Michigan football: 2025 schedule and key games
Michigan football’s schedule and key games for the 2025 season.
As the saying goes: The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
Big Ten Commissioner Tony Petitti wrote a letter to the NCAA earlier this summer suggesting it not punish the Michigan football program any further for its transgressions as it relates to its advanced scouting/sign-stealing scandal, according to an ESPN report Monday, July 21. That letter was then read aloud at the June meeting before the committee on infractions in Indianapolis.
The NCAA charged Michigan with 11 rule infractions, six falling in the Level I category, the most serious offenses. A decision is expected sometime before the 2025 season begins.
Petitti, per ESPN’s report, said U-M’s punishment had been served for then-coach Jim Harbaugh having already been suspended for those games. Various punishments are still on the table. Current coach Sherrone Moore has accepted a two-game suspension by U-M for his role (allegedly deleting 52 text messages with Connor Stalions, the recruiting staffer at the center of the investigation), though there could be possibly be more.
Petitti blew the whistle in October of 2023, calling Michigan State’s program and letting staffers know his office had reason to believe their signals had been “compromised” and offering to even let them bow out of the game.
Weeks later, when the Big Ten office suspended Harbaugh for the final three games of the regular season for violating the sportsmanship policy — this did not state he had any connection to the sign-stealing plot but rather the scheme violated the league’s policy since it resulted “in an unfair competitive advantage that compromised the integrity of competition” — there was an…
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Publish date : 2025-07-21 15:08:00
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