Health and safety considerations are obviously of paramount importance in making the "play or nay" determination. I have to admit, though, and for a much less important reason, I won't be devastated if the season is canceled. That's because the revised schedule is absolutely grueling.
You'll remember the original schedule had us opening at Wisconsin, followed by a stretch of six games where we likely would have been favored in all of them. Now, the revamped schedule has three of our first four games against teams ranked in the Top 12 (Coaches Poll) nationally. A probable 1-3 start, along with the physical toll that kind of competition would take, would be followed by at Minnesota (hardly a gimme) and home to Michigan.
I know that, in order to take the next step, we've got to start knocking off some of the big boys, but a September schedule featuring Wisconsin, Penn State and Ohio State is a murderers' row. If things get bumped to the spring or to the fall of 2021, I hope we don't see this schedule again.