Michigan Preview: Forget who's best ... who's left?
by Jess Nicholas, TideFans.com Editor-in-Chief
As Alabama and Michigan prepare to meet in the ReliaQuest Bowl in Tampa, Fla. – a rematch of sorts of last year’s College Football Playoff semifinal – the biggest question isn’t necessarily which team was better in 2024, but which team is better after approximately 50 players from the two rosters either have left via the transfer portal or have opted out of the bowl game due to injury, concern over draft status or some other reason.
Such is the way of modern college football, which is an unholy mess of confusing deadlines, opt-out windows, transfer regulations and a money-rules-all atmosphere, the fault of which lies at the feet of both NCAA bureaucrats and short-sighted judges who all seem determined to bring death to the concept of amateurism. The result, for this game, is that Alabama and Michigan will meet, but it won’t be the same Alabama and Michigan that existed around the first of December.
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Reliaquest Bowl
11:00 AM CST
Alabama vs Michigan
Line: Alabama -16.5 / O/U 45.5
by Jess Nicholas, TideFans.com Editor-in-Chief
As Alabama and Michigan prepare to meet in the ReliaQuest Bowl in Tampa, Fla. – a rematch of sorts of last year’s College Football Playoff semifinal – the biggest question isn’t necessarily which team was better in 2024, but which team is better after approximately 50 players from the two rosters either have left via the transfer portal or have opted out of the bowl game due to injury, concern over draft status or some other reason.
Such is the way of modern college football, which is an unholy mess of confusing deadlines, opt-out windows, transfer regulations and a money-rules-all atmosphere, the fault of which lies at the feet of both NCAA bureaucrats and short-sighted judges who all seem determined to bring death to the concept of amateurism. The result, for this game, is that Alabama and Michigan will meet, but it won’t be the same Alabama and Michigan that existed around the first of December.
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Michigan preview: Forget who’s best … who’s left?
As Alabama and Michigan prepare to meet in the ReliaQuest Bowl in Tampa, Fla. – a rematch of sorts of last year’s College Football Playoff semifinal – the biggest question isn’t necessa…
Reliaquest Bowl
11:00 AM CST
Alabama vs Michigan
Line: Alabama -16.5 / O/U 45.5
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