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Three years after it initially broke ground, the Michigan sign-stealing allegations are still a factor ahead of the 2025 college football season. After TCU head football coach Sonny Dykes made another statement on facing the Michigan team in question, Connor Stalions clapped back on social media.
Stalions, who was then a defensive analyst on Jim Harbaugh’s staff, rejected Dykes’ claim that he knew of Michigan’s sign-stealing activity and changed his play calls. Dykes said the misdirection led to the abundance of big plays TCU pulled off in the game, but Stalions vehemently rejected the notion with a lengthy post on X, formerly Twitter.
“To say anyone ‘fooled’ me is admitting that you have no idea how sign deciphering and protecting works,” Stalions tweeted. “No team has ever ‘changed’ signals — meaning they don’t recycle the same signal to have a different meaning because that would confuse the 18-year-olds on the field more than it would confuse me. They simply create new signals.
“There were 7 games in my time at Michigan where I knew almost every signal the whole game: 2021 MSU, 2022 MSU, 2022 PSU, 2022 OSU, 2022 TCU, 2021 Georgia and 2021 Wisconsin. We lost 3 of those games because we didn’t tackle well, and Georgia was historically good. We won the other four games because we dominated the line of scrimmage and tackled well. Blocking, ball security, tackling, run fits and coverage tools. That’s football. This is not rocket science.”
TCU wound up advancing to the National Championship Game with a 51-45 upset of Michigan in the 2022 College Football Playoff Fiesta Bowl. The back-and-forth affair featured countless big plays, creating one of the best games in CFP history.
Sign-stealing scandal still affecting Michigan in 2025
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