Need to think about something else, so scheduling question
Know it's a small thing, but I'll drive myself mad thinking about Saturday, I have a question about our upcoming open dates.
Has there been any news/rumors regarding the open slots in 2018/2019? Obviously the 2018 game would likely need to be a home game, as we open with Notre Dame on the road and then have SMU in week three.
The same is true in 2019, but the late Notre Dame game does seem to complicate things, and I'd rather have the late open date before the season closes with MSU, @IU and home with OSU.
With ND already on the schedule, I don't imagine we'll see a top level Power 5 opponent, though the 2019 schedule seems to cry out for at least a middle class Big 12, SEC or ACC opponent, maybe as a one-off.
Current schedules
2018
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Saturday Sep. 1 |
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at Notre Dame Fighting Irish Notre Dame Stadium, Notre Dame, IN |
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Saturday Sep. 8 |
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Saturday Sep. 15 |
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SMU Mustangs Michigan Stadium, Ann Arbor, MI |
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Saturday Sep. 22 |
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Nebraska Cornhuskers Michigan Stadium, Ann Arbor, MI |
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Saturday Sep. 29 |
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at Northwestern Wildcats Ryan Field, Evanston, IL |
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Saturday Oct. 6 |
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Maryland Terrapins Michigan Stadium, Ann Arbor, MI |
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Saturday Oct. 13 |
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Wisconsin Badgers Michigan Stadium, Ann Arbor, MI |
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Saturday Oct. 20 |
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at Michigan State Spartans Spartan Stadium, East Lansing, MI |
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Saturday Oct. 27 |
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Saturday Nov. 3 |
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Penn State Nittany Lions Michigan Stadium, Ann Arbor, MI |
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Saturday Nov. 10 |
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at Rutgers Scarlet Knights High Point Solutions Stadium, Piscataway, NJ |
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Saturday Nov. 17 |
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Indiana Hoosiers Michigan Stadium, Ann Arbor, MI |
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Saturday Nov. 24 |
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at Ohio State Buckeyes Ohio Stadium, Columbus, OH |
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2019
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Saturday Aug. 31 |
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Saturday Sep. 7 |
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Army Black Knights Michigan Stadium, Ann Arbor, MI |
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Saturday Sep. 14 |
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Saturday Sep. 21 |
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at Wisconsin Badgers Camp Randall Stadium, Madison, WI |
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Saturday Sep. 28 |
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Rutgers Scarlet Knights Michigan Stadium, Ann Arbor, MI |
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Saturday Oct. 5 |
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Iowa Hawkeyes Michigan Stadium, Ann Arbor, MI |
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Saturday Oct. 12 |
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at Illinois Fighting Illini Memorial Stadium, Champaign, IL |
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Saturday Oct. 19 |
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at Penn State Nittany Lions Beaver Stadium, University Park, PA |
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Saturday Oct. 26 |
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Notre Dame Fighting Irish Michigan Stadium, Ann Arbor, MI |
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Saturday Nov. 2 |
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at Maryland Terrapins Maryland Stadium, College Park, MD |
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Saturday Nov. 9 |
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Saturday Nov. 16 |
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Michigan State Spartans Michigan Stadium, Ann Arbor, MI |
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Saturday Nov. 23 |
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at Indiana Hoosiers Memorial Stadium, Bloomington, IN |
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Saturday Nov. 30 |
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Ohio State Buckeyes Michigan Stadium, Ann Arbor, MI |
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November 28th, 2016 at 5:04 PM ^
Pencil in a MAC team.
November 28th, 2016 at 5:06 PM ^
Not named Western Michigan.
November 28th, 2016 at 5:15 PM ^
Why? Michigan would destroy Western Michigan this year and in all remaining years to come.
November 28th, 2016 at 5:58 PM ^
I think you are thinking of the PJ FLECK, boat-rower WMU. Dude, that team is SO going to be gone by 2018 -- and probably by 2017. Fleck be so outta there. Purdue? Baylor? Oregon? Notre Dame? Or, if he waits until after next season... MSU?
November 28th, 2016 at 5:17 PM ^
a MAC team or another team from the same level conference, like the Mountain West or something similar.
November 28th, 2016 at 5:07 PM ^
Might be cool to put a basketball-rivaly spin on it: Schedule Kansas, Duke or Kentucky. Absolutely no idea if they have openings, don't care to check.
