Chris Balas reporting OSU game canceled

This is a pathetic line of thinking. Even if we were going to get smacked, I'd rather play and put up a fight if possible. I understand that health concerns are the issue here, so it's a good thing the game has been canceled. Being happy to avoid that game is shitty fandom.

ldevon1, please, please don't take the Christ out of Christmas. 

LMAO!!! I love it. I agree too. I would rest much easier knowing that we're not walking head-on into possibly the worst loss in UoM football history.

Interesting statement, "We have not been cleared to participate in practice at this time..." 

I drove by yesterday around 5:30 p.m. and the team was out practicing. The number of players didn't look materially different from what I've seen any other typical fall day. 

That is as official as it gets. This puts makes the B1G in a decision to put OH State in the championship game at Indy or not. Alvarez has stated they can amend their 6 game eligibility rule so we shall see.

As a fan, I am glad this game won't be played. I understand the student-athlete aspect and the right to compete and I respect that. 

Better luck next year Michigan fans.

Who cares?  

Lots of scenarios to ask about but the simplest answer is, yes.

I can't tell if this is a joke, a dig at the current state of the program, an insinuation that Bo had the ability to control a pandemic, or something else. If it's a joke, good one!

NO!! And if HE were here, he'd consume OSU with fireballs from his eyes, and bolts of lightning from his arse.

Was Bo an epidemiologist too? 

Christ even the vaunted OSU had to cancel a game due to Covid, and were lucky to even get to play against MSU. Day had to quarantine for 10 days after testing positive.

Just a general comment to the board...can we keep criticism of everything Michigan related in the realm or reality? That there's a global pandemic raging with record case numbers right now, and maybe just maybe shit happens and not everything is Harbaugh or Warde's fault?

If Michigan listened to Bo over the medical professionals regarding COVID than this school is screwed far deeper than the football program.

He’s dead. Let his ghost die already. 

If this was the Spanish Flu, would the game be canceled?

Well, no, actually, it wasn't. Michigan won 14-0 to finish an unbeaten 5-0 season and claim a national championship.

There are so many parallels between 1918 and 2020, although '18 had the added stress of a World War.

Before the football season began, a rumor spread that football would be abandoned for 1918. The university decided to proceed with the football season, though war-time restrictions limited travel and practice time. To compensate for the players serving in the military, the existing prohibition on freshman players was lifted for the year.

As originally adopted, Michigan's 1918 schedule included games against Cornell (at Ithaca), Northwestern (at Ann Arbor) and Minnesota (at Ann Arbor). Those games, and planned replacement games against Camp Custer and the University of Mount Union, were cancelled. Travel restrictions resulted in cancellation of the Cornell and Minnesota games, and the 1918 flue pandemic forced the cancellation or rescheduling of other games. After Cornell cancelled its game, Syracuse was put on the schedule in its place.

This time around, it's the right call to cancel.