(Photo: Rod Sanford, Special to Detroit News)
Michigan has been a staple in the top 10 of several "post-spring" college football rankings, and it's no different with Sports Illustrated, which ranks the Wolverines at No. 7.
That's slightly better than CBS Sports and the Sporting News, which listed Michigan at No. 9 in their post-spring rankings posted earlier this week.
"It still remains to be seen whether Jim Harbaugh can fully pass off control of the offense to one of his assistants," Scooby Axson of Sports Illustrated writes, "but the hiring of offensive coordinator Josh Gattis and the emphasis on speed-in-space sounds like a step in the right direction.