Previously: Bowling Green Offense Wednesday we covered Bowling Green's offense, today we take a look at their defense. Last season this unit was among the very worst in college football, ranking 125th in SP+. In their first two games, the team allowed 34 points and 389 yards to Liberty and 15 points and 325 yards to Eastern Illinois. Not good, but nothing catastrophic yet. Now they get a chance to take on Michigan. The Film: Much like the offense, we only have one option here. Eastern Illinois is not suitable to use as an FCS team and finding game footage of that would be even harder. So we're going with Liberty, which is a bit of a bummer because the Flames' offense is very different than what Michigan runs, so learning much of anything from this game is. hard. Not as hard as last week's largely meaningless review of Bryant/UNLV footage, but still pretty tough to use. Personnel: Click for big. Bowling Green has really rotated their defensive line this s
Previously: Bowling Green Offense Wednesday we covered Bowling Green's offense, today we take a look at their defense. Last season this unit was among the very worst in college football, ranking 125th in SP+. In their first two games, the team allowed 34 points and 389 yards to Liberty and 15 points and 325 yards to Eastern Illinois. Not good, but nothing catastrophic yet. Now they get a chance to take on Michigan. The Film: Much like the offense, we only have one option here. Eastern Illinois is not suitable to use as an FCS team and finding game footage of that would be even harder. So we're going with Liberty, which is a bit of a bummer because the Flames' offense is very different than what Michigan runs, so learning much of anything from this game is. hard. Not as hard as last week's largely meaningless review of Bryant/UNLV footage, but still pretty tough to use. Personnel: Click for big. Bowling Green has really rotated their defensive line this s
Previously: Quarterback, Running Back, Receivers, Offensive Line, Defensive Line, Linebacker We have made it to the end of The Enemy, Ranked 2023. Just like last year, I'm counting DB-shaped HSPs as DBs, but in reality that really only affects one team on this ranking, which is Indiana's "HUSKY". Most teams here have five positions listed with the nickel being included because this is 2023 and most CFB teams play with 5 DBs most all of the time. At the end of the piece I will briefly drop in special teams rankings and then will wrap this whole series up by reviewing what we learned about the opponents on Michigan's 2023 schedule. 12. East Carolina CB CB S S Shavon Revel Isaiah Brown-Murray Teagan Wilk Julius Wood TyMir Brown Jonathon Jones Dontavius Nash This is pretty grim. On the plus side of things, Teagan Wilk and Julius Wood are a pair of returning safeties, two-thirds of last year's safety rotation. On the down side, they weren