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
We've also got a legit shot if we score more points than the other teams. It's one of those annoying things fans say that really just don't have any substance. Individually it's not a big deal, but when it gets parroted over and over again it gets pretty aggravating. For other offenses in this category, see "the better team won" and the majority of comments about academic prestige.
Depends on the QB, and the roster around him. We know that the recruits Hoke has brought in have the potential to be good enough to overwhelm the whole conference save one, but we don't know how things will actually turn out. Hoke is recruiting to make Michigan Alabama 2.0, and perhaps that will happen--if Michigan has a great enough O-line, quality at the skill positions, and an impenetrable defense (as we hope and is actually a possibility) then Shane or Wilton can succeed even if they are never better than game manager types.
But if things go a bit crosseyed, as is always a possibility, Michigan's success will hinge on the development of Shane Morris as a big-play QB, and on Al's ability to put him in situations to make those plays. Neither of these are sure things.
sports radio? With the 2014 schedule, the local yokels were already talking about their 40-0 record.
...rather than negging everyone. Or do both, points don't matter so who cares about that part. But when people present valid points and all you do is downvote, that makes YOU the troll.
No it doesn't.
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?
1984 Holiday Bowl vs BYU
We will only play Wisconsin the championship game.
If we ever want to play Wisconsin again, we will have to schedule them Out of Conference.
Hey, I've got and idea . . . let's replace Notre Dame with Wisconsin! We could play all the games UTL.
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.
The table should be set well this year for a championship run. The one hitch could be the QB like you mention. If DG stays two more years than 2015 will be the first year starting for the new QB, so they may still be a little green. But I am hoping that two years learning under Gardner will prepare them well and they'll be ready.
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.
When the conference switches to the nine-game conference schedule, it could very well be another couple years after that depending on how it works out. If you play all six in your division plus three from the other division, then it is entirely possible that we don't see them in 2016 or 2017 if Wisconsin is the theoretical "seventh team" in that scenario. An eight-year gap is a real potential.
Certainly possible that we might miss them in 2016-17, but I don't see the B1G schedule makers letting that one happen.
A couple weeks back, I didn't think the schedule makers would allow us to miss them in '14-'15. I was incorrect in my assumption.
I don't remember what season they were possibly to be included. is that definitely not happenning now?
2018 & 19
Still happening. From MGoBlue:
U-M will host Arkansas at Michigan Stadium on Sept. 1, 2018, with a return trip to Fayetteville, Ark., scheduled for Aug. 31, 2019.
http://www.mgoblue.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/050913aaf.html
that's a solid strength of schedule for the playoffs.
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!)
I thought the same thing...all the OOC teams are way out west. Coming from the east coast, or Ann Arbor for that matter, it is a haul to travel to any of the OOC games not in A2.
So I am guessing the 2016 home schedule is going to suck.
We have this THRILLING non conference-
| Sept. 3 | HAWAII |
| Sept. 10 | Open |
| Sept. 17 | COLORADO |
| Sept. 24 | BALL STATE |
Could add a one-off in 2016 to spice that up, or even a 2016-17 home-and-home. We have Cincinnati coming to the Big House in 2017 so far.
Hoke mentioned working on a Syracuse game during his appearance on the Rich Eisen podcast last week.
http://www.mgoblue.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/050913aaf.html
If so, they have 12 games already.
Good point. In that case, having a Sept. 10 open date is very unfortunate bye week placement for both the team and the fans.
Syracuse was my suggestion in another thread.
Glad. Most people don't know that Syracuse and Michigan were rivals when Michigan left the Western Conference in 1907.
Rekindled the rivalry in 1998-1999 and it was still even all those years later.
But any chance to beat Colorado again is ok with me.
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).
Fuck Notre Dame.
Since I could, hold my head up high.
/Staind'd
I hate that we are playing a Thursday night game. That game just screams upset to me, but Michigan SHOULD be excellent in 2015 (assuming all our young studs pan out).
I'm liking the four straight bye weeks after MSU. Should have plenty of time to prepare for the PSU/OSU games.
we get a big name team right before OSU. At least they get MSU the week before, and not Indiana or something.
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.