Anyone looking forward to the Michigan/UCLA home-and-home in 2022 and 2023, well, we’ve got some bad news.
Friday the Wolverines canceled the series with the Bruins and instead opted to add a couple of home barnburners against Hawaii and East Carolina.
In case you can’t contain yourself and are ready to count down the days for those pivotal matchups against the Warriors and the Pirates, Michigan will face off against Hawaii on Sept. 10, 2022, while their game against East Carolina will take place from Ann Arbor on Sept. 2, 2023.
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Now aside from the speculation that the Wolverines are trying to load up on cupcakes, there is apparently talk that Michigan and Notre Dame could renew their rivalry beyond this Saturday’s game from the Big House.
Then there’s the issues when it comes to Big Ten scheduling.
With the changes, the Wolverines now have a seven-game home schedule in place for both the 2022 and 2023 seasons, with an open date for each still outstanding. The nine-game Big Ten schedules have complicated scheduling in recent years, requiring a school like Michigan to alternate scheduling two and three non-conference home games to complete a seven-game home schedule each season.
Michigan replaced the canceled dates with Virginia Tech with a home game against Arkansas State in 2020 and moved its previously scheduled 2021 home game with Washington to accommodate additional home games against Western Michigan and Northern Illinois.
Michigan will need just two non-conference home games in 2024, but all three in 2025, to achieve that seven home-game
Cancelling dates with Virginia Tech to bring in Arkansas State, accommodating additional home games against Western Michigan and Northern Illinois… it seems like we’ll soon see that Oklahoma home-and-home replaced with home dates against New Mexico State and another Mountain West team like Colorado State.
Anyways, Michigan will end up forking over $1.5 million to UCLA to cancel their dates according to Stadium’s Brett McMurphy.
