B1G releases 2015 football schedule
| Date | Opponent |
| Sept. 3 | at Utah |
| Sept. 12 | OREGON STATE |
| Sept. 19 | UNLV |
| Sept. 26 | BRIGHAM YOUNG |
| Oct. 3 | at Maryland* |
| Oct. 10 | NORTHWESTERN |
| Oct. 17 | MICHIGAN STATE* |
| Oct. 24 | Bye |
| Oct. 31 | at Minnesota* |
| Nov. 7 | RUTGERS* |
| Nov. 14 | at Indiana* |
| Nov. 21 | at Penn State |
| Nov. 28 | OHIO STATE* |
| Dec. 5 | Big Ten Championship Game |
http://www.mgoblue.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/060313aac.html
Highlights-
- Don't forget that THURSDAY NIGHT season opener /sigh
- Michigan makes their first trip to College Park and Byrd Stadium on 10/3.
- We are replacing one religious school with another
- FINALLY Michigan gets state at The Big House.
- Home schedule will be sold out
12-0 regular season.
15-0 regular season
But would that still be the "regular season?"
Estimated cost of student season tickets: $965.
Jersey Shore is coming to Ann Arbor, 11/7.
Hide your women.
Yeah, except none of the people that perpetuate the "Jersey Shore" stereotype never go to college, let alone Rutgers.
So, swing and a miss.
None of them never go to college? So they all go to college?
Touche, Magnus.
If my woman wants to go for an orange, steriod-filled, Oompah Loompah tool, then I don't want her anyway
Priceless. There are some things that money can't buy...maybe?
For everything else there's mastercard.
Seriously though, I never took the time to be thankful that I can express my opinion and maybe have some impact on issues that would have been out of my control if it were not for the internet.
nope i did the exact same thing
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.
Unless you are saying any travel would be "rough", why is Maryland any rougher than going most other venues? Admittedly, I do not know the details of how they travel, but it seems like once you get on the plane it really doesn't matter whether you're going to Madison, Wi, St. Paul MN or Maryland.
They can prepare for the venue by practicing in an empty stadium, it will be just like game day.
It will be like a Michigan home game with all of the East Coast Wolverines there.
Maryland will be "rough"??? Dood, Maryland is going to be like a home game. The crowd is going to be >50% UM fans. There are so many UM, OSU, and PSU fans in the DC area, Maryland is going to nearly sell out their games, but not with fans rooting for them. Every potentially available ticket for the UM game is going to be gobbled up by UM fans. Remember Northwestern "road" games where there'd be all those UM fans? That'll be Maryland games, but even better for us.
it's highly likely that the Maryland game will be played at FedEx Field, home of the Redskins.
Delaney and Co. have repeatedly talked up the appeal of having the premire B1G teams - Michigan, Ohio State, Penn State, Nebraska - playing at the Meadowlands and FedEx Field.
That was one of the main drivers of the decison to add Maryland and Rutgers . . . not so much to bring Maryland and Rutgers to the Big Ten, but to be able to bring the Big Ten to DC and NYC.
I would rather have an on-campus experience myself, but I'm just a fan and therefore don't count. We may never actually play at the Maryland or Rutgers campus. Those places will likely remain a mystery to us forever.
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.
Agreed. Terrific for the NY and other east coast alums.
well, no home night games for 2015.
...that seems like a good fit, right?
that Ann Arbor will burn like Cedar Village if we schedule Staee for a night game. This may be an actual case of Michigan arrogance thinking that a few thousand Sparties will run roughshod over the city if we play at night.
Apparently it only takes 300.
Burning couches.
Hey, what a coincidence! So is ours apparently!
Ohio will never be a night game even if per B1G rules it could be...which it isn't.
ND is off the schedule.
I guess you could schedule another non-conference team to come in and play at night...I've actually been saying this for YEARS. Back when everyone wanted just 1 night game and other people wanted alternate jerseys. I always said appease these folks for one night and one game...go crazy. Night game with maize jerseys...I don't care. Just keep the other 7 home games at noon or 3:30 with everything "MICHIGAN" the way it's always been.
My only thought was to play a mid-level BCS team like Cal, Ole Miss, UNC, etc. someone that you might be able to get into Ann Arbor without a home and home.
