2018 & 2019 Football schedules released

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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

LSAClassOf2000

May 4th, 2017 at 1:32 PM ^

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. 

COLBlue

May 4th, 2017 at 3:32 PM ^

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.

NittanyFan

May 4th, 2017 at 9:54 PM ^

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

NittanyFan

May 5th, 2017 at 10:32 AM ^

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.  :-)

SanDiegoWolverine

May 4th, 2017 at 6:13 PM ^

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.

uminks

May 5th, 2017 at 2:15 AM ^

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?

Indiana Blue

May 5th, 2017 at 8:29 AM ^

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!

Kevin13

May 5th, 2017 at 12:07 PM ^

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.