Podcast 10-30-18 (College Football Playoff, Michigan review and Penn State preview)
The Michigan Insider
247Sports, Michigan Football, Michigan Wolverines, Michigan, Michigan athletics, College Football
4.6 • 855 Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2018
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
This week, the duo dissect what to make of the College Football Playoff picture ahead of Tuesday night’s rankings unveiling. Lorenz makes his stump speech for non-SEC teams, while Shaw disagrees, though both agree on which teams Michigan — should it continue its winning streak and capture the Big Ten — needs to root for henceforth. Then, they revisit the wild Big Ten West, making their latest predictions at who wins as well as a look at the conference overall. After that, Lorenz and Shaw refocus on Michigan, fielding questions from listeners. Included are topics on surprises this season for the Wolverines good and bad, position groups of concern for Michigan in the future, a look at the Wolverines’ offensive identity moving forward and more. Finally, they preview No. 5 Michigan’s matchup against No. 14 Penn State, discussing what the Nittany Lions bring to the table with so much attrition from last season, how Michigan can stop Penn State quarterback Trace McSorley and other thoughts on the game.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody, and welcome to the Wolverine 24-7 podcast, your audio source for all things Michigan football, basketball, recruiting, and more. |
| 0:13.7 | I'm your host, Zach Shaw. |
| 0:15.1 | Steve Lorenz is on the phone lines with me. |
| 0:18.0 | As always, you can read our stories at the Michiganinsider.com, 24-7 sports.com |
| 0:22.7 | slash Michigan. Michigan football coming off of a bye week, and they're going to take on number 14 Penn State, |
| 0:31.4 | based on every way you rank teams. This is going to be their toughest challenge since Notre Dame. |
| 0:37.2 | So big game, big game,, as we'll talk about, the |
| 0:40.4 | Wolverines have shown their medal a little bit in their, |
| 0:43.5 | in their self-proclaimed revenge tour. |
| 0:47.0 | And we can kind of jump into that right now. |
| 0:49.7 | Steve and I got into a little bit of a debate about this. |
| 0:53.1 | Got some other topics. |
| 0:54.7 | For those that ask recruiting questions, no recruiting questions this week. |
| 0:59.3 | They have a big visit weekend. |
| 1:01.2 | Obviously a big opportunity for them to show off to recruits as well. |
| 1:05.0 | But we'll talk about kind of what happened this weekend after it happens rather than conjecture that |
| 1:11.9 | that might not come to fruition or things like that. |
| 1:15.1 | We did that for Wisconsin. |
| 1:16.6 | People seemed happy with that. |
| 1:18.2 | So no recruiting questions, but we'll have some Penn State preview. |
| 1:21.0 | We'll have some other topics to discuss. |
| 1:23.0 | But tonight, Tuesday night, if you're listening on Wednesday, apologies. |
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