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The Michigan Insider
247Sports, Michigan Football, Michigan Wolverines, Michigan, Michigan athletics, College Football
4.6 • 855 Ratings
🗓️ 2 September 2021
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we preview the Michigan football team's season-opening contest against Western Michigan. We discuss some storylines that stood out to us this week, keys to the game and make a series of predictions for the contest.
This week, we begin by taking a look at what players had to say about the trust that Mike Macdonald has built with his players, and the significance of a culture change. We also take a look at what Cade McNamara brings as a starting quarterback that past Michigan quarterbacks haven't brought.
We then look at keys to the game for Michigan, including what would need to happen for week one to be considered a success, and how the Wolverines can avoid an upset early on.
We close with our typical format for predictions, doing some prop bets, identifying our picks for MVP and player on the spot, as well as making out final score prediction.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Wolverine 24-7 podcast, your audio source for all things, |
| 0:04.3 | Michigan football, basketball, and recruiting. I'm your host, Zach Shaw, Steve Lorenz, here |
| 0:08.5 | with me. It is game week. It is game week for the first time in almost a year, really. I mean, I guess |
| 0:15.7 | before Thanksgiving last year. And for the fans, it's even a bigger deal because for the first time since |
| 0:22.3 | January 1st, 2020, fans can attend Michigan football games. And for the first time since |
| 0:29.1 | November 2019, the big house will have thousands of fans in it. So I've been hearing from a lot of |
| 0:36.6 | fans this week. They're all, you know, even, |
| 0:38.2 | even the ones who are not so sure what Michigan's going to be this year or don't think |
| 0:42.4 | Michigan's going to be especially good. They're just all excited to have tailgating back, |
| 0:47.7 | have the game back. So if you're, you take part in that, I did write a story about all the |
| 0:51.7 | guidelines you need to know for going to games in terms |
| 0:55.3 | of the protocols and everything like that. But, you know, I guess I'm happy for you. That's, |
| 1:01.6 | you know, it's someone who covered college football games without fans last year. It's, |
| 1:05.8 | it's really boring. It kind of sucks. I think the whole, you know, all the rituals of college football |
| 1:12.1 | are due to the fans, really. So anyways, I'm fired up because I spent all month trying |
| 1:20.9 | to figure out what this, or all year trying to figure out what this team is. And now we |
| 1:24.4 | finally get to see. So this episode, pretty straightforward. |
| 1:28.0 | We're going to talk about quickly what we learned in this week's press conferences, |
| 1:32.2 | just a couple discussion points that still persist. |
| 1:35.9 | We'll talk about the key for Michigan's offense, key for Michigan's defense, |
| 1:39.9 | and then we'll do some prop bets in the second half of the episode. |
| 1:43.8 | If you want to know about the big picture of Michigan football, we did do a season |
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