Early 2026 Michigan Season Preview | Cover 3 Summer School
Cover 3 College Football
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🗓️ 19 May 2026
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Bud Elliott sits down with Sam Webb of 247Sports to preview Michigan’s 2026 season.
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Michigan Team Site: https://247sports.com/college/michigan/
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(00:00) Intro
(1:34) Kyle Whittingham / Coaching Changes
(5:00) Offense under Jason Beck
(9:06) RB Savion Hiter
(11:21) Under-the-radar WR
(15:01) Bryce Underwood & Offensive Line
(18:42) Outlook for defense
(25:13) Schedule breakdown
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| 0:00.0 | Indiana can sort of cement itself as we are no longer this team that's going to be fighting for six wins anymore. |
| 0:07.3 | Malachi Tony, is he going to be ready? |
| 0:09.3 | Dante Moore, he showed improvement, better command. |
| 0:18.2 | What's going on, y'all, but Elliott, here of the Cover 3 College Ball podcast. |
| 0:21.7 | That's Sam Webb, and that means summer school is back in session. |
| 0:24.9 | The Michigan Insider, that's the site. |
| 0:26.5 | That's also really his identity here. |
| 0:28.6 | Sam Webb does a great job covering all things to Michigan for us on 24-7 sports. |
| 0:32.0 | Sam, how you been, man? |
| 0:32.9 | I've been great, man. |
| 0:33.9 | It has been a marathon of a season from the firing of Sharon Moore to the hiring of Scott Whittingham to Michigan basketball in Dusty May, winning the national championship. So it's been one thing after the other, but not that I'm complaining. Dude, they were so good. Like, my boys were watching, like, Yukon and kind of thought, |
| 0:53.3 | they're not Yukon fans, but they kind of bandwagging them a little bit during the tournament. |
| 0:56.0 | They're like, yeah, like, Yukon's going to meet Michigan. |
| 0:57.7 | Like, buddy boys were watching, like, Yukon and kind of thought, they're not Yukon fans, but they kind of bandwagoned him a little bit during the tournament. They're like, yeah, like, Yukon's going to meet Michigan. Like, buddy, that's a different level look at player. Like, let's watch a couple of things like, oh, yeah, Michigan's guys look like taller, faster, bigger. And their coach is good too. So it's like the, oh, okay, yeah. |
| 1:13.0 | First, not a reality check. |
| 1:14.5 | Yeah, they didn't even play. |
| 1:15.5 | It's crazy. |
| 1:19.2 | They didn't even play particularly well in the national championship game and still won. |
| 1:20.7 | That's just how it had been. |
| 1:23.7 | They had been that much better than the opposition for much of the year. |
| 1:26.1 | Yeah, that was a machine and it was fun to watch. |
| 1:28.2 | Like winning the natty with your B game is stressful a little bit. |
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