Switched positions from WR to Safety and now is an All American and going pro. Probabilities hes a first rouder or early second. Wish some of these kids would take advice.

Officially recognized NCAA national championship selector Peter Wolfe's rankings have named Oregon #1 following the national title game, which results in Oregon officially having a claim to the 2024 National Championship.

Remember: the CFP isn't an NCAA National Championship - it's a collection of conferences and bowl games doing their own thing.

List of split titles, officially recognized by the NCAA, since the advent of the BCS:

2017: Alabama and UCF
2016: Clemson and Alabama
2012: Alabama and Notre Dame
2011: Alabama and Oklahoma State
2010: Auburn and TCU
2008: Florida and Utah
2003: LSU, Oklahoma, and USC
2002: Ohio St and USC
2000: Oklahoma and Miami

Prior to the BCS, unanimous titles were rare, and in the CFP era, they are more rare than in the BCS era, so one could say the playoffs are "working"

6 of 13 BCS titles were split. 3 of 11 CFP titles have been split. In the Bowl Coalition/Alliance era, 5 of 6 titles were split.

Looking at tickets for the game vs Penn State. What section is behind the home bench? Is it a good spot to sit? Can you hear the coaches?

No. 21 Michigan (14-4, 6-1) has a big test tonight, as the Wolverines head to West Lafayette, Indiana, to take on 11th-ranked Purdue (15-5, 7-2) at Mackey Arena. It'll be a battle between two of the Big Ten's best teams, with Michigan having an opportunity to get a two-game lead on Purdue in the loss column.

The Boilermakers dropped a home game to Ohio State on Tuesday in one of the more surprising outcomes of Big Ten play so far this season.

Purdue is a 3.5-point favorite over Michigan.

The game will start at 8 p.m. and will air on FOX with Gus Johnson and Jim Jackson on the call.

Great game going on right now on the BIG Ten Network. Go Blue

Before I go buy some on a third party site, curious if anyone has parking passes they want to sell for the game Monday.

They couldn’t even beat 2024 Michigan. lol.

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Now look…. Before we talk about this everyone needs to read this first: On3 has thrown around inaccurate numbers quite a bit this season.

Now that is out of the way and we have a big grain of salt take a look at this:
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While On3 has been inaccurate they aren’t the only ones reporting that Tate is getting big offers (Oregon apparently), so it wouldn’t surprise me if Smith is also. Maybe the number is overblown, maybe it isn’t, but if O$U were to lose both of them to the portal, Judkins foregoes his final year of eligibility for the NFL, Knowles takes another gig for a huge payday, and they’re losing about 15-16 starters because they’re out of eligibility… is O$U screwed next year?

It won't be long before OSU has to transition from the afterglow of a championship to the reality of a mass exodus of players to the NFL and portal.

While there are already assumptions that OSU won't take a step back, the idea of this is questionable due to the fact that, like Michigan in 2023, OSU brought back a ton of players whose eleigibilty would end after this season.

Looking at the key postions for OSU 2025:

OFFENSE
QB: SOPH Julian Sayin, FR Tavien St. Clair, RS Jr Linclon Keinholtz-
This position is where the rubber hits the road for OSU. For the QB position, they will either stick with what they have, and start a young, inexpereinced QB (probably between Sayin and St. Clair), OR they will bring in an expereinced QB from a transfer market that, as we all know, is dried up as far as top-end QB talent. I asume that the first option is their best, which leaves their roster without one player who started a college game at the position. None of these QB have sinificant snaps: Keiholtz has completed 10 career passes out of 22 attempts. Sayin has completed 5 passes on 12 attempts.
I wouldn't be surprised at all to see: Tavien St. Clair start as a true freshman. If he's as good as they say, why not? It would be silly for OSU to start Sayin for one season, if OSU knows that St. Clair is the future as soon as 2026.

RB: Senior Quinshon Judkins (?), SR TR C.J. Donaldson, Soph James Peoples/FR Bo Jackson, FR Anthony Rogers-
I'm making an assumption that Judkins will be back. If not, their RB room is a mess. Donaldson is solid, but not great, but he would be the only one with experience, similar to the QB room. As for Donaldson, a 6'2" 238 pound power back, he must have missed how poorly OSU misused D. Trayanum.
I wouldn't be surprised at all to see: Judkins entering the draft, and leaving OSU's RB room royally effed up.

WR: Soph Jeremiah Smith, RS Soph Carnell Tate, RS Soph Brandon Inniss, RS FR Mylan Graham, FR Quincy Porter, FR Bodgepn Miller.
OSU has WR talent stacked, as usual. In the least surprising scenario, however, it's mot surprising to see how much talent this position group has lost to the portal, due to oversigning. All 4 WRs from th 2022 class have left without contributing, and of the four WRs signed in 2023, only the two five stars- Inniss and Tate remain. For that reason, OSU's WR is deep, but also very young with inexpereinced depth. They could add a veteran WR from the portal, but for what? To play the role of WR 4 behind younger more talented players?
I wouldn't be surprised at all to see: Inniss or Graham in the Portal. The youth and talent of the WR room means that any WR would have to wait until at least 2027 to sniff a #1 WR role, as Smith has two more seasons before he can even declare for the draft. Why would any five star not want to be the go-to guy on their team is beyond me.

