Free Press sports writers Orion Sang and Rainer Sabin break down Michigan football’s current situation:
Sang: We should be talking about ‘The Game’ right now … but these are not normal times in Ann Arbor. For the first time in over 100 years, Michigan and Ohio State will not be playing. That still feels weird to say.
Sabin: It’s definitely strange. This whole season has been peculiar from Michigan’s standpoint, and it’s been off beat from the very beginning. In some ways, though, it was predictable, in the sense that the coronavirus pandemic was expected to get worse around this time and keeping Ohio State-Michigan at the end of the season endangered the possibility that “The Game” would actually be played.