Who would ever want to go two whole years without seeing an Ohio State-Michigan game? Pizza executive turned Michigan AD Dave Brandon, that’s who.
Author John U. Bacon is releasing a new book this September titled Endzone: The Rise, Fall, and Return of Michigan Football, which contains several interesting nuggets about the Wolverines’ former athletic director.
Ohio State blog Land-Grant Holy Land got an advance copy of the book and found that Brandon suggested the Big Ten occasionally move, and even cancel, Michigan’s annual game against Ohio State. The two schools haven’t gone a season without playing each other since 1918.
In addition to the schedule change, Brandon wanted a 16-team Big Ten that would be divided into four groups, with the Wolverines and Buckeyes in different divisions.
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