No. 3: “The Game” is now scheduled for October 24 and I don’t like it one bit

“The Game” between Ohio State and Michigan is always one of the more impressive spectacles of the college football season.

Lets put all of rivalry week aside, because we’ve already lost significant games including Georgia-Georgia Tech and Iowa-Iowa State. Having Ohio State and Michigan not play late in November will first eliminate the annual “even though Michigan won’t win the East they can still have a successful season if they win” talk, but it will also shake up the entire end-of-season Big Ten East race.

I mentioned earlier how the Badgers benefit from playing Michigan the week after their Ohio State contest, but looking from wide lens it’s hard to get behind watching the Big Ten’s best game of the year in late October instead of to close the season.

Maybe it’s just me, but in what is setting up to be a unique season any sense of normalcy is welcome. For many, that normalcy is rivalry weekend and turning on the television at 11 a.m. CST to watch “The Game.”