Michigan-Notre Dame to resume in 2018!
This is excellent news in my opinion. And so soon! As noted below, this will require a schedule adjustment for Michigan -- seemingly Arkansas will be cut -- in 2018. The tweet:
Source: #Michigan and #NotreDame to announce their football rivalry series will resume play in 2018. Announcement expected tomorrow.
— Jay Sarkar (@WLNSJaySarkar) July 7, 2016
It's gonna be 2018-2019 and then take a break, unless Michigan starts cancelling everything.
2020 non-conference is already set.
- 9/5 at Washington
- 9/12 vs Ball State
- 9/19 vs Virginia Tech
2021
- 9/4 Open Date
- 9/11 at Virginia Tech
- 9/18 vs Washington
I doubt UT or OU will be cancelled, they are both so far off.
UCLA is in marginally more danger. I think we should keep UCLA though, big time school with lots of academic similarites to U of M and good to get that Californian exposure.
I'd like to see us rotate this way to rate and see as many different P-5 teams in a six year span as possible.
While I'm sorry to see that Arkansas seems like it will get pushed off the schedule, it was not a marquee game IMO - just a potentially good one. Texas and Oklahoma are match-ups of historic programs.
Also, I wonder if Arkansas will agree to reschedule their game rather than take the $2M. Seems to me that there's more upside to an Arkansas - Michigan game to Arkansas than to us. Our program is historically shinier and currently shinier.
I didn't realize we had UW and VT in the same years. With a nine game conf schedule, that's brutal (assuming VT stays at least decent without Beamer, which certainly isn't a given, they could tank).
might say that decent is a generous way to describe VaTech in the later years of Beamer's tenure.
They def weren't "good" in his last four years, but they won bowl games in three of them and went 8-5 in the other. So by my definition, I'd say they were still "decent". Other could disagree on that definition.
Yes! One of college footballs greatest rivalries resumes! Hell yeah!
Less ND chicken, more DB asshole, methinks...
Arkansas is like the Minnesota/Indiana of the SEC. No comparison to ND.
We should have Notre Dame 2 on, 2 off type of deal. Or 2 on, 4 off, but regardless, it's an important game to play. Harbaugh thinks so himself, as does Hackett; I trust them plus the historic, national-attention grabbing nature of the rivalry.
Arkansas has never won an SEC title. Ever.
They joined in 1992, so kind of recent, but both Wisconsin and Michigan State have multiple Big Ten titles since 1992. And it's not like the SEC was the best conference in the 1990s, or very early aughts, like it is today.
So not quite like MSU/Wisconsin historically and certainly not contemporarily.
MSU hasn't come close to hitting the 600 number yet. IIRC AR is around 22-25 and I think WI is closer to them. I wouldn't even know about MSU if it weren't for their fans and the noise they've made lately. In fact, that's how I know about- won't try to quote it - but WI's and ARK both have superior numbers. We aren't the only fan base they screw with. They were making noise at the Badgerts too. They shouldn't do shit like they do. They always forget most people are only a keystroke away from google.
Kentucky is the IU of the SEC.
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Uh guys..........I just looked at 2019 closer.........how in the fuck is this going to work?
If we get the home game in 2018, that'd be logical but the thing is we'd only have FIVE home games in 2019.
If we don't get the home game in 2018.......we'll have to play all 3 rivals on the road AGAIN.
How are you counting five? We'd have Iowa, Rutgers, MSU, OSU, plus two more home games. Arkansas is going to cancelled from this list.
http://www.fbschedules.com/ncaa-19/2019-michigan-wolverines-football-sc…
I think we could still get up to 6.
We only will have 4 Big Ten home games that year.
Assuming an @Notre Dame in 2019, we would have still have 3 open dates, with one being a bye.
Thus two open dates to schedule home teams, and that doesn't even include cancelling Arkansas.
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No it has not.
Just can't wait to get on the road again
The life I love is kicking Irish ass with my friends
On the road again
They don't have an opening on that date. Their all-important clash with Ball State is that day.
Both ND and Ball St have an open date on 9/1. ND moves their game with BSU to 9/1, and play Michigan on 9/8.
In any case, if Michigan drops Arkansas for ND, they still need another game for 2018.
I thought at first 2018 was booked but it looks like there is an open spot. I can't understand, if that's the case, why they would cut Arkansas.
EDIT: Looks like FBschedules had not added Ball State for 2018. Schedule was booked.
And did anybody tell Ball State?
It is ND that has scheduled Ball State in 2018. I guess it's a big deal because it will mean all four IN FBS programs have played the other three.
They cancelled the series so they should have to make room in 2018 if they want to play UM. Shouldn't be UM catering to their needs. This is sounding like a bullshit deal.
YES!!!!!
Love this rivalry. Nothing quite like beating those pompous assholes. Plus, nice to have an academic rival bc obviously MSU/OSU are not up to snuff in that regard.
GO HARBAUGH AND HACKETT AND WARDE!
You are forgetting Rutgers
My wife took this photo while on vacation. The people were nice enough, until you started talking football. Given the news, this seems appropriate...
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"To Hell with Notre Dame"
Glenn E. "Bo" Schembechler
And I think it is; that's why I posted as I did. However, when Brandon is involved be careful.
He claims he reache out to a fellow by the name of Jim Harbaugh prior to hiring Brady Hoke. The only truth in that is he spoke to Harbaugh before hiring Brady Hoke. WE could have had a three year bump instead of an extended work zone. I just don't trust Brandon for Brandon's sake. He is one of Bo's failure, and it's not your fault coach. Even the son you work hardest with will disappoint because all people just aren't wired the same.
Was looking forward to a break from ND for at least a few more years. Was also looking forward to playing Arkansas and other schools we don't usually play.
Sigh. I really don't understand the obsession some in our fanbase have with playing ND. Yes, it's cool cause we're both historical schools and all that, but we should be playing them occasionally, not all the damn time.
I consider this news displeasing.
