Michigan Announces Home-And-Home With Texas
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As rumored last week, Michigan will play a home-and-home series with Texas. The athletic department officially announced the dates a few minutes ago; here are the pertinent details from the release:
The athletic departments at the University of Michigan and the University of Texas have reached an agreement in principle to play the first-ever home-and-home football series between two of college football's most recognizable programs. The two schools rank first (Michigan, 912) and third (Texas, 876) in all-time victories.
The Wolverines will host the Longhorns at Michigan Stadium on Aug. 31, 2024. The return trip by Michigan to Austin will take place on Sept. 4, 2027.
"A match-up of this magnitude doesn't come along all that often, and when it does it's special for both programs and the great fans that support each institution," said Brady Hoke, U-M's J. Ira and Nicki Harris Family Head Football Coach. "This also is a special series for all fans of college football, and I anticipate great games just like the first contest played between the two programs."
The only prior matchup between the two programs came in the 2005 Rose Bowl, which you may remember as a remarkably fun game with a far less fun ending. Let us all hope Texas hasn't figured out a way to clone Vince Young by the time 2024 comes around.
Anyway, the upshot: excellent work, Dave Brandon. This is the type of home-and-home series that everyone loves to see, even if both programs are currently mired in a historically anomalous funk. Going to a game in Austin will be checking a box off the sports bucket list, and it's tough to ask for much more when scheduling games a decade in advance.
September 17th, 2014 at 3:20 PM ^
Will there even be football in 2027?
September 18th, 2014 at 9:53 PM ^
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September 17th, 2014 at 3:49 PM ^
there will be no more head coaches and no more offensive coordinators.
Those roles will be consolidated to the QB position entirely (at age 18-22). The college football quarterback will have a micro-chip implant into his brain, vastly improving processing power and speed. He will be able to make-in-game decisions, perform in-game stratistical regression analysis to maximize results and play calling effectiveness in real time, communicating it to his teamatest instantaneously, thereby eliminating all outliers and maximizing yards gained, points scored as well as turnover ration and opponent errors/resource misallocations.
Except both teams have the same capabilities, therefore
Michigan 0
Texas 0
Perpetual Overtime result.
Season cancelled.
September 17th, 2014 at 4:11 PM ^
I thought Brian wrote this...I had to scroll up and saw it was Ace.
Ruined everything for me.
September 17th, 2014 at 4:54 PM ^
I don't get the atta boys for Brandon on this. First, it's not difficult to schedule 10 years in advance. Every marquee program in the country probably has openings this far out. Second, he HAD to do this considering he got caught flat footed by Notre Dame bailing and got screwed by the conference when they adjusted Michigan State and Ohio State to home/away in same year. Regardless of future schedules, I have a very hard time looking past this year's awful schedule. Maybe I'm just a bitter negative man.
September 17th, 2014 at 6:00 PM ^
Perfect. Looking forward to the matchup of Vince Young, Jr. vs. Chad Henne, Jr.
September 17th, 2014 at 6:41 PM ^
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