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Harbaugh: College football should be on Saturday

The Big Ten is adding Friday night football games, but Michigan athletic director Warde Manuel said that the Wolverines aren't interested in playing in them.

U-M football coach Jim Harbaugh agrees.

"I think Saturday, it's a Saturday game," he said on the "Jamie and Stoney" show today on WXYT-FM (97.1). "I'm for traditional Saturdays. Friday is for high school games. That's my knee-jerk reaction to it."

The move was reported Wednesday by the Chicago Tribune, but Harbaugh said he hadn't heard about it until today's interview.

"We're going to tee it up at 1 o'clock on a Saturday afternoon, we're not going to play any Friday night games," Harbaugh said, trying to mimic his former coach Bo Schembechler.