2020 & 2021 Michigan Football schedules announced: B1G schedule still not fixed
Ugh
https://twitter.com/umichfootball/status/907680743484280832
2020
Date | Opponent |
9/5 | at Washington |
9/12 | vs Ball State |
9/19 | vs Virginia Tech |
9/26 | vs Wisconsin** |
10/3 | vs Penn State* |
10/10 | at Michigan State* |
10/17 | at Minnesota** |
10/24 | vs Purdue** |
10/31 | Bye Week |
11/7 | vs Maryland* |
11/14 | at Rutgers* |
11/21 | vs Indiana* |
11/28 | at Ohio State |
B1G Championship (Indianapolis, IN)^ | |
12/5 | TBD |
College Football Playoff^ | |
1/1 | Rose Bowl OR Sugar Bowl |
1/11 | National Championship |
2021
Date | Opponent |
9/4 | OPEN DATE |
9/11 | at Virginia Tech |
9/18 | vs Washington |
9/25 | vs Rutgers* |
10/2 | at Wisconsin** |
10/9 | at Indiana* |
10/16 | vs Michigan State* |
10/23 | Bye Week |
10/30 | at Nebraska** |
11/6 | vs Northwestern** |
11/13 | at Penn State* |
11/20 | at Maryland* |
11/27 | vs Ohio State* |
B1G Championship (Indianapolis, IN)^ | |
12/4 | TBD |
College Football Playoff^ | |
12/31 | Orange Bowl OR Bowl TBA |
1/10 | National Championship |
Keep in mind, the word is that Warde is looking to cancel the Washington series.
September 12th, 2017 at 3:47 PM ^
Poor Illini fans, going years and years without playing the biggest rivalry in college football.
September 12th, 2017 at 5:57 PM ^
September 12th, 2017 at 6:07 PM ^
by their 2012 B1G conference record and pair them off that way: you get the 3 match-ups that we've seen in the first 6-year cycle.
(U-M and PSU were actually both 6-2 in 2012, so they were tied. But place U-M higher given PSU was heading into some sanctions years)
It was probably something as simple as that. In theory, it will all equal out in the long-run (18 year cycle). Assuming Delany doesn't invite 100 more teams to the conference prior to the 18-year cycle ending, of course.
September 12th, 2017 at 6:11 PM ^
remember when everyone was mad about expansion because we wanted to keep playing Wisconsin?
But seriously, I think there's enough out there to suggest that Minnesota is coming for Wisconsin and will be just as powerful in the B1G West.
September 12th, 2017 at 3:12 PM ^
I've been waiting to map-out my fall of 2021, and here's my chance!
September 12th, 2017 at 3:24 PM ^
September 12th, 2017 at 3:14 PM ^
Win the game(s).
September 12th, 2017 at 3:15 PM ^
Sucks to not have one rival at home each year. But Warde has made it clear that "fixing" the MSU game isn't going to happen at this point.
Plus having Wisconsin/PSU at home in years MSU/OSU are away sets up pretty nicely.
September 12th, 2017 at 3:20 PM ^
As a Chicagoan, I'm mildly annoyed by the delay of a bonus home game @ Ryan Field in which Michigan wins in hilarious fashion. 2022 is so far away!
September 12th, 2017 at 3:27 PM ^
We play at Northwestern next season on September 29th, 2018!
September 12th, 2017 at 3:33 PM ^
Thanks! I retract my mild annoyance.
September 12th, 2017 at 4:04 PM ^
Michigan makes it back to Chicagoland. Looks like I'll be making the hellish trek from Lake County to Evanston next season, and all the way down to Champaign the following year.
September 12th, 2017 at 3:21 PM ^
Michigan plays Western Division WIsconsin again both years?! That'll be SEVEN years in a row! How is that balanced?
Also was really hoping the MSU/OSU imbalance would have been fixed.
September 12th, 2017 at 3:27 PM ^
This is what we get for making jokes about not playing Wisconsin from 2011-2015.
Wanna hear something depressing?
