Michigan football opens the 2020 season Sept. 5 on the road against Washington, and finishes Nov. 28 on the road against Ohio State. Wochit
Even now, in the time of social distancing, on a wind-swept day of numbing cold and snow flurries, the pilgrimage moves on. Park near the north entrance to Michigan Stadium and watch the cars arrive, their occupants spill out, cameras in hand, and pose before the metal black gates, the two-story block “M” in the backdrop.
It may be cliché to think of this place as a shrine, or sacrilege to consider it a cathedral, but for those who come to see it, to mill about its perimeter, to gaze at the rim of its upper bowl muscling up from the earth, the allure is indeed akin to something heavenly.