ESPN College Gameday 2022: Week 13 Location Hosts, TV Schedule and Predictions
There have been some huge college football games over the first 12 weeks of the 2022 season. Few (if any) have been as big as the Big Ten clash set to take place at Ohio Stadium on Saturday.
No. 2 Ohio State and No. 3 Michigan are set to face off on the final weekend of the regular season, and there's quite a bit at stake. The winner will finish in first in the Big Ten East and advance to the conference championship game. That team is also likely to win the Big Ten title and make it to the College Football Playoff with an undefeated record.
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Meanwhile, the loser won't get to play for the conference championship and is likely to get left out of the CFP field (unless the selection committee decides that both of these teams are worthy of inclusion, but that may not be probable).
ESPN's College GameDay will air live from Ohio State's campus on Saturday at 9 a.m. ET. It'll be the second time the popular college football kickoff show will be held in Columbus this year, as it also was outside Ohio Stadium ahead of the Buckeyes' win over Notre Dame on Sept. 3.
Before diving deeper into this week's marquee matchup, here's the remaining schedule for teams included in the CFP rankings for Week 13, along with predictions for each game.
Week 13 Schedule, Predictions
Friday, Nov. 25
No. 19 Tulane at No. 24 Cincinnati, noon ET, ABC
Baylor at No. 23 Texas, noon ET, ESPN
NC State at No. 17 North Carolina, 3:30 p.m. ET, ABC
No. 18 UCLA at California, 4:30 p.m. ET, Fox
Florida at No. 16 Florida State, 7:30 p.m. ET, ABC
Saturday, Nov. 26
Georgia Tech at No. 1 Georgia, noon ET, ESPN
No. 3 Michigan at No. 2 Ohio State, noon ET, Fox
South Carolina at No. 8 Clemson, noon ET, ABC
No. 25 Louisville at Kentucky, 3 p.m. ET, SEC Network
Auburn at No. 7 Alabama, 3:30 p.m. ET, CBS
No. 9 Oregon at No. 21 Oregon State, 3:30 p.m. ET, ABC
Iowa State at No. 4 TCU, 4 p.m. ET, Fox
Michigan State at No. 11 Penn State, 4 p.m. ET, FS1
No. 14 Utah at Colorado, 4 p.m. ET, Pac-12 Network
No. 5 LSU at Texas A&M, 7 p.m. ET, ESPN
No. 22 UCF at South Florida, 7 p.m. ET, ESPN2
No. 15 Notre Dame at No. 6 USC, 7:30 p.m. ET, ABC
No. 10 Tennessee at Vanderbilt, 7:30 p.m. ET, SEC Network
Kansas at No. 12 Kansas State, 8 p.m. ET, Fox
No. 13 Washington at Washington State, 10:30 p.m. ET, ESPN
Picks in bold.
Ohio State-Michigan Preview
This rivalry series had been dominated by Ohio State for more than a decade. From 2004-19, Michigan beat its Big Ten rival only once (in 2011), and it had lost eight consecutive meetings between the two schools heading into last year's matchup.
But things finally turned in the Wolverines' favor in 2021. They beat the Buckeyes 42-27 at home in last year's regular-season finale, and they moved on to win the Big Ten title and reach the College Football Playoff.
This year, Ohio State is looking for revenge by doing the same thing.
“I'm excited, man," Buckeyes junior quarterback C.J. Stroud said, per Griffin Strom of Eleven Warriors. "Of course, we've been licking our wounds for 365 days, hearing all the laughing and everything that everybody's been saying. So I definitely think that we've been preparing for it, not only on the field but in the weight room as well."
Stroud is one of the front-runners to win the Heisman Trophy this season. He's passed for 2,991 yards, 35 touchdowns and four interceptions while leading Ohio State to an 11-0 start.
But Michigan (also 11-0) has a Heisman contender on its offense, too. Junior running back Blake Corum has rushed for 1,457 yards and 18 touchdowns and has gotten into the end zone at least once in each of the Wolverines' 11 games.
However, Corum suffered a knee injury in Michigan's win over Illinois last Saturday. If he can't play this week (or is limited), it would negatively impact the Wolverines' offense in a tough matchup against the Buckeyes.
Regardless, Michigan will try to enter a hostile environment and notch its biggest win of the year. Otherwise, its season might be over.
"It's a real honor to be in this position, to be able to test yourself physically, mentally, emotionally," Wolverines head coach Jim Harbaugh said, per Patrick Murphy of 247Sports.com. "We know it's our toughest test of the year. And I think we're going to find that we're made of the right stuff."
It should be an exciting game. Both teams are among the best in the country, and the players know how much is at stake.
And for whichever team wins, this could even be the start of a run to the national title.
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