5 Teams Michigan Football should play in the future Vol. 2
Miami Hurricanes, neutral site
I thought about making this game a home-and-home, but Michigan football generally doesn’t play well in the heat, and this would be an early-season game, in September, in Miami. Well, one game, as it is a home-and-home. The weather would probably be in the 90s with high humidity at night, and the last time Michigan went to Florida, they got the brakes beaten off of them by Georgia in the Orange Bowl last year.
I don’t need to remind folks that Michigan football has been hot and cold playing in Florida over the years, more cold than hot, to be honest, with notable wins over the Tebow-led Florida Gators in the 2008 Capitol One Bowl, and a win over Florida in 2015 in the Citrus Bowl, followed by a loss to Florida State in 2016 in the Orange Bowl, a loss to South Carolina in the Outback Bowl in 2018, a loss to Alabama in 2019 in the Citrus Bowl, and a loss to Georgia in the Orange Bowl in 2021.
Wow, it really feels like Michigan just can’t escape playing down in Florida for some reason.
A neutral-site field indoors will suffice for this game.
There’s nothing that needs to be said here. Although “The U” has been marred by mediocrity for a little over a decade, it really wasn’t that long ago where they were among college football’s elite, competing for national championships every year from the late 80s to the early 2000s.
The intriguing thing about Miami is they just recently hired a new coach, former Oregon Ducks head coach Mario Cristobal. Mario is known for his recruiting prowess, as Oregon had top-10 classes pretty much every year he was HC in Eugene. I expect Miami to quickly rise back up from the depths and be one of the top teams in the ACC every year.
College football is not the same without the Miami Hurricanes being their dominant self, so it will be fun if Michigan is able to schedule a future game with Miami.
The last time Michigan football played Miami was in 1988, a 31-30 squeaker of a victory for Miami, so I know a lot of old school Michigan fans would kill for a rematch over thirty years in the making.
Anything can happen from now until Michigan schedules its next opponents, but if Cristobal could at least get Miami back to respectability, it would make the potential game can’t-miss TV.