🚨 Michigan targets Kyle Whittingham: Former Utah coach emerges as Wolverines' leading candidate
Cover 3 College Football
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🗓️ 26 December 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Former Utah head coach Kyle Whittingham has emerged as the leading candidate for the Michigan head coach position. Chip and Bud are live for an emergency episode to discuss the potential hire and how it could impact the Wolverines.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Cover 3 podcast with your host, Chip Patterson, Tom Fernelli, Danny Cannell, and Bud Elliott. |
| 0:11.7 | It's your call for the best college football coverage, from National Signing Day to the National Championship and everything in between. |
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| 0:30.1 | That's Bud Elliott. |
| 0:31.0 | I'm Chip Patterson coming to you live at YouTube.com slash cover 3 and everywhere. |
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| 0:43.3 | they see those sirens in your feed you know exactly what that means yes it does seem like our |
| 0:49.2 | long national nightmare will be coming to an end yeah the, the Michigan football saga, which started with, |
| 0:55.6 | to be honest, getting blindsided by the news of Sharon Moore's firing, the very uncomfortable |
| 1:00.8 | sort of fallout that came from that. You've got a program that's reeling, a proud program that |
| 1:06.0 | has won national championships in this modern era. And now it does appear as though the university is starting to zero in on the replacement for Sharon Moore. |
| 1:15.8 | Now, Bif Poggi has been the interim coach taking care of all the bowl preparations as the |
| 1:21.0 | Wolverines prepare for their bowl game against Texas. |
| 1:23.3 | But our own Matt Zenitz is able to confirm what's been reported throughout here this Friday |
| 1:29.2 | that Michigan has targeted Kyle Whittingham, the former Utah head coach. |
| 1:34.4 | Last to get to here, Bud, including the mechanics of it, just a higher grade. |
| 1:39.9 | You know, just looking at Kyle Whittingham, what we should expect with the idea that he is going to be taken over as Michigan's next head coach, the long-term plan, if there is one. And then I've got a couple of not either oars, but I've got some interesting comparisons, because we always like the sliding doors, right? You know, like, what if this had happened at that time? What if this had happened at that time to get into that? But I guess initially, you know, the surface level, you even texted the group. |
| 2:04.0 | He was like, man, this is wild. |
| 2:05.1 | You know, Kyle Whittingham going to take over at Michigan. |
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