With the season over, there’s obviously going to be a shift in the content of the blog, as there are no game or opponents to talk about.

There are a few season-wrapup posts that I’m planning on making, and some reasons to be optimistic (or otherwise) going into 2009. On top of those, I’ll look at the similarities and differences between Michigan’s 2008 season and some struggles by other programs in the recent past.

Once all that is through, it’s time to delve (even deeper than normal) into recruiting. For the sake of consistent content, I’m going to start mixing 2009 and 2010 recruiting updates together, and having a singular “Recruiting Update” post that fills both categories. I’m also going to change up the style of the posts as well, so there is more information in the posts instead of “player name – brief with link” repetition.

The new recruiting posts will be published as they fill up, rather than being locked into any particular day. My prediction is that this will lead to more recruiting information. In addition, there will be more recruiting posts that are a little more than just updating the statuses of particular players.

And of course, as always, I welcome your mailbag questions, so send them in to the e-mail address on the right.

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Rank	Team	Delta
1	Alabama	—
2	Oklahoma	—
3	Texas	—
4	Florida	—
5	Penn State	1
6	Southern Cal	1
7	Texas Tech	2
8	Utah	—
9	Boise State	1
10	Ohio State	2
11	TCU	3
12	Georgia Tech	5
13	Georgia	2
14	Cincinnati	2
15	Oklahoma State	6
16	Missouri	3
17	Michigan State	2
18	Boston College	2
19	Ball State	2
20	Iowa	2
21	Brigham Young	2
22	Oregon State	7
23	Pittsburgh	1
24	Northwestern	1
25	Florida State	7

Oklahoma over Texas because: Against common opponents, the two teams were approximately equal in victory against Baylor and Texas A&M. Texas was more impressive against Kansas by a slight margin, and Oklahoma was more impressive against Oklahoma State and Texas Tech by HUGE margins. The Sooners’ schedule was also much more top-heavy, giving them a more impressive resume at this point.

Other potential problems: I’ll admit I didn’t go through and strictly resume rank at this point, though I may make something of an effort to do it over the next day or so. I don’t like having Alabama at the top, but because I haven’t done all the legwork in comparing resumes, I think it would be disingenuous to move them down at this point.

Everything else seems fairly straightforward to me, so comment away.

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