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ACC Tournament 2021: Bracket, schedule, scores, teams, and more

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Here’s everything you need to know about the ACC tournament.

One year ago, the Florida State Seminoles lifted the 2020 ACC tournament trophy in an empty Greensboro Coliseum. Six games were played over two days before the remainder of the tournament was canceled as concerns over the coronavirus pandemic mounted. The NCAA tournament would be canceled less than a week later.

Well, we’re back!

The 2021 edition of the ACC Tournament gets underway March 9, and it’s back in Greensboro (relocated from Washington, DC) again. Virginia, the still reigning national champions, are the No. 1 seed after winning the conference regular season for the third time in four years. The Cavaliers picked up a huge road win at Louisville to claim the top spot after Florida State left the door open with a loss at Notre Dame.

Virginia Tech, the No. 3 seed, will be playing their first game since February 27 after multiple Covid-19 pauses both inside and outside of their program. Georgia Tech is the last team with the double bye as the Yellow Jackets finished 11-6 in the conference and ended the regular season on a six-game win streak. Moses Wright, the first ACC Player of the Year for GT since 1990, and pesky guard Jose Alvarado will try and help the Jackets secure a spot in the Big Dance.

As is often the case this time of year, many teams are looking to bolster their resumes for the postseason. Georgia Tech, North Carolina, and Louisville are currently on the right side of the bubble of the latest SB Nation bracket, while Syracuse, NC State, and Duke could all use a few (or a lot of) wins.

The Format

The top nine teams receive first-round byes and the top four teams receive double-byes to the quarterfinals. Teams are seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.

The Bracket & Schedule

Here is the full tournament bracket and day-by-day schedule. Game times subject to change. We’ll be updating it with results along the way.

Bracket: ACC

Round 1: Tuesday, March 9 (All times ET)

Game 1: No. 12 Pitt vs. No. 13 Miami, 12 p.m.

Game 2: No. 10 Duke vs. No. 15 Boston College, 4:30 p.m.

Game 3: No. 11 Notre Dame vs. No. 14 Wake Forest, 7 p.m.

Round 2: Wednesday, March 10

Game 4: No. 8 Syracuse vs. No. 9 NC State, 12 p.m.

Game 5: Winner of Game 1 vs. No. 5 Clemson, 2:30 p.m.

Game 6: Winner of Game 2 vs. No. 7 Louisville, 6:30 p.m.

Game 7: Winner of Game 3 vs. No. 6 North Carolina, 9 p.m.

Quarterfinals: Thursday, March 11

Game 8: Winner of Game 4 vs. No. 1 Virginia, 12 p.m.

Game 9: Winner of Game 5 vs. No. 4 Georgia Tech, 2:30 p.m.

Game 10: Winner of Game 6 vs. No. 2 Florida State, 6:30 p.m.

Game 11: Winner of Game 7 vs. No. 3 Virginia Tech, 9 p.m.

Semifinals: Friday, March 12

Game 12: Winner of Game 8 vs. Winner of Game 9, 6:30 p.m.

Game 13: Winner of Game 10 vs. Winner of Game 11, 9 p.m.

Championship—Saturday, March 13

Game 14: Championship Game: Winner Game 12 vs. Winner Game 13, 8:30 p.m.

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Hi! I'm really interested in reading comics/graphic novels about or featuring the Batkids, and you seem like you know about that kind of thing (or at least more than I do, although it's a low bar), so do you think you could give me some suggestions to get started with? Also, I've seen some DC stuff at the library with "Death of the Family" on it but some is Batman and some is Batgirl and I think I saw a Teen Titans one and are they all connected or something? I'm confused. Thanks!

Yes! I do know quite a bit about comicsin the BatFam area, I just unfortunately can’t recommend anythingthat came out in the last 2 years as I’ve not read it. But 1989-2015I can give LOTS of recommendations.

For the most part any title can be astandalone, but titles do unfortunately get wrapped up in companywide events at times. But if you read the GN rather than theindividual comics they try and keep events to their own combo storybooks and character titles to their own.

