’t become the winningest program in college football by only getting contributions from your upperclassmen. Instead, younger players have to step up. Such has been the case in Ann Arbor, with the most recent data point coming by virtue of linebacker Junior Colson, who was named a Freshman All-American in 2021. But what about …
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The 2022 college football season is right around the corner, which means it’s time to finalize the preseason projections for the College Football Playoff. With a full regular season and a slate of conference championships to get through before the picture is even close to clear, there are a handful of teams that could already …
