Michigan to play Florida (neutral site), UCF, Air Force, SMU, home and home with UCLA
Apparently this was a leaked document. Not the first schedule leak yesterday. http://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/2018-2019-michigan-conference-schedule-rele…
EDIT: UCLA series is official. Florida game will probably be the Chick Fil A game in Atlanta.
http://www.mgoblue.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/101713aad.html
EDIT #2: Didn't see the MGoBlog poster said that the Ball State game in 2016 will be moved to 2018. The week 2 bye that is currently in place will be moved to week 4 and week 2 Michigan will face UCF at home.
October 17th, 2013 at 9:06 AM ^
schedule the one you have a history of beating. I like it.
October 17th, 2013 at 9:14 AM ^
"...they called it 'Operation Mongoose.'"
October 17th, 2013 at 9:15 AM ^
October 17th, 2013 at 9:20 AM ^
October 17th, 2013 at 10:25 AM ^
I'm kicked out after I graduate HS this coming June.
October 17th, 2013 at 10:14 AM ^
I expect our OL to be good by 2022-2023, heck maybe even by 2017.
October 17th, 2013 at 7:06 PM ^
October 18th, 2013 at 12:32 AM ^
Mike Gillette was wide right by about a foot on a 49 yard FG try at the end of the game. 19-17 bad guys. The next week, at home we were up 30-14 and had the ball on the Miami 40 before we watched Miami come storming back, including a recovered onsides kick, to edge us 31-30.
In 1994, we scheduled Top 25ish Boston College and Top 10s Notre Dame and Colorado.
I don't think we will ever see schedules like those again.
October 17th, 2013 at 9:15 AM ^
Florida and UCLA are pretty sweet but WHY ARE WE SCHEDULING AIR FORCE AGAIN
October 17th, 2013 at 9:33 AM ^
October 17th, 2013 at 10:27 AM ^
Oh my god don't joke about that, it's probably true.
October 17th, 2013 at 9:38 AM ^
October 17th, 2013 at 11:45 AM ^
The Academy Athletic Department is run like any other Athletic department as a mostly self funding entity with some support from the school. So the payday goes to the Athletic Department. Given that all cadets are there as cadets first(not really true I know but think in terms of institutional definitions and not real life) the athletic dpeartment does not have to fund the cost of their scholarships which helps with it's cost structure at least nominally.
October 17th, 2013 at 9:22 AM ^
We'll have flying cars by the time that game rolls around.
October 17th, 2013 at 9:51 AM ^
October 17th, 2013 at 10:17 AM ^
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October 17th, 2013 at 10:26 AM ^
Diamondium helmets for everyone! Huzzah!
October 17th, 2013 at 1:01 PM ^
Good news, everyone!
October 17th, 2013 at 9:24 AM ^
Florida needs to drag their asses up here to the Midwest, case closed. It'll be September and beautiful, there's no excuse. Pussycats. We would obviously travel down to Gainsville as well, which, duh.
October 17th, 2013 at 9:36 AM ^
October 17th, 2013 at 9:42 AM ^
Oh, no, I'm not that naive. I just...I just want college football to be played at the great stadiums and cities/small cities we already have. Losing battle, I know.
October 17th, 2013 at 10:08 AM ^
Same here. I want to travel to Gainseville etc.
October 17th, 2013 at 9:32 AM ^
I hate neutral site games. Undoubtedly it will be somewhere far, far from Michigan and closer to Florida.
Booooooooooooooooo
October 17th, 2013 at 9:46 AM ^
I give it a 1% chance it's closer to us than to Florida if it's a neutral site game unless it's at Soldier Field or something
October 17th, 2013 at 10:21 AM ^
Almost no chance it is north of the Mason-Dixon Line and most likely in Atlanta as you and others have said.
October 17th, 2013 at 9:33 AM ^
since reports say it will open 2017. NFL wouldn't play first regular season until following weekend.
October 17th, 2013 at 10:08 AM ^
Correct, although techincally it won't be a dome. It will be a retractable roof with an aperture-like opening/closing.
October 17th, 2013 at 1:19 PM ^
This stadium needs more f-stop control.
October 17th, 2013 at 9:33 AM ^
October 17th, 2013 at 10:29 AM ^
When have they ever played a neutral site game? Every big time program in the country is playing neutral site games.
October 17th, 2013 at 10:40 AM ^
Western Michigan at Ford Field, though that was WMU's idea. About 30 years ago they played Wisconsin in Tokyo. Other than that I can't think of any other neutral site games for MSU.
October 17th, 2013 at 10:44 AM ^
Florida Atlantic at Ford Field. That was huuuuge
October 17th, 2013 at 12:19 PM ^
That was supposed to be a home game for FAU, but their stadium renovation wasn't done on time so they moved the game to Ford Field. Fail.
October 17th, 2013 at 11:56 AM ^
October 17th, 2013 at 9:37 AM ^
Love these schedules, it's nice to see us playing some big name OOC opponents. Really hope these are real.
October 17th, 2013 at 9:47 AM ^
I'm glad to see us getting home-and-homes even if it's with middle road BCS teams (sorry UCLA, VT, and Arkansas). Better than Southwest Kentucky Lutheran
October 17th, 2013 at 10:24 AM ^
October 17th, 2013 at 10:42 AM ^
1) UCLA is a very good team and better than Michigan
2) Michigan appears to be a middle-of-the-road BCS squad
October 17th, 2013 at 11:35 AM ^
Yes, someone on a UCLA blog somewhere at this very moment may be reading about this future game against Michigan and saying "Meh, middle of the road BCS squad".
October 17th, 2013 at 12:21 PM ^
I reserve the right to change this statement. Well actually I can't since you replied to it, but anyway.
October 17th, 2013 at 12:29 PM ^
I was going to type the exact same thing. To take it a step further a lot of programs probably are antsy to schedule Michigan (and Notre Dame) right now as they are seen as programs with a lot of name recognition that you get more benefit by beating than is really deserved based on the quality of the respective teams. i.e. "we can get a big name program in here, that is relatively average, and still get the big boost in rankings by beating them versus say a OSU or Bama or LSU."
Just the reality of the state of the program right now - I hope by the time we get to this game it's a different situation but for most of the past 20 years that has been the case.
October 17th, 2013 at 11:41 AM ^
UCLA is good, not great. Not quite a USC or Alabama or Georgia or something,
October 17th, 2013 at 12:33 PM ^
That is what they are saying about Michigan on the UCLA boards as well... #glasshouses
edit: oh you said "name recognition"...well I guess we still have that to fall back on. Growing up in the 80s UCLA was actually a quite prestigious program, right up there with USC challenging for the Pac 10 often. Have fallen on some hard times so I assume people in their 20s or younger have a different view of them.
October 17th, 2013 at 11:47 AM ^
Think of it this way, at least this way we'll get to see Michigan playing in the Rose Bowl.
October 17th, 2013 at 9:54 AM ^
October 17th, 2013 at 10:09 AM ^
Not sure if this was said in jest, but in case its not...
Michigan should be breaking in a new QB every two years.