Michigan plays at Nebraska for the second time ever in 2021. Nebraska will have been in the B1G for a decade.
When Michigan hosts Northwestern in 2021, it will have been 6 years since the last time that happened.
The Little Brown Jug will be up for grabs (in the regular season..) just once from the years 2018-2021.
Meanwhile, Michigan will have played Rutgers and Maryland every single season for 8 years straight.
That just makes me sad. Hope you're happy, Dim Jelany.
September 12th, 2017 at 3:37 PM ^
Nebraska isn't a traditional member of the big ten so conference expansion is the only reason we would play them. Im not entirely sure why playing northwestern is more interesting than playing md.
Conference expansion sucks for a lot of reasons but people act like they get excited for playing purdue or northwestern or illinois when the ticket market has those games selling for $20 bucks on the secondary market. People only care about like 5 teams in the big ten and we play 3 of them in psu, osu, and msu every year.
September 12th, 2017 at 3:43 PM ^
Why do we wanna play Northwestern instead of Rutgers and Maryland?
Tradition.
September 12th, 2017 at 3:49 PM ^
Michigan used to play ohio wesleyan every year. Nobody cares that we don't anymore. The tradition of northwestern michigan is michigan winning and nobody caring.
September 12th, 2017 at 4:04 PM ^
Would rather do it against a charter B1G member than Rutgers or Maryland who I have 3 years of memories playing.
Also my first road game will probably be somewhere like Northwestern so I'd rather drive there than fly to DC or freaking Jersey
September 12th, 2017 at 4:35 PM ^
There are about 50 schools that would be a more interesting game than Northwestern. Tradition is great, its what makes playing osu so compellling. But just playing a lot of times doesn't make something great or worth preserving. The brown jug has history and is great, I like that. Playing Purdue in football is meaningless to me, I feel the same way about it that I do about playing cincy or air force. The fact that its happened a whole bunch of times before doesn't make it more meaningful.
September 12th, 2017 at 8:42 PM ^
Hosting Northwestern is pretty meh. But playing there means a trip to Chicago and Michigan fans taking over the stadium.
September 12th, 2017 at 9:42 PM ^
Exactly. If it were up to me, Michigan would play at Northwestern every year. It has nothing to do with tradition and everything to do with the fact that Evanston is adjacent to Chicago.
Although we no longer have our trip to Northwestern every other year, however, now we have either @ Rutgers or @ Maryland every year, plus the occasional @ Northwestern. So that's cool with me. Now we just need to eliminate these annoying road games against good teams at faraway places that are difficult or impossible to reach by car (Madison, Minneapolis, Lincoln, Iowa, etc.).
September 12th, 2017 at 6:34 PM ^
September 12th, 2017 at 3:28 PM ^
14 team conferences remain one of the worst things about college football.
And whose genius idea was it to schedule Washington and Va Tech on top of an already murderous conference schedule?
September 12th, 2017 at 3:36 PM ^
Win one of those games and the conference and Michigan is automatically in the playoffs.
September 12th, 2017 at 3:42 PM ^
I'll believe the CFP committee will put a two loss team in the playoff when I see it. It's pretty clear the rankings are just a reordering of the teams with the fewest number of losses. This schedule makes no sense and has no upside.
September 12th, 2017 at 3:49 PM ^
The Big Ten should be the best conference in the P5 by then. No way the winner of the best conference is left out of the CFP. Alabama could have lost to FSU this year, dropped one more along the way, and definitely would have been in if they ended up winning the SEC championship game.
September 12th, 2017 at 3:53 PM ^
Wrong on all accounts.
September 12th, 2017 at 3:56 PM ^
You make a compelling argument.
September 12th, 2017 at 3:58 PM ^
The CFP committee has never put a two loss team in the playoff ahead of a one loss team. I don't need a compelling argument.
September 12th, 2017 at 4:03 PM ^
That doesn't mean it can't happen. There has only been 3 playoffs, so the sample size is small to begin with. Whoever wins the strongest conference will automatically go to the playoffs as long as they have 2 losses or less. Also, quit up-voting yourself.
