Playoff team profiles: The 1-seed Michigan Wolverines
It's time to dive into the four playoff squads competing for the National Championship and gauge whether they have the right stuff to actually win it.
It’s about that time of the year.
I glanced at a calendar to plan our content here at America’s War Game for the Holidays and realized it’s about time to start breaking down the playoffs in true earnest.
You may also be relieved to learn that in my first season playing fantasy football in about a decade, my team collapsed in the playoffs. This negative outcome will now spare you all from having to hear me explain my strategy for winning a game that’s ultimately something of a crapshoot as though I reinvented the wheel.
Not to discount my friend Ben’s improbable come from behind victory…
Winning in the college football playoffs is not a crapshoot, save for where injuries are involved. Space force matters, planet theory matters, and high impact athletes rule the day.
We’re going to break this thing down in terms of whether these four teams have the right dimensions to emerge in a competition against other regional powers who were built to subdue their own respective conferences. There’s a “clash of empires” element to the playoffs which feature different styles of play and some often hard to predict matchup dynamics. I did only okay at this last year, noting Ohio State would likely give Georgia fits but assuming Michigan would easily roll over TCU.
We’ll see how it goes this time.
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