TAMPA, Fla. — Michigan football has been in full preparation for Alabama and the ReliaQuest Bowl for weeks, but Friday marked the first practice away from Ann Arbor for the maize and blue. What’s more, we in the media are allowed to catch a little glimpse of what the team is working on at the outset of practice.

TAMPA, Fla. — The last time Michigan football played in Tampa, in what was then the Outback Bowl, all of the hype surrounding the team was about a quarterback who was incoming. Apparently, the more things change, the more they stay the same.