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Michigan Football: 3 reasons Wolverines deserve top-10 ranking in 2018

By Chris Peterson

COLUMBUS, OH - NOVEMBER 26: Head coach Jim Harbaugh of the Michigan Wolverines participates in warmups with is team on the field prior to their game against the Ohio State Buckeyes at Ohio Stadium on November 26, 2016 in Columbus, Ohio. (Photo by Gregory Shamus/Getty Images)
COLUMBUS, OH - NOVEMBER 26: Head coach Jim Harbaugh of the Michigan Wolverines participates in warmups with is team on the field prior to their game against the Ohio State Buckeyes at Ohio Stadium on November 26, 2016 in Columbus, Ohio. (Photo by Gregory Shamus/Getty Images) /
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The Michigan football team moved up in both the ESPN and USA Today preseason rankings following the spring. Here’s why UM deserves to be top-10.

You know there is not a lot going around when post-rankings are the hot topic. But, it’s never a bad thing when you are trending up in the rankings and that was the case for Michigan football in the recent updates released by ESPN and USA Today.

USA Today was a little less kind to Michigan football than ESPN. The first had Michigan football ranked 13th, while ESPN ranked the Wolverines 10th. In both rankings, Michigan was the fourth-highest team in the rankings from the Big Ten.

USA today ranked the Wolverines ahead of Michigan State. But also behind Ohio State, Penn State and Wisconsin. ESPN, on the other hand, ranked UM ahead of the Nittany Lions. However, UM was still trailing the Buckeyes, Badgers and Spartans.

And with recent results, it’s hard to argue. Michigan football has lost like 200 straight games to Ohio State. But Michigan also lost to Wisconsin and Penn State last season, in addition to losing two of the last three to Sparty.

But hey, that was the past. It’s time to look towards the future. Things are changing for Michigan football and they are changing for the better. Shea Patterson, not John O’Korn will likely be the quarterback in 2018. If not, Brandon Peters or Dylan McCaffrey are going to have to play incredibly well to unseat him. Either way, QB should be better.

The defense is also going to be great again, so why shouldn’t Michigan be considered a top-10 team going into next season. From our perspective, here are three reasons they should be.

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