Middle Tennessee preview: Five things to watch
The Michigan Insider
247Sports, Michigan Football, Michigan Wolverines, Michigan, Michigan athletics, College Football
4.6 • 855 Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2019
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
In our first game preview episode of the season, we take a look at the Michigan football team's matchup against Middle Tennessee.
Given that the Wolverines are heavily favored to beat the Blue Raiders, our five things to watch for are Michigan-specific. First, we discuss how the offense could look and what our approach would be to unveiling the Wolverines' new offense. We also take a look at new starters, and which ones we're the most intrigued to see what they can do.
We then look at Michigan's new defense, and how the Wolverines will be challenged by the Blue Raiders' offense. We look at the pass rush and secondary, and what counts as a victory on Saturday beyond a win. Our final thing to watch includes a look at how we would handle Michigan's freshmen and reserve players and when we would let them take the game over.
Finally, we close with an over-under game about Saturday's matchup and make our predictions for the game.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Wolverine 24-7 podcast, your audio source for all things, Michigan football, basketball, and recruiting. I'm your host, Zach Shaw. Steve Lorenz, here with me as well. You can check out all of our stories at the Michiganinsider.com and Michigan.247sports. |
| 0:22.4 | We write a lot more than we podcasts, so be sure to check it out. It's game week. I'm pumping |
| 0:26.8 | out three or four or five stories a day, helping our readers get prepared for the game, |
| 0:32.8 | telling the stories of fall camp and of this team. If you missed our prediction special |
| 0:37.2 | or some of our takeaways from fall camp, you can team. If you missed our prediction special or some of our |
| 0:38.7 | takeaways from fall camp, you can check those out in our podcast page. They ran earlier this |
| 0:44.4 | week. We've also talked recently about top freshmen, some of the key position battles, |
| 0:49.4 | and other reactions from certain fall camp storylines. Anyway, this episode is our first preview episode of the season. |
| 0:58.1 | We'll be looking at Michigan's matchup against Middle Tennessee. |
| 1:01.4 | Middle Tennessee state, I think they technically took away the state. |
| 1:05.7 | Anyway, so we're going to look at a few things that we're watching beyond the result. |
| 1:09.8 | That will be a regular feature in some of these games that are maybe expected to be more lopsided. |
| 1:15.8 | Michigan's a 33.5 point favorite. |
| 1:18.4 | Michigan should win this game. |
| 1:19.6 | If they don't win this game, a lot of things, yeah, that'd be an interesting situation. |
| 1:27.0 | So anyway, we're going to look at about five things to watch for this game, and then |
| 1:31.1 | our good friend on Twitter sent us our over-unders, and so we'll go over those, and then |
| 1:36.4 | we'll get out of here and get back to writing. |
| 1:38.7 | So Steve, let's do five things to watch for this game. |
| 1:43.0 | Obviously, the big one, and this was the biggest thing in the spring game to watch, |
| 1:46.8 | the biggest thing in the open practice to watch. |
| 1:49.2 | It's going to be something that we're keeping an eye on probably until maybe October |
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