Seven years in advance in this era. (Who knows? By then it could be a conference game). But it's certainly a fun match up. Good program, not a lot of hate, the fan base seemed pretty nice at the Sugar Bowl, so a good one to have visit, and then go down and visit. And since we won the Sugar Bowl we have one up on them.
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I don't know if Beamer is still going to be around for this but hey look an honest to god legit opponent in a home and home:
Michigan & Virginia Tech will play a home-and-home series during the 2020 & 2021 seasons; 2020 (Michigan Stadium), 2021 (Lane Stadium).
Da'Shawn Hand will be out of school for multiple years at that point, and the 2020 game is a home anchor for a year when Michigan plays OSU on the road. Thumbs up.
May 9th, 2013 at 12:10 PM
#2
Not sure how anyone can be confident of schedules
May 9th, 2013 at 12:12 PM
#3
bucket list item
Lane stadium has been on my bucket list for a while. Check mark coming in 2021.
May 9th, 2013 at 12:19 PM
#4
I'm pretty much a VT hater,
I'm pretty much a VT hater, but I've been to a game or two at Lane stadium and it's a legit college football experience.
May 9th, 2013 at 1:45 PM
#5
+1 because obvs.
+1 because obvs.
May 9th, 2013 at 12:12 PM
#6
Brendan Gibbons should be
Brendan Gibbons should be doing the pregame coinflip in the home game.
May 9th, 2013 at 12:21 PM
#7
Or Junior Hemmingway, or
Or Junior Hemmingway, or Denard.
May 9th, 2013 at 12:38 PM
#8
Accompanied by
his brunette wife.
May 9th, 2013 at 12:15 PM
#9
Road games at
Road games at Arkansas/Virginia Tech in 2019/2021 = 6 home game seasons because odd years is when the west division gets the 5th conference home game.
May 9th, 2013 at 12:20 PM
#10
RE: Road games at
I'll be curious to see how our schedule lays out for those years. We'll have a better idea of home/away division opponents once the new 2014-2015 schedules are released. Believe it will be announced by the end of May.
May 9th, 2013 at 12:16 PM
#11
I started to get excited then
I started to get excited then I realized that when they kick-off the game in 2020 I will be 61 years young. Took a bit of the luster off the news for me anyways.
That's real MgrowmutherfuckingOld. Stupid time. Stupid aging process.
May 9th, 2013 at 12:26 PM
#12
At what point are you going
At what point are you going to change your name to that? Or maybe just mGotOld or mGrowOlder, thinking of course of Mrs. Kass.
May 9th, 2013 at 12:30 PM
#13
Hopefully never cause mGotOld
Hopefully never cause mGotOld seems like the aging process has stopped. And as much as I dislike the thought of being 61 I'd rather not be MGoDead anytime soon thank you very much.
May 9th, 2013 at 1:35 PM
#16
I will be 61
Easy there pal... I'm 60 now and still kicking. Just more slowly.
May 9th, 2013 at 3:45 PM
#17
MGrowOld...
I'm glad to know
MGrowOld...
I'm glad to know I'm not the only one who does that. It was my very first thought when I heard this news on the car radio today... "Yikes. I'll be 57 then." Oy....
May 9th, 2013 at 12:16 PM
#18
Great road venue
Really looking forward to making this trip in 2021, as well as the trip to Fayetteville in 2019 as part of the Arkansas home and home.
May 9th, 2013 at 12:27 PM
#19
I had completely forgotten we
I had completely forgotten we had a home and home with Arkansas. How long ago was that announced?
May 9th, 2013 at 12:39 PM
#20
RE: I had completely forgotten we
Was announced back in November. Lost in the shuffle of the actual season, I guess.
http://www.mgoblue.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/110612aaa.html
May 9th, 2013 at 8:55 PM
#21
thanks for the reminder
I was this close to throwing out my giant paper mache Bret Bielema head.
May 9th, 2013 at 12:16 PM
#22
Good to see that we're
Good to see that we're continuing to beef up the non-con schedule. Hopefully by then this won't be a conference game, but still, a great matchup. I hear nothing but good things about the stadium environment down at Va. Tech.
Now let's somehow work USC or Stanford into our future schedule.
May 9th, 2013 at 1:04 PM
#23
Beefing up non-conference schedule
I don't know if it's beefing up the non-conference schedule so much as replacing ND on the non-conference schedule.
May 9th, 2013 at 2:56 PM
#24
I'd say overall its getting
I'd say overall its getting beefed up. No more FCS teams, 9 conference games as opposed to 8, and at least 1 major out-of-conference foe every year. It might not be exponentially better, but even just by removing FCS teams, and hopefully eventually phasing out MAC squads altogether, the schedule is unquestionably getting tougher.
May 9th, 2013 at 2:16 PM
#25
Supporting Documentation
May 9th, 2013 at 12:18 PM
#26
ND too in 2020, 2021?
Our 5 year hiatus with ND will be over by then too, right?
So we'll have two premier non-conference games!!!
