Michigan Football head coach Sherrone Moore spent some time in Hawaii visiting with Malakai Lee, the top prospect from the state.

Although Michigan began the year as a top-15 team and finished unranked, its three-game win streak to close the season earned Moore a high mark from CBS Sports. The network graded all first-year Power Four head coaches, and Moore was among the best, receiving a B+.

Let’s talk about Sherrone Moore, the man who went from filling in as Michigan’s interim head coach to somehow pulling off what could be low-key seen as one of the most unexpected Cinderella stories in college football this past season.

With that in mind, CBS Sports listed seven head coaches who could join Day as a first-time national title-winning head coach in the coming years. Listed among them was Michigan's Sherrone Moore. RELATED: Michigan Football: Three things we learned about Sherrone Moore in Year 1

Now Moore is leading the charge in Ann Arbor and will be entering his second year after an 8-5 campaign which ended strongly with wins over eventual national champion Ohio State and College Football Playoff hopeful Alabama.

Sherrone Moore’s debut season went up a grade in the end for ESPN’s Greg McElroy as he evaluated the 2024 campaign as a whole.

Two starters, left tackle Myles Hinton and left guard Josh Priebe, are off to the NFL, while five other linemen transferred. That includes three with minimal starting experience in center Dominick Giudice and tackles Andrew Gentry and Jeff Persi.

Alabama's Kalen DeBoer is familiar with Michigan's Sherrone Moore, as the two faced against each other in the national championship last season: