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Newsstand: Michigan/Northwestern kickoff time, TV designation set

Anthony Broomeby: Anthony Broome18 hours agoanthonytbroome
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The Michigan Wolverines will head to Wrigley Field, home of MLB’s Chicago Cubs, on Nov. 15 to take on the Northwestern Wildcats. Monday afternoon saw the game get a television designation and kickoff time for the Week 12 showdown.

The Wolverines and Wildcats will do battle at noon Eastern/11 Central from the Friendly Confines as part of FOX’s Big Noon Saturday coverage. On the call for the network will be Gus Johnson, Joel Klatt and Jenny Taft.

Michigan is on a bye this weekend, its second of the year, sitting at 7-2 on the season. Following the Northwestern game, it heads to Maryland for the penultimate regular-season game. A TV/kick-time could be released next Monday unless the Big Ten elects to exercise the 6-day window and wait for the conclusion of Week 12’s games to decide.

Michigan has one more kickoff set as of today, with a noon game on FOX to end the regular season on Nov. 29 against the Ohio State Buckeyes, the top-ranked team in the country. The Wolverines will look to make it five-straight in the series at the Big House on Thanksgiving weekend.

Northwestern, which has a 5-3 record, will play at USC on Friday at 9 p.m. ET on FOX.

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“I think the game looks a lot different if you score twice in the red zone, but. Even then, it would still have been a ton of things that you need to clean up and figure out if you’re going to beat the better teams at the same time. Without the benefit of hindsight, we have to look at it that way. But let’s say they win the next three games and they’re in Indianapolis, or they’re in the College Football Playoff. Then no one really cares how it went. But in the moment, they look like a team that needs to get a hell of a lot better to compete with the Ohio States of the world. because that game is at the end and you can’t play the way you did on Saturday night.”

– The Wolverine’s Clayton Sayfie on Michigan football’s 21-16 win over Purdue

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