Official: Michigan at Iowa on Saturday at 7pm
December 13th, 2020 at 2:11 PM ^
Harbaugh gets the opportunity the have a losing record against two of the better teams in the west. Leaders and best indeed.
December 13th, 2020 at 2:56 PM ^
Didn't the Big Ten schools get a guarantee of no night games after the 3rd week of Nov (or something similar)?
Why the hell would an AD agree to a night game the 3rd week of December?!
December 13th, 2020 at 3:34 PM ^
Agree. Night game at Kinnick Dec. 19 during Covid makes no sense. At least play during sunlight. Understand there is TV money involved, but this does not seem in the best interest of the student athletes. TV runs too much in college football. The night game part of this is a disgraceful money grab. Everyone running the BIG10 and other power 5 conferences is overpaid. That said, sure hope Michigan can end the season on a high note.
December 13th, 2020 at 10:42 PM ^
Assuming JH is miffed by Warde's "pay for performance" offer and bolts to take over the J-ville J's, I hope the next coach can see who showed up and who didn't.
JH obviously had more success at UM in MOST regards than Gerry Faust at ND (Faust was at least 3-2 vs. USC and beat 4 top 10 teams).
I do hope we can start young players who make mistakes but don't give up.
December 13th, 2020 at 3:39 PM ^
Why the hell would an AD agree to a night game the 3rd week of December?!
Because *ichigan was in full-on coward mode while canceling their imminent rear end kicking in Columbus and the entire college football community knows it, especially after Minnesota, down THIRTY-THREE players yesterday, traveled to Lincoln, competed against, and beat Nebraska. Warde Manuel is in damage control mode... trying save whatever tiny shed of integrity the program has left. Pathetic.
December 13th, 2020 at 3:52 PM ^
Only OSU cancels games due to health officials, right? GFY.
December 13th, 2020 at 4:01 PM ^
Yeah, ‘cause you know, there isn’t a once in a lifetime pandemic going on and killing hundreds of thousands. But sure, bash a team, and call them pathetic so they can do there best to handle an outbreak on the team. God forbid these (non-paid) athletes need to entertain you and make sure your team heads to the playoffs. Clearly, osu fans care more about their self-image and disregard to human life. To have an osu fan question anyone’s integrity is laughable. You’re pathetic bruh
December 13th, 2020 at 4:08 PM ^
Why are you responding to this moron ? He's trying to get reactions out of us. Hell. he might not even be an OSU fan just a troll that bounces around different websites to get reactions.
December 13th, 2020 at 4:37 PM ^
I'm just curious . . . what do you think will happen if you type out the word "Michigan"? Are worlds going to collide?
December 13th, 2020 at 6:38 PM ^
I've seen it spelled that way over on 11 fake warriors.
December 13th, 2020 at 5:13 PM ^
Logged in just to downvote and say fuck you and this lazy ass fucking bullshit take. This is the B1G fucking UM in the face and coming in their eye for spite. If UM chose to leave the B1G I’d be all for it at this point
December 13th, 2020 at 6:40 PM ^
Fuck off, asshole
December 13th, 2020 at 6:49 PM ^
Yep, 14 FBS games cancelled this week, but Michigan's was illegitimate...
December 13th, 2020 at 4:16 PM ^
The NFL wouldn’t allow it unless the field was heated like NFL cold weather venues. Irresponsible by B1G.
December 13th, 2020 at 5:28 PM ^
I'm just curious. Are they going to turn into pumpkins or something? ?
December 13th, 2020 at 5:45 PM ^
No, but really... who would *want* to go play in the dark cold (possibly blizzard/icestorm) for 3-4 hours in frozen f*cking Iowa plains, a few days before Christmas, for a game that means absolutely nothing, in the middle of a historic deadly pandemic where no one is *supposed* to be traveling across state lines and congregating en masse anyway?
December 14th, 2020 at 2:26 PM ^
Probably not, but a frozen field equates to significantly more injuries especially to the head. That is why it is a stipulation in the NFL/NFLPA collective bargaining agreement. NFL games aren’t played on frozen fields for player safety reasons.
December 13th, 2020 at 2:11 PM ^
That’s a head scratcher for me. We are #6 playing #2..
December 13th, 2020 at 2:18 PM ^
Very odd indeed. Rhetorical--So what happened to #6 playing #6? Plus it's a night game so it must be for viewers as Michigan gets a lot of eyeballs.
Here's a factiod, this year, Michigan's only two wins were night games. Both wins were on the road.
December 13th, 2020 at 8:27 PM ^
Yes -- and one of those was over #21 Minnesota -- Harbaugh's best 'road' win at Michigan, by that measure. (The only other one was at #24 MSU in 2018.)
Iowa is #16. If Michigan were to pull this off, it would be Harbaugh's best road win by ranking. And from just this season he would have tripled his road wins over ranked opponents, from one to three.
December 13th, 2020 at 2:44 PM ^
It looks like their first priority was scheduling rivalry games that had been cancelled, so in addition to the OSU-NW championship game they scheduled Indiana-Purdue and Wisconsin-Minnesota. Because one of those games is a West-West game, they needed an East-East game, and that would mean Maryland against MSU or Michigan as the non-rematch options. MSU gets the honor as the last place team.
