If Michigan can fire Sherrone Moore and actually land a coach in the next 2 years, I think Bryce Underwood could be very good. Moore should stick to o-line coaching, and not under any circumstances be a HC at a school like Michigan. The only good thing he did was lean on his stud transfer RB Justice Haynes (the one I begged and wished we had gone after), and he kept them afloat from making the score look better than it actually was. The only thing going for Michigan is they have a pretty easy schedule with games against Purdue, Northwestern (who may quite literally have the worst QB in all of P4, Preston Stone. I'll give CTJ props for calling him a bust as a recruit), Maryland, Michigan State, Washington, Wisconsin, and Central Michigan. Nebraska will probably beat them, USC, if they aren't a fraud, should beat them, and Ohio State is a coin-flip at this point. They could easily either lose either 6-7 games or win 8-9, it's hard to tell with that league.
Mateer looked OK. I didn't come away thinking "Wow! He's gonna be awesome!" He looked pretty good, at best. Our defense can shut him down. Their defense didn't look very intimidating against the run, and it's hard to tell against the pass since they faced a true frosh who clearly wasn't ready to face grown men. Ou looks beatable.
Pre-season polls are dumb, I agree, but they have to have something to sort teams out, and it gives players motivation. No team looked absolutely dominant in 2 weeks. Oregon looks pretty good, but they played sisters of the poor, and Ohio State thumped an HBCU. Florida lost to South Florida, but I don't care. Notre Dame lost to Northern Illinois at home last year. Are they the same thing? Probably not, but it's week two. Not to mention Napier is still coaching. Aggies defense looks absolutely horrendous, and their offense is pedestrian. Georgia looks...well, like shit. They have a worse QB than us right now. LSU is a fraud like always under Brian Kelly. They put up a whopping 23 points on La Tech. At the end of the day, everyone has to get better, and no one out there looks dominant.