For maybe the first time all season, Michigan football fans have something consequential to feel optimistic about. While the results on the field haven’t matched the expectations, the defending national champions (for now) followed up their run as kind of the Big Ten with arguably their biggest recruiting prize to date.

Top football recruit Bryce Underwood has flipped to Michigan after pledging to play at LSU. That's according to a person familiar with the situation who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to share the recruit’s plans to join the Wolverines.

The top overall player in the 2025 recruiting cycle made a shocking announcement, flipping his commitment from LSU to Michigan on Thursday evening. That was on the heels of four-star prospect JuJu Lewis committing to Deion Sanders and Colorado earlier in ...