Michigan-ND rivalry renewal prospects "trending up" !

I'll be honest, I dont want to play ND every year - it gets boring.  In a 10 year frame I'd like to do 4 with ND and do the new things like we are doing with UCLA and Oklahoma.  Add a Georgia, LSU, whatever into the rotation for 6 of those 10 years and have our "old school" rivalry with ND for the other 4.  That's enough rotation to keep it a rivalry but allow us to play other blue bloods.

I will never understand the infatuation with the ND game.  With a 9 game B1G schedule we have very few opportunities to showcase ourselves in important places where we recruit: FLA, TX, CA, GA to name a few.

Yes, it's a national game with national interest.  So what?  Same could be said for a game against UGA, Texas, Stanford, UCLA etc. An added though less important benefit of not playing ND is that we also don't have to deal with the self-righteousness of those clowns.  

This would be great. Play them for two years and have a little break. Add them for two more years down the road again. With how the non-con schedule is looking in the future, Michigan can't play them every year. 

This is BS. Someone higher up told Brian Kelly to mention it because it would start the hype. They only want back into this game because The Harbaugh has landed and realize what a ratings jackpot this game would generate since the game against Utah last week generated the largest ratings for a football game ever on FS1 (or something like that). This is not because they want to play us again, they want the rights for their network to broadcast the game. 

But it would be nice to get them back on the schedule for a home-and-home every 4-6 years. 2018 would be a tough, but good time to start, as Harbaugh will have the team in good shape by then, I imagine. Strength of schedule becomes important, especially when at least a couple one-loss teams are going to be a factor in the playoff.

They need us more than we need them.

This would be great if they could play every other year, but the to potential catch ND, MSU and OSU on the road all in the same year is a season killer. 

of playing them every 3 or 4 years but not every year...I LOVE the big time names coming to Ann Arbor and on the road..its bout damm time..I remember when Michigan always had a decent non conf schedule...Wash * ND, or UCLA & ND etc ,,Mia & FSU one year we used to have some great non conf schedules and thats been missing for awhile...SURE you are not going to win them all but come on arent you tired of mac school games..???

We seem to forget the circumstances which ended the current series and how we got screwed.  IIRC, this board was negging ND and telling them to take their football and go home.  I enjoyed us playing them as much as anyone, but to hell with them.  We are MICHIGAN and don't need their game.  Many other quality opponents out there.

Let them join the Big 10 west.  Then we'll see them twice every eight to ten years, which sounds just about perfect.

that Swarbrick knew all along what we eventually realized?  That he thought Brandon was the consummate douche and didn't want to deal with him? 

Does Michigan really want to play Notre Dame along with another Power Five Conference team as part of its three-team non-conference schedule?

Next season is when the Big Ten starts the nine-game conference schedule with alternating years of five (even numbered years) and four (odd numbered years) B1G games going forward.  The conference also wants to pair up the teams from the two divisions and have them play over a four-year time period.  From 2016 to 2019, Michigan will play Wisconsin from the West Division.  The Badgers are paired up with Penn State on the home (even years) and away (odd years) rotation while Michigan State and Ohio State are paired up in the other home (odd years) and away (even years) rotation.  If this scheduling practice continues, expect the next four seasons (2020-3) to have another of the better teams from the West on the schedule each season (perhaps Nebraska?).

In 2018, Michigan opens the season with Arkansas in Ann Arbor, has an open week, then hosts Southern Methodist.  Does it make sense to play Notre Dame (perhaps on the road because there are already seven home games on the schedule) the Saturday after playing the Razorbacks?  Michigan's first conference game after SMU is Nebraska in Ann Arbor.  Does it make sense to start that season with Arkansas-at Notre Dame-SMU-Nebraska?

In 2019, UM opens the season at Arkansas, then plays Army with week 3 open and only five home games currently on the schedule (including Ohio State and Michigan State).  If UM were to play ND at home, the Wolverines would then go on the road at Wisconsin the next weekend.  Does it make sense to start the 2019 season at Arkansas-Army-Notre Dame-at Wisconsin?

The 2020 and 2021 seasons already have two Power Five teams in the non-conference schedules--Virginia Tech and Washington.  Assuming UM holds onto those games (and the Ball State contest on 9/12/2020), there's really no open slots to play ND in those two years (unless you want to play three P5/major independents in 2021).

UCLA (2022/3), Texas (2024/7) and Oklahoma (2025/6) are all on the non-conference schedules through the mid-section of the next decades?  Does Michigan reallly want to play ND plus one of those schools as part of the non-conference schedule?  Let's  hope CFB has gone to an eight-team playoff system by then.

We'll see what happens.  David Brandon was evidentally willing to have two Power 5 teams on the non-conference slate as evidenced by the Washington-Virginia Tech combination for the 2020/1 seasons.  Will Jim Hackett and Jim Harbaugh (who per his contract does have input into non-conference scheduling) do the same for the upcoming seasons?  Or will they bump one or two of the teams on the future schedule to make room for Notre Dame? 

Notre Dame made a big mistake when they walked away from our series, and the money generated in their games.

I say fuck 'em and let 'em live with it.

Not gonna lie, I'm kind of glad we aren't playing them this year.

Am I the only one who isn't crazy about the idea of bring the ND series back? We only have three precious slots in our schedule for non-conference games (two if the B1G ever goes to a ten-game conference schedule), and I personally would like to see as much variety as possible. 

No, thank you. After they left, I discovered that I really only have enough hate for two teams. Three was just too exhausting.