Majority of fans oppose Michigan-Ohio State being played earlier in season

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Earlier this week, we asked fans if Michigan vs Ohio State should always be played the last week of the regular season. And now the results are in.

80% of voters believe The Game should always be played the last week of the regular season.

With the playoffs likely to expand to 24 teams in the near future, The Athletic’s Austin Meek sees a scenario where The Game is played in October.

“If the CFP expands, my prediction is that the crescendo of the regular season will hit earlier. Probably sometime in October, when we’ve seen enough to know who’s good, yet not enough to have the whole CFP bracket figured out. The final Saturday of the regular season will feel more like Week 18 in the NFL — extremely relevant for a few teams, anticlimactic for everyone else,” Meek wrote. “In October, everybody will have something to play for. Teams will be warmed up but not as beaten up as they’ll be in late November. We’ll know enough to identify the most important games, but nobody will be locked into a particular CFP track. Also, fans won’t yet have Bracket Fatigue from analyzing the same handful of scenarios again and again.”

Do you agree with Meek’s analysis? Or should Michigan vs Ohio State always be played the last week of the regular season regardless of playoff expansion? Let us know in the comments.

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