Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Wolverine 24-7 podcast. Today, one of our more news-heavy episodes of the last seven months, however long it's been, four months, somewhere in there, because Michigan football now has a schedule, a 2020 football schedule. Now, of course, they had one before, but this one all got released

in one day. Big Ten Network made a big three-hour show about it, which partly for my job,

but partly for general interest. I watched every minute of actually pretty good production,

but regardless, lots to talk about in terms of the schedule, Michigan playing a 10 game, Big 10 schedule.

I guess we can probably just run through what it is, but they open the season tentatively.

All these dates are tentative.

But September 5th, verse Purdue at Minnesota, then at verse Penn State at Rutgers,

then verse Michigan State, a bye week.

They travel to Indiana, then Ohio State, host Wisconsin, and then Maryland,

biweek, and then they traveled to Northwestern.

And so obviously there's two byweeks in there, and the season is scheduled to end,

regular season, scheduled to end November 21st.

So the Big Ten built a lot of kind of opportunities to do make-up games if needed.

And so the Big Ten, they've even said their championship game can be played as late as December

17th.

So that would offer four weeks of flexibility which makes sense because

they're playing 10 games and so and you know I I give the Big 10 some credit here I think they

did an interesting they did their research in terms of making sure teams went on by weeks at the same

time as the two opponents before them go on their by weeks. So that was an

interesting added little wrinkle that didn't get discussed a ton that I saw today, but you kind

of creates an opportunity for easy, you know, say Michigan and Penn State can't play September 19th,

they can easily move it to October 10th, for example.

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