Welcome back to the Wolverine.com podcast. I'm John Borton, and we're here on a Monday with one of our

regulars, as you know, if you're around here at all. Tom Crawford, long-time sports talk radio

personality out of East Lansing, Michigan. He is a regular panelist on the weekly TV show,

Press Pass with Jack Ebling, seen Sunday nights on Fox 47 in Lansing,

founder and principal of the Crawford Podcasting Network.

Tom is a proud U of M alum, a weekly podcast participant here on the Wolverine

podcast.

You can find him on Twitter at Bluebelly Tom.

You'll be able to find him here every week of the football and basketball

seasons and you do today. Welcome, Mr. Crawford. Well, it's great to be back, John, less than two

weeks. I mean, we're one week from, quote, unquote, game week for that Colorado State game everybody's getting excited about

the streamages and the reports coming out of Ann Arbor so hey Michigan's got a goose egg on the

right side of the column right now so let's ride that rap as as long as we can right and I think they

keep it at least 12 weeks yeah That's including the buy week.

We'll see how that all turns out, but I just, I have a feeling that they're going to have

a really nice long run this year.

The football power index by ESPN would seem to agree.

Michigan is number six there behind Alabama, Ohio State, Georgia, Clemson, and Notre Dame.

And I find some very interesting results on this.

I want to throw a few of them at you and just have you react to them.

No big surprise starting out.

Michigan is 97% or more to win its three non-conference games.

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