Orlando, Fla. — Michigan receiver Nico Collins knows first-hand the in-state draw to Alabama.
It's like an indescribable force. If you’re born there, grew up there and are a highly recruited football player, your destiny is pretty much set.
“You go to Alabama,” Collins, a Birmingham, Alabama, native, said this week after practice.
But Collins didn’t, choosing Michigan in large part because of the relationship he developed with head coach Jim Harbaugh.