Podcast: Michigan signing day takeaways, bowl projections, basketball vs. Rutgers preview
On this episode of The Wolverine Podcast, Clayton Sayfie, Anthony Broome and Chris Balas give their takeaways on Michigan’s 2026 signing day, discuss bowl projections with Citrus vs. Texas looking likely, preview basketball’s Big Ten opener against Rutgers and make college football picks from around the country in our final segment, ‘No Man Knows The Future.’
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Michigan fended off late pushes from other schools for multiple key commits who ended up signing, and overall the Wolverines have put together another strong recruiting class.
“More drama than expected, but the class looks pretty similar to the way it did coming into yesterday,” Sayfie said.
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“You know, the rumor mongering always starts,” Balas said. “You saw a bunch of garbage online about stuff. You know, you’ve got the usual suspects. Jim Harbaugh is leaving! Jive turkeys, or whatever, some years, right around signing day, this and that.
“Michigan had to overcome some stuff, so give them credit for keeping this class generally together — a really good class. Good stuff. I’m excited by it. I don’t get as excited about recruiting anymore, guys, in the NIL era, just because it’s so easy come, easy go, right? You get some guys, and then they’re here for a few months and then they’re gone. They’re here for a year and then they’re gone. You hope that these guys stick it out and, hopefully guys will eventually get contracts where you’re like, OK, you got … I think it’s bound to happen. But the one-year transfer portal thing with NIL just doesn’t work, and I think we’ve seen that.
“It’s amazing if you watch a college basketball game and just a couple teams, random teams, and see guys that, hey, I didn’t know he was playing there.”