[BtownJay]

Hey Avery, good article! Being a Michigan fan you have to understand how this confuses the hell outta me though. I would love for you to tell me the four games they are going to lose. Also, how they can go 8-4 when they only are playing 11 games. Are you counting their eventual bowl victory?

Looking at this schedule...


9/3 Northern Illinois
9/10 Notre Dame
9/17 Eastern Michigan
9/24 at Wisconsin
10/1 at Michigan State
10/8 Minnesota
10/15 Penn State
10/22 at Iowa
10/29 at Northwestern
11/12 Indiana
11/19 Ohio State

Four Losses would be tough to do... and 3 losses in the Big 10? I'm picking them to go 10-1, but i can also see them dropping one of those "rivaly games" possibly... so 9-2 isn't out of the question.

You are dead on about their weakness is their secondary. They are a pretty unproven group (i believe they graduated 3 of the starters from last year). But their D-line is one of the best in college.

Their offense is going to be explosive. With Henne and Hart a year older and Breaston, Avant and Massaquoi (STUD TE) recieving the ball.. they will put up a ton of points this year.

Basically i'm saying i think they will be better than you predicted and i am praying that you are wrong. lol