Michigan fans are going to be pissed about Ohio State-Michigan game

Michigan football has been hosed when it comes to its Big Ten schedule.

Michigan football fans can’t feel great about when the Ohio State football game is being played.

Under normal circumstances, these two arch rivals meet in the early afternoon window two days after Thanksgiving, alternating between Ann Arbor, Michigan and Columbus, Ohio. With the Big Ten releasing its 2020 conference-only season schedule, Michigan fans have to be furious about when they draw the Buckeyes this year. Things can’t be going over well in Ann Arbor right now.

Michigan football might now have three conference losses before November.

Michigan has some road blocks in September, as the Wolverines have a road date with the Minnesota Golden Gophers in Minneapolis on Sept. 12 and a home game vs. the Penn State Nittany Lions on Sept. 19. If Michigan wants any shot at a New Year’s Six Bowl, they can’t drop both of these games in back-to-back weeks. It only gets harder for the Wolverines from there.

While Michigan should be able to pick up a few wins in the heart of its schedule against division rivals at Rutgers (Sept. 26), home vs. Michigan State (Oct. 3) and at Indiana (Oct. 17), their season might be on life support with their final two games of October: At Ohio State on Oct.. 24 and home vs. Wisconsin on Halloween, Oct. 31. There is a chance Michigan has three or four losses this year.

Though the Wolverines end their season with a pair of easier matchups vs. Maryland (Nov. 7) and at Northwestern (Nov. 21), it’s not going to mean much of anything if a three or four-loss Michigan team takes on the Terrapins or the Wildcats completely out of the College Football Playoff picture. While the games are spaced out across the board for everyone, Michigan is still in a brutal spot.

We will know through their first eight games of 2020 if the Wolverines are for real or not. They will be battle-tested, but that’s a brutal gauntlet for even the best of Power 5 team to navigate. Michigan will face three or four teams perpetually ranked in the top 25 before the calendar flips to November. However, they may have big momentum by that point of the Wolverines can be strong.

Drawing Ohio State before Halloween has disastrous consequences for Michigan football this year.

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