Michigan - ND to play at Soldier Field?
As Well...Well...Well pointed out, Soldier Field's capacity is roughly 20K people smaller than Notre Dame Stadium. If the game is anywhere close to sold out, they'd have to refund a lot of tickets.
This is not the kind of thing you can safely do this late in the year. It ain't happening.
I'll believe this when I see it, but if it's true, that would be a nice way to restart the series after Swarbrick bamboozled Dave Brandon into ending the series in South Bend.
That's the only game I have information on. I haven't heard a peep about ND/Mich moving sites.
Sounds like somebody is getting their badgers and wolverines mixed up.
City slickers.
If ND wants to give up a home game and play in front of a 60-40 crowd in Chicago that works for me.
considering our recent history, i would guess it is UM's AD that would move the home game to soldier field in 2019.
They could move a future game sure, but locations of games aren't changed unless there is some kind of natural disaster or other unforseen issue with the host stadium. ND isn't going to sacrifice a home opener to move it up the road to Chicago three months before it's scheduled to happen.
much money involved with Notre Dame coming to Ann Arbor for me to believe this is true. It seems millions would be lost. The Big House would be rocking for the Notre Dame game.
Seems too late for it to be happening this year... Wonder if it's a way of having a 3rd game in the series?
With rumors of the Washington series being cancelled, we do need to find a strong non-conference game that season.
like Alabama or Ohio St. Get Chattanooga, Akron, or Buffalo.
Non-conference of Buffalo, Ball St, and Arkansas St... Yeah, no thanks.
Also, OSU and Alabama always have strong non-conference games, so not sure why you picked those as your examples... Alabama just trades out a game against a crappy G5 team for an FCS opponent, and puts it in November.
Ohio St just cancelled, and moved forward, games with Texas and replaced them with Akron and Buffalo. They already had Bowling Green and Tulsa in those years. So now they have 2 cupcake games in each of those years.
Link: https://www.landof10.com/ohio-state/ohio-state-texas-football-scheudle-games-2025-2026
And doesn't Nick Saban always have a cupcake game?
2019 is the only year they don't have a top 20 type opponent on their schedule until 2027 currently. Just wouldn't be the example of a team I'd choose considering they've play Oklahoma the last two years, TCU this year...
http://www.fbschedules.com/ncaa/big-ten/ohio-state-buckeyes.php
And yes, Alabama makes one of their cupcake gaves extra cupcake-y, and moves it to the end of the year. But they also always open against top opponents: USC, FSU, Wisconsin.
thus the talk of M scheduling three cupcakes. Bama's P5 opponents in 2018 have 64 combined wins last year and they play one 10 win team. Michigan's P5 opponents have 84 wins and 6 10 win teams are on the schedule. Georgia's had 60 wins and one 10 win team from last year.
is about the last team to complain about non-conf schedules.
No way would this happen for this year's game. It is too close to gametime to pull a bait-and-switch on ND season ticket holders who renewed under the assumption that this would be a home game (as well as all those fans who already booked hotels).
Kelly and Swarbrick are already on thin ice with a huge amount of fans for the 4-8 season and transplantation of part of Disneyland onto Notre Dame stadium.
No - the hockey game is at Notre Dame stadium. I beleive it coincides with Blackhawks-Bruins game which is also being played at ND.
That NCAA employees are incompetent idiots
Why would ND give up a true/planned home game?
Cool, but how does M'jork D'a'ntioriana feel about this?
This won't happen this year, the tickets are already out there being sold. What happens with those tickets? But, I could definitely see them talking about doing something like this for future games. Seems like a true rumor with some inaccurate details to me.
while I agree with you that it won't actually happen, the tickets out there aren't legit yet. The tickets don't go on sale until July. The people who have them on stubhub have season tickets and post their tickets early before any other tickets are on the market hoping someone buys them WAY in advance for a much higher profit margin.
I always forget that when I'm looking for tickets. That's a good point. But haven't season tickets still been sold and renewed? It would be pretty shitty to move a marquee home game after season ticket packages have been sold.
Right. There's no way we would agree to play a rival on the road on consecutive years.
to play in a venue with 20,000 fewer seats I think Swarbrick would be out on his ass.
As should Manuel if he ever agreed to play one of our homegames against ND at a neutral site.
I'll worry about a giant meteor strike first.
Agreed. Logically it just doesn't make any sense to move the game to another location. What does ND have to gain out of losing a home game when Michigan would not giving up it's home game? I imagine they'd lose money on it (or make far less of it anyway). And why give up home-field advantage? Chicago is crawling with Michigan fans who would happily gobble up half of the seats in the stadium,
That being said, I could see both schools agreeing to schedule a future series of neutral site games together. One game in Chicago, one in Indy, etc. I don't know why you'd do that and not a home-and-home, but it could happen.
Yeah, there's just no way this is going to happen.
Expect to see the game at that cheap knock off of Michigan Stadium this fall.
Can't be this season. Too many people have hotels booked, flights arranged, and so forth. Anything of this magnitude would have to be more than a year out.
Bear's fans would like to see a good football game in their stadium once in a while too, you know!
These things have to be worked out more than a year in advance.
Given the way that ND has played our Athletic Department over and over in cancelling and resuming this rivalry, if there is a game at Soldier Field there is no way that we won't get bent over again and lose our home game.
If you have a buddy who works for the NCAA, take pity on him and help him get a respectable job.