Report: Michigan Adds Army To 2019 Schedule
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FBSchedules.com reported this afternoon that Michigan will face Army in the 2019 home opener:
Michigan will host Army at Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor on Sept. 7, 2019, according to a copy of the game contract obtained from the Army Athletic Association under a Freedom of Information Act request.
The Wolverines will pay the Black Knights a $1.5 million guarantee for the game, which will be the 10th overall meeting between the two schools. Army leads the series 5-4 and has won the last four meetings, the last coming in 1962.
While Army does hold a 5-4 edge in the series, it's Michigan that has won the last four. All nine games took place between 1945 and 1962, when Army was still a football power.
This is probably Michigan's replacement for what would usually be a MAC game. M opens the 2019 season at Arkansas, the latter half of a home-and-home series, and hasn't yet filled the other open non-conference spot. Starting in 2016, the Big Ten moves to a nine-game conference schedule, which leaves room for three non-conference games.
Buuuuuuuuuuuh deee?
This is awesome.
When it comes to our armed forces, it's not about winning or losing. It's about the contracts to third parties to supply the armed forces and keeping a reason for continuing these contracts.
2019 is a target national championship season
| Date | Opponent | Location | Time (ET) | TV |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug. 31 | @Arkansas | Fayetteville, AR | TBA | |
| Sept. 7 | army | ann arbor | ||
| Sept. 14 | Open | |||
| Sept. 21 | @Wisconsin | Madison, WI | TBA | |
| Sept. 28 | Open | |||
| Oct. 5 | Iowa | Ann Arbor, MI | TBA | |
| Oct. 12 | @Illinois | Champaign, IL | TBA | |
| Oct. 19 | @ Penn State | State College, PA | TBA | |
| Oct. 26 | Rutgers | Ann Arbor, MI | TBA | |
| Nov. 2 | @ Maryland | College Park, MD | TBA | |
| Nov. 9 | Open | |||
| Nov. 16 | Michigan St. | Ann Arbor, MI | TBA | |
| Nov. 23 | @ Indiana | Bloomington, IN | TBA | |
| Nov. 30 | Ohio St. | Ann Arbor, MI | TBA |
Just because we have MSU and OSU at home? We're playing Arkansas in the opener and at PSU and Camp Randall. Those could all be tough games.
I'm not saying you're wrong, I just don't follow your logic. What makes 2019 more favorable than 2017? Or did you mean repeat championship?
you aren't wrong. i guess i was just skipping 2017 as a possibility, but i guess it is the magical 3rd year. so, yeah, repeat
the "magical third years" we've had around here lately. Here's hoping that Harbaugh breaks the curse.
it will be our fifth straight national championship and our fifth victory in a row against Army! Or wait, would we be snapping a four game skid against the Black Knights?
In a season where we're playing @Wisc, @PSU and @Ark...then have MSU and OSU at home.
That last OPEN date is likely going to be a MAC opponent at home before we go on the road to Camp Randall.
Series history
| Date | Result | Location |
| 10/13/1945 | L 7-28 | New York, NY (Yankee Stadium) |
| 10/12/1946 | L 7-20 | Michigan Stadium |
| 10/8/1949 | L 7-21 | Michigan Stadium |
| 10/14/1950 | L 6-27 | New York, NY (Yankee Stadium) |
| 10/2/1954 | L 7-26 | Michigan Stadium |
| 10/8/1955 | W 26-2 | Michigan Stadium |
| 10/13/1956 | W 48-14 | Michigan Stadium |
| 10/7/1961 | W 38-8 | Michigan Stadium |
| 10/6/1962 | W 17-7 | Michigan Stadium |
| 9/7/2019 | Michigan Stadium |
Army being a power back then is no joke. Their ranking in those games-
- 1945- #1
- 1946- #2
- 1949- #7
- 1950- #1
- 1954- NR
- 1955- #6
- 1956- #15
- 1961- NR
- 1962- #10
The last play of the game was a 21 yard loss that resulted in a sack of Michigan backup QB John Greenwood in the endzone for a safety.
That's one way to ruin a shutout for your team...
Dear Binders full of women man,
Didnt't you say that UM only has a losing record all time vs X many teams all time with X being something like 3? If so this is a chance to get rid of one of them....revenge is ours.
http://www.mgoblue.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/042109aaa.html
A handful of teams...plus recent bowl games like Miss St., S. Car and KSU have added teams.
