Friday Fun Contest - Pick the FB Home and Home Series
While we wait to see if ND football burns down - let's have some Friday afternoon fun and have a contest where you pick the 2 "major" home and home series. Whoever gets it right, we can come back to and give major POSBANG to.
Please keep your answers short and start your comment with format
- Team A
- Team B
So we can find it easily. Short comment can follow.
Remember, this is not who you want i.e.
- Texas
- Texas
but who you think will happen.
Here is a fun site to help you figure out who has openings, I assume these games are in the 2020s and Oklahoma and UCLA are off the clock for obvious reasons.
http://www.fbschedules.com/ncaa/ncaa-football-schedules.php
My predictions:
- Georgia
- Missouri
Reasoning: USC and UCLA are the 2 glamor Pac 12 schools. We already have UCLA and USC comes to Midwest for ND already. Stanford already plays Northwestern and ND a lot in the Midwest and frankly they could revert to mean in 10 years, they were horrible until 6 years ago. Oregon we have not had good experiences with. Everyone wants Texas and of course it would be a dream matchup but I am going with 2 SEC schools, one would be a glamour matchup and the other just is a guess on fit. Texas A&M would have been a 3rd guess.
August 15th, 2014 at 2:27 PM ^
Just throwing this one out there:
Boise State
Clemson
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and Florida St
August 15th, 2014 at 2:29 PM ^
• Washington
Honorable mention - Tennessee
August 15th, 2014 at 2:32 PM ^
Oklahoma
Virginia Tech
No way Michigan plays LSU and no one else in the SEC is coming north. Oklahoma and Va Tech tend to have an interesting game every year.
August 15th, 2014 at 2:36 PM ^
Aren't VT and Oklahoma already scheduled?
August 15th, 2014 at 4:30 PM ^
Oklahoma and Virginia Tech are 2 of the 4 big series we have scheduled going forward (along with UCLA and Ar-Kansas)
August 15th, 2014 at 2:39 PM ^
August 15th, 2014 at 2:39 PM ^
Second guess, Houston and S. Carolina.
August 15th, 2014 at 2:46 PM ^
August 15th, 2014 at 2:47 PM ^
Virginia
Clemson
Virginia for recruiting purposes
Clemson-well it just seems we lose a lot of recruiting battles with them the last couple of years....PAYBACK time.
August 15th, 2014 at 2:50 PM ^
Georgia & Virginia
Reason: The people who put Georgia and Virginia in this thread were most convincing to me, and it's plagiarism day thanks to ND.
August 15th, 2014 at 2:57 PM ^
Those AD guys are imagineers, people! "Major" has a different meaning to the kids today! Think of the Appy State rematch - that's the kind of excitement we're trying to generate here!
So, with that in mind, I present:
Ball State and West Virginia
Think of the back story for both of those games! Brady Hoke goes back to Muncie! Cardinals vs. Wolverines! It's gonna be a Thursday night MACtion to remember, with great new one-off uniformz for both teams under the lights!
But don't overlook that WVU game while you contemplate that first matchup: just imagine the welcoming hospitality Morgantown will offer to Wolverine fans! You know that football program has Michigan ties, right? Don Nehlen was a Bo guy! That'll bring the dinosaur M fans in droves. Be sure to take a spare couch on that road trip, and of course drive safely across Ohio!
August 15th, 2014 at 2:58 PM ^
- 1a. Georgia 1b. Auburn 1c. USC (NTUSC)
- Navy
August 15th, 2014 at 3:04 PM ^
LSU and Clemson (never before?), and Washington again (been a while, but frequent Rose Bowl opponent and didn't they last play in 2002 or something).
Michigan-LSU would MOVE THE NEEDLE for sure.
Florida State would also be cool. I'm generally intrigued by the idea of the Power 5 becoming their own NFL and only scheduling each other. That would be unbelievably bad for the Group of 5 and make scheduling those fat $$$ years with 7 home games almost impossible, but it would make "NCAA Power 5 Football" pretty awesome.
August 15th, 2014 at 3:07 PM ^
- Tennessee
- Arizona
August 15th, 2014 at 3:11 PM ^
Cursory glance at 3 PM show leaders to be:
- Georgia
- Texas A&M
- Stanford
- LSU
- FSU
- Florida
- Vandy
- Texas
- Virginia
Virginia makes sense for the reasons outlined by those commenting today BUT we do now have Maryland in our division so we'll be in that part of the country every other year so it won't be necessary to schedule VA if the main reason is recruiting.
I do think Tennessee and Clemson are also intriguing.
August 15th, 2014 at 3:12 PM ^
1. LSU
2. Texas Tech
August 15th, 2014 at 3:14 PM ^
ROAD TRIP!!!
