Welcome to Inside Michigan Football. Over the next hour, we're breaking down the latest in Wolverines football, including interviews with players, coaches, and alumni. Now, here's her host, John Jansen.

It has been an unbelievably long offseason, longer than most, longer than any of us can remember. We'll train recap a lot of

what has gone on. You are now listening to a brand new season of inside Michigan football.

I can't wait for Michigan to take the field. They will do that October 24.

We're going to talk about the schedule today.

We're going to be joined by Sharon Moore, who is the tight ends coach.

One of his pupils, Luke Schoonemaker, will join us a little bit later in the show.

Strength and conditioning coach, Ben Herbert, is going to stop by and chronicle some of the challenges that he has had over the past six to seven months, not only with the team, but himself personally.

These are challenging times.

Carlo Kemp had a chance to talk to him last week when we heard that Big Ten football was back on the schedule.

Please stay tuned because it is an unbelievable interview.

His excitement is second to none.

And I think I would bring in a really quick second in that regard.

But let's get to the schedule that will begin on October 24.

All of the Big Ten will start that weekend.

There's a couple games maybe on,

they're thinking about moving to Friday night.

Michigan will start the 24th on Saturday with a trip to Minneapolis.

That's going to bring the obviously fighting PJ Flex.

And this game to me is interesting because Michigan has drawn the top two teams out of the west. And we'll discuss the schedule at length for the next few weeks, talk about the pros and cons.

But I am here to tell you if Michigan is going to stake their claim in the Big Ten in 2020,

I would love nothing more than to have the top two teams from last year on our schedule. And that means a trip to

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