OL: (L to R) SR TR Phillip Daniels (Minnesota), Sr TR Miles Walker (BSU), RS Jr Carson Hinsman, RS Jr Tegra Tshabola, GR TR Ethan Onianwa. RS Fr Deontae Armstrong, RS Soph Austin Siereveld, RS Jr George Fitzpatrick.
OSU loses 4 starters: Fryar, McGlauthlin, Donovan Jackson, and Josh Simmons are all gone. OSU has already signed 3 OTs from the portal. Not sure how good those guys are, but I have all three starting. Interesting that they will have only 2 homegrown starters on that OL.
I wouldn't be surprised at all to see: More struggles on OSU's OL- Especially with depth and the possibility of injuries.

TE: GR TR Max Klare, GR TR Will Kacmarek, JR Jelani Thurman.
In one of the stranger moves, OSU picks up one of the best TEs in the portal despite never making use of the position. Klare is putting his one grad season to prove himself to NFL types in the hands of a coach whose top TE caught 27 passes, and was barely targeted. As a comparison, A.J. Barner had 22 receptions as Colton's backup in 2023. The idea that Jelani Thurman was supposed to be the next big thing and their version of Loveland is a laugher- 6 catches entering his junior season. Once again, what TE in his right mind goes to OSU to be featured?
I wouldn't be surprised at all to see: The OSU TE group, as usual, being forgotten in OSU's 2025 offense, just like it has been for the past decade. After the three 5* WRs get their targets, what's left?

SUMMARY: OSU's offense returns some surefire stars, but, as usual they will go as far as their QB leads them. The biggest losses were Henderson, Egbuka, and their four OL. Although I felt as if Howard was a "meh" QB as far as talent, he made it up with experience and savvy. The QBs following have better upside, but no experience. But that QB will have a killer group of receiers, and a really good RB to lean on (if Judkins returns).

Coming later: DEFENSE

Think he chose between us and notre dame.

Is that Zahir Mathis will not be making his trip to Michigan this weekend, multiple sources have informed me.

Didn’t get a reason right now.

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The final Rivals250 for the class of 2025 was released this week.

I offer five Michigan football related takeaways from the rankings:

Been asking around for a visitor list of some sort but haven’t gotten anything back.

I’m sure there will be a visitor or two on campus but I don’t have a list to speak of at the moment.

With Mathis out, should be quiet.

Final Rivals250: https://n.rivals.com/prospect_rankings/rivals250/2025
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Gorney's position-by-position breakdown: https://n.rivals.com/news/rivals-rankings-week-final-2025-rivals250-released
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Five players who blew up during this recruiting cycle and finished as 5-stars: https://n.rivals.com/news/five-star-prospects-who-began-the-2025-cycle-as-three-stars

...the portal.

Every time someone hits the portal we should pursue them according to many in here.

Name a team who's done shit with taking 30 to 40 guys out of a portal t g it's drying up. Colorado is a fraud...msu was awful...Indy benefitted from and EASY schedule and a down year for Michigan.

We have plenty of NIL money but it’s NOT endless.

The oline us deep but young I get it but if you want to keep recruiting and developing Olinemen nobody will come if you're going to take 3 guys out of the portal a year.

As far as WR goes...NO 5 star WRs are coming without us 1st proving we can throw the ball.

QB.....we took the NUMBER 1 recruit/QB in the country. No top portal QB was coming to compete with that!

Sherrone and McGee have a plan. #Letitplayout!

College football season is over, and NFL mock drafts are everywhere.
It's early, but Michigan Football's four juniors are consensus first-round picks.
Most likely landing spots? Could Mason Graham go #2? Which Wolverine do the Chargers take?
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.....why does everyone think the osu run was so great?

Last year Michigan played 9 bowl teams.
We beat #5 psu...Maryland (a bowl team)...#2 osu....#15 Iowa....#4 Bama....#3 UW

Why do we call an elevator and elevator when it's going down? Shouldn't it be called a De-elevator? Same with escalators...you can De-escalate a situation can't you?

Why is it every year people are shocked by the final Rivals rankings and how our players seem to drop in the rankings...then people ask @Josh Henschke what the hell happened and his response is ALWAYS the same...."I'm not in charge of anything on a national level"....there is no rhyme or reason rankings on any site. If you're that hung up on stars look at the composite.....

I struggle with lumber and P-lumber

There...their...they're are a problem

For some reason many on here struggle with then and than

Sorry...long day at work
..had to vent!

Way off the M rails- can’t figure out why Mr Annese has never got a D1 coaching job
Winner everywhere he has been - high school especially Muskegon - Junior College- and then Ferris - everyplace coached from a losing or mid level place to Champions - 3 of the last 4 D2 national championships
but the road stopped here -

M&BR has the latest on 2026 WR Nasir Rankin's recent visit to Michigan.