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Michigan football: 2025 schedule and key games
Michigan football’s schedule and key games for the 2025 season.
Michigan football’s annual Maize and Blue spring game, scheduled to be held at 11 a.m. April 19 at the Big House, will not be televised live in part for strategic reasons.
Program spokesman Dave Ablauf told media members who were gathered for Wednesday’s availability at Schembechler Hall that instead of airing on game day, the spring game will be tape delayed until the next weekend, at which time it will be played on Big Ten Network.
On April 19, instead, BTN will air U-M’s men’s lacrosse home game against Ohio State.
Earlier this week, head coach Sherrone Moore made it clear the spring game is important to the program.
“We’re playing it,” Moore said Monday. “It’s a great opportunity for our players — and our fans — to be out there, and just see the team in general. Now, we’re not going to run every single play and do every single thing, but it’s a great opportunity — especially for the guys that may not get the opportunity to play in the Big House on Saturdays as much as others.”
The timing of when the game will finally air is not perceived as a coincidence: The football spring transfer portal window will be open from April 16-25, and the hope from U-M’s perspective is by not creating additional tape for opposing coaches to see, they will be less inclined to attempt to poach players.
The hope, also, by not airing the game as it happens, is that it will drive many more fans to attend in person. When Jim Harbaugh first arrived at U-M the spring game started to become a notable event once again. The program had more than 50,000 people at the event in 2015, nearly 55,000 in 2017 and in 2019, U-M drew 60,000 people…
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Publish date : 2025-03-26 18:54:00
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