Michigan-Army preview: What to watch and expect
The Michigan Insider
247Sports, Michigan Football, Michigan Wolverines, Michigan, Michigan athletics, College Football
4.6 • 855 Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2019
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we preview Michigan's Week Two matchup against Army.
First, we break down why there is fear over the Wolverines' matchup with a service academy, what makes Army's triple-option, possession-based football so tricky to face and how possible the Black Knights are at pulling off the upset. We then break down how Michigan can counter what Army does offensively, how the Wolverines' coaching staff is more equipped than most to handle Army's offense as well as which defensive players might give Michigan some trouble.
We then spend the second half of our show playing over-under, looking at how Michigan's running backs, receivers, tight ends, quarterbacks, offensive linemen, linebackers, defensive linemen, kickers and overall defense will do. We also offer our formal score prediction for the matchup and our rationale for why the game might not be as scary as some fans think.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody. |
| 0:06.5 | Welcome to the Wolverine 24-7 podcast, your audio source for all things Michigan football, basketball, and recruiting. |
| 0:11.7 | I'm your host, Zach Shaw. |
| 0:12.7 | Steve Lorenz is with me. |
| 0:14.1 | Check out all of our stories from this week at the Michiganinsider.com and Michigan.247 Sports.com. |
| 0:19.7 | Lots of coverage as we wrap up Michigan's win over |
| 0:22.7 | middle Tennessee. We've kind of moved past this. Go back and listen to our Sunday podcast or read |
| 0:27.6 | some of our analysis from earlier in the week if you want to know more on that. This one, |
| 0:31.7 | this episode is going to be all about previewing Michigan's matchup against Army, |
| 0:36.1 | and we can really just jump right into it. |
| 0:38.8 | Steve, you know, there's the common belief going around that if you're trying to look good, |
| 0:46.2 | have a good record, you really shouldn't play service academies. |
| 0:51.0 | And Army is, you know, this is one of the best ones that there's been in the last few decades. |
| 0:56.2 | For those that don't know the history of why you don't want to play service academies, |
| 1:00.0 | they used to be super good. |
| 1:01.2 | Like in World War II era, Army was considered the greatest team ever assembled. |
| 1:06.0 | Army and Navy have had some very good, you know, historically great seasons decades and decades and decades ago. |
| 1:11.9 | And then around the 60s, when more teams were able to have their scholarships, |
| 1:16.9 | it became more of who has the most talent. |
| 1:19.8 | You saw players who were just a little bit more explosive, a little bit more athletic, |
| 1:24.6 | the players who go to Army because they're not on scholarship, |
| 1:28.1 | they have the service obligation after their time in West Point or Annapolis or wherever, |
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