Michigan in Road Openers
Since this is a rare season opener that is also the road opener for Michigan, from the pages of the Football SuperGuide, here is the complete history of Michigan in road openers.
Overall Record in road openers: 81-43-8
When road opener is also season opener: 15-5-1
Every season opener that was also the road opener-
| Season | Date | Opponent | Result |
| 1880 | 11/5/1880 | Toronto | W 13-6 |
| 1881 | 10/31/1881 | Harvard | L 0-4 |
| 1885 | 11/7/1885 | Windsor Club | W 10-0 |
| 1886 | 10/16/1886 | Albion | W 50-0 |
| 1888 | 4/20/1888 | Notre Dame | W 26-6 |
| 1940 | 9/28/1940 | California | W 41-0 |
| 1943 | 9/18/1943 | Camp Grant | W 26-0 |
| 1948 | 9/25/1948 | Michigan State | W 13-7 |
| 1954 | 9/25/1954 | Washington | W 14-0 |
| 1965 | 9/18/1965 | North Carolina | W 31-24 |
| 1971 | 9/11/1971 | #20 Northwestern | W 21-6 |
| 1973 | 9/15/1973 | Iowa | W 31-7 |
| 1975 | 9/13/1975 | Wisconsin | W 23-6 |
| 1977 | 9/10/1977 | Illinois | W 37-9 |
| 1981 | 9/12/1981 | Wisconsin | L 14-21 |
| 1986 | 9/13/1986 | Notre Dame | W 24-23 |
| 1988 | 9/10/1988 | #13 Notre Dame | L 17-19 |
| 1990 | 9/15/1990 | #1 Notre Dame | L 24-28 |
| 1991 | 9/7/1991 | Boston College | W 35-13 |
| 1992 | 9/12/1992 | #3 Notre Dame | T 17-17 |
| 1998 | 9/5/1998 | #22 Notre Dame | L 20-36 |
| 2015 | 9/3/2015 | Utah |
with Notre Dame!
Just booked my flight and hotel for SLC. Can't f'ing wait.
accounted for that? Mr. mmmKelley CPA...
Bob Sacamano's dad knows an altar boy in SLC. He's going to hook me up!
I like to think that we played Notre Dame in April that one year just to play on 4/20 and all the players were giggling the whole time.
Wait, WD has his own watermark now?
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Utah has won its last six season openers (five straight at home) in a streak that started with their 2008 win at Michigan.
The UTES ("YOUTS") are 70-49-1 all-time in season openers and 52-19-1 when the season opener was played at home.
Bigger problem is fitting 45,000 fans into that place. Tight fit and lots of demand.
Haven't been to a game there but I've been to the stadium and it will be a pristine view for Harbaugh's inauguration.
Well then let's take care of Utah like we did Albion.
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I was at that game. It took me 11 years to get there. You guys have it easy now with the personal automobile.
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game. a heart breaker, really.
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Fucking Harvard, the Michigan of the East.
Neutral site games don't classify as road games? They certainly aren't home games... Although I'd like to forget that Alabama ever happened.
Also notice the 1-7 record from 1998 through 2005. Yuck.
Neutral site games count as neutral site games.
Road games are played at the home stadium of the opponent.
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Michigan has played Hillsdale twice.
9/30/1899 (W 11-0) and 9/29/1900 (W 29-0).
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they haven't had the GUTS to reschedule a home opener agaisnt Michigan in almost 130 yrs!
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Anyone remember that 91 game vs. BC? I remember watching it at my buddy's house who was an ND fan. It was the day before my bday my junior year of HS. We got pretty messed up the night before, as people seem to do in small towns growing up. So I remember waking up hungover to watch Desmond begin his Heisman campaign that game.
Vs. Utah, all tickets, reservations booked. Still curious to see if the guy I bought my tix from on stubhub backs out so I can get better seats.
Go Blue.
I lived in the Northeast at that time and got to go to the game. Scalped 50yd line seats dirt cheap. People were super nice, didn't seem to care about football though.