Michigan Football has a (largely) finalized coaching staff for the upcoming 2024 season and today marks the closing of the transfer portal window that began when Jim Harbaugh exited to the NFL. Changes may continue to rosters after spring ball, but today marks the point at which Michigan joins the rest of college football in terms of staff and roster stability, the dust settling on the changes of the winter period. That reality allows us to turn our attention to the rest of college football to see what's been going on elsewhere in the B1G, as we did last offseason. Just like last year's series, over the course of the next three pieces (we now have 17 teams to cover!) I will recap what transfer portal and NFL declarations have wrought upon Michigan's conference foes, in addition to any staff turnover. Today we are covering the six teams in what used to be the B1G East: Ohio State EXITS Ohio State lost a handful of impact players, but as a whole came out relatively unsca
About Last Week Look, I’m not a tactical football genius. I’d be the first admit that. But I worry that Michigan isn’t utilizing its skill players correctly. If nothing else, Saturday made one thing perfectly clear: KRIS JENKINS NEEDS WAY MORE TOUCHES THAN HE IS GETTING. David Wilcomes Feed your playmakers, Sherrone. The Road Ahead Rutgers (3-0, 0-0 B1G) Last week: Beat Virginia Tech, 35-16 Recap: Virginia Tech outgained Rutgers 319-302 (albeit in a less efficient manner) and picked up 18 first downs to 14 for Rutgers, and they held Gavin Wimsatt to 2.9 yards per attempt. But Rutgers had the only thing in the game that really worked for either team: an effective running game. Rutgers ran for 256 yards at 7.5 yards per carry with 4 touchdowns. This team is as frightening as: Speed bump. It isn’t going to do anything you don’t generally expect. Take it at the right speed, and everything will be fine. But you won’t take it at the right speed, will you? No sir. You’ll take it
You know what time of year it is. football content season!! No, not recruiting. Actual. Football. Fall camp begins tomorrow for the Michigan Wolverines and as the bell rings in football season, it's time to begin posting preview content on MGoBlog. The Enemy, Ranked is back for another season and as always, we're starting with the QB position. In contrast to last season, where most B1G opponents had returning QBs we were already familiar with, this season it's primarily new faces. Scratch that, a lot of new faces. Only two teams on the schedule are returning a QB who started a majority of games for them the previous season(!), three if you count Rutgers, who returns multiple QBs that combined to start the majority of games. Everyone's wearing nametags for our purposes, be it underclassmen moving up to starter or transfers who have been added to the roster. So let's get to know the opposing signal callers besides Taulia, who we already know: 12. Indiana T