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Recruiting: Michigan Football battling Deion Sanders, Colorado for 4-star linebacker
Roughly a month and a half ahead of National Signing Day, Michigan football looks to continue to bolster its 2025 recruiting class, the first for head coach Sherrone Moore.
The Wolverines are trending for their top target in the class, five-star Overland Park (Kan.) Blue Valley Northwest offensive tackle Andrew Babalola, and are also locked in a battle for another of their top priorities. Michigan linebacker coach Brian Jean-Mary has been fighting hard for four-star Bradenton (Fla.) IMG Academy linebacker Nathaniel Owusu-Boateng for months, but another challenger has thrown its hat in the ring for the Top 75 prospect.
According to On3 Sports’ Hayes Fawcett, Deion Sanders and the Colorado Buffaloes have emerged as a top school for Owusu-Boateng. The 6-foot-1, 205-pounder had previously narrowed his ‘Top Group’ to six schools: Michigan, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Florida, USC and Texas, prior to this recent surge from Colorado.
Owusu-Boateng visited Colorado this past weekend for the Buffaloes’ home game against Kansas State, and came away impressed according to On3’s national recruiting expert Steve Wiltfong. The four-star linebacker was in Ann Arbor over the weekend of Sept. 21 to witness Michigan’s 27-24 win over USC at the Big House. He’ll also take an official visit to Texas on Nov. 23 when the Longhorns host Kentucky. The early signing period for the 2025 recruiting class will open on Dec. 4, and Owusu-Boateng indicated on Twitter that he’ll be making his college decision on that date.
According to 247Sports’ Composite rankings, Owusu-Boateng is considered the No. 76 overall prospect, No. 10 linebacker and No. 11 player in the state of Florida in the 2025 class. He is the top uncommitted linebacker left on the board in the class, and has garnered a whopping 44 scholarship offers from FBS programs (per 247Sports).
Here’s what 247’s director of scouting Andrew Ivins had to say about Owusu-Boateng:
“Speed-and-space linebacker that can hawk down ball carriers and spy quarterbacks. Tips the scales at just over 6-foot, 200 pounds and appears to still have some growth potential with his lean, muscular build. Started prep career off in the DMV before arriving at IMG Academy where he emerged as a team leader in advance of senior season. At his best in chase mode, but has shown over the years that he’s willing to attack blockers or play around them. Tends to strike opponents when the opportunity presents itself. Has proven to be rather effective against the pass as he’s athletic and agile enough to mirror tight ends underneath or down the seam. Should be viewed as a potential impact player at the Power Four level. Might lack the payload at this stage to hold up against a true down-hill run game, but sideline-to-sideline range could lead to plenty of success on Saturdays.”
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In Michigan, Arab Americans weigh the power of a vote : Code Switch
This presidential election is likely to be a squeaker, decided by a handful of votes in some key swing states. We visited one of them — Michigan — in order to speak to some of the most influential and misunderstood voters in the country: Arab Americans in Dearborn. The Dearbornites we met said that the war in Gaza is one of the key issues weighing on their minds as they consider how to cast their ballots in a couple of weeks. But what that will mean in the voting booth is still a complex question. Will they go for Kamala Harris? Donald Trump? A third party candidate? No one at all? What these voters ultimately decide could have huge consequences for the whole country.
This story was reported by Gene Demby and Colin Jackson from Michigan Public. Our engineer was James Willetts.
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Frequently asked questions about voting, election in Michigan
(CBS DETROIT) — With the 2024 general election less than a month away, some voters still have questions and concerns. CBS News Detroit talked with a city clerk to answer some of those questions.
City Clerk Chris Swope is in charge of administering elections in Lansing.
“The vote counting machines: How do they work and how do we know they’re safe for counting votes?”
Swope says the machines that count votes are put through multiple tests and double-checked before election day.
“We test every single machine, and then we do a public test where we demonstrate that,” he said.
In the event of a recount, Swope says, “Just about every office I’ve seen recounts in most of the votes that are flipped in a recount are human counting error in a recount.”
“What about jumps in the count totals as the results roll in?”
“Well that has to do, especially in bigger communities, with how we process the absentee ballots,” Swope said. “We process those centrally, and so for the city of Lansing, we only have two machines where everything is accumulated on, so it’s a big chunk once that gets uploaded.”
“I do have a concern that the wrong people are being encouraged to monitor … people with a strong presumption that there’s something wrong.”
Swope says that members of all political parties work as poll workers and city and county clerks, making the election process bipartisan.
“Challenger organizations can send people to the absent voter counting board, and in every precinct, the closing procedure is open to the public,” said Swope.
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