This is such a huge list that I’mputting it under the cut so you click to read it instead of everyonegetting spammed with a HUGE list of things…

Here is what I’d recommend:

-Jason Todd as Robin II (Later known asRed Hood): It seems as though the majority of Jason writers presentday neglected to actually read his original issues, because they basetheir knowledge and opinion of him on what readers in the 80’sTHOUGHT of him, and unfortunately at the time many people hatedJason. Much of the hate was for a Robin in general as at the timeplenty of people thought Bruce should be on his own. No Batgirl (seethe Killing Joke) and no Robin. So the hate was for the role ingeneral. And then you had Robin fans that hated him just because theydidn’t want anyone trying to replace Dick’s role even though Dick hadmoved on to Nightwing. Jason as Robin issues are Batman #408-428, andNew Teen Titans Vol2 #19-21, 24, 28-31. I’m sure there were issues ofDetective Comics, but I have no idea which. In recent years much ofthese issues are in GNs but some of the issues are not, so you mayhave to look those up individually to read online or buy them instores with older issues. These GN are- Batman: Second Chances(Batman Issues #402-403, 408-416, and Annual #11), Batman Ten NightsOf The Beast (Batman Issues #417-420), DC Comics Classics Library:Batman- A Death In The Family, Hard Cover (Batman Issues #426-429,440-442, New Teen Titans Vol2 #60-61). this edition of “A Death InThe Family” contains both the death of Jason and the introductionof Tim, which was a story focused around Jason. So it’s a 2-for-1deal. There’s also a GN called Batman: The Cult and Jason’s the Robinwith Bruce in that story as well though I’m not sure where to placethat in the chronology.

-Tim as Robin III (Later known as RedRobin): Tim had an excellent run as Robin. He had 3 mini-seriesbefore he had an entire run of his own that spanned 183 main issues,not counting team ups or annuals. All while also appearing in theother Batman, Nightwing, and Batgirl titles. Plenty of issues werecompany wide tie-in issues but the rest were all put into their ownGNs. Robin: A Hero Reborn (Batman #455-457, Robin Mini-series1 #1-5),Robin: Tragedy & Triumph (Detective Comics #618-621, RobinMini-series2 #1-4), Robin Mini-series3: Cry Of the Huntress #1-6 isnot in a GN that I know of, then the rest of his main run in FlyingSolo, Unmasked!, Fresh Blood, To Kill a Bird, Days of Fire andMadness, The Virtual Cell, Wanted, Teenage Wasteland, The BigLeagues, Violent Tendencies, and Search for a Hero.

Likewise…

-Dick as Nightwing in his solo title(Vol2): 153 issues not counting team ups or annuals. Like with Robinmany of these issues are tied in with company wide events, and therest are in their own GNs. I recommend the 2014-present editions asthey have a bit more in them, better paper/graphics, and are wayeasier to find, but they haven’t remade all of them yet. Nightwing:Blüdhaven, Nightwing: Rough Justice, Nightwing: False Starts,Nightwing: Love and Bullets, Nightwing: The Hunt For Oracle are thenew editions. Continuing from there the older editions are:Nightwing: Big Guns, Nightwing: On the Razor’s Edge, Nightwing: YearOne, Nightwing: Mobbed Up, Nightwing: Renegade, Nightwing: Brothersin Blood, Nightwing: Love and War, Nightwing: The Lost Year,Nightwing: Freefall.

-Batman Knightfall: One of the classicBatman stories, in which the main bad is the villain Bane, whoseriously injures Bruce. This story spans three GNs: Broken Bat, WhoRules The Night, and Knightsend

-Batman Cataclysm: Another classic. Amassive earthquake hits Gotham and decimates the city. This can befound in one GN, thought look for what I think is the 2012 edition ofthe book not the one one as they included a lot of previous cut storyin the newer edition.

-Batman No Man’s Land: FollowsCataclysm. Essentially Gotham is covered in rubble and a massiveterritory war breaks out between BatFam, GSPD, and several separategroups of Gotham’s baddies. It spans 4 super thick GNs in the 2012newer edition (don’t bother with the older editions) but also has areally enjoyable novelization if you would prefer to read it inwritten format!

-Batman Hush: Essentially Bruce vs Hushand sometimes Clayface, and a story that unintentionally set up JuddWinick to bring Jason back to life lol…one GN in more recenteditions but was previously 2 smaller GNs. I do not know if there isa difference but generally larger book versions have a bit extra inthem.

-Batman Under the Red Hood: Jasonreturns as the Red Hood, sending Bruce on an emotional rollercoaster, while Joker and Black Mask end up roped in. Lots of peopleinvolved. Like Hush this come in one or two book format. I have thesingle book format. This story was adapted into an animated movie,one that also takes a few moments from “A Death In The Family”,but the beginning part was highly modified to make it a stand alonefilm, so several key details are removed. I do recommend watching themovie, but after reading both “A Death In The Family” and thecomic version of “Under The Red Hood”, so you get the fullexperience.

