Michigan football: 2025 schedule and key games
Michigan football’s schedule and key games for the 2025 season.
This is the first time since 1937 and 1940 that Michigan will not have consecutive home games.The Wolverines’ Week 2 matchup against Oklahoma marks their first true road game against an SEC school.
When teams or fans are breaking down how tough a schedule will be before the season, it’s often based on how many ranked matchups are on the slate.
In that regard, Michigan football is looking at a very manageable schedule. The preseason US LMB Coaches Poll was released on Monday, Aug. 4 and there was quite a bit of good news for the Wolverines.
Not only did U-M come it at No. 14, but only one of the Wolverines’ 12 opponents was ranked to enter the year. Of course, that’s Ohio State, the defending national champion, which enters No. 2.
Not even perrenial power Oklahoma, Michigan’s Week 2 matchup, cracked the top 25, though the Sooners received the most votes of any team that didn’t make the list. It’s the first time the Sooners haven’t been ranked to open the season since 1999.
Of course preseason rankings are just a small part of what makes a schedule difficult, and defensive coordinator Wink Martindale recently pointed out that U-M will deal with a number of those in the 2025 campaign.
“We got six away games,” he began. “When’s the last time we’ve had six away games, right? So we can break a record. We win on the road, we can break a record. You know, when’s the last time we didn’t have back-to-back home games? So there’s challenges besides who’s playing where, how well they’re playing, and everything else that that you put into this.
“If you look at it realistically, the reality is, it’s going to be a tough, it’s a…
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Publish date : 2025-08-06 10:06:00
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