Anonymous coaches pick Washington to win

Probably the same coaches who picked Oregon over Washington... twice. When he mentions "assistants" it makes me wonder how serious this so-called poll is.

Penn State’s staff is on speed dial for reporters who want a negative comment about Michigan

I believe Feldman is secretly working for Michigan and just creating the best bulletin board material with fictitious coaches to spur Michigan into additional motivation on their way to a National Championship.  Go Blue!  Thanks Feldman!!

The teams may be polar opposites operationally, but they both continue to win despite people picking them to lose.  

Makes you wonder if this is Feldman trolling everyone to help Michigan.

Either way it goes I get the sense that it'll come down to line play in the trenches.

The only people who seem to properly guess our games is Vegas.  They had us as favorites against Bama when no one wanted to take that risk, and they think we're even bigger favorites going into this one.

I'll side with Vegas

And, they got Oregon at home and then on a neutral field. Whereas our top-5 games (PSU/OSU) had us going to one of the hardest venues in the nation).  Not to mention, does 6 games without your head coach count as battle testing?  

Northwestern handled Utah.

Northwestern.

I don't think that coach realizes that this isn't a computer simulation that resets from year to year. Aside from the grad transfers and Semaj Morgan, every major contributor was on last year's CFP squad.

Dumb. 

Anyone paying attention can see that this UM team is 3 seasons in the making. A ton of veteran leadership that has been forged in fire.

Washington is a flash in the pan team. They haven't been there, done that for the past 3 seasons and they likely won't repeat what they've done this season.

Admittedly, I didn't think this UM team was going to beat Alabama in the Rose Bowl. I've recognized my folly and have reformed my wayward position about this squad.

The team is too talented, too experienced, too deep and especially too well-coached to lose to a team like Washington. Moore and Minter are going to precisely and methodically use superior talent across the board to dismantle their opponent next Monday night.

To be fair, I don’t think he goes into the interviews thinking the majority will pick Washington, or only selects coaches who hate Michigan. I think he asks his questions and this is how it played out. What I don’t know about is his editorial process, because there’s more negative stuff being said about UM than UW.

Which team is more battle tested is a joke. Michigan had to win at PSU without Jim Harbaugh plus face a Top 5 defense. Next was facing the Terps with what turns out to be an injured JJ and again with Jim Harbaugh. A close win vs Mr 3rd Base and his team with another Top 5 defense, minus Harbaugh.

The B1G championship game was in slow motion and yet another Top 5 defense but it was about avoiding a letdown after beating Ohio Sate. The ultimate battle test was coming from behind to beat the Tide with a 6th ranked defense in the Rose Bowl and seeing our special team play leaving 4 points off the board.

This year's Wolverines faced more adversity that any other major program could have ever endured.

Michigan vs Everybody, one more time! 

I agree.  He could be literally making all of these up, or taking a liberty with a word or two, and really nobody would know.

I think it's the same as the last time around.  Pac-12 coaches are backing Washington, and Big 10 coaches are backing whoever is playing Michigan, cause they are sour ass grapes.

Lazy writing. 

Yeah. I remember two things from those comments-- JJ will be in trouble because how stout Bama DL is and their pass rush, UM has not seen anyone like Milroe.

Then UM goes on to sack Milroe six time and pressure him so many times that they have to stop throwing past 10 yards. JJ was not sacked and only felt mild pressure.

These people should not be giving opinions.

You mean "anonymous" voices in Feldman's head?

Feldman has said Michigan is the team to beat all year (while jumping on the pearl clutching "signal stealing" nonsense). Don't diminish the assholery of anonymous coaches by saying Feldman made them up.

Jim is a weird guy but I do NOT understand why opposing coaches hate him like they do. It's like he did multiple Chicago Sunroofs at the coaches' meetings.