Michigan has played every Power 5 team but these 6
September 18th, 2019 at 9:08 AM ^
I'd be down with an LSU home and away. Never been to the bayou.
September 18th, 2019 at 9:11 AM ^
If a LSU series ever happens and you can get to Baton Rouge, go. If it's a night game go even if it means selling the kids. One of the very best college football experiences out there.
September 18th, 2019 at 9:19 AM ^
At first I thought sell the kids and buy tickets with the money but I think it means if you can't go because you have kids to take care of, you sell them.
September 18th, 2019 at 9:22 AM ^
I think it works both ways really.
September 18th, 2019 at 9:38 AM ^
Mine would fetch a good price. Sturdy and usually sober.
September 18th, 2019 at 9:55 AM ^
Can't sell my kids--I'm counting on them to support me in my retirement! (Although if I get a good enough price.....)
September 18th, 2019 at 9:57 AM ^
You can buy someone else's kids by then
September 18th, 2019 at 10:40 AM ^
ALL YOU PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT SELLING YOUR KIDS ARE HEARTLESS ASSHOLES AND I'M ASHAMED TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH YOU!
p a w n your children, make some $ riverboat gambling after the game, then BUY THEM BACK!
#familyfirst
September 18th, 2019 at 12:18 PM ^
you old softie. must be drinking a lot of skim milk in the jabberwock house.
September 18th, 2019 at 10:12 AM ^
I've not been there for a game, but I did visit the place once when in the area for a friends wedding. The girl I was dating at the time had gone to LSU, so she gave me a quickie (tour, you degenerates). The tiger cage is too freaking small for a tiger to actually live in, even for just game days. Nonetheless, in the brightness of a noon sun on a weekday, you could tell the football atmosphere was authentic and electric. I would love to see a night game there some time! It's definitely a CFB bucket list item...
September 18th, 2019 at 12:20 PM ^
Add Texas A & M too for a CFB experience bucket list item.
September 18th, 2019 at 11:44 AM ^
Nebraska is tough to beat. I went there for our 2012 game against them (which is the last time we played at Nebraska) and it was an amazing experience. Best gameday atmosphere in the B1G, hands down. But Baton Rouge probably has more to offer as a city than Lincoln.
September 18th, 2019 at 12:00 PM ^
Bourbon Street/French Quarter is about 1.5 hours drive from Baton Rouge. It makes for a fun night before the game. Hopefully it's a night game though. Need to time to sleep off the hangover before getting lit again at the tailgate.
September 19th, 2019 at 9:57 PM ^
Wow you went, and REMEMBERED IT?
I question your authenticity sir... going to an LSU game as a spectator means that you are required to have at least 2x the legal limit of alcohol in ones body. Fact remains that you'd be incredibly intoxicated by just breathing the fumes in the air. My guess, is that you went... but don't really remember the experience! C'mon fess up... you ended up in a hotel room with panties on backwards, a bar of soap in your hand, and two naked chicks in the bathtub.
Spill the beans!
September 18th, 2019 at 9:25 AM ^
100%. That environment would be a blast.
September 18th, 2019 at 9:30 AM ^
Home-and-home*
September 18th, 2019 at 5:16 PM ^
LSU would never go for a home and home. They would want one game in Death Valley (home for LSU) and one game at a neutral site, say, Atlanta.
September 18th, 2019 at 7:16 PM ^
Or one game at a neutral site, say New Orleans.
September 18th, 2019 at 2:08 PM ^
Death Valley where LSU plays, is no joke. My guess is it would be a night game and absolutely lit!
September 18th, 2019 at 9:16 AM ^
We should have had LSU in the Fiesta Bowl last year.
September 18th, 2019 at 9:18 AM ^
You mean fans weren’t exited about playing Florida for the 5th season in a row???
September 18th, 2019 at 10:52 AM ^
That whole deal was so bizarre. UCF wanted Florida. Florida (fans and AD) wanted UCF.
September 18th, 2019 at 10:37 AM ^
We were very close to playing them in the Sugar Bowl in 2001. If Spartan Bob hadn't screwed us in East Lansing, we would have represented the conference in the Sugar Bowl against LSU (since we won the head-to-head with Illinois) because the Rose Bowl was the national title game that year.
But we were playing HORRIBLE football at the end of that season and it probably wouldn't have turned out much different than that trainwreck Citrus Bowl game.
