Michigan Wolverines football head coach Jim Harbaugh met with the media today to discuss some of the hot-button issues in college football. Here's our take on his thoughts, including his contract and a potentially shortened season.
NEWS: The Ivy League canceled the fall football season and is considering playing in the spring. As we noted Saturday, there's been talk of a 10-game, conference only season, and there are rumblings that it might just be Power Five Conference teams.
Harbaugh was asked if he thought U-M should play at Washington and for his thoughts on the schedule.
HARBAUGH: "I'm not going to offer a personal opinion. The A.D.s, school presidents and medical experts can decide what's best there (when it comes to a regional schedule).
VIEWS: There's growing evidence that the 10-game conference-only schedule will take place. Purdue Rivals' Tom Dienhart offered this after speaking with a Power Five coach:
“We have a big meeting tomorrow (Thursday, July 9). But, yeah, it just seems to me that probably in the last week and a half, I could just kind of tell from the tone of our leadership that that's the direction that they want it to go and felt most comfortable going. Nothing has been decided. Nothing's official. But I would be surprised if it's not that ...
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“You have two schools of thought here. They have asked us about starting Week Zero, because they are worried about the second wave (of the virus). I think September 5 is likely. Could they move it back to the 12th? Yes, that wouldn’t surprise me, either. I don't think any further back then the 19th.
"I know the Pac-12 is talking about that right now, starting later, which would allow for more time for testing to be more accurate and just to be able to get your guys more prepared. If I had to guess now, I’d say we start the fifth or the twelfth.”
There's also been talk of canceling Bowl games and having only an expanded playoff prior to Thanksgiving. If there's a season — and we still think there will be — it's going to look different and played in front of much smaller crowds, if any.