The Army-Michigan game in 1945 has historic significance, being the first game in which two separate offensive and defensive platoons were used. Fritz Crisler devised the plan in order to give his team of mostly underclassmen a fighting chance against a superior Army squad.
http://www.si.com/vault/1964/02/03/607928/the-man-who-changed-football
Whenever Army faced a competitive opposing player, it mailed the poor slob his draft notice and he was sent to a weather station in Alaska. Kewel story bra'.
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I love their Uniforms. Being an Army Vet this is something very cool for me. Army is my second favorite college football team. Love It
It's a nice change from the MAC schools
No more (fingers crossed) MAC Attack.
Beat Navy
Go Blue! Beat Navy.
Go Blue! Beat Navy!
What do you mean by trading up? While Navy and Air Force have decent to pretty good teams, Army has been awful at football for a while now.
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Not another midwest retread. It broadens our reach without having to play Rutgers or Maryland. And enables us to even a historical series.
1.5 million? I realize it would be absolutely terrible to do a home and home with any power 5 team, but... 1.5 million? Are we even coming out ahead at that point?
Considering Miami OH is getting $1.5M in 2020 per their AD to be squashed on the road that's just the cost of business. Inflation baby.
http://www.foxsports.com/wisconsin/story/million-dollars-baby-cost-of-b…
"We go out to 2020, we're getting $1.5 million from somebody," Sayler said. "There's going to be growth built in each year. The numbers keep going up. As you've seen from the public with the revenues coming in from the Big Ten Network and all the seats those schools have, I don't think $1 million is a real staggering number at all when you really put it in context."
This season (2014), Miami (Ohio) will take home $1.1 million to play at Michigan, Florida Atlantic will get $1 million to play at Nebraska and Ball State $900,000 for playing at Iowa. Miami (Ohio) is set to make $1 million in 2015 at Wisconsin, Sayler said, and fellow Mid-American Conference school Ball State will collect a program-record $1.2 million for playing at Texas A&M. Wisconsin also will pay $1.2 million to host Florida Atlantic in 2017.
In total, Big Ten teams will shell out $22,868,246 for those 38 home games in 2014 -- an average of roughly $601,796 per game. The cost for the type of guarantees against Football Bowl Subdivision mid-major teams that don't require a return visit is significantly higher, with Big Ten teams paying an average of $827,838 on 17 games.
The decision to drop FCS teams leaves Big Ten athletic directors with three remaining options when scheduling games: Create a home-and home series against a power-conference team, play a neutral-site game or schedule a mid-major program for a one-time game guarantee.
Money made off ticket sales alone at schools such as Wisconsin and Iowa, however, approaches $3 million, according to Alvarez and Iowa athletic director Gary Barta, and most ADs want to keep games on campus. Schools with larger stadiums generally net between $5 million-$7 million from home games.
Thanks for the link. I thought we made 3-4m from a home game, but I guess I'm off.
Assume that $1.5 Mill goes to Army. Call operating costs the same.
$3M / 100,000 seats (again, easy math) means that if each seat was $30 Michigan could break even. Tickets are around $80, so $5M straight profit homey.
Barring Army changing their offense, this could be a tough game for the ankles and knees of Michigan DL and LB's.
Totally unrelated but as I googled the last story above this one came up about the SEC now has a requirement to play one P5 in their non conf every year beginning in 2016. They somehow included Army into that so expect a lot of Army v SEC games in the next 20 years - good to get them now before they are booked up!!
http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/03/19/why-should-army-cou…
Army football has had just one winning season since 1997, yet starting in 2016 the SEC will recognize a game against Army in the same way it would a game against Ohio State, Texas, USC or Florida State. Starting in 2016 the SEC’s non-conference scheduling requirement will go into action, requiring SEC schools to schedule at least one game each season against another school from a Power 5 conference (ACC, Big 12, Big Ten, Pac-12 or even the SEC). Notre Dame was always expected to fulfill that requirement, but on Thursday the SEC decided games against BYU and Army will also count. Notre Dame makes sense given its place among the powers in college football today. BYU even makes a decent case. But Army?
Since 2003, Navy has had just one losing season, but the Midshipmen are shipping out to the American Athletic Conference, abandoning independence starting this fall. Because of that, Navy will not count toward meeting the SEC’s power conference scheduling requirement. Neither does Boise State. Or Colorado State. Or Air Force. But Army does?
meh
I guess it's better than a MAC team, but I loathe the triple option. I'm 100% sure that Michigan will be an excellent football team by then, but that triple option gives most teams fits.
Thumbs up
Boy this news really gets me hard
*sarcasm*
Army is the one team that should be allowed to wear camo uniforms.
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