B1G releases 2015 football schedule

12-0 regular season.

15-0 regular season

Estimated cost of student season tickets: $965.

Damn. Am I the only one who saw the @maryland game and wondered why we would play two out of conference road games to begin the season?

This will basically depend on Shane Morris (or Wilton Speight), IMO...because I think he'll have a crazy amount of talent around him. 12-0 is definitely doable with the prospects we're bringing in. Obviously they have to get better, pan out, gel, etc. but it starts with recruiting.

Minnesota might actually be pretty good by then, but damn, that is an extremely favorable schedule considering that we're playing 3 OK teams and 1 cupcake in the non-conference as opposed to ND, 2 cupcakes, and an OK team. Maryland as the Big 10 opener is going to be a rough travel for the players, but hopefully on-field performance isn't too affected.

I am genuinely curious as to why you don't like the Thursday night opener.  Is that because you attend all the home games, and it throws off your work, home, family schedule?  Living far away, I don't attend many games, so a Thursday night opener in prime-time is pretty cool in my world.

Alternating Maryland/Rutgers home/away is actually ideal for those of us on the East Coast, since we'll always have at least one game that's only a short train ride away.

well, no home night games for 2015.

As expected, the schedule sets up nicely. Only problem is that we'll have a new QB...but at least hopefully oodles of talent around him at least. Kind of wish the 2014 and 2015 schedules would be flipped. If Gardner returns, the 2014 team could be very good.

Their crossover games are Illinois and Minnesota...arguably the two worst teams in the West division.  One of the takeaways from Brian Bennett on ESPN's B1G Blog:

"Ohio State again looks set up for success, as the Buckeyes first three Big Ten road games are at Indiana, at Rutgers and at Illinois before the season-ender in Ann Arbor. Penn State is the only traditional league power Ohio State will play until the final two weeks of the regular season, and the Lions come to the 'Shoe."

9 game conference schedule starts in 2016 then I'm assuming? I don't know why but I thought it was 2015.

Only six Big 10 games. That's absurd.

I love how people are already proclaiming an undefeated regular season as possible (some even probable) three years into the future.

I'm sure Auburn fans said the same thing when their 2012 schedule came out.

The first four games of the season are all teams out west. We played Utah 5 years ago, but has Michigan ever suited up against Oregon St, UNLV, or BYU?

An okay schedule. The East division is so unbalanced. Also would rather see one of the local MAC teams than UNLV but I'm probably in the minority there.

We will only play Wisconsin the championship game.

Only thing we should need is a Quarterback to run the table..hopefully. We will have all upperclassmen on the offensive line and almost everywhere else. Mattisons Defense should be the second coming of the IRON CURTAIN!! Man can you imagine.

Very strong home schedule and definitely looking forward to making the trips to Utah and Maryland for the first time. We'll probably also avoid a Penn State night game being that it is late November, unless the conference allows November night games by 2015.

No excuse for not making a big bowl game that season. My goodness. And still no Wisconsin. Might be a decade before we see them again.

I don't remember what season they were possibly to be included. is that definitely not happenning now?

that's a solid strength of schedule for the playoffs.

Could give us some trouble, but overall very feasible. Plus, with the recruits that Hoke will have implemented by then, this could be our year at a championship run.

The non-conference schedule looks alright.  It makes me wonder which direction Oregon State will head in over the next few seasons.  That could be a good game in the Big House.

Anyone else genuinely bothered that our OOC schedule makes it look like we're preparing to bolt to the Pac12 and/or MWC any day now?  Is this like a Plan B in case the B1G merges with C-USA?  Srsly, playing four Far West teams in a row?  Never seen any team this far East do anything like that.  (And getting three of the four to come here!)

So I am guessing the 2016 home schedule is going to suck.

For all the complaints about the 2014 schedule, the 2015 one will be awesome.  I don't mind seeing body bag schools, as long as they aren't the same ones.  Ditching Directional Michigan for UNLV is great (I wouldn't mind it if there was a return trip, either - maybe I could talk my wife into a Las Vegas trip).

Weird not seeing ND on there, it's been a while.

I'm liking the four straight bye weeks after MSU. Should have plenty of time to prepare for the PSU/OSU games.

but whatever those rectangular states out west that aren't washington or california can be called, mid central west states or something  - F**K YOU in 2015

Whoa.  Easiest schedule we have had or will have for years.  Morris will be a (hopefully) RS Sophomore at that point.  Green will be a junior.  Our beastly 2012-2013 O-Lines will be Junior/Seniors.  Only remotely tough away game (don't tell me Utah is tough.  If Utah is tough then we won't be any good anyways) is @ PSU who will obviously be depleted by that point despite their admirable recruiting efforts of late.  As long as Morris is not a bust (and I don't think he will be), we should go undefeated.  OSU is only tough game.  MSU will be same ol' Sparty by our standards by then.

the Thursday opener.

Their toughest match-up will of course be OSU, but I love that we would get them at home.  At Penn St could be tough too, but after that, Michigan SHOULD win all these games.

I usually don't make predictions like this, but I am highly confident Michigan will be in the NC discussion the entire year, and it will surprise me if they go in the post-season with more than one loss.

With this as our non conference in 2016, the 2016 home schedule might be worse than 2014 unless Sparty owes us two home games in a row.

I can't get over how they've screwed up the MSU/OSU alignment.  They shouldn't both be home (or away) in the same year.  We've got to complain to the league office about that.

Of my 4 season tickets in 2014 gets even closer to becoming the official decision.

2 kids and living in Chicago, it just becomes a better business decision to stubhub it for the games I want to attend vs. buying them all.