Since Michigan has hired Jim Harbaugh as its head coach, he’s made changes to the program on and off the field. One of these things is taking his team outside of the United States during the spring. In 2017, the team went to Rome. In 2018, France, and this year they ventured to South Africa.

Now, according to Harbaugh, they are in the works to play a game outside of the country.

Asked about the possibility of a Big Ten team playing in Mexico City — similar to how NFL teams have played there and in London — Harbaugh acknowledged that Michigan is one of the teams that’s actively looking for such an opportunity. He added that, as a program, they “love to travel.”

“We’re scheduling — I think we’re really close to announcing actually playing another team on foreign soil,” Harbaugh said. “I won’t say what it is.”

But — we didn’t get the full announcement. Though Harbaugh seemed eager to potentially spill a little more, if the rumors were out there.

Laughing as he realized this was essentially breaking news, however, he refrained.

“Then I better not say it because they’re probably not ready to release that yet. I think there’s something really imminent, they’re being imminent…an announcement soon on that.”

Nothing has been announced by the Big Ten or the Michigan athletic department about a game being played in Mexico City or any other foreign country, so this could be very interesting, not just for the two teams involved, but the college football world as a whole. In 2017, when the Wolverines went to Rome, they held practices, so the next big step would be a game.

Could Michigan be the first big program to take a real consequences game to foreign soil? It certainly sounds possible, even plausible.

Obviously this game to be played this season though, given that the schedule is very much set, as is 2020. But 2021 — which currently has two open dates — and beyond is very possible.