ESPN updates Michigan football win chances for remaining 2024 games after Week 5

Good thing games aren’t played on paper. #GoBlue

Michigan football had yet another nailbiter, this time against Minnesota in Week 5, but it didn’t have to be that way.

Entering the fourth quarter, the Wolverines had a commanding lead, up 24-3, but the Gophers started battling their way back and the Michigan defense did little to stop them. As a result of another close call, the ESPN matchup predictor doesn’t think very highly of the maize and blue down the stretch.

Michigan is set to embark upon a Washington game on the road that was previously thought to be an obvious win. Now? Not so much.

Here is how ESPN predicts Michigan’s chances of winning for the remaining seven games on the schedule.