Michigan Thursday: This Is Weird

Wisconsin rolled over Illinois (who upset them last year) like they weren't even there on Friday night.  On Saturday, they get knocked out by an invisible virus.   Which has already cost them one game and another is probable as they will be shut down for 7 days.  

Talking heads on ESPN will talk about how "stupid" the Big Ten was in shutting down in August and now they don't have any runway to reschedule games for a College Football Playoff spot.  Let's be clear, the Big Ten is all in on OSU and they could care less who they play in a Big Ten Championship game.   If you replace Wisconsin with OSU in a COVID outbreak and then the Big Ten Brass as some problems.   The schedule the Big Ten gave OSU is criminal in so many ways, with this weekends game really their only difficult road match-up.   Even that worked into the Big Ten's favor when PSU got upset by IU last weekend.   After this weekend, look at this murders row of opponents:

home Rutgers 

@ Maryland 

home IU

@ Illinois 

@ MSU 

home Michigan 

The Buckeyes basically have a bye until they meet the Wolverines in mid-December.   It's also fair to say Michigan also has Rutgers, MSU, IU, and Maryland.  They just got the toughest West opponents possible. 

Is this rivalry week? Doesn't feel like it as its week 2 in late October in this COVID season and Sparty tried to set a new turnover record in their loss to Rutgers last weekend.  My biggest fear this weekend, is that Michigan has been known to play down to their opponent and this will be MSU's biggest game of the year.   

• I knew Nebraska would try to find an opponent this weekend, just didn't know if the Big Ten would let them.   Nebraska is trying to schedule Chattanooga for Saturday to replace the Wisconsin game. 

  

from The BIG HOUSE Blog http://mbighouse.blogspot.com/2020/10/michigan-thursday-this-is-weird.html