M&BR has the latest on Michigan's push to the early signing period.

About an hour or so until kickoff. Should be an interesting game in Bloomington.

Let’s go!

If I ever slip into this pathetic “the media hates us” complex - slap me around the internet for a month.

Reading OSU fan and fan media (Tony Gerdeman in particularly who I’ve always liked) whine about ESPN and Herbstreit makes me embarrassed for the entire institution.

I think Jim broke an entire state. Soft is an understatement.

That’s all.

The first two games have been lopsided affairs with the lower ranked team being outclassed. Television watching getting a bit boring. The last two games of this first weekend may be more competitive but I doubt it.

Eight teams in the playoffs may be the ideal number not twelve.

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Washington’s Khmori House is on campus on Sunday, per his agents.

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They received 50 votes this week. A bit underrated, in my opinion.

The number of Michigan players entering the Transfer Portal in this cycle seems alarming. But how many of them were the result of the requirement that the roster be reduced to 105 by the beginning of the 2025 season?

This longer entry window to the Portal is the one that would provide the greatest opportunity for players not invited back to find another team to play for. It’ll be tough this year because every Division I program is faced with the same 105 player roster cap. Over and above those who have exhausted their eligibility, there will be a lot of players who played their last game of college football in 2024.

Conference Champs getting auto-bids but not auto-byes is the answer, but if you went back to the original seeding now you'd get;
1. Oregon vs 12 Arizona State (Rose Bowl)
2. Georgia vs 9 Boise State (Peach Bowl)
3. Texas vs 6 Ohio State (Sugar Bowl)
4. Penn State vs 5 Notre Dame (Fiesta Bowl)
Instead the 1 and 2 seed are playing tougher matchups than the 3 and 4 seed.

The next round includes 1 vs 6, 2 vs 5, 3 vs 12, and 6 vs 9.
This was designed for the Power 5 that existed before the recent expansion, but not seeing this coming is a failure.
We would have had a Pac-12 champ Oregon, SEC Georgia, Big 12 Texas, Big 10 Penn State/OSU, ACC Clemson/Miami, G5 Boise, and six at-large teams.

Changes are coming in 2026, and those, too, might be outdated by then. They need to fix this now for 2025.

M&BR has the latest on Michigan's OC search.

We only lose Vlad and Rubin Jones.

Add some really great recruits.

Will need a high end center to be added.

But this roster could be set up better for next year (high end success).

Making the tournament this year is the goal.

Next year adding McKenney and Winters could have this roster be even better.

That is not the start Indy wanted

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