Coming off of a Big Ten Championship season, the Michigan Wolverines will undoubtedly have to reload. Offseason departures across the defense and, most notably, a Heisman runner-up defensive end in Aidan Hutchinson will force new defensive coordinator Jesse Minter to search for replacements. However, the cupboard is far from bare.
Still several months out from the college football season, a handful of news outlets have posted their way-too-early college football rankings; Jim Harbaugh and the Wolverines sit favorably in most.
Pro Football Focus (PFF) has Michigan at No. 5, behind only Alabama, Ohio State, Georgia and Clemson.