Kyle Whittingham will have one hell of a welcome to the Big Ten in the fall, as the Michigan Wolverines’ 2026 schedule is loaded with top talent in the best conference in all of college football. We knew the opponents they would be playing, but up until now, we didn’t know the order in which Michigan would play those 12 teams.
The Big Ten Conference announced the schedules for all of its league members on Tuesday afternoon, so we now know what dates we will have to circle on our calendars for the Maize
and Blue.
Here is the full 2026 schedule for the Michigan Wolverines
- Week 1: Western Michigan (Sept. 5)
- Week 2: Oklahoma (Sept. 12)
- Week 3: UTEP (Sept. 19)
- Week 4: Iowa (Sept. 26)
- Week 5: @ Minnesota (Oct. 3)
- Week 6: BYE WEEK (Oct. 10)
- Week 7: Penn State (Oct. 17)
- Week 8: Indiana (Oct. 24)
- Week 9: @ Rutgers (Oct. 31)
- Week 10: Michigan State (Nov. 7)
- Week 11: @ Oregon (Nov. 14)
- Week 12: UCLA (Nov. 21)
- Week 13: @ Ohio State (Nov. 28)
Maize n Brew’s Trevor Woods will have some takeaways on this schedule shortly, but here are a few quick thoughts from yours truly…
- Having two road games during the first two months of the season — with both of them taking place in October — is pretty crazy. The Wolverines had four road games through the first two months of the 2025 season and six total road games; Michigan will only be away from the Big House four times in 2026. The schedule, albeit a challenging one, isn’t an impossible one to navigate.
- That said, the final month of the season is going to be a doozy with road games at Oregon and Ohio State. Mix in a rivalry game with the Spartans and a home date with a UCLA program that gave several teams some problems last season, and you’ve got yourself a difficult month of November.
- Michigan will play against five teams that were ranked in the final AP Top-25 of the 2025 season — No. 1 Indiana, No. 4 Oregon, No. 5 Ohio State, No. 13 Oklahoma, and No. 17 Iowa. It also wouldn’t be shocking to see Penn State ranked at some point if all goes well for Matt Campbell and the Nittany Lions.
What do you think of the 2026 schedule? Do you have any way-too-early record predictions? Let us know all your thoughts in the comments below!