September 12th, 2017 at 4:07 PM ^
Uh, that isn't how this thing works. In fact the B1G could be the best conference this year and get left out of the playoff. Also, stop bitching about mgopoints.
September 12th, 2017 at 4:57 PM ^
They won the second strongest conference, beat the second and third best team in the conference and got passed up by a team they beat who only had one loss.
September 12th, 2017 at 5:08 PM ^
The ACC was better than the Big Ten last year. Penn State didn't lose to a Washington or Virginia Tech, they lost to unranked Pitt, then got blown out 49-10 against Michigan. They probably would have overcame the poll inertia if they lost to a better team than Pitt or at least kept the Michigan game competitive.
September 12th, 2017 at 11:11 PM ^
TING!!
It's all just talk. Wins and losses are still driving the bus even if the wins are agianst lesser teams, just like always.
September 12th, 2017 at 4:16 PM ^
Imagine 5 years ago someone saying that the Big Ten East is clearly the best division in college football, or that the SEC rapidly devolved from easily the best conference in football to Alabama and a bunch of mediocrity.
Having a horrible schedule like that is asking for an elite Michigan team to get left out of the playoff because we went 10-2. It's smart to schedule a strong OOC game because that can be your chip for getting in as a 1-loss 4-seed. Scheduling two tough non-conference games and ending as a 2-loss team sees you playing a NY6 bowl, wishing you'd just scheduled Western instead of Washington
September 12th, 2017 at 4:24 PM ^
Why are you assuming that if we lose 1 of the Wash/Va Tech games and win the B10 conference that it means we'll have 2 losses?
We could lose 1 to Wash/Va tech and go undefeated in conference play hellooooo....
September 12th, 2017 at 4:32 PM ^
When is the last time Michigan finished with an undeated B1G record?
September 12th, 2017 at 4:44 PM ^
Probably the last time Michigan had 3+ years of competent coaching and was consistently pulling in top ten recruiting classes.
September 12th, 2017 at 3:39 PM ^
The same genius who decided that ND wasn't an important rivalry, the scheduled a Thursday night season opener two years ago, that scheduled a neutral site game this year so we only have 6 home games.
etc. etc.
September 12th, 2017 at 3:40 PM ^
I'd rather watch great matchups than easy cupcake wins.
I know it ups the degree of difficulty, but that would be a difference maker with the committee when looking at teams with the same record (I know, I know, undefeated is still best). Less tangibly, playing good teams makes your team better than playing bad teams.
If they make noise it will certainly be well-deserved and a year to remember.
September 12th, 2017 at 3:45 PM ^
And when Michigan takes an L you'll be singing a different tune. Fact is until the committee puts a two loss team ahead of a one loss team in the CFP then all this schedule matters talk is just that, talk. I want to watch Michigan in the CFP. This schedule doesn't help them get there.
September 12th, 2017 at 4:02 PM ^
The answer to that is don't lose two games.
September 12th, 2017 at 4:10 PM ^
Great, and the best way to ensure you don't lose two games is to not play half the top 10 in one season. This isn't hard to understand. It's funny how the same people who bitch about not winning a B1G title since 2004 are the same ones who want to schedule all these ridiculous OOC games. The B1G is tough enough, play your one big OOC game and schedule two cupcakes like everyone else.
September 12th, 2017 at 4:26 PM ^
I feel like Maizen is on the verge of another meltdown...
September 12th, 2017 at 4:34 PM ^
I wish I could pat you on the head and give you a lolly pop because I genuinely feel bad for how stupid you are.
September 12th, 2017 at 4:36 PM ^
And you wonder aloud in threads sometimes why people say you're a dick to people on here with namecalling.
September 12th, 2017 at 4:49 PM ^
Yep, I'm totally a dick because I had the audacity to respond to a few posters in this thread and then call someone stupid when he characterized it as "another meltdown."
You got me.
PS- I couldn't give two shits what the anonymous snowflakes here think of me, so bombs away.
September 12th, 2017 at 10:09 PM ^
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September 12th, 2017 at 7:25 PM ^