-Batman War Crimes, War Drums, and WarGames (WG is three GNs long): this connects into both Robin and RedHood. This is unfortunately where Stephanie (Spoiler, brief Robin IV,Batgirl) “dies” and there’s a massive war against Black mask.It’s five GNs total.

I pretty much have to recommend anyBatman Titled GN that comes after that as it goes more into Hush,Damian comes in and there’s a lot of plot to cover there, Bruce“dies” and the mantle is picked up by Dick, and it was a heck ofride until the reboot happened.

Outside of main Batman titles aroundthat time I have to HIGHLY recommend the following:-Batmanand Robin: Basically Dick and Damian’s team-up book series. Itspanned three GN with Morrison, and one after him totaling four. Wealso got more Jason here, and his sorta Batgirl type sidekickSasha/Scarlet. Admittedly it was weird because Morrison thought itwould be fun to give Jason red hair (something the main version ofJason never had, but had in issues for another version of Jason thatwas scrapped before any issues I mentioned in this post) and bulk himup. But if you can gt around that the actual plot on the Jason endwasn’t too bad and had some gems. But the Dick and Damian interactionand banter is the treasure here.

-Batman Streets Of Gotham: Again moreof Dick and Damian as Batman and Robin. But here we get Thomas Elliot(Hush) who surgically had his face changed to look like Bruce, and hefill Bruce’s public role under very close watch. We also get Damian’slittle friend Colin Wilkes (Abuse) who ends up close to him. He turnsinto a giant bulky rage man good guy :)

-Red Robin: Tim’s new solo series thatstarted after Damian took up being Robin and Dick went from Nightwingto being Batman. It’s 4 GNs long and was amazing. I can’t stress thatenough. I still mourn it ending. You get Tim on his own, you get himgoing up against/working with/outsmarting/impressing Ra’s al Ghul.You get Prudence Wood, one of Ra’s assassins that ends up liking andworking with Tim. You get Tam Fox, and Stephanie, and Conner Kent.

-Batgirl Vol3 (Stephanie Brown asBatgirl): Stephanie came back from faking her death, took back upSpoiler, only for Tim to demand she stop being Spoiler. He shouldhave been more specific, and she DOES drop Spoiler but then becomesBatgirl with previous Batgirl’s (Casandra) blessing lol. Spanned 24issues in three GNs but they are hard to find. Obviously there isCasandra’s run as Batgirl but i’ve never actually read it so I findit wrong of me to suggest it before I have so it’s up to you if youwant to hunt those down as well. But Casandra’s run was 73 issuesVol-1 (7 GN) sand 6 issues Vol-2 (which is in a single GN)

-Teen Titans Vol3 (Tim, Conner, Bart,etc) spans twelve GNs and had its ups and downs, but if you’re a teamfan this is a good series to read.

-Catwoman: A few different runs, andsome stand alone books. They’re all good pre-reboot. Read them ifyou’re a Catwoman fan :)

Now as far as books NOT in the main runof pre-reboot comics I also REALLY need to recommend the following:

Batman Year One: Bruce’s first year asBatman. Also Gordon’s first year on the job. One GN. Awesome and alsoadapted into an animated movie.

-Robin Year One & Batgirl Year One:These come in separate books or both in one big book. The Robin inmention is Dick and the Batgirl is Barbara. Both are fantasticstories.

-Huntress Year One: Huntress’ originstory. This is the Huntress that is NOT Bruce’s daughter from anotherEarth, this is the Mob associated one that was also featured in theTV series Arrow.

Superboy / Robin World’s Finest Three:two tiny GNs that tell the story of Tim and Conner’s first meeting.They end up going against Metallo and Poison Ivy.

JLA: World Without Grown-ups: This is astory spanning again two tiny GNs. Where Tim (Robin), Conner(Superboy), and Bart (Impulse, later known as Kid Flash) team up whensuddenly all the adults are in one dimension and all the underagepeople are in another.

Red Hood: The Lost Days: the story ofwhat happened between Jason’s resurrection and when he came back toGotham in Under The Red Hood. It’s one GN.

