We don’t play Iowa at home again until 2025
Michigan-Iowa won’t happen again (in the regular season at least) until 2022 and that game is on the road.
We next face them at home in 2025. That means will have been the home team in the 3 of the last 4 matchups when 2022 rolls around.
It also means Michigan will have faced Iowa at Michigan Stadium just FIVE TIMES IN A 20 YEAR SPAN when 2025 rolls around.
But think of the cable subscribers!
October 6th, 2019 at 2:35 AM ^
Its science b!tch
October 6th, 2019 at 2:52 AM ^
I really hate the expanded Big 10.
October 6th, 2019 at 2:53 AM ^
Insaney in the Delaney
October 6th, 2019 at 2:58 AM ^
After viewing our offense the Big 10 decided to put a 6 year hold on the Iowa game?
i don’t blame them. I’m sure viewers were hospitalized after and you just can’t take that kind of risk.
/s
Id say I’m upset we play Rutger yearly but at it’s the only game the team ever dominates so it’s worth keeping.
October 6th, 2019 at 4:11 AM ^
Don’t forget to bet the UNDER....
October 6th, 2019 at 8:16 AM ^
Maybe it was after reviewing our offense and the Iowa offense, and the kind of football that wrought, the Big Ten decided to try to avoid ever seeing it again?
October 6th, 2019 at 3:01 AM ^
We hosted Minnesota in 2017, they do not appear in Ann Arbor until at least 2026 with two games in between in Minneapolis.
We host Northwestern in 2021, last hosted in 2015, which means by 2025 in 10 seasons Northwestern played in Ann Arbor once.
But we get a 4 year string of Wisconsin which we're in the middle of, followed by a 4 year string of Nebraska. So thats nice.
October 6th, 2019 at 3:05 AM ^
Uh yes hello, I actually would love to play Nebraska as often as possible please
October 6th, 2019 at 7:27 AM ^
October 6th, 2019 at 8:48 AM ^
I would like going to Nebraska to see a game. I’m glad they were added to the big 10! Not so much with Rutger and Maryland.
Look can we just give Rutger back?!?
October 6th, 2019 at 10:57 AM ^
Before the current Wisconsin streak started (2016), we had not played them at all since 2010.
How is the league office this incompetent? Is it really that hard to evenly rotate the cross-division games each year?
If the answer is "Yes," then don't have divisions. Go back to the old way of two protected rivalries and a rotation of everyone else.
October 6th, 2019 at 3:06 AM ^
That's ok, playing Wisky like 100 years straight has been much more enjoyable than ever seeing the rest of the west division.
October 6th, 2019 at 3:06 AM ^
Any scheduling system where one team has to play OSU every year and another team has to play them twice a decade seems pretty jank, especially to have the audacity to say those teams are all in the same conference
October 6th, 2019 at 4:48 AM ^
A conference in name only.
October 6th, 2019 at 4:50 AM ^
Also, GET RID OF DIVISIONS
October 6th, 2019 at 5:20 AM ^
This. Michigan has been absolutely rocked by this division crap.
We are used to being 1b or 1c to Ohio's alpha. Was it perfect? No. But we consistently claimed big ten title shares or won the conference. The schedules were balanced.
Now, we can't ever represent our division. So the division garbage along with the dumb scheduling means we'll pretty much never get to the title game. Galling.
October 6th, 2019 at 6:02 AM ^
Well Michigan could like.... you know..... beat OSU and win the division
October 6th, 2019 at 8:01 AM ^
Lame ass excuses here. If we are good enough to beat THEEEEE ohio, then we deserve to.
What is our record against those clowns, HORRIBLE! Back when we did win the conference we always had to beat them.
October 6th, 2019 at 7:19 AM ^
We were co-champs last year if there wasnt 2 divisions. True we didnt play Northwestern or Iowa but still lol
October 6th, 2019 at 8:12 AM ^
Michigan beat Northwestern in Evanston last year.
October 6th, 2019 at 12:41 PM ^
The while co-division champs thing is bullshit. The division champ plays in Indy, period.
October 6th, 2019 at 12:54 PM ^
It may seem like bullshit but that's how the league operated for a century. Three of Lloyd's five Big Ten titles were shared.
October 9th, 2019 at 9:35 AM ^
You are correct.
But now with a championship game we don't have to have bullshit co-champs. The true division champion plays in Indy.
But hell yeah, let's celebrate. 42 conference championships and 1 division championship....
October 6th, 2019 at 7:37 AM ^
UM will play Florida 4 more times in that span.
October 6th, 2019 at 7:50 AM ^
October 6th, 2019 at 8:14 AM ^
So you’re saying Michigan Iowa scheduling of home and away is like Michigan Notre Dame, only in reverse?
October 6th, 2019 at 8:26 AM ^
By then both teams will be totally different with new coaches.
October 6th, 2019 at 8:42 AM ^
The offense might be clicking by then.
October 6th, 2019 at 8:49 AM ^
2025 will be our year. We will have a 6th year QB who will finally understand the offense
October 6th, 2019 at 10:42 AM ^
What? Our current QB’s understand the offense. Didn’t you watch all those hand offs to the running backs? Perfect execution!