May 9th, 2013 at 12:43 PM
#27
Notre Dame.
This makes me think that the Notre Dame series is done indefinitely. We are supposed to start playing them again in 2020, but this announcement makes me think there will be an even longer delay. Otherwise we are going to have a very challenging schedule playing 9 Big Ten games, Virginia Tech, and Notre Dame. Although, the new playoff format will supposedly emphasize strength of schedule, so maybe Brandon wants to go this route.
May 9th, 2013 at 12:21 PM
#28
Wow that September 11, 2021
Wow that September 11, 2021 game will be on the 20th anniversary of 9/11.
I just felt really really old and really really sad seeing that date.
Um, Go Blue?!
May 9th, 2013 at 12:32 PM
#29
He-Man
went off the air in 1985. How's that feel?
May 9th, 2013 at 12:41 PM
#30
Did you know that, or did you
Did you know that, or did you have to look it up? Because that's a little scary if you already knew that.
May 9th, 2013 at 12:46 PM
#31
Dammit
Dammit
May 9th, 2013 at 12:52 PM
#32
You just had to stick the
You just had to stick the knife in further, huh?
May 9th, 2013 at 1:08 PM
#33
but
Voltron is still on, right? Right????
May 9th, 2013 at 1:29 PM
#34
Yeah, but it only feels like 2004...
May 9th, 2013 at 12:21 PM
#35
DC Alums
Huge alumni base out here as well. I know a ton of alumni are going to be making the trip for this one so there should be a very strong Michigan presence as well. Should be fantastic.
May 9th, 2013 at 12:22 PM
#36
Cool for those of us in
Cool for those of us in Virginia to have a short travel to a UM game, but Va Tech is definitely in decline. Still better than another MACky-cake game.
May 9th, 2013 at 1:07 PM
#37
Well yes, they may be on the
Well yes, they may be on the decline now as Beamer gets older, but the series doesn't start for another 7 years. Whose to say they don't have Foster or an entirely different coach who has them highly competitive and revitalized?
Waaaayyyy too early to speculate as to the quality of the game at this point.
May 9th, 2013 at 1:29 PM
#38
Might I remind you that when
Might I remind you that when we beat them a year and a half ago, we needed overtime to do it and we only managed to muster 187 yards of offense. They dominated us in every statistical category except the final score. I'm still astonished that we won that game.
May 9th, 2013 at 1:36 PM
#39
Did you watch them last year?
Did you watch them last year?
May 9th, 2013 at 12:22 PM
#40
Wow...
Seniors on that team will be in 9th grade this fall. Freshmen on that team will be in 5th. Yeesh!
May 9th, 2013 at 12:24 PM
#41
I approve...
My alma mater playing my childhood favorite team...again...I'll take it!!
May 9th, 2013 at 12:33 PM
#42
I hope this further
I hope this further reinforces the theory that the playoff will encourage schools to boost their SOS and stop playing nonsense teams. I know this is basically a filler for ND, but it is promising that in the last year we've snagged games against Oregon State, Colorado, BYU, Cincinnati, Arkansas, and Virginia Tech
None of those are Alabama, but it's a heck of a lot better than our non-con schedule for the past 5ish years where it's basically been two MACrificies, Notre Dame, and a non-descript mid-major/FCS team
May 9th, 2013 at 12:45 PM
#43
I'm curious to see if the
I'm curious to see if the game of football is the same in 2020 or if it gets watered down to basically a game of two hand touch.
May 9th, 2013 at 12:49 PM
#44
You think people will still
You think people will still be using napkins in the year 2020? Or is this mouth vacuum thing for real?
May 9th, 2013 at 12:54 PM
#45
(No subject)
May 9th, 2013 at 12:50 PM
#46
At the present rate
At the present rate by 2020 two hand touch may be in question. I'm all for improving safety measures, but I do not like the fact that fundamental elements of he game are changing. Contact directed towards the head should be eliminated, tackling, all together, should not.
May 9th, 2013 at 12:47 PM
#47
I like the opponent but not the order it was scheduled
If Michigan is going to have 5 home conference games in even years when the 9 game conference schedule starts in 2016, it would seem to make more sense to play your high profile out of conference opponent at home in odd years.
Now we are setting ourselves up for situations like the last 2 years where we will have 8 home games in even years and only 6 home games in odd years. It seems there would be more balance to the schedule if had reversed the home/away order of the games.
May 9th, 2013 at 1:16 PM
#48
sweet
Bring on the Hokies! Nothing like a home and home with an interesting nonconference opponent.
May 9th, 2013 at 1:20 PM
#49
Do they have a contingency
Do they have a contingency plan in case the Zombie apocalypse is underway by then?
May 9th, 2013 at 1:23 PM
#50
Scheduling
Great to see games being scheduled in areas outside the midwest that Michigan has labeled as important recruiting areas. Maybe we can get some games with USF/Miami or TCU/UT down the road.
May 9th, 2013 at 1:44 PM
#51
SWEET LET'S FUCK EM UP
SWEET LET'S FUCK EM UP
