Michigan Leaves the B1G | This Week in Michigan Football History

We take a look at the conference reforms that led Michigan to leave the Big Ten in the early 1900s.  But while we were an Independent, we managed to schedule Minnesota.  And thank goodness we did - those non-conference match-ups with the Gophers launched the Little Brown Jug rivalry.   Michigan returned to the conference in 1917 and it didn't take long to return to our winning ways.