Getty Images With so many college basketball blue bloods thriving on the gridiron early in the 2022 season, let’s keep the synergy between sports going for a moment. Let’s take a look at No. 4 Michigan as it prepares to host unbeaten Maryland — a school that many would consider to be better known for hoops. It’s hard to argue the Wolverines don’t deserve their lofty ranking. They are, after all, a recent College Football Playoff team that has outscored its first three opponents 166-17. However, if you applied the Quadrant system that college basketball uses to categorize games, the Wolverines would be one of only a handful of Power Five teams thus far to have exclusively played Quad 4 games. Home victories over Colorado State, Hawaii and UConn are the football equivalent of beating Alcorn State, Fairleigh Dickinson and Eastern Illinois on the hardwood. With offensively lifeless Iowa and entirely inept…
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