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The Michigan Insider

Michigan football 2023 season predictions and ECU game preview

The Michigan Insider

247Sports, Michigan Football, Michigan Wolverines, Michigan, Michigan athletics, College Football

Football, Sports

4.6855 Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Zach Shaw and Steve Lorenz make their 2023 season predictions, then preview the Wolverines' matchup with East Carolina in the second half of the episode.

To open the episode, the two look at Michigan’s biggest trap game, toughest game overall, MVPs, top freshmen and breakout players on both offense and defense. They then predict who will lead Michigan in a number of statistical categories, and forecast if Michigan will win the national championship.

In the second half of the episode, the two discuss what would make for a successful weekend for Michigan on offense and defense (beyond winning and staying healthy), discuss players they’re watching closely and make score predictions for Saturday’s game.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Wolverine 24-7 podcast, your audio source for all things,

0:03.9

Michigan football, basketball, and recruiting. I'm your host, Sack Shaw. Steve Lorenz here with me.

0:09.0

This is our official season preview episode, at least the first half of this episode,

0:14.8

will be the second half. We'll take a peek at this Saturday's game against East Carolina

0:20.3

for the Wolverines.

0:21.9

If you missed our position preview series, definitely go check that out.

0:26.7

They'll probably still be relevant next week, but you'll sound really smart around your

0:30.6

friends at the tailgate if you go and listen to the five to six hours of podcasting that

0:36.1

we did.

0:36.9

Breaking down all 11 position groups in great detail, the strengths, the question

0:41.0

marks, we got everything.

0:42.2

We even have our predictions for each position group.

0:45.2

So be sure to check that out.

0:46.6

This one, yeah, we're going big picture again.

0:48.8

We're talking about the team.

0:50.0

We'll do a lightning round of some of the predictions that we have for this season.

0:55.5

In the second half of the episode, we'll talk maybe not the nitty gritty that you'll see in Big Ten play in terms of like the positional and strategic things to watch.

1:05.7

But what we want to see from the offense this weekend for the Wolverines, what we want to see from the Wolverines defense this weekend. A couple players were watching and we'll have our score prediction

1:14.7

at the end. But Steve, getting to this season, I believe that we both picked Michigan to go 12

1:22.2

and 0 this year. It's my first time doing 12 and 0. I don't remember what you had last year.

1:27.0

I don't think I had 12 and 0. Yeah,'t remember what you had last year. I don't think I had 12 and

1:28.5

oh. Yeah, this is this is kind of different territory for me because there's so many games

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