There are also some alternate universe stories that came out pre-reboot called Elseworld’s stories. Here are some good ones:

Batman:Brotherhood of the Bat: Alternate Universe what-if type story. Thisstory is if Talia had joined Bruce in Gotham and abandoned her fatherRa’s and his ways. The story is centered around their son, TallantWayne. This was an AU created before Damian entered the comics andthus one of many stories where Bruce and Talia’s son had a differentname. Bruce is dead and Tallant has to face his grandfather. This wasone thin GN but did have a sequel…

Batman: League ofBatmen: takes place after the above and spans two GNs to finish thestory.

Thrillkiller Batgirl & Robin: 3 issue AU where Barbara and Dick are the first vigilantes in Gotham in the 1960′s and go up against a FEMALE Joker. Bruce is a legit Detective. Every bit of this story is PAINTED and it’s amazing. It is followed up by a sequel.

Thrillkiller ‘62: Takes place where the above left off. But now Bruce is Batman alongside ‘Batgirl’. I won’t spoil the events of the above to give goo detail here lol.

Superman: Speeding Bullets: AU where Baby Kal-El crashes into Earth, where he is discovered by Thomas and Martha Wayne. The couple decide to adopt Kal-El, and name him Bruce. Fuses the two characters together. Thomas and Martha still die. “Bruce” becomes a flying Batman and later Superman.Batman: The Dark Knight Returns: Pretty much the most popular and longest AU that DC did. Spans 1 thick GN or multiple tiny ones. Not the greatest of art/setup but still good. Think of this as an AU Future Fic taking place after Jason died and Bruce retired instead of Tim coming along. Then he comes out of retirement to be a total badass. I do NOT however recommend any of the sequels or prequels because they are just BAD. This was adapted into TWO animated films which I honestly think I recommend more than the GNs due to the art.Post Reboot we hit the New 52. It had its up and downs. Nothing BatFam was particularly terrible but very little was amazing. personally the first 4-6 volumes of GNs for any given series was worth a read but not necessarily a buy. I read all the BatFam titles and the only ones that were MEH for me were Catwoman and Teen Titans. Red Hood and the Outlaws wasn’t for everyone, but I personally enjoyed it other than some details like Jason suddenly having magic??? and Kori having some personality issues but I was glas she wasn’t ditzy if that makes sense, and I really loved her character design even if I wish she at least had a touch more clothing on (once she was in a space suit and it was amazing). Suicide Squad isn’t technically BatFam but it had Harley in it in the New 52 and it was amazing even if I hated her visual re-design. Talon was a branch off of a Batman story line, and a specific character got his own title that spanned 2 GNs and was enjoyable.

Past that any Gns involving Batman The Animated Series are great, so are the Young Justice GNs.

I also have a huge love for the Batman Beyond show and Comics, but after the reboot they messed that up too.

#BatFam

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The Review: 2017... so far

By Daniel Cheng

By the time that this comes out, it’s my birthday. I’m 17 now, old enough enough to walk in and pick up any M rated game I want without my embarrassing parents. I’m also sitting in my car as I type this. Yup, I got my own whip, people! Now, you may be thinking “wait wait, this is half a year in review, why are you childishly obsessing over being able to buy video games and having a car?”. Well, that’s how I’m setting the mood for this particular article. Just sit back, relax, try not to get triggered or maybe get triggered, I don’t know. Just don’t stand in front of the milk section at a grocery store and chant “cows want to live”. No, I want you to reflect on the events so far and look forward or angrily at the future.

So, to start, I want us to direct our attention to the fidget spinners. I think you’ve all heard my sermons on how useless, boring and unnecessary they very much are. Back in the day, if any little kids are reading this, we had beyblades. Sure, they spun like the fidgets, but at least we could fight with them and it’s a shame more kids aren’t into it like they used to be. So to all those who think fidget spinners are awesome… “fiGET spINNerS ArE aWEsoMe”.

What’s next? Ah yes, I remember the Girls Club kept harping on a female superhero movie since I was in grade 9, even though one came out a long time ago. Anyone remember Elektra? This year, they announced Wonder Woman, Batgirl and Captain Marvel, with Wonder Woman being out this year. If it turned out to be bad, don’t bash me, I wrote this before it came out. Besides, knowing mainstream media, they’re gonna say it was the “greatest thing ever” when, let’s be honest, it could be worse than Suicide Squad. But, either way, we had Logan and it was spectacular. Spiderman comes out during summer school and Justice League comes out when we’re preparing to freeze to death again, with the next Star Wars coming when we have either become popsicles or are telling kids that a fat old man living for centuries who can travel the world in one night is impossible. But, frozen or denying santa, I ain’t watching it after the travesty of the Force Awakens.

