Fox Sports' college football analyst Joel Klatt predicts Michigan to reach 2024 College Football Playoff, has Wolverines in rematch with Texas Longhorns in first round
Regardless of which group one falls into, the general belief is that Michigan will at least take a step back from last season's 15-0, national championship-winning ball club. The Wolverines enter the season with the 10th-best odds of reaching the new, expanded 12-team College Football Playoff . Fox Sports' lead college football analyst Joel Klatt likes Michigan's chances of reaching the postseason tournament, predicting the Wolverines to get in as the final at-large team as the No.
What gives Klatt confidence that Michigan can go 10-2 a year after losing head coach Jim Harbaugh, starting quarterback J.J. McCarthy, its entire defensive coaching staff and 17 other starters? "I think Sherrone Moore understands who he is and he understands who his program is," Klatt said. "They've got great running backs and an elite defense, so they're going to be Michigan and their going to be very difficult to face.
As the No. 11 seed, Klatt has the Wolverines in a rematch with No. 6 Texas in a first round game, which would be hosted by the Longhorns in Austin. Michigan will host Texas at the Big House on Sept. 7 in Ann Arbor. "This is a rematch, and yet it's a different location," Klatt said. "Regardless of what happens in that Week 2 matchup, which I can't wait for by the way, I think Texas at home, with that pressure, with that quarterback, Quinn Ewers, they get it done and Texas beats Michigan and will face Utah in a 6-3 matchup."
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