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You may be suffering from football apathy.

Michigan's coming off an abbreviated, 2-4 COVID season and has grim prospects going forward. Michigan chose to reboot the coaching staff without actually making a change at the top. They made an NFL position coach their defensive coordinator and have embarked on a project to change Michigan's heavily man-to-man approach into something resembling a modern, multiple, pattern-matching NFL defense. They're doing this with the same corners they had last year. There's going to be a lot of learning on the job.

On offense, both contenders for the starting QB job last year have transferred. The offensive line coach who everyone thought was great because he took the most broken blitz pickup schemes in the world and wove a superb pass pro offensive line out of them in two years. He's been replaced by a guy who—while a former OL—has no OL coaching experience.

Also Ohio State exists.

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This has never been a blog holiday since it's always a game-week Monday, but… no game. So we're taking the day. Back tomorrow with more news about how nothing's happening and everyone is sad and some people are angry. Here's an otter.

[flickr user TJflex2]

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We take a day for the Fourth annually; because the Fourth is tomorrow that means the Third steps right on up to the plate. Here is the traditional celebration of American values: first-generation immigrant Zoltan Mesko in a speedo with two weiner dogs.