Next on the list is… OOOH, cars. This is my favourite. What? No, not Cars 3, get out of here. I mean CARS. Like that beautiful 2017 Nissan GT-R, 565 horsepower with a 3.8L twin turbo V6. It’s a little downgrade from the earlier model with 900 horsepower, but who says you can’t get that power back like when Gohan finally got that Potential Unleashed with Piccolo not too long ago. Or, for the ladies, how bout that 2017 Mazda MX-5 RF with a pitiful 155 horsepower? Hey, it comes with a retractable roof so you can look good and I’m sure you can tune it up later for better horses. Yeah yeah, I know, bad horsepower for both cars, but it’s not like we don’t live in an age where EVERYTHING can be modified.

Now for the part you may have been waiting for. Video games. That’s right. You want to shine or you want to switch? Aside from the horrible cringe worthiness of Minecraft being ported to the Nintendo Switch and maybe I’m regretting not waiting until later to pick up my system since the majority of the games right now are meant for kids, at least we can hold on to the next Skyrim port and Red Dead Redemption 2. Till then, we have new releases. Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadow of Valentia came out very recently. I managed to pick up a copy of it, myself, then my 3DS broke after the update. Injustice 2 also came out, but I’m one of the few who stray clear of it because I remember Mortal Kombat Vs DC Universe. Arms came out with an online multiplayer demo to keel over fans until release. I, however, remember Wii Sports…so you know what I’m NOT doing.

What’s that? It seems there’s a rising riot outside. Ah, I didn’t mention a game with a female lead? Wasn’t Fire Emblem and Injustice 2 enough? Oh fine, calm down. Earlier this year, Horizon Zero Dawn came out. What do you mean I’m a jerk? It’s not my fault Zelda overshadowed it. Yeah, Zelda had a male lead, so what? Link didn’t run around the whole game like “Who’s my mother”. Aloy reminds me of “GIVE ME CHARLES LEE”.

Video games are video games. We shouldn’t bring any political stigma in it. If the lead is a guy, it’s a guy, not a patriarchal nazi. If the girl is a lead, great. Just don’t put more attention on THAT or you have another Mass Effect Andromeda.

Before our last segment, it is apparently rude not to acknowledge SLC election. Congrats to those who won. I was going to write Harambe, if it were an option. Shoutout to Persia Jalali. That whole “going to keep it short and whipping out a hella long sheet of paper” was a classic. On a more serious note, to the winners, you all made an effort to get us to vote.

Lastly, we have the future. No, I don’t mean running to meet your future self to avoid a crisis. No, I don’t mean running to the future to stop an arrogant guy who teamed up with the same arrogant guy from the past, but the one from the past switched bodies with you from the future. No, I don’t mean committing suicide after losing a game and having a tarnished reputation, causing you to haunt an old game board until you possess a kid in the future after waiting centuries in solitude. No, I… Ah, you get the gist of it.

The future is the summer. And the torture after it. I’m sure the others here at the Lion’s Roar wish you a good summer, but I’m just gonna say “good luck”. What does the next half of 2017 have in store for us?

#june 2017

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Notre Dame’s retooling O meets one of the country’s best defenses

Week 1’s most attention-grabbing game will kick off a pair of brutal schedules.

There’s not much margin on either Michigan’s or Notre Dame’s schedule.

The Wolverines are in a division with national frontrunner Ohio State, resurgent Penn State, and a quietly stacked Michigan State while facing some of the tougher Big Ten West teams in Nebraska, Northwestern, and Wisconsin.

The Fighting Irish draw Virginia Tech, Wake Forest, and Florida State from the ACC, also face Northwestern, and play rivals Stanford and USC.

This rivalry’s Week 1 resumption was always going to be a major event, but it might also winnow out which team is poised for a top-10 season and which is rounding out the top 25.

Notre Dame’s retooled offense vs. maybe the country’s best D

The Wolverines had to replace nine starters in 2017 and still finished 10th in defensive S&P+. For 2018, they return eight starters, including leading tackler Devin Bush, top pass-rushers Chase Winovich and Rashan Gary, and their entire nickel secondary.

