Friday Fun Contest - Pick the FB Home and Home Series

Submitted by alum96 on

While we wait to see if ND football burns down - let's have some Friday afternoon fun and have a contest where you pick the 2 "major" home and home series.  Whoever gets it right, we can come back to and give major POSBANG to. 

Please keep your answers short and start your comment with format

  • Team A
  • Team B

So we can find it easily.  Short comment can follow.

Remember, this is not who you want i.e.

  • Texas
  • Texas

but who you think will happen.

Here is a fun site to help you figure out who has openings, I assume these games are in the 2020s and Oklahoma and UCLA are off the clock for obvious reasons.

http://www.fbschedules.com/ncaa/ncaa-football-schedules.php

 

My predictions:

  • Georgia
  • Missouri

Reasoning: USC and UCLA are the 2 glamor Pac 12 schools.  We already have UCLA and USC comes to Midwest for ND already.  Stanford already plays Northwestern and ND a lot in the Midwest and frankly they could revert to mean in 10 years, they were horrible until 6 years ago.  Oregon we have not had good experiences with. Everyone wants Texas and of course it would be a dream matchup but I am going with 2 SEC schools, one would be a glamour matchup and the other just is a guess on fit.  Texas A&M would have been a 3rd guess.

 

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Cali Wolverine

August 15th, 2014 at 2:27 PM ^

Has to be somewhere near fertile recruiting grounds (Cali, Texas or the South). My guess is Stanford and LSU. The Hat is the only SEC Coach crazy enough to play on the road in the BIG. I wish it was USC and Texas.

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Zone Left

August 15th, 2014 at 2:32 PM ^

Oklahoma
Virginia Tech

No way Michigan plays LSU and no one else in the SEC is coming north. Oklahoma and Va Tech tend to have an interesting game every year.

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goblue_jb

August 15th, 2014 at 2:39 PM ^

for big 12, want Texas, think we'll schedule Texas tech. for sec, want auburn, Georgia, lsu (would include Florida and Alabama but with the offsite games unlikely) to come north to Ann arbor, but I think we'll schedule vandy.

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DanaGoBlue

August 15th, 2014 at 2:47 PM ^

Virginia

Clemson

 

Virginia for recruiting purposes

Clemson-well it just seems we lose a lot of recruiting battles with them the last couple of years....PAYBACK time.

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Nothsa

August 15th, 2014 at 2:57 PM ^

Those AD guys are imagineers, people! "Major" has a different meaning to the kids today! Think of the Appy State rematch - that's the kind of excitement we're trying to generate here!

 

So, with that in mind, I present:

 

Ball State and West Virginia

 

Think of the back story for both of those games! Brady Hoke goes back to Muncie! Cardinals vs. Wolverines! It's gonna be a Thursday night MACtion to remember, with great new one-off uniformz for both teams under the lights!

But don't overlook that WVU game while you contemplate that first matchup: just imagine the welcoming hospitality Morgantown will offer to Wolverine fans! You know that football program has Michigan ties, right? Don Nehlen was a Bo guy! That'll bring the dinosaur M fans in droves. Be sure to take a spare couch on that road trip, and of course drive safely across Ohio!

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Moonlight Graham

August 15th, 2014 at 3:04 PM ^

LSU and Clemson (never before?), and Washington again (been a while, but frequent Rose Bowl opponent and didn't they last play in 2002 or something). 

Michigan-LSU would MOVE THE NEEDLE for sure. 

Florida State would also be cool. I'm generally intrigued by the idea of the Power 5 becoming their own NFL and only scheduling each other. That would be unbelievably bad for the Group of 5 and make scheduling those fat $$$ years with 7 home games almost impossible, but it would make "NCAA Power 5 Football" pretty awesome. 

