Michigan 2025 Football Schedule: Best & Worst Scenarios, Season Prediction

Who does Michigan miss from the Big Ten schedule?

Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Oregon, Penn State, Rutgers, UCLA

There’s no missing Ohio State - duh - but the Wolverines can’t complain about not having to deal with Oregon or Penn State. Fine, so Michigan will be playing with house money when it gets another chance to make Buckeye types melt down into a quivering bowl of pudding, but at some point that’s going to flip.

Not playing Oregon and Penn State is great, Indiana - lest you forget - is coming off a CFP season, and now playing Illinois and Iowa this year is great.

Michigan football schedule, the good and the bad

The Good: Ohio State has to come to Ann Arbor. In reality, where that game is played doesn’t really matter, but it helps.

Considering the Michigan State game is up the road a bit, the team doesn’t leave Michigan for a month, and that’s before two winnable road games against Northwestern and Maryland.

Two of the Big Ten road games are against teams that didn’t go bowling, one more is against a Washington team that finished with a losing record.

The Bad: At Oklahoma. For a Michigan team that took a bit of a year off after the national championship, this is supposed to be a return to greatness that could be derailed right away.

It might not be as tough as it would’ve been in, say, 1979, but going to Oklahoma, Nebraska, and USC over the first half of the season will be tough. There aren’t two home games in a row all year.

Michigan Football Schedule: Best and worst case scenarios

Best Case Scenario: Everything is back to normal - within reason. A win at Oklahoma sets the tone, and the steamrolling goes from there.

The team takes care of home only slips up once on a bad day on the road - like, at Michigan State - and then it goes off to the Big Ten Championship and is locked into a College Football Playoff spot with a fifth straight victory over That Team Down South.

Worst Case Scenario: Things don’t mesh right away in a loss at Oklahoma, and it continues in losses to Nebraska and USC. The team has a crazy knack of losing close games, dropping the rivalry date to Michigan State to make the base made.

Getting to a bowl game isn’t a problem, but it’s hardly the season it’s supposed to be, The regular season ends with the streak being broken as Ohio State finally exorcises the demon.

What Will Happen: (Feb 8) Much will be made about that road game against the Sooners, and all the big name dates away from Ann Arbor, but overall the slate just isn’t that bad.

Sort of lost is that Oklahoma, Nebraska, Wisconsin, USC, Washington, and Michigan State weren’t all that great last year, and all six of those are winnable. Michigan loses once, finally loses to Ohio State, and gets into the CFP with an at-large bid.

The What Will Happen will be updated several times this offseason