Michigan football expert roundtable (2023 edition): Will U-M run the table? Is this Jim Harbaugh's last year in Ann Arbor?
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Happy Return To Michigan Football Week, everyone.
To celebrate the fact that it’s finally game week, 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 and 20 last fall. This time around, we got a record 24 different panelists to participate. 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
FOX Sports' Michael Cohen
MLive.com's Ryan Zuke
Barstool Sports' Chris Castellani
MGoBlog's Seth Fisher
WTKA's Ira Weintraub
WolverineWire's Isaiah Hole
Wright Media Group's Ant Wright
BlueByNinety's Justin Roh
Maize N Brew's Von Lozon
On3.com's Chris Balas and Clayton Sayfie
247Sports' Zach Shaw, Steve Lorenz and Alejandro Zúñiga
Rivals.com’s Josh Henschke, Trevor McCue and Brock Heilig
The Michigan Daily's Connor Earegood, John Tondora, Paul Nsar and Charlie Pappalardo
Oh, and me. The newsletter guy.
Here are the grids with everyone’s selections. Followed by a breakdown of the selections and my biggest takeaways about what they mean for Michigan’s upcoming season.
The responses
