2018 & 2019 Football schedules released
2018
9/1 at Notre Dame
9/8 Western Michigan
9/15 Southern Methodist
9/22 Nebraska
9/29 at Northwestern
10/6 Maryland (Homecoming)
10/13 Wisconsin
10/20 at MSU
10/27 Bye
11/3 Penn State
10/10 at Rutgers
11/17 INdiana
11/24 at Ohio State
2019
8/31 MIddle Tennessee State
9/7 Army
9/14 Bye
9/21 at Wisconsin
9/28 Rutgers
10/5 Iowa (Homecoming)
10/12 at Illinois
10/19 at Penn State
10/26 Notre Dame
11/2 at Maryland
11/9 Bye
11/16 MSU
11/23 at Indiana
11/30 Ohio State
At least it's not the MTSU basketball team. Sparty nooo.
I am hopeful to take my son to his first M game on 9/7/19!
I've never seen Army play Michigan in person. Air Force....I was there just a few years ago for that game. That should be an interesting first for me anyway.
Oh, and I assume we'll all come with our best Craig James material for the week of 9/15/2018.
Craig James killed 5 hookers at Texas Tech while looking for the broom closet Mike Leach locked his son in
*Allegedly*
Schedule is not too surprising - WMU was the guess for 2018, and Army has been listed for a while.
I like the addition of the MTSU game; a change of pace from what could easily have been another MAC opponent.
I have no interest in MTSU. I'd rather see the million bucks go to a local MAC school.
Notre Dame on 10/26 is gonna be weird. It better be a night game though.
So we're making up never playing Wisconsin the last decade by always playing Wisconsin for the rest of time?
Yeah and in return we won't play at Nebraska or Iowa again
PSU/OSU/Michigan will rotate playing Iowa/Nebraska/Wisconsin 6 consecutive years at a time. Part of the "parity" scheduling idea.
E.g., Michigan v Wisconsin (and PSU v Iowa and OSU v Nebraska) every year from 2016-2021. And then we'll rotate to a different foe every year from 2022-2027.
For Michigan (2020-2021 are conjecture but would fit the pattern):
2016: vs Wisconsin, vs Illinois, at Iowa
2017: at Wisconsin, vs Minnesota, at Purdue
2018: vs Wisconsin, vs Nebraska, at Northwestern
2019: at Wisconsin, vs Iowa, at Illinois
2020: vs Wisconsin, vs Purdue, at Minnesota
2021: at Wisconsin, vs Northwestern, at Nebraska
2022, 2024, 2026: guaranteed to host either Nebraska or Iowa
2023: 2025, 2027: guaranteed to be at either Nebraska or Iowa
Curious, do you have a source for this? It makes a whole lot of sense. Not thrilled with not visiting Minnesota until 2020 (it's close to me!) but sounds like they've thought this out.
I don't know why the B1G doesn't release the specific planned cross-division foes (at least who you play, not necessarily dates) for future years. The SEC, for instance, has released the cross-division opponents all the way out to 2025. Alabama, for instance, WILL be at Missouri in 2025.
But when the B1G announced there would be "parity scheduling" alongside the 9-game conference schedule, they mentioned the stronger East foes would play the stronger West foes more often --- they specifically said 10 times in 18 years for PSU/OSU/U-M against Iowa/Wisky/Nebraska, vs. 6 times in 18 years for the other West foes. The above rotation would make that math work.
http://www.espn.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/75684/jim-delany-talks-divisi…
Of course, the B1G could expand to 16 or 24 or 32 or 128 or 10^100 teams at any random point in the future, making this entire conversation moot. :-)
2018...woof. At ND and a not terrible SMU squad. Plus our three cross overs are Wisconsin, @NW, and Nebraska. Sure, why not?
on the plus side, we are better than everyone.
When was the last time we made a non-conference game in the middle of the Big Ten season? Delaware State?
OSU plays at home against us in 2018 not on Thanksgiving weekend. Then, of course, we play them the next year when all the students will be out of town. Good shit.
2019 has an extra week between Labor Day and Thanksgiving, so there are two bye weeks. When is the last time that happened?
2013 and 2014 seasons both had double byes.
so-so
Ugh...no Minnesota either year but Rutgers and Maryland in both.
Where is that guy posting "In Defense of Delany" crap. I hope HE'S happy with this schedule.
When that is always an early Sep game will never get use to that hope that will be the only time that happens.
Tolerable home schedule in 2019. Still would've preferred Arkansas obviously
Getting rid of Arkansas and potentially Washington is so disappointing. Both those would have made great road trips for fans. I remember everyone had good things to say about Utah despite the result, random games like that really are fun to see on future schedules.
Are just so-so.
Let's go win them all......
MTSU and Army isn't going to impress the playoff committee.
Surely will.
How?
Outside of tSOU and Wiscy that is?
I could see the team going 11-1 or 12-0 in 2019.
I'm surprised we don't have to travel to NE in 2019? The entire scheduling with the B1G west is a big confusing. I don't see a pattern and we seem to play IA and WI quite often. When will play Purdue again?
Nebraska at home in 2018 and not on the schedule in 2019 ??? Crap ... probably the last away stadium I want to go to. I don't give a shit about ever going to Rutgers, Maryland or ohio.
Go Blue!
not going to load up on top teams and the schedule is tough enough. Interesting to play Army I think UM might have a loosing record against them.
4-5
one of only 12 current FBS teams to have a winning record against the blue, and one of only two with more than 4 games played