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alum96

August 15th, 2014 at 3:11 PM ^

Cursory glance at 3 PM show leaders to be:

  • Georgia
  • Texas A&M
  • Stanford
  • LSU
  • FSU
  • Florida
  • Vandy
  • Texas
  • Virginia

Virginia makes sense for the reasons outlined by those commenting today BUT we do now have Maryland in our division so we'll be in that part of the country every other year so it won't be necessary to schedule VA if the main reason is recruiting.

I do think Tennessee and Clemson are also intriguing.

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umbig11

August 15th, 2014 at 3:25 PM ^

Texas and Cal for home and home. I will take it one step further. Cal @ Mich 2018 and Mich @ Cal 2019. Texas in the late 2020's. A third series may be announced as well. A road opener on Thursday night ESPN.

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acnumber1

August 15th, 2014 at 3:39 PM ^

Whatever ThadMattaisagoblin predicts, but swiched.

If Thad says:

X State/tech/a&m  and   U of Z 

I say:

Z State/tech/a&m and U of X

 

example:

Thad:

Mississippi State and Univ of North Carolina

Me:

Ole Miss and NC State

 

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CLord

August 15th, 2014 at 3:51 PM ^

YES/NO SCIENCE:

1. Yes that Miami

2. Not that Miami (cradle of coaches man... major program).

Or

SCIENCE:

1. UC - Berkeley

2. CU - Boulder

Or

SCIENCE:

1. UK - Lexington

2. KU - Lawrence

Or

1. USC - Cali

2. USC - Carolina

Or

1. UH - Houston

2. UH - Hawaii

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M_Geh_Blau

August 15th, 2014 at 7:39 PM ^

Nice post.

I just spent 3 years in Lexington hearing about SEC dominates everything. If it is UK I hope Michigan kicks the crap out of them. I just wish I was still gonna be there to see it happen. Although it will probably be in 10 years anyways.

Now I'm in Houston and I would like to see Michigan come here but I probably will be gone by the time that happens as well.

I still have some confidence that DB will end up coming through on this. I can't imagine him building up a bunch of hype on this and let us down. But what do I know, I'm just a fan and will always give my support.

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M_Born M_Believer

August 15th, 2014 at 3:53 PM ^

  • North Carolina (Dave's spin on "huge")
  • Mississippi (again, Dave's spin on "huge")

I want

  • Georgia (I would go to Athens!)
  • Florida State

3rd Possibility - Clemson or South Carolina......

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shallowcal

August 15th, 2014 at 3:58 PM ^

Tennessee because they habe the second biggest stadium and us the biggest,  so that would line the pockets as well as a good build up.  WVU because we steal lots of things from them so why not early hopes for their undefeated season next. 

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cutter

August 15th, 2014 at 4:00 PM ^

1.  Miami (Fl) would be my one guess because of their locations, both for recruiting and because Stephen Ross owns the Dolphins.   For $100M, I'd say he'd have some throw weight in terms of any suggestions he'd make about non-conference games.

2.  Texas is a logical choice since they're in the 10-team Big XII with no conference championship game.   Oklahoma is already on Michigan's docket, so the Longhorns make sense.  UT has also played Ohio State in a home-and-home so a similar arrangement with UM seems consistent.

I'd say both those programs would be considered "huge".  That said, I wonder if these two home-and-homes are for the 2018 through 2021 time period or for the 2024, 2027, 2028 and 2029 seasons.  If it's the latter, there'd definitely be more candidates than the former.

Well see.  Other schools on the list would be Georgia, Tennessee, Auburn, LSU and Texas A&M from the SEC (since Alabama doesn't do home-and-homes, they're not on the list).  Florida State and Clemson from the ACC would be a couple other programs with USC being the #1 possibility from the Pac 12.

 

 

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San Diego Mick

August 15th, 2014 at 7:49 PM ^

south, hence Georgia, Texas, LSU, I don't want to play FSU, we've done it in the past, let's play someone new.

and the other one will be in a different geographic region, like west coast maybe ASU or Cal, maybe Stanford.

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