The Michigan football team is going to look a lot different this season, and we are going to find out a lot about them in week two when Texas football comes to town. The Longhorns are returning a lot from their College Football Playoff team last season, and the Wolverines are not. Texas is currently the betting favorite to win that game, but if Michigan can find a way to win, it will put the rest of the country on notice.
Fox Sports analyst Joel Klatt spends a lot of time around the Michigan football team as he calls a lot of their games. He will be on the call for the game against Texas football, and he thinks that it is going to be one of the most important games of the season.
“This Texas-Michigan game, for number one, it's going to shape the season because we're going to find out what Michigan is all about,” Klatt said on The Joel Klatt Show. “They have run the Big Ten now for three years. They just won the national championship. They are at the top of college football and we will find out if they're even close to that.”
Last season, Joel Klatt called Michigan a boa constrictor. It was a nickname that stuck and one that Wolverines fans love. Klatt noted on the show that if the Michigan boa constrictor returns this season, it can reshape the 2024 college football season.
“What happens if the boa constrictor is still around?,” Klatt said. “And they still can run the football, and they still play great defense and they rush the quarterback? All of those things I think would be interesting, and that would reshape the college football year as we are thinking about it now.”
Michigan football has doubters for 2024
Michigan football is expected to be good this upcoming season, but they aren't expected to be as good as they were last year. That's why a win against Texas could show the country that they are once again a contender for the national title. They have some doubters to prove wrong, and even Joel Klatt is expecting them to take a step back.
“I'm including myself in this,” Klatt said. “I don't hold Michigan in my top four in college football right now in the offseason. Now, if they were to beat Texas, that changes immediately. Again, shaping the season.”
Week two is going to be huge for both of these teams. The game will be in Ann Arbor, but right now, Texas is favored by 3.5. There is obviously still a ways to go before that game, but each team will only play one game before it, so it's unlikely that the line will change much. This is certainly one of the biggest games of the college football season.
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