This article was originally published on www.si.com/college/michigan as 5 Michigan football players in store for a breakout 2025 campaign.

Notre Dame was in a good spot with four-star DL Alister Vallejo, but he ended up choosing the Michigan football team.

Michigan fans took issue with Jim Rome for his ‘victim’ comments on Wolverines football. Penalties were handed down by the NCAA to the Michigan Wolverines on Friday, effectively concluding the Wolverines’ recent scandal involving inappropriate sign stealing allegations during the Jim Harbaugh era in Ann Arbor.

Lane Kiffin and the Ole Miss Rebels are less than two weeks from opening the 2025 season at Vaught Hemingway Stadium against Georgia State with all eyes on the

Jaden Upshaw is definitely a player to watch for the Michigan football team, and the Wolverines are recruiting a lot of other WRs hard as well. Ron Bellamy and Sherrone Moore want to make sure that this offense is loaded with weapons for Bryce Underwood.

For Michigan fans, the pride of the championship remains. For rivals and neutral observers, the achievement carries an invisible asterisk. It is this asterisk, not the $20 million fine, that defines the punishment. Michigan will always be remembered as a champion, but in the same breath, it will be remembered as a program that cheated.

Paul Finebaum has had it with Michigan, its fans, Jim Harbaugh, and the fake national championship the Wolverines won in 2023.