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.
Iowa game maybe our toughest game of the year.
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Rivalry standpoint, yeah, OSU will be tough. Meyer always recruits well, but they will be returning 7 starters. New RBs, WRs, and most of the O-line, most of the D-line and secondary.
Night game at Kinnick, team returning 15 starters, defending B1G West champions, Michigan bringing in a 1st-year starting QB in a place that has always given Michigan teams fits going back to the Bo days.
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OSU has been great forever, and they will be great forever. Our only option is to be even better.
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2011 was their only losing season in the past 25 years. In '99 they were 6-6.
Before that you're going back to the 60's to find another.
I forgot they were only 6-6 in 1999. They didn't make a bowl that year.
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4-6-1 in John Cooper's first year. God how I miss that man.
But I mostly agree with you: they have an occasional down season, but there aren't too many of them.
Forgot about Cooper's first year.
EDIT: Nevermind. 1988 was more than 25 years ago, so I was right the first time.
"Before that you're going back to the 60's to find another."
Does not affect your point in the slightest.
Yeah, but they weren't unstoppable in '99...i'm sure there are plenty of other examples where they were certainly beatable. Having said that, by and large I agree with you.
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Nice revisionist take on things
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Self-serving revisionism.
No, suggesting the only reason we lost to OSU is because we "shot ourselves in the foot" is not actual truth.
The actual truth is that we played the games....and lost.
The truth is, Tressel had Carr's number, albeit he was a cheater. OSU was "punished" by the NCAA with one throwaway year and then an upgrade from Tressel to Meyer. Meanwhile, between the gaming pass Carr by, premature self-canibalization of our coach, a bogus NCAA punishment, Dave Brandon and everthing that came after, they pulled away from us.
Of course we lost the games we lost. The reasons above are why.
This idea that the game passed by never made any sence to me. he was 11-2 his next to last season, An OSU victory away from a national championship game. He also had a winning record his last year with a walking MASH unit. The Carr being passed by thing came from the Rich Rod hire who we were told had a schematic advantage because he ran the best offense ever created ever even though, If you look at it, winning games has to be the measuring stick. He didn't.
Running a very similar offense to Carrs now.
2006 was built upon recruits from years before and ended with the defense getting torn apart by two good offenses. That season was bracketed by a 7-5 season (worst of his by record) and a final season that featured the horror and absolute destruction by the ducks. Our inability to handle the spread has been well documented. Our conservative strategy keeping us in games we shouldn't have been in has been well documented. His poor recruiting at the end has been more than well documented.
It doesn't take much projection to see that the glory years had past. I'm certain things would have gone better than under RR and Hoke, but playing second fiddle to OSU would have still been the status quo.
Because for some, Michigan just doesn't lose games. There has to be a clear explanation as to what caused us to not win.
for hiring a coach that was never going to fit in at Michigan (hindsight being 20/20), and Brandon gets some blame for hiring a subpar coach to replace the first coach.
Tressel had Carr's number and after he retired we did spend the next several years shooting ourselves in the foot, repeatedly.
but what I always say is that good teams show up with a loaded gun, and politely aim it at the flawed teams foot for them.
They just let them pull the trigger when they're ready.
Ummmm they really haven't. Since 1990 they've had two 6-win seasons. That's the worst they've done.
In fact, in that 25 year span, they've had 17 double digit winning seasons, compared to 9 for UM
"apparently, it's impossible to kill the bastard!"
Great flick, nice reference
A night game at Iowa will be difficult, no doubt, but not any more difficult than going to East Lansing or Columbus.
I'm sure everyone is aware of how much OSU lost, and I'm not discounting it, but they were also obviously insanely talented to begin with--to the point where I think Beck had his hands tied trying to please too many egos.
So while maybe now they are at least in the same stratosphere as the rest of the B1G in terms of talent, they still have Barrett at the helm and their monster 2014 class should be coming into its own. Urbz late season adjustments to Beck's playcalling also stand out as indication that their offense will likely be as powerful as ever. I'm not sure about their defense, but they do bring in Nick Bosa who sounds like a college-ready terror.
As Iowa goes, I still think they were about the 4th best team in the conference last year. They return a lot, sure, but they also are the sort of team I feel more comfortable playing than a high powered spread. Long story short, I'll say OSU, Iowa, then MSU are hardest three games in order.
I'd put Sparty ahead of Iowa. To me there's The Game, then there's a big drop in difficulty to Sparty, then almost the same size drop in difficulty to Iowa.
You also have to consider that we always play them the last game of the season. Yeah, they will have a ton of new guys, but they'll have an entire seasn under their belt by the time we play them.
Iowa has already had their one good year this decade.
The Hayden Fry/Kirk Ferentz traditional MO is one great year, followed by a bunch of mediocre outfits. I see them recreating the success of last year only because of the B1G West. But otherwsie, they will be nothing special.
...but UM's lost to Iowa 14 times. Ever.
By comparison, they've lost to tOSU 14 times while I was typing this comment.
Do you know Michigan has a losing record against Iowa since 2000? (5-6).
Nothing compared to our 'record' against OSU, but Iowa has played us tough this decade.
but I'd honestly say that Iowa has been playing relatively normal, and it's been Michigan that's just been playing "soft" for a decade.
Until now.
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How is your mother doing?
She hasn't called in a minute
His mother is over at TIMAAAAAAY's house.
I hope we play 5 night games total, actually.
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WD was deftly referring to the BTCG, a semifinal (assuming whichever is the night game) and the NCG.
Deft!
can't be reasoned with. They just want to see the WD burn...
Michael Caine was the best Alfred.
He was. That trilogy was the best Batman set of movies as well