re: Did Michigan show a new way to build a national championship team?

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They'll have more players drafted than any other team in CFB and could set record for most players drafted in the modern draft.

The very definition of "elite talent"

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Not really. They have a large number of seniors (44) coming out in one draft, but their number of players drafted from this team won't begin to touch even UGA's 2021 squad. UGA's players were just drafted over several drafts, not all coming out in one season like will happen with Michigan.

Michigan has 2 5-star recruits on their team compared to 18 for Bama. They had 45 4-stars compared to 56 for Bama.

They just had the majority of their talent all in the senior class thanks to covid super seniors and redshirting.

Kansas State under Snyder often did the same thing, using transfers to get loaded senior classes every few seasons. But they couldn't get enough in those senior classes to compete for national titles. Michigan was kind of able to do it. I'm not sure if that was a covid-only type scenario (which means it won't happen again) or if the transfer portal makes it something teams could do going forward.