Michigan Football vs Ohio State: 5 Predictions for the Wolverines

Speight will be a game-time decision

Right now, the biggest question heading into the Michigan-Ohio State game is whether or not Wilton Speight will start at quarterback for the Wolverines?

My answer to that question, as much as I would like it to be yes, is probably no.

I get that Speight is practicing and suited up last week. Maybe Harbaugh really did just want to save him against Indiana. I hope that’s the case. But in my gut, Speight feels like a long shot.

The one thing I am sure of is that we won’t know until just before kickoff. That’s just how Harbaugh wants to play it. Here’s what he said on his weekly radio show the other day:

“I have not decided yet, no,” Harbaugh told the show. “And I’m not going to tell you.”

Even though it shouldn’t make a tremendous difference in the preparation for Ohio State, Speight and John O’Korn do have different talents. So that’s one reason the coach will try keeping it secret.

Truthfully, Harbaugh may not know right now, depending on Speight’s health.

Yet in the end, to me, it feels like Speight will be dressed but will be nothing but an emergency backup.