About Mitten Football

Mitten Football is an independent publication launched in July 2025 by Andrew Graham. If you subscribe today, you'll get full access to the website as well as email newsletters about new content when it's available. Your subscription makes this site possible, and allows Mitten Football to continue to exist. Thank you!

This page will cover some granular nuts and bolts like subscriptions and coverage schedules, but readers are also encouraged to read Mitten Football's coverage pillars and stances on AI and sports gambling.

Subscription costs, revenue

In an effort to make the product marketable, certain things like game coverage will be un-paywalled. But most work here will cost money to consume.

That said, the aim is to be fair in our pricing.

So, a baseline subscription is $8 a month (less than $2 a week). If you subscribe yearly, you will save 10% and pay $86 for 12 months of access.

Further fleshing it out, it doesn't take many subscribers to lift this boat. Just 500 paying subscribers for a year would generate anywhere from $43,000-$48,000 and 1000 paying subscribers would net $86,000-96,000.

The first and biggest expense will, of course, be paying a living wage and benefits to myself, and there are no secrets there. It needs to happen to continue to do this work. But beyond meeting an initial goal of getting a salary commensurate (and ideally slightly above) Michigan's median annual wage ($46,940), revenue from this publication will go back into the publication.

There are the obvious and inevitable expenses like travel, hosting a website, paying other vendors, and taxes. And it is a genuine hope for this publication to grow, namely and ideally with more staff. And with the millions of fans of these football teams, I think there's room to both pay (multiple) employees a fair wage and grow and sustain the operation to bring good college football coverage.

Coverage schedule, pacing

While not making an explicit promises, during camp and the season, it's a safe bet that coverage will be fairly regular.

Once games begin, we plan to cover at least one home game a week, save for weeks when all the teams are traveling or idle (more on that in a bit), which will allow this publication to cover each of the five programs regularly. During the week, choices will need to be made about which media availabilities to attend, as there will surely be overlap.

Regardless, between media availabilities during the week, postgame pressers on weekends and being collegial with my peers on the beat, the plan is to bring multiple stories a week of varied topics and covering multiple programs. Sometimes stories will cover multiple schools at once, or be a notebook covering many things. Either way, it will seek to be creative, informative and worthwhile sports writing.

And given that media availabilities are usually earlier in the week, it's a safe bet that more coverage will come on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, with Thursday and Friday giving coverage room to breath before game day.

And on the rare week all the teams are too far away to travel or idle, that time will be perfect for landing some longer-term or broader-view stories.

Expect regular coverage, but not to be bombarded with several stories a day.

Who is Andrew?

Fair question! I'm a 27-year-old man from Okemos, Michigan, with a journalism degree from Syracuse University and a hopeful vision for the future of sport journalism.

My journalism career traces back to my days on staff at my high school paper and carried on to central New York. I earned a degree in broadcast journalism while writing and editing at The Daily Orange all four years, including two covering SU football. I did local news for a nonprofit in East Lansing for a spell out of college before writing (and some reporting) for On3 for about two and a half years. In that time, I also began freelancing for The Detroit News, something I've continued since leaving On3 at the start of 2025.

I've always loved college football, and the teams from Michigan, in particular. For full disclosure, both my parents have degrees from Michigan and Michigan State, my sister got her undergraduate degree from Michigan, and my brother went to Western; I grew up rooting for Michigan but have left behind any fan-like emotional attachment. I genuinely just want these programs to be vibrant and compelling, in whatever form.

And for kicks, I am an avid cook, among other things.