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Newsstand: Joel Klatt buying stock in Michigan football

Anthony Broomeby: Anthony Broome07/22/25anthonytbroome
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The Michigan Wolverines have the ingredients for a bounceback season in 2025, and Fox analyst Joel Klatt is buying into the hype.

Klatt bought and sold the stock of five teams in the country on his Monday show, and listed the Wolverines as one of the groups that are on the rise.

“Michigan went 8-5 a year ago, several close games coming off that national championship run the year before,” noted Klatt. “Think about the way that they ended their season, though. You could make an argument, outside of Ohio State winning the national championship, in this day and age where most teams are going to lose their last game?

“It’s not like it used to be in college football when most teams could win a bowl game and be like, ‘Yeah! Here we go!’. Now, if you’re not in the playoff, it’s hard to even win a bowl game and feel great about yourself because you’re not in the top-twelve in the country,” said Klatt. “However, of the teams not in the playoff…Michigan had the best, easily, last month of the season of anybody in the country.”

A big reason is a schedule that allows Michigan to avoid some of the top projected teams in the conference.

“Then you’ve got the schedule in the Big Ten. They’ve got the benefit of actually a decent schedule,” said Klatt. “They don’t have to play Penn State, they don’t have to play Oregon, they don’t have to play Illinois, they don’t have to play Indiana, and they don’t have to play Iowa.

“So, what do they have? Well, a huge game week two against Oklahoma. That’s on the road. If – and I know that’s a big if because Norman is not an easy place to play. If they were to beat Oklahoma, nothing looks daunting on the schedule,” Klatt said. “They would have games at Nebraska, at USC, Washington before the huge game against Ohio State at the end of the year.”

“I think this is a bounce-back year for Michigan,” Klatt stated. Watch out for Michigan. I think that’s a bounce back,” said Klatt. “I believe that’s a buy for next year. Michigan is a buy.”

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“I’d say he brought a developed mindset. When I think of him, I kind of think about like multiple coaches. He kind of reminds me [personality-wise] of my first coach, Shaun Nua. Then, he has the coaching style of Mike Elston. So just being able to take away bits and pieces from him. He’s a good person and a good coach. He likes to make it fun for us, instead of it just being like a job, you feel me? We’ll come in and everybody wants to make jokes before we get to meeting seriously, just to lighten up the mood because you never know what somebody’s going through.  And he is always the one to bring around the energy. We got this thing around the building, everybody’s taking his phrase. We all call each other ‘kid.’ Everybody is like, ‘What’s up, kid?’ His energy and attitude he brings to work [stands out].”

– Michigan defensive tackle Rayshaun Benny on position coach Lou Esposito

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