Michigan Spring Game 2015: Date, Start Time, TV Schedule, Live Stream and More

The first survey of the Jim Harbaugh era at Michigan occurs Saturday at Michigan's Spring Game.

After a 5-7 campaign, the culture in Ann Arbor received a facelift with the arrival of Harbaugh, whose changes will be put under a national spotlight Saturday when Team Blue encounters Team Maize.

For the first time in a long time, the spring game will be a competitive affair, too, after the new coach became creative with the process in the buildup to the event.

Below is what fans need to know about the beginning of a new era.

2015 Michigan Spring Game 

When: Saturday, April 4 at at 12 p.m. ET

Where: Michigan Stadium

TV: Big Ten Network

Live Stream: MGoBlue.com (audio only)

Rosters

Blue Team			Maize Team
No.	Name	Pos.	No.	Name	Pos.
2	Blake Countess	DB	4	De'Veon Smith	RB
3	Bo Dever	WR	5	Jabrill Peppers	DB
5	Kenneth Sloss	WR	6	Brian Cleary	QB
7	Shane Morris	QB	7	Henry Poggi	DE
12	Allen Gant	LB	8	Channing Stribling	DB
13	Terry Richardson	DB	9	Ramsey Romano	QB
13	Matt Thompson	QB	10	Da'Mario Jones	WR
14	Drake Harris	WR	12	Alex Malzone	QB
16	Jack Wangler	WR	15	Garrett Moores	QB
18	Antonio Whitfield	RB	17	Freddy Canteen	WR
19	Wilton Speight	QB	18	AJ Pearson	DB
20	Matt Mitchell	DB	19	Jared Wangler	LB
22	Jarrod Wilson	S	23	Dennis Norfleet	WR
23	Jeffrey Houston	DB	27	Derrick Green	RB
25	Dymonte Thomas	DB	27	Travis Wooley	DB
26	Jourdan Lewis	DB	30	Reon Dawson	CB
28	Brandon Watson	DB	31	Nick Benda	LB
29	Ross Taylor-Douglas	CB	34	Jeremy Clark	S
31	Kyle Seychel	K/P	35	Joe Bolden	LB
32	Ty Isaac	RB	37	Bobby Henderson	FB
32	Shaun Austin	DB	40	Joe Beneducci	FB
33	Wyatt Shallman	RB	41	Ryan Tice	K/P
36	Joe Kerridge	FB	42	Ben Gedeon	LB
38	Francois Montbrun	DB	44	Delano Hill	DB
38	Nick Volk	FB	44	Chase Winovich	TE
43	Chris Wormley	DE	45	Brady Pallante	FB
43	Scott Sypniewski	LS	46	Deyanco Hardwick	LB
48	Desmond Morgan	LB	49	Anthony Dalimonte	DB
52	Royce Jenkins-Stone	LB	49	Andrew Robinson	LS
55	David Dawson	OL	50	Tom Strobel	DE
55	Garrett Miller	DL	51	Greg Froelich	OL
61	Graham Glasgow	OL	52	Mason Cole	OT
62	Alex Kaminski	LB	57	Patrick Kugler	OL
63	Ben Pliska	OL	62	Blake Bars	OL
66	Dan Liesman	LB	67	Kyle Kalis	OL
69	Willie Henry	DT	73	Maurice Hurst Jr.	DT
71	Ben Braden	OL	75	Nikhil Brueggeman	OL
72	Logan Tuley-Tillman	OL	78	Erik Magnuson	OL
74	Dan Samuelson	OL	81	Brian Cole	WR
76	Juwann Bushell-Beatty	OT	84	A.J. Williams	TE
82	Amara Darboh	WR	85	Maurice Ways	WR
83	Jaron Dukes	WR	86	Jehu Chesson	WR
88	Jake Butt	TE	89	Brad Anlauf	WR
94	Ian Bunting	TE	90	Bryan Mone	DT
95	Michael Jocz	TE	91	Kenny Allen	K/P
96	Ryan Glasgow	DL	93	Lawrence Marshall	DE
97	Cody Zeisler	DE

Preview

Tony Ding/Associated Press

This one will be different.

The promise was made upon Michigan's announcing Harbaugh's hire back in December. Since then, he's captivated Wolverines' faithful in a number of ways, whether it be helping car-crash victims or amassing more than 212,000 followers on Twitter.

The spotlight extends to Saturday, where Associate Athletic Director Dave Ablauf tells Max Cohen of The Michigan Daily the game could expect "between 35,000 and 50,000 fans" and "75,000 fans wasn’t out of the realm of possibility."

Last year's spring game? Just 15,000.

Of course, the 2014 iteration featured mostly just warmups and drills. Not this year—Harbaugh held a private spring-game draft the Saturday before the actual game, where coaches picked rosters similar to the NFL draft.

The process was similar to what Harbaugh did at Stanford. Defensive coordinator D.J. Durkin coaches Team Maize, his notable players including safety Jabrill Peppers and quarterback Alex Malzone.

Offensive coordinator Tim Drevno heads Team Blue, featuring quarterback Shane Morris, cornerback Jourdan Lewis and linebacker Desmond Morgan.

For four 10-minute quarters with two-minute breaks and a five-minute halftime, the competitive iteration of the spring game will decide much about the future of the roster. 

As far as on-field action goes, quarterbacks steal the show. With Devin Gardner out of the picture, junior Shane Morris, redshirt freshman Wilton Speight and the freshman Malzone will compete for the starting gig before recruit Zach Gentry and possible transfer Jake Rudock arrive in the fall.

Malzone, who has a strong shot to steal the starting job, took to Instagram in preparation of Saturday's event:

Also of note is the battle at receiver one year removed from Devin Funchess leading the team with just four touchdowns. More pressure than ever falls on Amara Darboh, who caught just 36 balls last year.

The biggest storyline outside of quarterback goes to Peppers, though. He appeared in just three games last season but is back to full strength. As Durkin told Mark Snyder of the Detroit Free Press, the plan is to use Peppers all over the field:

"

We played him at a lot of spots. He can play anywhere in that back end for us. We're going to play him where we need him, based on what our game plan is, who we're facing, what the matchups are. We'll get him, as well as the other guys, where we need them, where they can have the most success.

"

Where and how the coaching staff uses perhaps the best player on the roster will be a focal point.

If it isn't apparent, the spring isn't meaningless any longer for Michigan football. Sure, the starting quarterback may not be on the roster just yet, but with Harbaugh in charge, Saturday will be much more than warmups.

In what may be a big-game environment, Michigan football prepares to usher in a new era with Harbaugh in charge Saturday.

Info courtesy of MGoBlue.com unless otherwise specified.