Newsstand: Michigan football inside 10 weeks of season opener
The summer is in full swing in the state of Michigan, but anticipation for football season is starting to grow in the area on a number of fronts. Head coach Sherrone Moore and his staff are hot on the recruiting trail, and that is lending itself to more optimism that the future is bright under the new regime.
As of Sunday morning, Michigan is 69 days away from kicking off its 2024 season in a night game against Fresno State. Starting the year under the lights should give fans a chance to get in some extra tailgating on Labor Day weekend to ring in the start of the new campaign.
Vegas still has Michigan at over/under 9.5 wins for the season, which could put the program in contention for the newly-expanded 12-team College Football Playoff. The schedule this year is one of the hardest in program history, but could very well reward a good season with a shot at running back a national title.
Nobody is going to wish the summer away, but each day that passes is another day closer to solving some of the biggest on-field mysteries surrounding the program, namely at the quarterback position. The Fresno State game should help, but we will know Week 2 against Texas the type of team that Michigan fields this year.
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Michigan quote of the day
“There are a couple different things you can take care of depth, and that’s part of the system. You can play different personnels, where let’s say we have four defensive linemen that can really play. We can work our personnels against what most teams … You don’t have a whole lot of two-back teams anymore — that’s NFL, that’s college, that’s high school. So you can work a lot of different personnel to get people up and playing with who’s healthy and be able to have some backups there I do think that initially, early in the season, our D-line is going to have to play more than what they played last year, until we get guys rolling. I think we’re gonna be just fine up front. We’ve got a great D-line coach in Lou Esposito, who’s got coordinator experience. He’s been fantastic with those guys.”
– Michigan football’s front seven according to defensive coordinator Wink Martindale
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