Lansing media personality Tom Crawford jumps on the podcast, discussing U-M's defense and its role in early success.

Crawford and senior editor John Borton also focus on the start to the re-engineered schedule, and Crawford gives his top three items he'll be watching to gauge how good the Wolverines will turn out this season.

Here's what Crawford had to say…

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