October 6th, 2019 at 8:56 AM ^
I was looking at Minnesota’s schedule this year. Looking at possibly being 8-0 before they play anybody. Unreal.
October 6th, 2019 at 9:04 AM ^
All the Power 5 conferences need to get rid of the divisions. The Big Ten west is a joke.
October 6th, 2019 at 9:09 AM ^
A complete fraud and joke. And the joke is on Michigan. Instead of getting to Indy with regularity, we get shafted by these idiotic divisions.
Can I play Michigan AD for a day please?
October 6th, 2019 at 10:54 AM ^
If we changed the divisions we’d still have to play osu in Indy. Why wait until December when we can get the loss out of the way in November?
October 6th, 2019 at 9:11 AM ^
All of these big conferences have similar problems. What they need to do is get rid of the divisions and keep a couple of protected rivalries for each team and then just schedule the rest of the teams in a more sustainable manner. Sure, there will be years where a Wisconsin or a NW don't play anyone of note and win 11+ games, but so be it.
October 6th, 2019 at 9:54 AM ^
We also won't face the hell that is Purdue's Vistors' Lockerroom until at least 2026. Maybe A/C will reach WL by then.
October 6th, 2019 at 9:58 AM ^
the Big Ten West is a joke and by extension Wisconsin is a fraud. They get more or less a free pass to the B1G championship every year. There are 4 teams in the East every year their are as good or better than the one decent team that Wisconsin has to beat to be the West champion.
October 6th, 2019 at 10:37 AM ^
Yep total fraud two weeks ago.
October 6th, 2019 at 12:24 PM ^
how many B1G championship game appearances would M and W each have on their resume if W was in the East and M was in the west. This has nothing to do with this years game. Remember when W “won” the B1G with a conference record of 4-4 in 2012? Michigan’s conference recorded was 6-2 that year
October 6th, 2019 at 10:39 AM ^
People predicted at the time, that Maryland/Rutgers, not a good idea, and that the divisions were a putrid idea.
well they were right.
October 6th, 2019 at 10:58 AM ^
Come on, we all know how important it is we schedule Washington, Texas, and Oklahoma to start the season, (WTF really who's idea was that?!) and Maryland and Rutgers every year.
October 6th, 2019 at 11:12 AM ^
Do you want us to schedule Iowa as a nonconference game?
October 6th, 2019 at 12:19 PM ^
I'd prefer scheduling Iowa to losing the first game of the year for the next decade. Something's gotta give between now and next September. At this rate it'll be a miracle if we can escape those home and homes with a 4-6 record.
October 6th, 2019 at 2:35 PM ^
Follow the old Wake Forest UNC model
October 6th, 2019 at 11:07 AM ^
It’s even more ridiculous in the SEC Conference conference. The SEC plays only 8 conference games, including one perpetual cross-divisional opponent/rival for each team (e.g. LSU vs. Florida, Auburn vs. UGA). That way, each team plays the other 6 cross-divisional teams once every 6 years (every 12 years at home). Players will have 2 teams they’ll have never seen over 4 years of eligibility, and 4 others only once.
October 6th, 2019 at 11:23 AM ^
We next face them at home in 2025. That means will have been the home team in the 3 of the last 4 matchups when 2022 rolls around.
That's not right.
2011 - road
2012 - home
2013 - road
2016 - road
2019 - home
2022 - road
October 7th, 2019 at 12:07 AM ^
I missed the word "they" and can't go back and edit it.
October 6th, 2019 at 11:44 AM ^
We have never played Iowa regularly. They joined the Big Ten in 1899 and we have only played them 60 times in 120 years.
I would also like to get rid of divisions and play traditional Big Ten teams more often. But at the same time, many of the teams in the Big Ten West are not teams that we were playing annually at any point in our history. Our relationship with Iowa is very similar to that episode of Seinfeld where George and Elaine realize that they aren't close enough individual friends to hang out without the rest of their group.
October 6th, 2019 at 12:45 PM ^
We should clarify this.
It's true that there are only four teams - OSU, MSU, Minnesota and Illinois (yes, them) that we've played around 100 times. Back when you'd play only seven conference games, those four were on the schedule and the rest rotated.
That said, from about 1970-1992 we played nearly every fellow Big Ten team every year. There were ten teams in the league, and we played eight conference games (even nine for a couple of years in the '80s). And then from 1993 (when PSU joined) to 2011 we still played all but two opponents every year, and the teams we missed were a random assortment (everyone but OSU/MSU), not just the teams in the west.
If you're older than about 20, you probably do remember us playing Iowa, Wisconsin and the other Big Ten West schools (save Nebraska) pretty much annually. You'd have to be quite old to remember the time when they weren't consistently on the schedule.
Now, though, we miss four teams per year, and those four are always in the West division. We suddenly have six protected games every year instead of two. That's a huge change.
October 6th, 2019 at 2:25 PM ^
Divisions suck but they were needed for a conference championship game which is extra money for the conference and gives a better shot at the playoff (which is more extra money). Ideally we could ship Maryland and Rutger somewhere else and use a Big 12 model where the top 2 teams play for the title. Then we wouldn't get the States and us beating each other up for a chance to play a decent Wisconsin/Iowa team with an inflated record.