September 18th, 2019 at 11:50 AM ^
The Tennessee team we lost to in that Citrus Bowl was a national title contender until they lost in the SEC Championship Game. They took their frustration out on us, and we were probably unmotivated after a disappointing season and the first of what would be many losses to Ohio State in the Tressel-Meyer eras.
September 18th, 2019 at 2:21 PM ^
Tennessee Michigan was one of the most lopsided matchups I can recall in bowl history. Automatic bowl tie ins and a BCS that had yet to evolve really screwed us.
Tennessee was national title contender good as you said.
September 18th, 2019 at 9:17 AM ^
Would be nice to play some of these in a bowl game but apparently we have an automatic tie in with Florida
September 18th, 2019 at 9:34 AM ^
I think if we play Florida one more time they should have to join the Big 10. Trade with Rutger.
September 18th, 2019 at 10:25 AM ^
13 out of 14 Big Ten schools agree.
September 18th, 2019 at 10:39 AM ^
I honestly don't even think Rutger wants to be in the Big Ten.
September 18th, 2019 at 12:02 PM ^
Rutger is like the kid who gets beat up in the cafeteria at lunch every day and wishes he could escape it somehow but just can't. His teacher won't let him eat lunch in the library, and his parents won't let him transfer schools because they sold everything they had and took second jobs to be able to afford living in that school district to begin with.
September 18th, 2019 at 12:27 PM ^
That's a really detailed analogy.
September 18th, 2019 at 12:45 PM ^
Is Rutger's situation hitting a little too close to home, Frank?
September 18th, 2019 at 12:49 PM ^
I TOLD THEM I NEEDED THE INHALER FOR MY ASTHMA BUT THEY DIDN'T LISTEN
September 18th, 2019 at 9:18 AM ^
I would be happy if we play any of these teams in the CFP this year.
September 18th, 2019 at 10:32 AM ^
I'd be happy if we play Misty for Me in the CFP for crying out loud.
September 18th, 2019 at 9:25 AM ^
we'll play clemson this year, in the NC game.
September 18th, 2019 at 9:35 AM ^
My first thought too
September 18th, 2019 at 9:35 AM ^
You forgot Iowa. Michigan has never played Iowa. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it. /s
September 18th, 2019 at 9:41 AM ^
I have also never played golf to my true potential. There is a tour pro inside me but conditions have never been precisely right for his emergence. It will happen though, probably the next time I play. Or the time after that.
September 18th, 2019 at 12:00 PM ^
Nice finale - next time, or the time after that. Never give up
September 18th, 2019 at 10:29 AM ^
We've played Iowa plenty of times, just never at Kinnick, ever.
September 18th, 2019 at 2:18 PM ^
I hear they have pink locker rooms for visitors, but we've never been, so it's just a rumor
September 18th, 2019 at 9:38 AM ^
Now that Miles isn't at LSU anymore I'd like to see a home and home with them; none of that neutral site BS.
It would be nice if the SEC weren't such pussies unwilling to play in the cold. Get Bama up here in late November and see how well they can play in the snow.
September 18th, 2019 at 9:40 AM ^
LSU played Wisky at Lambeau...just saying.
September 18th, 2019 at 9:48 AM ^
In August, Not much cold in Wisconsin in August.
September 18th, 2019 at 12:06 PM ^
You do realize that the overwhelming majority of nonconference games are played in the first three weeks of the season, right?
September 18th, 2019 at 9:50 AM ^
On September 3rd. It would be awesome in the years where we have two bye weeks to have a non-conference game against an SEC team at home in late October (like ND this year). Although that probably means a return trip to their place in August/September the next year when it will be scorching.
September 18th, 2019 at 9:59 AM ^
The only way that happens is with an 8 or 16 team playoff that starts out at campus sites, which I'm totally for. Look at ND-USC. They always play at USC in November, even though it would be to ND's advantage to play that game in South Bend in late November. I would say ND needs that game more than USC, so they won't rock the boat.
September 18th, 2019 at 1:38 PM ^
Alabama played a home and home with penn state. LSU played Wisconsin in lambeu. Arkansas was gonna play is home and home. Your argument is invalid
September 18th, 2019 at 9:42 AM ^
Unfortunately I wouldn't hold out hope for a Michigan/LSU home-and-home anytime soon. SEC teams almost universally refuse to play anyone outside of the SE footprint and even when they do it's at a neutered NFL venue (like LSU/Wisconsin at Lambeau). I guess Bama and PSU did do a true home-and-home back in 2010/2011 but PSU wasn't that good.