Michigan doesn't have Friday night games in 2017, but Jim Harbaugh still hates them
Michigan will not play a Friday night football game in 2017.
And if Jim Harbaugh has it his way, Michigan won’t ever play a Friday night game.
With the season a few short months away, the start of B1G Friday night football is around the corner. The conference will have four Friday night games in 2017, which was down from the original total of six.
Harbaugh, who said he was blindsided by the B1G’s Friday night football agreement, is still strongly opposed to the idea.
“I’m not for it at all,” Harbaugh said on the Rich Eisen Show. “Friday night is for high school football.”
Michigan told B1G commissioner Jim Delany that it would not host or travel to a Friday night game. Penn State also released a statement that it wouldn’t participate in Friday night games.
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They, however, weren’t put on the 2017 schedule. Northwestern originally received to Friday night kickoffs for 2017, but both of those were later removed.
The conference already reportedly cut the amount of future midseason Friday night games down to 2-3. Harbaugh said that it’s possible that they could be removed entirely.
“I think there’s a way that’ll happen,” Harbaugh said. “I think sometimes the pendulum swings one way and do something that’s not productive for the game of football and then it swings back the other way. I don’t know that that’s set in stone, nor should it be.
“I think the opposition of playing college football games on Friday nights should be voiced.”
You can bet Harbaugh’s voice — and other B1G coaches — will be heard loud and clear if Friday night football continues.