Rutgurs and Iowa Confirmed as Night Games
The Big Ten Conference Office and its television partners announced Monday (May 2) the primetime games for each of its platforms, with two of the University of Michigan's four conference road contests selected for an evening starting time.
The Wolverines will play its Big Ten road opener against Rutgers on Oct. 8 at either 7 or 8 p.m. EDT. This will be the team's second-ever appearance at High Point Solutions Stadium in New Brunswick, New Jersey. The Scarlet Knights won the inaugural meeting in primetime, 26-24, on Oct. 4, 2014.
The final primetime tilt on Michigan's regular-season schedule will be played at Iowa on Nov. 12. The Wolverines and the defending Big Ten Western Division champion Hawkeyes will battle at 8 p.m. EST/7 p.m. CST from Kinnick Stadium in Iowa City, Iowa. This will be the second time that the two schools have met in primetime, with Iowa winning the match-up, 30-28, on Oct. 10, 2009, at Kinnick Stadium.
The television network for the Rutgers and Iowa games will be selected at a later date. The games could be shown on ABC, ESPN or ESPN2.
The Wolverines have compiled a 29-20 all-time record in night games.
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B1G November night games --- they won't be as frequent as they are in September & October, but they will be a thing going forward.
It used to be an unspoken rule. But its been slowly flexed and pretty much broken last year. Cant miss out on that $$$$$...
It's supposed to be cold.
Says "cold."
Last December, we spent most of the month in the 50s and some 60s. The weather here is nuts, depends on whether we get a blast of arctic wind to chill it down.
laugh at you because they actually play football in January night games which is an even worse condition than in November.
Probably freeze our asses off at the Iowa game, again.
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I'm as high on this team as anybody, it will easily be our best team since '06 and has an even higher ceiling than that team did if our QB reaches the level we're all hoping/expecting. But lets not completely disregard the history here. Michigan is 3-8 in true road night games since 2008.
Wins: 2011 over 6-7 Northwestern, 2013 over 3-9 UConn, and 2015 over 6-7 Minnesota. The UConn and Minnesota games came down to the very end. I expect to obliterate Rutgers, but Iowa should be hard fought even in victory.
IIRC, Michigan hasn't beaten a ranked team on the road at any time since 2006 @ #2 Notre Dame. Going 2-1 in our three big road trips this year would a tremendous achievment for the program.
To be fair....Minnesota last year was playing out of their minds for Jerry Kill, with all of that emotion carrying them. This year, we have a lot of guys back under Harbaugh. The records of previous teams under previous coaches don't apply all that much.
Michigan is 3-8 in true road night games since 2008.How many of those games were coached by Jim Harbaugh?
means probably no. As an Iowa alumn, these games are what the fans live for in Iowa. Drink all day, drink all night. Get to the game rowdy. An underrated fan base in Iowa city
The cold would certainly reduce the speed of sound. The attenuation of the sound could also be increased if the relative humidity is rather low.
So yeah it could be quieter.
My guess is tripartite.
1) Lloyd Carr's lack of innovation and almost masochistic predictability allowed Iowa, like many teams, to play far closer against us than the talent level would otherwise have allowed.
2) Rich Rodriguez's M teams were Not Good.
3) Brady Hoke's lack of talent development and almost complete offensive incompetence played perfectly into Iowa's monodefense mindset.
But that's just a guess.
Apparently we are now Rutgers' main B1G rival. I guess we can expect a night game whenever we go to New Brunswick in the future.
They think they're rivals with PSU. So much so that they randomly chant "fuck penn state" at every game.
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While they recruit in each other's backyard - that is, a fair number of Rutgers players seem to be from central / eastern Pennsylvania and a fair amount of Penn State's roster seems to come out of New Jersey - yeah, I don't know that this was ever much of a football rivalry. I think Rutgers has a pretty long-standing rivalry with Navy though, not that this matters for Big Ten purposes. They might have the single poorest record of attempting to create rivalries in the Big Ten, in fact. I mean, who is it in hoops? Seton Hall maybe?
PSU's main rivals were Pitt and WVU, but JoePa ended both pretty much by refusing to play either one regularly because he didn't like losing. They don't have a hoops rival.. Rutgers vs PSU women's hoops maybe lol.
Penn State stopped playing Pitt after they joined the Big East behind Penn State's back in 1982.
You act like that is a bad thing.
Just where everyone wants to be: In New Jersey. At night.
Hey I was just there. It wasn't that ba...OK it was that bad.
Recruits will love it. It's good.
loss to Rutgers in 2014 lol.
Another loss thanks to a terrible call.
team was also terrible, so there is that. The call did not help though.
The Team wasn't terrible, just the coaches.
Iowa winning the match-up, 30-28, on Oct. 10, 2009, at Kinnick Stadium.
I remember this game very well, I was watching it while visiting my Grandmother while she was in care after her stroke (thought she was a goner, but she has mad a great recovery for the most part.)
If I can recall, Tate inexplicably got the hook for a very "green" Denard in the fourth quarter....and we couldn't punch it in.
Was a frustrating game that I thought we could've won.
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I remember correctly, Forcier was kind of hurt - kind of benched. I remember there being some back and forth between he and RR as to whether he was going into the game.
So much promise with the Pick 6 by Warren and then tight end mania ensued and we had no answer.
We actually could have won that game.
In 2009 against Iowa, we had what looked like a smilar play call to the 2011 Notre Dame game at the end.
Remember the pass to Gallon against Notre Dame in 2011?
Well that pass was wide open in 2009 against Iowa - the difference is Denard tried going over the top in 2009 (intercepted, game over).
In 2011, he threw it underneath and the receiver has 50+ yards of free running that led to us winning with the pass to Roundtree.
I never considered the 2011 pass against Notre Dame lucky or fluky at all because I always remembered that play.
Denard had experience and knew the correct place to go, as opposed to being inexperienced in 2009.
The Wolverines will play its Big Ten road opener against Rutgers on Oct. 8 at either 7 or 8 p.m. EDT.
Arrgh subject-verb disagreement.
We'll just agrees to disagree.
If we don't like it, can we blame Brandon for the night game in Iowa? I'm not sure were we are in the MGoBitch cycle.
I still wear my 2008 Northwestern Fandom Endurance Badge with pride. I think I'm still defrosting from that one to this day
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We give up an advantage when we don't have any night games against big opponents. The Wisconsin game would make an excellent night game for us this year. Disappionted it did not happen.
True both competitively (in terms of winning the big game itself), in terms of recruiting (better atmosphere for visiting recruits), and in terms of national publicity (more TV viewers).
Literally ridiculous that we have an administration that doesn't appreciate this. Ohio State is having a night game vs. Northwestern on Halloween and we can't have one for Wisconsin on October 1st or Penn State in September.
Well said.
doesn't like night games.
Hope we run the score up on Rutgers.
And Maryland.