Michigan Football: 3 Possibilities for a 10-game only Big Ten schedule

Michigan football might play a Big Ten only schedule and here’s what that could look like in 2020.

For Michigan football and college programs around the country, details about the upcoming season are up in the air. However, it’s starting to look more and more like the college football season will be anything but regular.

If it does happen this fall, which seems like a big if at this point, especially after the Ivy League called off its season Wednesday, it’s likely to be abbreviated. One idea that seems to be catching on is teams playing more regional schedules and for Michigan football and others, it could be a 10-game, Big Ten only schedule.

That’s at least according to the Tom Dienhart of the Purdue Rivals website ($), which cites a source as a Power-5 head coach, which states the conference, assuming its the Big Ten, is meeting July 9 to discuss the upcoming season.

Of course, this has been floated before and in the past few weeks, it’s been looking less and less likely that Michigan football would actually make the trip to Seattle for the season-opener against Washington.

There has also been talk about pushing football to the spring, but on Wednesday, Jim Harbaugh advocated for playing, unless it’s obvious that it’s not safe to do so. Going to a spring season would be a dramatic change but just a Big Ten only schedule would be different, especially if a 10th game was added.

As far as what that would look like, nothing has official has been proposed, but based on current schedules, here are three enticing and I think reasonable possibilities.