Essentials WHAT #2 Michigan (0-0) vs East Carolina (0-0) WHERE Michigan Stadium Ann Arbor, MI WHEN 12:00 Eastern THE LINE M –36.0 (Vegas) M -41.0 (Bill C) TELEVISION Peacock TICKETS From $76. WEATHER partly cloudy 11 mph wind 84 degrees Overview The long and winding path to eternal college football glory for Michigan's 2023 season begins tomorrow with one of three non-conference tune-ups. First up on the schedule are the East Carolina Pirates, the first ever meeting between ECU and the Wolverines. The Pirates hail from the American Athletic Conference and are coming off a solid 8-5 campaign, albeit one that failed to meet the lofty expectations the program had going into the year. Now comes the projected fall, as the Pirates sustained heavy losses on both sides of the football in the offseason: Bill Connelly ranked ECU 130th out of 133 teams in returning production back in February, and that was before they sustained further losses via the portal post-spring. This team
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�
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