By the way, Ohio State during these same years basically just has a home and home with TCU as their "tough" out-of-conference opponent that's supposed to give them SOS cred.
November 28th, 2016 at 5:10 PM ^
Believe a basketball element may have been part of the UConn arrangement from a few years ago. The one team that might fit, even with a home and home, might be Kansas State. Or maybe Cal.
November 28th, 2016 at 7:58 PM ^
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November 28th, 2016 at 7:58 PM ^
November 28th, 2016 at 5:07 PM ^
That November 9 date is open for both Michigan and Rutgers. I mention this because that weekend is the 150th anniversary of the first intercollegiate football game, November 6, 1869.
Since I doubt Princeton would be available to play Rutgers (as they did that day in 1869), given current Ivy League rules, there's a possibility that Michigan and Rutgers, as the two oldest programs in FBS, play in a sesquicentennial showdown. You know the Big Ten would sell the crap out of that. (The only issue is that Michigan is slated to host that game, but small detail.)
November 28th, 2016 at 5:21 PM ^
Knowing the Big Ten, they'll probably schedule the game ON Wednesday, November 6 to ensure maximum crap selling capacity.
November 28th, 2016 at 5:24 PM ^
And with leather helmets!
November 28th, 2016 at 5:10 PM ^
If this season's proven anything, it's that you should schedule the weakest non con possible. Washington is about to get in with one loss if they beat Colorado. I need say no more.
Also - RS Senior Speight and Harbaugh's fourth year wrecking crew is going to absolutely demolish Notre Dame in 2018.
November 28th, 2016 at 5:35 PM ^
I hope you're wrong. Weak non-conference schedules are an embarrassment to college football. I'd much rather see Michigan take on the toughest possible opponents than see them defeat Rutgers by 78.
Wait, what do you mean, Rutgers is a division game???
November 28th, 2016 at 5:38 PM ^
2020 is a bear, as Michigan opens in Seattle and plays Virginia Tech at home in week 3.
November 28th, 2016 at 5:46 PM ^
Bring that shit to me.
November 28th, 2016 at 5:49 PM ^
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November 28th, 2016 at 7:56 PM ^
Followed by Oregon.
(Blocks punch 1. Blocks punch 2. Takes roundhouse to throat.)
November 28th, 2016 at 6:28 PM ^
November 28th, 2016 at 6:51 PM ^
to do something about playing at Sparty and at OSU in the same season. Add to that going to Notre Dame, and that is a (seemingly) tough trio of games to win.
Even if you go 2-1 in that stretch, you really do not have much room for error.
November 28th, 2016 at 7:01 PM ^
By then, the Death Star will be fully operational.
November 28th, 2016 at 7:19 PM ^
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November 28th, 2016 at 7:25 PM ^
but they trade it for a trip to Camp Randall.
November 28th, 2016 at 8:14 PM ^
Scheduling tips:
Time to tell ND thanks but no thanks and put a cupcake in their place.
Time to move the OSU game to the beginning of the year so we can recover if we lose and still make the playoffs. If your goal is to make the playoff that is. Tradition is cool and all but we are in the 4 team playoff era. When it moves to 8, put them back as the last game of the year.
It's time to demand we no longer play osu and msu on the road in the same year. For christ sakes we play ND MSU and OSU on the road in 2018. That is not acceptable.
It's time to stop getting trampled by the suits at the B1G and OSU.
November 28th, 2016 at 10:26 PM ^
WHY is Michigan always on the SHORT end of the scheduling debacles? and lets not forget TWO cnsecutive rad trips to MSU....Im sick of it
November 28th, 2016 at 10:39 PM ^
"For christ sakes we play ND MSU and OSU on the road in 2018."
not sure what manuel was thinking when he put nd back on the table for that particular year. plus i was kind of looking forward to the arkansas home and home. hopefully that will be negated by m$u going back to being a bottom dweller where they belong.
November 29th, 2016 at 11:36 AM ^
November 28th, 2016 at 8:48 PM ^
November 28th, 2016 at 10:01 PM ^
November 28th, 2016 at 11:44 PM ^
New Mexico State before...
Dunno, we could cross them off our list. I hear its nice in Las Cruces in early September.
November 29th, 2016 at 6:01 AM ^
November 29th, 2016 at 6:41 AM ^
So our last game vs ND was in South Bend, and our first game after the renewal is again in South Bend?!?!?