Newsstand: Joel Klatt places Michigan in top-10 of post-spring ranking
The Michigan Wolverines have wrapped spring ball and turned their attention to the summer and building for the 2024 season. The defending College Football Playoff National Championship squad has had a lot of change over the last several months, headlined by new head coach Sherrone Moore.
The changes for the upcoming season are not limited to Michigan, though. The Big Ten adds four new members in USC, UCLA, Washington and Oregon and the College Football Playoff expands from four to 12 teams this year. That might change the landscape and expectations a bit, but U-M will be in the conversation for the biggest prizes available still.
Fox Sports analyst Joel Klatt ranked the Wolverines No. 8 in his post-spring top-25, coming in behind Ohio State, Georgia, Texas, Oregon, Ole Miss, Utah and Ole Miss.
“It doesn’t feel all that different, everything is the same, and yet everybody is different,” Klatt said. “I get it, new head coach, new coordinator, new strength coach, new quarterback, all these things. And yet it’s just kind of business as usual because all of those people are promoted from within, running the same systems.”
The Michigan offseason kicks into camp season and off-field workouts and the summer ahead of fall camp, which is set to begin sometime in late July. The season begins Aug. 31 against Fresno State at the Big House.
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“Those first-team guys, I think are fantastic. Now, when we look at the other side of the ball, I’m concerned about the quarterback. I don’t know that you’ve got a championship quarterback on this roster just because I don’t think you have the talent surrounding them maybe that you need. I said that about 2016 and there wasn’t, I don’t know that there was elite talent on the 2016 offense and they still moved the ball with Wilton Speight. I think there are better position players at some of those spots. So maybe it’s possible that the defense leads the way here in this offense does better than we think, but I’d feel much better if they had a quarterback in place.”
– TheWolverine.com’s Chris Balas on the state of the Michigan football roster
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