Michigan 15-1 to win Football Championship

Submitted by m1jjb00 on

247 posted a short blurb on initial Vegas championship odds for the upcoming football season.

http://247sports.com/Gallery/Las-Vegas-releases-2016-17-College-Footbal…

Michigan is tied with Tennesee, Notre Dame, LSU and FSU at 15-1.  Five teams are better.  Bama is the favorite at 6-1.  OSU is 10-1.  Sparty is 20-1, 1 slot behind U of M and tied with Stanford and Ole Miss.

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Padog

January 13th, 2016 at 12:58 PM ^

Who is gonna be Stanford's quarterback next year? You would think with their offensive line and McCaffery coming back they will be amazing.

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UMAmaizinBlue

January 13th, 2016 at 1:00 PM ^

And it continues. I'm trying very hard to put my mind back in 2006 mode, which is likely the last time I felt this confident about a team as a whole (preseason 2007 also, but I don't remember that season happening so 2006 it is). Regardless, I'll drink whole milk to this.

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UM Fan from Sydney

January 13th, 2016 at 1:15 PM ^

I don't know about a title in year two (of course, I'd be super happy if it happens), but believe year three is more realistic.

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funkywolve

January 13th, 2016 at 1:20 PM ^

is more than likely going to be a rebuilding (hopefully reloading) year.  The amount of players returning on the UM's 2 deep heading into 2016 is pretty rediculous.  Conversely, at this stage in the game when looking at 2017, they are going to lose a lot off their two deep between 2016 and 2017.

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Ty Butterfield

January 13th, 2016 at 1:26 PM ^

Wow. Hard to believe the hype for this team going into next season. Would rather be ranked in the 15-20 range in the preseason polls and be able to sneak up on people.

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buckeyekiller1

January 13th, 2016 at 1:37 PM ^

All the hype and pre-season accolades are great but we still have huge question marks at major positions. QB is an unknown but I'm hoping OKorn picks up where Rudock left off, perhaps even an upgrade with the arm strength. The LBs are a huge question mark with almost no experience returning. We really need a few guys to step up there or the D can't be great like most of us expect. I want to believe, because Harbaugh. But the past decade has stripped me of my previous expectations of 10 wins as the floor to start any year. However, if we come out and really kick ass next year...I think we can finally say "we're back" and we're not going anywhere.

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DualThreat

January 13th, 2016 at 1:37 PM ^

Does anyone know why we wore road unis in the Citris Bowl?  I thought the higher ranked team was considered the home team.  Guess not.

Thanks in advance.

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thumpinman

January 13th, 2016 at 2:13 PM ^

Goes to show you how important QB is to winning. OSU loses 17 players but returns their QB. We keep practically all players (even the All Americans) but QB is unknown.

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Perkis-Size Me

January 13th, 2016 at 9:52 PM ^

Yep, next year is the year where Jones' recruiting efforts are supposed to start bearing fruit. Lot of those guys will now be upperclassmen.

Lot of talent on that team. If they can learn how to finish games, they could be a dark horse playoff contender.



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