college football

The Wolverines’ opponent Alabama defeated two-time defending national champion Georgia in the SEC championship to reach the national semi-final game at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California

The other three schools in the playoff are the University of Washington, the University of Texas and the University of Alabama.

With head coach back on the sidelines, No. 2 UM route Iowa Hawkeyes in the Big Ten championship game and are likely to take the top seed in the College Football Playoff.

A Lions, Wolverines, and Spartans football roundup, ghost town hunting in the Upper Peninsula, comparing Ohio's new reproductive rights to Michigan's and using words of wonder in discourse.

Michigan will play in next weekend's Big Ten Championship game after defeating Ohio State Saturday

“It’s ear piercing at first, and then it becomes tolerable,” said head football coach Jim Harbaugh, “and then you block it out.”

No. 2 Michigan fired linebackers coach Chris Partridge on Friday, the latest turmoil for a Wolverines team that is under NCAA investigation for an alleged sign-stealing scheme.

What Coach Harbaugh's suspension means; the attitude shaping media and how it affects our perception of Arabs, Jews, and Muslims; and the Upper Peninsula adds another book-store to its short list.

The Big Ten Conference announced Friday that the University of Michigan has been found in violation of the Big Ten Sportsmanship Policy for conducting an impermissible, in-person scouting operation over multiple years, resulting in an unfair competitive advantage that compromised the integrity of competition.

The Big Ten Conference has indicated it intends to punish Michigan football over sign-stealing allegations, but hasn't said how. Michigan Radio John U. Bacon weighs in.