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

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Michigan just broke the record for the number of players invited to the NFL combine (previously held by LSU after the 2019 season). They had elite talent.

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Again, that's talent in one draft class.

Their actual roster this year won't be among the top 20 in terms of drafted players from a single season's roster. Probably not among the top 50.

UGA had 15 players drfted in the 2022 NFL draft and 10 in 2023. They'll probably have another 5-10 this season.

That's 30-35 players from the 2021 UGA football team being drafted. It wasn't all in one year as they weren't all seniors at the same time like the way Michigan is set up.

To be honest, Bama probably has 3-5 rosters where the total players drafted were even higher than UGA's 2021 team. Michigan isn't getting close to that.

Michigan had a huge number of seniors. Many of them are good players and will be drafted, but if their roster was spread over multiple classes instead of being all in their senior class this past year, they likely wouldn't have been in the playoffs and wouldn't have a noticeable number of draft picks this year.

Michigan had 44 seniors on their roster this season. For comparison, UGA had 15.