Well, we have reached what feels like rock bottom. At roughly 6:45 p.m. on Sept. 26, it looked like the Michigan Wolverines were about to improve to 4-0 with their second ranked win of the season and the offense hitting its stride.<\/p>\n
About a week later, Michigan fell to 3-2 with a horrific loss to a Minnesota team that just simply isn\u2019t good. The season is over.<\/p>\n
Michigan is not going to win the Big Ten and it is not going to the College Football Playoff. Those are always the goals, and just five games into the season, those are out the window. I don\u2019t remember the last time I felt a lower level of confidence about the future of the program, but it was sometime in the Brady Hoke days. Things are bleak around Ann Arbor, but the good news is the Wolverines aren\u2019t going to lose this weekend. A much-needed bye week is here, and Michigan has a lot of work to do if this season is going to salvaged even a little bit.<\/p>\n
With the bye week here, it\u2019s time to take a deeper look at the rest of the season and make a few bold predictions for what\u2019s to come.<\/p>\n
Michigan will not make a bowl game<\/p>\n
I\u2019m not sure if this is even a hot take at this point, but Michigan very well could miss a bowl game. Personally, there is one game left I am confident Michigan can win, and that\u2019s the Rutgers game. The Wolverines also play Penn State, Indiana, Michigan State, Oregon, UCLA and Ohio State. Four of those teams are ranked. Playing like they did against Minnesota, the Wolverines probably beat Michigan State just because of the defense, but that might be it.<\/p>\n
Tommy Carr will be become Michigan\u2019s QB<\/p>\n
It looked like Bryce Underwood was starting to find his groove during the Iowa game, but that was obviously not the case against Minnesota. Underwood and the Wolverines were only able to find the end zone once, and it was with a short field after an interception. The offense was a complete disaster, and Underwood is certainly part of the blame. He had Andrew Marsh wide open down the sideline for a touchdown and instead threw it to Buchanan in double coverage for a pick. He also had a tight end wide open on the 4th-and-5 that ended the game.<\/p>\n
Those are only a couple of the examples from one single game. This can\u2019t last all season, and if it continues, freshman Tommy Carr will need to get a chance.<\/p>\n
Kyle Whittingham will be gone after this season<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t think head coach Kyle Whittingham is going to be fired after this season, but I think he will actually move on himself. My main concern about this hire was the fact Whittingham was basically retired during the end of his Utah career. He was going back and forth, and it was clear he wasn\u2019t in it like he used to be. Now, he is calling this the biggest challenge of his career. It\u2019s simple: Whittingham just isn\u2019t built for this, and I think he\u2019s going to realize that pretty soon if he hasn\u2019t already.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Well, we have reached what feels like rock bottom. At roughly 6:45 p.m. on Sept. 26, it looked…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":875326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,579,128352,398,396,397,99],"class_list":["post-875325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-football","tag-michigan-football","tag-michigan-football-opinion","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=875325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/875326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=875325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=875325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=875325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}