3 hardest games on Michigan Football’s 2023 schedule

The 2023 Michigan football season is less than 100 days away and here are the three hardest games on the 2023 schedule for the Wolverines. 

If you got sick of the complaints about Michigan football’s schedule in 2022, get ready for them in 2023, because they will return.

The non-conference opponents aren’t as bad as last year, based on last season, but East Carolina, UNLV, and Bowling Green won’t impress anyone.

The toughest games will be in the Big Ten. Michigan football does avoid some of the top teams in the Big Ten West as Iowa and Wisconsin aren’t on the schedule, but there are still games against Nebraska, Purdue, and Minnesota.

The schedule isn’t overly daunting though. Only two teams that will likely be ranked in the preseason top 25 are on the Michigan football schedule for 2023 and one of those games is at home.

Yet, the schedule can look a lot tougher or easier depending on September and October. But as of now, here are the three most difficult games on the 2023 Michigan football schedule.

3. Michigan at Michigan State (Oct. 21)

Lots of Michigan football fans are poking fun at the Spartans right now, but if the Wolverines don’t take the trip to East Lansing seriously, they will lose.

We have seen way too many superior Michigan teams get tripped up by Sparty and Mel Tucker has already pulled the trick twice.

I know the Spartans lost Keon Coleman and Payton Thorne in the transfer portal this spring. They need to find a quarterback and improve their defense.

But Michigan is the Super Bowl for them and the Spartans, even last year, made it a game until the fourth quarter. Anyone thinking this will be a cakewalk is flat wrong.