Morning Coffee: Stage set for epic conference championship weekend

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As someone whose primary career focus is to cover everything to do with betting on football for TSN, the November schedule is a grind.

Everything that went down over the past couple of weeks has set the stage for an absolutely epic December.

Following a chaotic two-week stretch that gave us the Grey Cup weekend, an American Thanksgiving Thursday NFL triple-header, and a Black Friday game, plus Saturday’s epic showdown between Michigan and Ohio State, I’m thankful to get a moment of reflection while sipping my morning coffee and watching a light snow fall here just north of Toronto.

NFL fans are gearing up for the playoff push with a lot to be decided over the final six weeks of the regular season.

Meanwhile, college football fans are locked in as the conference championship weekend is finally here.

After an impressive win over the rival Buckeyes on Saturday, Michigan is the favourite to win the FBS Championship at FanDuel.

Jim Harbaugh is set to make his highly anticipated return to the sideline with the Wolverines currently a 23-point favourite for the Big Ten title game versus Iowa on Saturday night.

While Michigan is expected to cruise to a third straight Big Ten title, there’s still a lot left to be decided this weekend, including all of the pending college football conference championship futures that fans have been following since the summer.

This is the Morning Coffee for Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2023.
 

After a season full of uncertainty surrounding Harbaugh’s future, Wolverines fans are looking forward to enjoying something that resembles certainty as he makes his return to the sideline on Saturday night.

Michigan is on track to be the 13th team ever to be at least a 20-point favourite in an FBS