Notre Dame Resumption Official
[Eric Upchurch]
The Michigan-Notre Dame football series will resume on Sept. 1, 2018, when the Irish host the Wolverines in the season opener before a Oct. 26, 2019, date at Michigan Stadium.
As the previous post notes I'm surprised that it's at ND in 2018, from the perspective of both teams. I'd rather have ND on the schedule than Arkansas no matter which team gets a home date. Meanwhile having the ND game 2019 in the meat of the conference schedule is odd. Michigan has Penn State before that game and Maryland after.
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LOL - even your avatar looks angry over this.
Poor form Warde, poor form.
Good put them on the kill list. By that time we will be a finely tuned wrecking ball. Coach Harbaugh is Azor Ahai, the prince who was promised, returned to save the world from darkness and destroy our enemies.
-1 no religion?
Are we really going to include Westerosi religions in that dictate?
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Thank you ND. May I have another?
BAD WARDE. NO.
It's like Michigan is trying to punish season ticket holders . . .
"trying", they just did!
Season ticket holders have been getting punished for decades.
Notre Dame fucks up our schedule when they break up with us, now Warde lets them fuck it up again when they come back. Grow a fucking spine, Warde. I swear, I hope there is more to the story than the ND calling Warde up and saying "Hey, our strength of schedule is weak with USC being in the shitter. We're restaring our regional rivalry. Clear your schedule. Oh, by the way, we're restarting in South Bend." What are we getting in return exactly?
Delany fucked up the schedule when he made UM play in East Lansing back-to-back years.
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So we added insult to injury. Nice move warde!
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Only in regards to the Conference schedule. Our Non-confernce schedule being wacky is due to ND cancelling on short notice, and then Brandon trying to fill the holes (hence the one-off neutral site game against Florida)
*Dick slap us
FTFY
The schedule I'm looking at must be old because it shows UM playing Rutgers on the 26th with UM having open dates on 9/7, 9/14 and 9/28.
ND also has an open date on 9/7. Not sure why the game needed to be scheduled at the end of October when it could have in early September.
Isn't it obvious? That is when ND said the game will be and Warde said "no problem - whatever you want".
UM v Rutgers on 9/28.
Wow so the deal got even worse. Playing them in the middle of the conference schedule is an absolute joke. The scales on this deal were ridiculously weighted towards ND, we look like absolute tools.
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Disagree. I want to see Michigan play against the best. It's not exciting to see them steam roll a MAC team every week. (no disrespekt to MACtion).
Let's not be Wisconsin (disrespekt intended.)
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I didn't realize that. Maybe if we played them once in a while I might pay more attention. Anyway, back in the Alverez/Bert era, Wisconsin had a reputation as a program that would schedule lots of cupcakes.
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It didn't matter to the committee because they had TWO LOSSES.
I wouldn't want Michigan to get in with 2 losses. Never in the history of ever have 2 loss teams been considered eligible for a national championship. And rightfully so.
You're argument is "I don't want to play hard games because we might lose."
That's the epitome of anti-competitive cowardice. Harbaugh would be ashamed of you. I'd rather play a tough schedule, lose twice and get in the New Year's 6 than play a weak schedule and get exposed in the playoff.
A win in a New Year's 6 bowl is better than an uncompetitive loss in the first round of the playoff. 100%.
But that's my whole point. 2 losses get you boned. Unless you're a 2 loss SEC team I imagine. Stanford was the best example of this in recent memory. TCU got boned because their conference (Texas) was stupid and forwent a conference championship team. Stanford played 9 conference games plus a conference championship game. Went on the road to a B1G school that won 10 games and lost. Their second loss was to Oregon when they actually had Vernon Adams. They played a really tough schedule, and played well, and had a lot of great results. And their reward? Left out of the playoff in favor of a worse MSU team who fluked into 3 wins.
So when everyone talks about SOS being important, I'm not hearing it. All that matters is that you don't lose more than 1 game and you win your conferece (unless your the SEC). That's apparently ALL that matters. We as fans like to see great games between great teams, but if you want your team to have the best chance of making the playoffs, just do what OSU does under Meyer: play no difficult non-cons and get your 1-2 feathers in the cap during the conference season. They learned their lesson duing the Tressel era when they scheduled truely difficult non-con games a few times that they didn't pull out and it cost them a shot at the championship early. To make the playoffs give yourself the easiest road possible.
OSU under Tressel played in the BCS championship 3 times (2002, 2006, 2007), winning once (2002).
They had three seasons with losses to tough non-conference opponents (2005 v #2 Texas, 2008 v #1 USC, 2009 v #3 USC).
In 2005 OSU also lost to PSU. Undefeated Texas played undefeated USC in the NC game, so OSU would not have played anyway, since they had a conference loss.
2008 OSU lost to PSU and split the B1G title. It's debateable that OSU would have been selected ahead of the other one loss teams, since PSU would have the tie breaker. (This is the season that PSU, Texas, Texas Tech, Oklahoma, Alambama and Florida had one loss. OK lost to Florida in the championship game.
2009 OSU lost a conference game to Purdue (Danny Hope's first year). Alabama and Texas were undefeated and met in the championship game.
In conclusion, the early season losses appear to have no impact on OSU's chances of making the championship game during the Tressel era.
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