College football media tends to have an awfully short memory. Perhaps too short. When a team is good one season, they're automatically expected to be great the following year. Of course, there are some exceptions -- Texas and USC come to mind, as they're annually expected to be great, no matter what happened the year before. But Michigan? Sometimes it's in the Texas/USC boat. Other times, not so much.

Advanced analytics expects Michigan to be good, but Mike Farrell, formerly of Rivals, put out a list of the top five teams in the Big Ten this upcoming season -- and Michigan wasn't on it. Why that's absurd as well as the broader context.

And then, why Isaiah hasn't been producing as many podcasts of late in a heart-to-heart with you, the listener.

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