That left Iowa, Nebraska, and Illinois in the West, and PSU, Michigan, and Rutgers in the East. PSU had already played Iowa and Nebraska, so they get Illinois. Then maybe because Michigan beat Rutgers, they play the higher-seeded Iowa and Rutgers gets Nebraska. Or maybe the Big Ten wanted to balance out the TV viewers and worried that an Iowa-Rutgers matchup wouldn't get enough.
December 13th, 2020 at 3:31 PM ^
This is exactly right. Start with the idea that the #1 rule is no rematches, and the #2 rule is all possible rivalry games get played. You end up with Iowa & Nebraska v Michigan, Michigan State or Rutgers...with Maryland playing either Michigan or Michigan State.
ESPN had the #2 pick for the weekend (after the championship game) and could have shown Indiana-Purdue, but instead opted for Iowa-Michigan. That was literally the best matchup that the conference could put together in terms of TV viewership, so there should be no surprise that the conference decided to do things that way.
December 13th, 2020 at 3:39 PM ^
And they probably figured the idea of a Michigan v Iowa game sounded like a titanic battle to people who haven’t been paying attention to how Michigan has played this year.
December 13th, 2020 at 4:32 PM ^
Big Ten should’ve scheduled UM vs OSU if the priority was scheduling cancelled rivalry games.
December 13th, 2020 at 4:54 PM ^
I don’t get it either. I expected is to play Illinois which would’ve been a better matchup
December 13th, 2020 at 2:12 PM ^
At least it’s not Friday
December 13th, 2020 at 2:13 PM ^
This kind of feels like a kick in the nuts.
December 13th, 2020 at 2:15 PM ^
Is this payback by the B10 for Michigan trying to screw OSU by canceling the game ?
I was looking forward to maybe have a chance at beating Nebraska , now we get to get our asses kicked by a team that has been trending up
December 13th, 2020 at 2:16 PM ^
Good for the kids in Iowa Children's Hospital. At least they'll be able to see their team get one more easy W to brighten their Holidays.
December 13th, 2020 at 2:23 PM ^
Michigan will be dedicating this game to the sadists club of Michigan.
December 13th, 2020 at 3:37 PM ^
Because we’re the masochist’s club right here.
December 13th, 2020 at 2:17 PM ^
Any chance we cancel this game too?
December 13th, 2020 at 3:42 PM ^
Any chance we cancel this game too?
That's what cowards with no integrity do... run like little bitches when it gets tough.
December 13th, 2020 at 3:52 PM ^
Ok we're cowards. At least we will not be thrashed as much as against OSU. Likely we will score points. And Iowa has not promised to put up 100 against us
December 13th, 2020 at 4:23 PM ^
Why are you here exactly?
December 13th, 2020 at 4:47 PM ^
How has this account survived almost 2 years without getting nuked when this type of crap is all this dirtbag has ever posted?
December 13th, 2020 at 5:21 PM ^
Your comments are a disgrace to a great Van Halen song.
December 13th, 2020 at 6:06 PM ^
Sending your atomicpunkasssss back to 11 worriers.
December 13th, 2020 at 2:18 PM ^
it's all about matchups, plus covid
IU vs Purdue is their rivalry game, plus both teams with covid so only affects 1 game instead of 2
also they added Wisconsin vs Minnesota - another rivalry game
the 2 vs 2, 3 vs 3 thing was probably if most/all games got played
December 13th, 2020 at 2:23 PM ^
Still...Michigan v. Nebraska makes more sense.
December 13th, 2020 at 3:41 PM ^
Think about this like a TV network. You want ratings. You don't care about anything else.
So you're ESPN. You have the #2 game this weekend. You can show Minnesota-Wisconsin. You can show Indiana-Purdue. You can show Iowa-Rutgers or Iowa-Michigan State or Nebraska-Rutgers or Nebraska-Michigan.
Or you can show Iowa-Michigan. The best remaining team in the conference (with large numbers of loyal fans) vs the most interesting team in the conference (with even larger numbers who hate-watch them every week). And let's face it, Michigan is nationally interesting. They're the most talked about irrelevant team in the last decade of college football. Millions will tune in just because they find Michigan interesting.
So when the Big Ten gives ESPN a list of possible games for the #2 matchup, the Iowa-Michigan game gets snapped up in an instant.
December 13th, 2020 at 2:18 PM ^
We dead
December 13th, 2020 at 2:21 PM ^
Who starts at Qb Villari Milton probably not McNamara. Is this going to be Harbaughs last game? Interesting I'll probably tune in at least until halftime, it will be over by then
December 13th, 2020 at 6:04 PM ^
Don’t forget a few punctuation marks.
December 13th, 2020 at 6:27 PM ^
Smart ass!
December 13th, 2020 at 2:21 PM ^
I’d rather get a vasectomy.
December 13th, 2020 at 2:24 PM ^
I've had one; it wasn't as painful as watching Michigan football this year.
December 13th, 2020 at 2:56 PM ^
This ^^^
December 13th, 2020 at 2:55 PM ^
Can you just get the right side done? From what I've read lately, it seems like the all the problems happen on the left side?