College Football Guide
August 21st, 2010 at 1:37 PM ^
Hail to the Victors seems to be the best for in-depth Michigan preview. For an overall College Football Guide I have always been pleased with what Sporting News puts out. I enjoy reading what Sports Illustrated publishes, and have known Phil Steele's magazine to be pretty popular with some people.
August 21st, 2010 at 1:38 PM ^
I second Hail to the Victors.
August 21st, 2010 at 1:50 PM ^
My copy of Hail to the Victors came in the mail this week. I'm saving it for some airplane reading material though.
August 21st, 2010 at 1:41 PM ^
Phil Steele is a safe bet
August 21st, 2010 at 1:42 PM ^
If you're a hardcore fan, nothing really compares to Phil Steele.
August 21st, 2010 at 1:46 PM ^
I watched this so I probably don't even need to watch the games.
August 21st, 2010 at 2:01 PM ^
I've just breathed a huge sigh of relief and I'll sleep much better tonight.
thanks Trev Rogers and you're whiteboard of reasonable analysis!
August 21st, 2010 at 2:05 PM ^
This guy is out of his mind. I fully expect to take the Iowa game, but no way we take down OSU or both Uconn and ND early in the season.
I can definitely see 9-10 wins if we go without injuries but how likely is that?
August 21st, 2010 at 2:27 PM ^
The guy might be painting a rosey picture, but to say that there is "no way we take both Uconn and ND early" is a bit crazy too. Both teams have questionable defenses at best. ND is breaking in a few new linemen, not to mention a first year starter at QB.
August 21st, 2010 at 2:37 PM ^
...and a brand new offense. However, I gotta say after watching the replay of last year's ND game the image of Floyd running wild in our secondary scares me.
August 21st, 2010 at 2:35 PM ^
Triple revenge!!!!!!!!!
lol
August 21st, 2010 at 2:58 PM ^
Whenever you have to premise a prediction with "people are going to think im crazy", it's probably not a very good prediction
August 21st, 2010 at 1:54 PM ^
Thanks for the quick responses
My next question is whether Phil Steele's regional guide is too much. Is the national one comprehensive enough or are getting all the regional ones necessary?
August 21st, 2010 at 2:43 PM ^
I have the nationwide one (with the B10 cover, it has regional covers), and it's loaded with info on every team. It's pretty comprehensive, certainly stats wise.
I also have Hail to the Victors, which is awesome and has the best M specific coverage.
August 21st, 2010 at 2:07 PM ^
the scrimmage start?
August 21st, 2010 at 4:01 PM ^
Phil Steele's preview mag gave me a headache. The print is tiny. But it's pretty accurate and, for the most part, well researched.
August 21st, 2010 at 5:12 PM ^
Here is the editors' guesses at parts of Michigan's roster
LOT Rocko Khoury
C Michael Schofield
LDE Will Henninger
ROLB Floyd Simmons
K Jason Olesnavage
P Zoltan Mesko
I know you're not looking for U of M info, but I'd say that's telling. As for Steele, he crams a lot of words in, but way too much of it is about stuff that happened several years ago. Still, he's probably the best of the lot. Picked up Yahoo, zzzz.
August 21st, 2010 at 7:58 PM ^
"Telling" you say?