Ann Arbor — Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh said all the Big Ten coaches want to play football this fall, and although he has not been in direct communication with university president Mark Schlissel, he believes starting the season at some point in October is a possibility.
Harbaugh and his players would have opened the season Saturday, originally at Washington in Seattle, and then at home against Purdue in the revised, conference-only 10-game schedule. Instead, he participated Saturday in a “#WeWanttoPlay” protest organized by players’ parents that began outside the Michigan Stadium tunnel, before marching on State Street and into the Diag on campus.