Michigan-Oklahoma preview: Keys for the Wolverines in ranked road test
The Michigan Insider
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4.6 • 855 Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Zach Shaw and Steve Lorenz break down the Michigan football team's road trip to take on No. 18 Oklahoma, and keys for the Wolverines on both sides of the ball.
They open with a look at what Michigan’s offense needs to accomplish in the game, including withstanding the crowd noise, getting freshman Bryce Underwood comfortable, pass-blocking on the edge, establishing a run game both to the left and right and more.
In the second half of the episode, they discuss the biggest keys for the Wolverines’ defense, and how they can limit the Sooners’ new-look offense in the matchup. Along the way, they take their pick at 10 prop bets, and make their final score predictions for the game at the end.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Wolverine 24-7 podcast, your audio source for all things, |
| 0:04.2 | Michigan football, basketball, and recruiting. I'm your host Zach Shaw. Steve Lorenz is here |
| 0:08.2 | with me. This is our Michigan-Okloma preview, previewing the Wolverines first road test, first |
| 0:14.4 | ranked test, first game against a power for opponent, all of it as they head down to Oklahoma |
| 0:20.3 | take on the suitors. |
| 0:22.8 | Myself and Alejandro will be there providing live coverage all weekend over at the |
| 0:26.6 | Michiganinsider.com, Michigan.247sports.com. Plus, we have some preview content coming |
| 0:31.6 | through the pipe throughout the next couple days to get you ready for this game. Really, |
| 0:36.5 | a great test in so many ways to see what |
| 0:39.0 | this Michigan team has. I suspect win or lose Michigan's mindset is really on growing |
| 0:47.2 | toward the end of the season. I think the Big Ten games meet a little bit more, especially |
| 0:53.0 | with the expanded playoff. I mean, they could lose this game and they go eight and one in the Big Ten games meet a little bit more, especially with the expanded playoff. |
| 0:54.3 | I mean, they could lose this game and they go eight and one in the Big Ten, and they're probably |
| 0:59.1 | very much looking at a college football playoff appearance. |
| 1:01.5 | But this is a great opportunity to see where this Michigan team is at. |
| 1:05.6 | And obviously, they don't want to go all that way and lose. |
| 1:08.7 | You know, they'd love to score a marquee ranked road win on their resume and head into Big Ten play really confidence. So, yeah, lots of storylines. We probably won't get to all of them in this episode, but we'll try to break down some of the keys for the offense, keys for the defense in this matchup at the end of the episode. You can find our score predictions for the game. |
| 1:29.0 | But see, right before we hit record, we were kind of talking about, |
| 1:31.5 | I mean, the glimpses that we saw of Bryce Underwood on Saturday |
| 1:36.4 | really expand the possibility of what could happen in this game. |
| 1:41.6 | Because obviously, true freshman road road game there's tons of |
| 1:45.3 | potential obstacles but you know he's he's got all the tools it's just a matter of you know his |
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