Michigan to play Florida (neutral site), UCF, Air Force, SMU, home and home with UCLA
Apparently this was a leaked document. Not the first schedule leak yesterday. http://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/2018-2019-michigan-conference-schedule-rele…
EDIT: UCLA series is official. Florida game will probably be the Chick Fil A game in Atlanta.
http://www.mgoblue.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/101713aad.html
EDIT #2: Didn't see the MGoBlog poster said that the Ball State game in 2016 will be moved to 2018. The week 2 bye that is currently in place will be moved to week 4 and week 2 Michigan will face UCF at home.
October 17th, 2013 at 10:12 AM ^
October 17th, 2013 at 11:38 AM ^
We do that every 2 weeks, not years.
October 17th, 2013 at 12:31 PM ^
+1 Informative
October 17th, 2013 at 10:13 AM ^
Well if Muschamp is still at Florida, they won't even have an offense, so I think we'll be fine
October 18th, 2013 at 12:05 AM ^
October 17th, 2013 at 9:55 AM ^
If I am not mistaken, that will make for Florida, Air Force and Cincinnati for the 2017 OOC schedule and Arkansas, Ball State and SMU for 2018's OOC slate. I like the 2017 games a little better from that standpoint - I think we have Michigan State and Ohio State at home that year too.
October 17th, 2013 at 10:05 AM ^
October 17th, 2013 at 10:24 AM ^
October 17th, 2013 at 10:11 AM ^
Anyway, I'm excited Michigan will play Florida even at a neutral site. We have some success against SEC and Florida specifically. I like the Chick-Fil-A idea better than the Cowboys Classic, but that's just my opinion.
October 17th, 2013 at 1:22 PM ^
+1 Sleuthing
October 17th, 2013 at 10:14 AM ^
October 17th, 2013 at 10:35 AM ^
That's pretty nice, though as usual I am always afraid of playing service academies when they are sporting those weird offenses. That said, Florida, Arkansas (which could be decent), and Cincy feel like some decent OOC games.
October 17th, 2013 at 11:09 AM ^
October 17th, 2013 at 11:45 AM ^
Its annoying that all the big time "neutral site" games are in Texas or SEC territory. Don't know why the Pac12 and Big10 continue to let this happen.
Play some of them at the Rose Bowl or Soldier Field or Heinz Field or Glendale or something. Early season games are the best time to have them up north since it's actually nice outside. LSU is the only southern team I can think of recently to come play up north.
October 17th, 2013 at 11:47 AM ^
October 17th, 2013 at 11:21 AM ^
October 17th, 2013 at 11:27 AM ^
That joke was already made in this very post. Hurr hurr.
October 17th, 2013 at 11:32 AM ^
Wow, this is pretty darn impressive. None of those teams are slouches. Hopefully UCLA will still be good by then, but regardless, that's a pretty good matchup. And damn, I can't wait to play Florida. I figured they wouldn't dare venture north of the Mason Dixon line, but still, I like that we're putting another SEC power on the schedule.
October 17th, 2013 at 12:24 PM ^
I'm so happy that we're playing Florida at a neutral site. It'd be so lame for them to come to Ann Arbor. I mean, when FSU came to A2 in ~1991, it was such a boring weekend. All of the parties and excitement? Laaaammmmeeee. All of the fans from FSU having a blast in A2? Who cares? And then a possible return trip? To Florida? Yuck. Warm weather, tailgating, the "Swamp"? Who likes a tan anyway? And SEC stadiums have a reputation for being too quiet to be fun.
Kudos, Dave Brandon! Nothing says college football like an NFL dome in Atlanta! Why play a game on campus when there are 48 states in the Union that have nothing to do with either team playing the game?
October 17th, 2013 at 1:13 PM ^
October 17th, 2013 at 1:50 PM ^
All I see are a bunch of losses that were just added to the schedule.
October 17th, 2013 at 7:43 PM ^
October 17th, 2013 at 1:58 PM ^
F that. I hate it when M plays on the West Coast.