Clenching his jaw, Michigan head football coach Sherrone Moore looked down at his playsheet, which was blank except for a crude crayon drawing of an extremely beefy Kalel Mullings and the word "SMASH" in big, red capital letters.
Stealing a glance across the field, he noticed Lincoln Riley, his USC counterpart, frantically conferring with assistants and flipping through a gargantuan binder. Trying to find something, anything, that could make a dent in the occasionally animate pile of mortar and rebar that is the 2024 Michigan football team.
Moore took a long appraisal of Riley, wunderkind offensive guru, and then glanced back down at his own playsheet.