Podcast: What to watch for, predictions — Michigan vs. Minnesota
On this episode of The Wolverine Podcast, Clayton Sayfie, Anthony Broome and Chris Balas preview Michigan Wolverines football vs. Minnesota, give final score predictions and pick Week 5 college football games against the spread in our “No Man Knows The Future” segment.
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The hosts discussed Michigan junior tight end Colston Loveland, who missed last game with an injury, and how him returning would be huge for the Maize and Blue.
“I think the Colston Loveland thing is a great point,” Broome said. “You get hopefully your best offensive weapon back. You can leak him out, and he can be a check down guy. He could be a guy that can take those check downs further than most guys can. I want to see that. I want to see these wide receivers get a little more involved. They’ve done a pretty solid job run blocking, especially if you look at some of the things that [sophomore wide receiver] Fred[rick] Moore has done on film — I think he’s kind of an ascending player.
“But you have to start showing something … they have the pieces to do that. I think a lot of these guys have a lot more to give, and this coaching staff has a lot more to give. So we’ll see what happens there. But offensively, I can see the plan being very similar to what it was [against USC] and them still winning that way. Leave it to Michigan to have a big win and then send you into a week where you still don’t really know much about him.”
“If you’re [Michigan junior quarterback] Alex Orji, the bare minimum, like he did last week, was not turning over the ball and winning the game, as he talked about on Monday when we got to talk to him,” Sayfie said. “Ball security will be important in this game, because I do think it is going to be somewhat low scoring and a game where the margin for error will be very small. So Michigan has to avoid mistakes, first and foremost.
“Because the first half of last week’s game kinda played out how you wanted it to, in terms of field position. They were able to move the ball a little bit on that first drive to kinda start winning that battle. And that’s a good start. It’s not all you need to do, but it is something that is a requisite here to competing and winning this game.”
