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The Solid Verbal: USC’s 2017 hopes, Michigan attrition, and wedding sugar (Q&A)

Only the most important and pressing topics.

NCAA Football: Notre Dame at Southern California
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On the latest Q&A episode, we deep dive only the most important topics and try to answer the most relevant questions, like:

• Can USC navigate a favorable-ish schedule (no Washington or Oregon, Texas with a first-year coach) without a bye week, and to which underwhelming team might they lose in October?

• With so much key personnel turnover (TE Jake Butt, OLB Jabrill Peppers, WR Jehu Chesson, and CB Jourdan Lewis, among others), is Michigan trending in a positive direction or will 2017 be a hump year to inspire optimism for the following season?

• Is Texas fielding a quality offense with new head coach Tom Herman a certainty?

• Which teams who failed to make 2016 bowls could make bowl noise this fall? Iowa State? Notre Dame? Syracuse? Oregon? Other?

• Which 2016 coordinators will find themselves receiving head coaching attention, and why is it so obviously Penn State OC Joe Moorhead and Oklahoma OC Lincoln Riley? OK, and who else?

• With Dan’s spring wedding rapidly approaching, which pointless wedding traditions need to be ignored altogether?

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