Usually, fans get a pretty good idea of what the schedule will look like down the road about two weeks before each game, but TV channels held off on announcing what time Michigan football would host Minnesota for the final weekend in September.
After the Wolverines upset No. 11 USC on Saturday, one of the big guns decided the game was worth putting in the spotlight.
Fox puts its biggest game each week in its noon slot and the premier Big Ten partner opted to make the Wolverines and Gophers its noon game in Week 5 according to reports.
Michigan-Minnesota next Saturday, Sept. 28, has been assigned a Noon ET kickoff time and will be televised on FOX.
— Aaron McMann | MLive.com (@AaronMcMann) September 22, 2024
While that usually means “Big Noon Kickoff” will be in tow, that isn’t always the case. At times, the top broadcasting crew of Gus Johnson and Joel Klatt will take a later game, and there’s been no announcement, as of the time of this post’s publication, if the pregame show crew will come back to Ann Arbor three weeks after being in town for the Texas game. However, it’s rare Johnson and Klatt aren’t on that noon call or that the Big Noon Kickoff crew doesn’t follow its primary broadcasting duo.