August 15th, 2014 at 3:22 PM ^
Wisconsin and Nebraska
August 15th, 2014 at 3:25 PM ^
Texas and Cal for home and home. I will take it one step further. Cal @ Mich 2018 and Mich @ Cal 2019. Texas in the late 2020's. A third series may be announced as well. A road opener on Thursday night ESPN.
August 15th, 2014 at 9:46 PM ^
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August 15th, 2014 at 3:32 PM ^
Princeton
Delaware
August 15th, 2014 at 3:32 PM ^
Stanford
Georgia
August 15th, 2014 at 10:49 PM ^
dates to fill in the schedules of 2018,'19, and '20, Stanford is booked up.
August 15th, 2014 at 3:37 PM ^
Baylor
Washington
August 15th, 2014 at 3:39 PM ^
Whatever ThadMattaisagoblin predicts, but swiched.
If Thad says:
X State/tech/a&m and U of Z
I say:
Z State/tech/a&m and U of X
example:
Thad:
Mississippi State and Univ of North Carolina
Me:
Ole Miss and NC State
August 15th, 2014 at 3:39 PM ^
UGA
TCU
August 15th, 2014 at 3:45 PM ^
Florida State
Washington
UGA hasn't played a game north of the Mason Dixon in a very very long time = unlikely
August 15th, 2014 at 3:51 PM ^
YES/NO SCIENCE:
1. Yes that Miami
2. Not that Miami (cradle of coaches man... major program).
Or
SCIENCE:
1. UC - Berkeley
2. CU - Boulder
Or
SCIENCE:
1. UK - Lexington
2. KU - Lawrence
Or
1. USC - Cali
2. USC - Carolina
Or
1. UH - Houston
2. UH - Hawaii
August 15th, 2014 at 7:39 PM ^
I just spent 3 years in Lexington hearing about SEC dominates everything. If it is UK I hope Michigan kicks the crap out of them. I just wish I was still gonna be there to see it happen. Although it will probably be in 10 years anyways.
Now I'm in Houston and I would like to see Michigan come here but I probably will be gone by the time that happens as well.
I still have some confidence that DB will end up coming through on this. I can't imagine him building up a bunch of hype on this and let us down. But what do I know, I'm just a fan and will always give my support.
August 15th, 2014 at 3:50 PM ^
- Texas A&M
- Clemson
August 15th, 2014 at 3:53 PM ^
- North Carolina (Dave's spin on "huge")
- Mississippi (again, Dave's spin on "huge")
I want
- Georgia (I would go to Athens!)
- Florida State
3rd Possibility - Clemson or South Carolina......
August 15th, 2014 at 3:59 PM ^
Still works for the university and owns a home in oxford. I would be ecstatic if they were playing ole miss.
August 15th, 2014 at 3:58 PM ^
Tennessee because they habe the second biggest stadium and us the biggest, so that would line the pockets as well as a good build up. WVU because we steal lots of things from them so why not early hopes for their undefeated season next.
August 15th, 2014 at 4:00 PM ^
1. Miami (Fl) would be my one guess because of their locations, both for recruiting and because Stephen Ross owns the Dolphins. For $100M, I'd say he'd have some throw weight in terms of any suggestions he'd make about non-conference games.
2. Texas is a logical choice since they're in the 10-team Big XII with no conference championship game. Oklahoma is already on Michigan's docket, so the Longhorns make sense. UT has also played Ohio State in a home-and-home so a similar arrangement with UM seems consistent.
I'd say both those programs would be considered "huge". That said, I wonder if these two home-and-homes are for the 2018 through 2021 time period or for the 2024, 2027, 2028 and 2029 seasons. If it's the latter, there'd definitely be more candidates than the former.
Well see. Other schools on the list would be Georgia, Tennessee, Auburn, LSU and Texas A&M from the SEC (since Alabama doesn't do home-and-homes, they're not on the list). Florida State and Clemson from the ACC would be a couple other programs with USC being the #1 possibility from the Pac 12.
August 15th, 2014 at 4:05 PM ^
Racine
Toronto
August 15th, 2014 at 4:29 PM ^
- Ole Miss
- Arizona
August 15th, 2014 at 4:31 PM ^
Stanford
August 15th, 2014 at 5:22 PM ^
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August 15th, 2014 at 7:49 PM ^
south, hence Georgia, Texas, LSU, I don't want to play FSU, we've done it in the past, let's play someone new.
and the other one will be in a different geographic region, like west coast maybe ASU or Cal, maybe Stanford.
August 15th, 2014 at 7:51 PM ^
AND
NORTH CAROLINA OR TEXAS
August 15th, 2014 at 8:45 PM ^
Texas and Boston College
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