Anyway, if it's not MSU...who's "worthy?" PSU? Wisconsin?
If it's going to be a conference game, MSU is really the only team I'd like to play it against. It's Michigan arrogance, but I don't think anyone else is worthy (outside of Ohio, and again, that's never happening because it's November and it's Ohio and we should never make that a night game...ever, even if we could do it in Ford Field with 1 million dollars to the winner).
You're thinking about the 2015 schedule using a 2012 paradigm. There are two seasons (13 and 14) still to be played before we know what the teams on the '15 schedule are going to be like.
And the chances are good that at least one of Oregon State, BYU, or Northwestern will be quite good in two years. Oregon State flirts with being a quality team every few years, and indeed was quite strong this season; BYU and Northwestern are both rising programs.
I think it is possible, even likely, that Northwestern will be a clear-cut better team than MSU by 2015, and that there is a very good chance that they will be a top-4 program in the conference. That's an attractive night-game matchup if anything is.
The larger point, though, is that we don't really know--and that there is a good chance that there will be a night-worthy game that year.
I'm thinking about it using the arrogant Michigan fan paradigm...
That says "who is WORTHY" of a night game in Michigan stadium? It's not really about how good you are.
Sure if one of those teams is top 5, then yes, I'd say they're worthy.
But Northwestern hosts MICHIGAN as their night game, Michigan doesn't do that. Come on. This is Michigan.
That's like ND breaking out the green uniforms for Purdue. I don't care how bad ND is or how good Purdue is...they can't do that. Night games and alternate uniforms are for big games or special occasions, IMO. If we came out in those block M "throw backs" from UTL 1 vs. Rutgers it would be more of a joke than having to play Rutgers in the first place.
It may sound silly, but it makes perfect sense in my head.
But PSU and Wisconsin (or Nebraska) not? That's some strange arrogance.
And to me the whole idea of a night game is added home field advantage. So if we see the season before BYU or Oregon State, or yes, Northwestern is going to be good, I have no problem with those being a night game.
The world of rivalries...MSU is a different level, as is ND. Not saying PSU/Wisconsin/Nebraska are the same as IU/Purdue/Rutgers. Just saying OSU, MSU and ND are higher. IMO, Michigan shouldn't do special things for non-rivals.
You are probably right, but Penn State will be the third night game at the Big House when we host them in 2014, so it is possible the novelty will have worn off a bit by 2015.
If that is the case, maybe if Oregon State or BYU are pre-season ranked we would try to make that a perceived third marquee game, and do it under the lights. Possibly Northwestern if they are coming off a West Division championship?
Probably a new QB, yes, but one who has gotten a lot of practice reps and film time, if not a bit of game action as well (even if Gardner is there for all of 2014, as I'd expect). Bellomy, Shane, and Speight should all be there competing for the starting job - each having had at least one year on the team.
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."
Yeah, and meanwhile we get stuck playing Wisconsin and Neb... wait, nevermind.
That's pretty even, if you ask me.
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.
In 2010 who even thought Chizik = Chizik?
Everybody with a brain
EDIT: that came off way more a-hole-ish than I intended; was ment to be more sarcastic. I always got the impression that most outside of Auburn fans who watched Chizik's teams shaw poorly coached and undicisplined teams both at Iowa State and his first year at Auburn. Then he manages to buy Cam Newton and get a great coordinator in Malzahn (but still mostly Newton here), plugs into a decently talented team, and has a magical year. A magical year that rode Newton to an NC in one of the best individual seasons ever. They had the worst D of any team to win a national championship, and still played undisciplined. The way the team and Chizik conducted himself showed little had acutally changed in the way of his coaching. So yes, I do think that many who actually analyzed the situation could recognize that Chizik's 2010 season was a complete abberation to what should normally be expected from him. I will admit that it was a bit suprised by how quickly he fell back to the depths though.
1/2 of it is said jokingly (i.e. "12-0, book it.) The other 1/2 are fans that think "we've got a legit shot...if."
I certainly don't look at this schedule and see any automatic losses. But it'll depend on the QB situation, IMO. If this was DG's redshirt senior season, I'd really like our chances with the young talent that we're bringing in. I'd see Ohio as the biggest threat and we've got them at home in 2015.
It's definitely not Alabama in Dallas, ND and Ohio on the road difficult.