Michigan-Alabama In Dallas In 2012

A one time neutral site game against another big program? I'll take it.  And more if offered. No reason Michigan couldn't do this every couple of years if the money was right.  Though I'd love to see a game like this the NYC/Philly/Boston area.

wow, happy this turned out to be true, or looking that way at the very least.  The original source on that radio station was beyond shaky, happy to see it turn out good.

It is difficult for me to imagine this happening without serious conversations between the head coach and the AD.  If this actually gets scheduled, it shows a tremendous amount of confidence by the AD in his head coach, and a tremendous amount of confidence of the head coach in his future teams.

I just don't see Bama taking less money than Michigan.Alabama has already played a few of these neutral site games and its always a 50/50 split.Also Bama has been rumored to have a opponent for 2012 in Dallas ,the rumor has been texas Tech  untill this latest rumor.I feel pretty comfortable in saying Bama will be playing someone in Dallas in 2012.I hope its you guys but the reality is Bama isnt going to take less money to play anyone right now.

This should also help recruiting in the area. We've gotten some kids from Texas in the last few years, and getting some extra exposure around there is always a good thing.

Thanks David Brandon, the Don Draper of college football.

Yes. I'll definitely be at this game since I'll be living in Texas then.

is this a done deal??

I wonder how they will do tickets for the game.  Will they give x amount of tickets to both schools to offer to their season ticket holders and then put the rest on sale to the public?

please be right because this would be beyond awesome.

Michigan is adopting the Fresno State attitude of "anyone, anywhere, anytime"

We don't know what the BigTen schedule will be in 2012 with Nebraska's entry.  However, we could end up playing Notre Dame, Alabama, Ohio State, Nebraska, Penn State, Iowa and Wisconsin...we might have a top 10 strength of schedule in 2012.

It will be Tate and Denard's senior year...the offense should be firing on all cylinders.

I guess I better dust off my old Nick Saban voodoo dolls.

Or, perhaps more likely, I have 2 years to swap Brutus out for an elephant in this image:

And hey, the world probably needed a picture of a wolverine devouring an elephant anyway... y'know, just to drive home the points that 1.) Nothing is safe, and 2.) You are alive when they begin to eat you.

It'll be nice to see a rematch of the 2012 BCS National Championship game.

Sounds nice.  But the program better be back to it's winning form by then.  Hopefully much, much sooner. 

I think this may be the first neutral site (out of state) non-bowl game for a Big Ten team since the Buckeyes got crushed by Miami in 1999. 

I just hope our fans aren't outnumbered to an insane degree like most of the bowl games we played in this past decade. 

Plus vs Navy in Dublin (TBC)

Miami just added in the past couple weeks.

Might UM and ND mutually agree to unplug for two games earlier than later? I believe Brandon in announcing the ND night game at Big House next year said there would be a two-year break in the M-ND series, I believe in '18-19.

But last I looked a few months ago, almost every traditional major power topping fans' polls is locked up in one or both years: 

2018 pairings: Tenn-OSU; Ark-TA&M, Okla-LSU, USC-Tex.

2019 pairings: Tenn-OSU; Ark-TA&M, Okla-LSU. (USC-Tex first game of HAH in '17)

(BTW: Neither Fla nor FSU is in the market to add yet another dfficult non-conf game, I believe I read somewhere, so don't suggest either of them.)

Is it too much of a coincidence that both M and ND are adding another likely difficult opponent to their respective '12 schedules, weeks apart? And why would Brandon load up the '12 schedule just a few weeks before finding out how difficult the '12 conference slate might be? Who knows if M will be playing OSU, Neb, PSU, Wisc, Iowa that year?

Maybe the M-ND break is coming earlier than anyone knows. Because this latest M-ND uninterrupted streak of games began at ND Stadium in 2002, one would think the next break would come after a game in Ann Arbor ('11).

Or not. Either way, interesting......

I have a man crush on David Brandon.  This is great news!

Ann Arbor News is citing Brian for the Alabama story: http://www.annarbor.com/sports/um-football/michigan-football-to-play-ala...

HELL YEAH! 

To watch a Michigan team in my own backyard will be amazing.  I hope season ticket holders have first pick of tickets!

Regardless of all of the details....this game, on its face, is just awesome. I think we're going to have to descend on Dallas with our hard-consonant talking, pasty skin, and dorky Midwestern charm en masse, Michigan Brethren. And hopefully open a can on 'Bama.

No matter what, though, how about that for a roadtrip/destination game? Bama, in Texas?  Decent, I say. Decent.

thread.  I will most certainly be at that game just got off the phone with family in Austin we already got plans for rooms and transportation all we need is tickets

but I don't know of any school that can go through what we have the last 2 seasons and still get these kinds of offers for marquee games.

RR 's offense will be a machine by then and the defense will (finally) have some experienced depth.

Im so pumped

That Alabama ass is on the line in 2012! Man, I'm gonna be a freshman in college then. Really weird to think about.