Michigan football expert roundtable (2024 edition): How do the Wolverines follow up their 2023 title run?

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We’ve finally made it to game week, everyone. To celebrate the fact that this is a thing that’s actually happening, I’m rolling out one of the more popular staples of this newsletter since I started it in 2020 — the expert roundtable.

It’s pretty self-explanatory: I rounded up a diverse group of Michigan football experts and asked them 15+ questions related to the Wolverine football program and the upcoming season. And make no mistake about it, this feature wouldn’t be possible without the generosity of the members of the Michigan media (their social handles are on the grid, along with their publications — I highly encourage supporting all of their work).

We got 19 experts to participate in 2020, 15 in 2021, 20 in 2022 and then 24 last season. This time around we’ve got 22 for our second largest panel yet. This group includes folks from local and national outlets, from print and digital publications, from written to audio formats and everything in between. The only commonality between everyone is they’re all tasked with providing coverage of Michigan athletics — so this group of experts isn’t just large, it’s very qualified.

Here’s a full accounting of this year’s panel:

• The Detroit News' Angelique Chengelis

• The Athletic's Austin Meek

• The Detroit Free Press’ Tony Garcia

• MLive.com's Ryan Zuke

• MGoBlog's Seth Fisher

• WTKA's Sam Webb and Ira Weintraub

• WolverineWire's Isaiah Hole

• Wright Media Group's Ant Wright

• BlueByNinety's Justin Roh

• Chris And Company’s Chris Castellani

• On3.com's Chris Balas, Anthony Broome and Clayton Sayfie

• 247Sports' Zach Shaw, Steve Lorenz and Alejandro Zúñiga

• Rivals.com’s Trevor McCue and Brock Heilig

• The Michigan Daily's Lys Goldman and Noah Kingsley

• And me. Scott Bell.

Here are the grids with everyone’s selections. The final of the four grids includes two columns that tally up everyone’s votes and displays the two most popular responses for each question.

The responses

Today’s newsletter was free, but most coverage throughout the fall will be behind the paywall. You can look at monthly and annual options for premium subscriptions at the link below:

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ICYMI — previous coverage this offseason

The 2024 U-M football fan survey (🔒)

• Pt. 1: On the NCAA’s investigation into the U-M football program

• Pt. 2: On the state of the U-M football program

• Pt. 3: On your thoughts of changes made this offseason

• Pt. 4: On your expectations for this fall

2024 Big Ten positional preview series (🔒)

• Quarterbacks

• Running backs

• Wide receivers/tight ends

• Offensive line

• Defensive line

• Linebackers

• Defensive backs

• Preseason team power rankings

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