Fox Sports' college football analyst Joel Klatt high on Michigan in post-spring Top 25 rankings
As the calendar turns to June, college football programs across the country are leaving spring practice in the rearview mirror and will soon charge head-first into summer conditioning.
"They get the benefit of the doubt over Penn State because they have handled Penn State physically over the last couple years," Klatt said of the Wolverines, referencing Michigan's three consecutive victories over the Nittany Lions. Michigan also saw 13 players from the national title-winning Team 144 get selected in the 2024 NFL Draft, and several others enter the professional ranks as undrafted free agents. Yet, despite all that newness, Klatt said things felt familiar around Ann Arbor when he was in town covering the Wolverines' spring game in mid-April.
"If you're a player at Michigan, you're speaking the same language, you're doing the same things, your structure is the same and the standard is the same," Klatt said. "Nothing has changed for the players, and us on the outside look in and we say everything is different. So, it's a little bit of an interesting dichotomy."
There are more questions on offense, where the Wolverines have to settle on a new starting quarterback to replace J.J. McCarthy. Michigan returns Donovan Edwards to its backfield, and will likely be a run-dominant team again this fall, but there will be a ceiling on this team if a difference-maker doesn't emerge at QB.
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