In South Bend, the offense has to replace a pair of top-10-pick OL in LT Mike McGlinchey and LG Quentin Nelson, fourth-round TE Durham Smythe, sixth-round WR Equanimeous St. Brown, and RB Josh Adams, who ran for 1,430 yards last season. The Irish return embattled QB Brandon Wimbush, who was benched during the bowl victory over LSU.

Despite losing arguably the most talented OL tandem in the program’s history, Notre Dame is returning two starters from last year’s OL, along with two who split time at right tackle and promising RS sophomore Liam Eichenberg at LT. Notre Dame is also loaded with large targets in the passing game, including TEs Alize Mack and Cole Kmet, big slot Chase Claypool (6’4, 229), and outside receiver Miles Boykin (6’4, 227).

The plan in year two with OC Chip Long is to make up for the loss of beef by expanding the RPO game that made Long’s Memphis so devastating. In 2017, the Irish leaned on Wimbush’s legs and their superiority up front. For 2018, they’re working to incorporate WRs like Boykin, who destroyed LSU in the Citrus Bowl, by using their QB’s arm, rather than his legs, as the complement to the run game.

For instance, the 2017 Irish loved to use plays like GT counter-read, with the QB reading a backside defender (here, the unblocked defensive end who chases the RB) for the keep option:

There is a quick passing option at the top of the screen. But in the 2018 spring game, they showed some more complex RPOs, such as this play that combined an out/go route combo with a split zone run:

The idea is to punish a cloud quarters coverage, in which the nickel is playing the edge against the run and the CB is trapping short passes. This makes the safety cover the go route while the offense is also mixing in a run play. The QB has to make some really good reads, but it makes life tough for even elite defenses.

Notre Dame is building this kind of balanced attack, but they have a lot of young components, and Michigan is a tough initial contest. The Wolverines will throw man coverage and pressures at the Irish, making Wimbush prove he’s ready to beat tight coverage.

Notre Dame’s got some big changes on defense, too

The Irish also took a loss when Texas A&M poached DC Mike Elko as a part of an “open the vaults!” offseason plan. Brian Kelly promoted LB coach Clark Lea, and the plan is to maintain the same defense, but with Irish stars moving around in an attempt at maximization.

Some of the big changes include sliding 6’7, 299-pound athlete Jerry Tillery from nose tackle to the 3-technique, so he can attack opposing backfields, and bumping LBs Drue Tranquill and Te’Von Coney down a spot, with Tranquill moving from nickel LB to the weakside LB position and Coney from there to middle LB. The upshot will be a faster defense, one that should be more challenging to throw against.

Stopping Michigan is always going to come back to handling the power O run game. While all eyes have been on transfer QB Shea Patterson, his eligibility, and his spring battle with Brandon Peters, the Wolverines have something much closer to the sort of OL that Harbaugh built his Stanford offenses around.

The key is an interior OL that will likely include Ben Bredeson (6’5, 308, 25 starts), Cesar Ruiz (6’3, 315, six), and Michael Onwenu (6’3, 350, eight) all of whom were recruited by Harbaugh to execute his power run game. The Wolverines have an absurd collection of TEs (four could see major action) and bruising FB Ben Mason back to lead the way for a pair of RBs (Karan Higdon, Chris Evans) who ran for a combined 1,679 yards in 2017.

The Wolverines will bring all kinds of formations and tricks ...

... but often just to either isolate a TE in coverage or run power.

Notre Dame’s solution will be its 4-2-5 under, which puts big DE Khalik Kareem (6’4, 270) at the point of attack, along with nose tackle Jonathan Bonner (6’4, 293) and MLB Te’Von Coney, with the hopes of spilling runs to the rover LB, strong safety, or Tillery/Tranquill.

They held up okay against LSU’s power game in their bowl game ...

... and they’ll need similar resolve at the point of attack to protect their field against Michigan.

The pick

Harbaugh wants a hard-nosed team that can run, play defense, and throw to TEs with play-action. The 2018 season could be when they finally have both the run game and the QB to put it all together.

Notre Dame has been pivoting under Brian Kelly to include more RPOs in the equation. If Michigan is ready to go with its young OL and Patterson at QB, then Notre Dame will really need Wimbush and the next generation of offensive stars to match them against a top defense.

Expect Michigan to win a tough contest here and become a leading contender for Ohio State’s Big Ten crown.

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