Michigan won the 2023 College Football National Championship, but it wasn’t an easy road for them. They were tested pretty hard in games against Ohio State and Alabama and were able to come out on top, but many still question if they won the game fair because they did find themselves in the middle of a sign-stealing scandal last October.
Michigan’s Cheating Scandal
In the middle of the 2023 season, news broke that Michigan was being investigated for illegally stealing opposing teams’ signs. Michigan staffer Connor Stalions started the operation, sending people to games of the opponents they would face later down the road and recording the team signs in which they called plays.
The cheating scandal started in the 2021 season, the first year the Wolverines made the playoffs under Jim Harbaugh. Michigan was getting ready to get rid of Harbaugh, and they started winning major games magically. The Wolverines would return to the playoffs in 2022 but fell short to TCU. Then, in 2023, all the news dropped that they were stealing teams’ signs, and that was a significant reason why they were winning games.
Stalions resigned from his position with the team in November of last year, and the Big Ten suspended Harbaugh for the last three regular-season games.
Even though the sign-stealing scandal was blown up before Michigan played in the playoffs and won the title last year, the team is still being investigated and could lose its national championship.
The man responsible for all this, Connor Stalions, has hardly been heard from since this news broke, but now the college football world will be getting what they want because he will be in a Netflix documentary.
Netflix To Put Out A Sign-Stealing Documentary
NEWS: Netflix is releasing a documentary featuring Connor Stalions🍿
“Sign Stealer (Aug 27): Connor Stalions shares his side of Michigan’s alleged sign-stealing scheme that turned him into a viral villain.”https://t.co/Ato4MD7Bcs pic.twitter.com/JjJZyMXzia
— On3 (@On3sports) July 22, 2024
This is the same series Untold that released the Florida Gators and Johnny Manziel documentary last year. If it’s anything like those two, we will get zero information and any good stories because the Florida Gators documentary covered many things up that happened under Urban Meyer.
It will be interesting to see what Stalions has to say. Who knows, by the time that documentary comes out next month, we could have a ruling on punishment for Michigan and its sign stealing.