Joel Klatt Names College Football’s Toughest Schedule In 2024

The Michigan Wolverines are coming off their most successful season of the 21st century. Fresh off a national championship victory, new head coach Sherrone Moore is back to work looking to replicate the success Michigan enjoyed during their undefeated 2023 campaign. Rival fans will tell you Michigan only played so well because they either cheated or had an easy schedule.

While college football talking heads argued about both points all season long, Fox college football analyst Joel Klatt claims they won’t have the luxury of a light schedule in 2024.

“That schedule, I’ve mentioned it a couple of times,” Klatt said on Monday’s episode of The Joel Klatt Show . “It doesn’t do them any favors, that’s no doubt.”

“They’ve got Texas in week two. We will be there. Big Noon Saturday. Big Noon Kickoff is going to be live in Ann Arbor for that game, Texas week two. USC in week four. Then they’ve got to travel in a national championship game rematch and face Washington in October. They’ve got Oregon in November in the Big House, and then they’ve got to face Ohio State in the ‘Shoe’ to finish the year,” he said.

Klatt says the Wolverines have one of the two toughest schedules in the country along with Oklahoma. “Them, Michigan, those two schedules are really difficult,” he said.

The Wolverines return one of the stoutest defensive units in college football. Outside the return of running back Donovan Edwards and Colston Loveland, they still have numerous questions to answer on offense. Klatt ranked the Wolverines as the No. 8 program in his Post-Spring rankings.

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