Michigan could possibly schedule Air Force in 2022
Doing some searching after the schedule changes recently on who could fill those remaining open dates in 2022 and 2023. I went through every single FBS team schedule for 2022 and found only FOUR teams that I believe Michigan would schedule for their only open date on September 17 2022.
Keep in mind, Warde has stressed his commitment to having 7 home games minimum every year. The makes a home and home with a Power 5 team unlikely and the Power 5 teams that have open dates on 9/17/2022 aren’t ones who are gonna come play here and not get a return game ala Colorado in 2016. For example, Florida State has an opening that date.
Think Group of 5 opponents. Well it turns out there are only FOUR G5 teams with open dates on 9/17/2022. Michigan has never faced 3 of the 4-
Air Force
FIU
Kent State
Troy
Our other scheduled non-conf games for 2022 are 9/3 vs Colorado State and 9/10 vs Hawaii.
October 29th, 2019 at 10:36 AM ^
FFS, choose Kent State and be done.
October 29th, 2019 at 11:59 AM ^
This thread should have the word "WILD ASS SPECULATION" appended as a prefix.
It could be Kent State just as easily as Air Force, or several other teams.
October 29th, 2019 at 2:53 PM ^
If I’m Warde I don’t schedule a service academy. I’m ready to schedule easy, rack up a ton of wins, get a high ranking (even if overrated, idgaf) and repeat a la Georgia, Alabama, Clemson, etc. The CFP committee has shown repeatedly that they do not penalize weak schedules as long as your recruiting is good.
October 29th, 2019 at 12:38 PM ^
That would wind up being the biggest massacre Kent State will have experienced since . . .
. . .
. . . you know what, I ain't going there.
October 29th, 2019 at 1:39 PM ^
Too soon?
October 29th, 2019 at 10:37 AM ^
If this is done, Warde needs to be booted from his position.
What a shit schedule.
October 29th, 2019 at 10:43 AM ^
Tour de Mountain West
October 29th, 2019 at 11:39 AM ^
According to their website, Southern Miss also has 17Sep2022 and 09Sep2023 dates open. They are FBS in ConfUSA.
As does TCU.
October 29th, 2019 at 12:44 PM ^
Is that sensibility and reason you are bringing to the discussion? I’m going to have to ask you to leave now, sir
October 29th, 2019 at 2:03 PM ^
Sorry. I forgot where I was. Where is my head
October 29th, 2019 at 12:19 PM ^
8-0 OSU and Alabama don’t mind having a shitty NC schedule. It’s what the four team CFP created.
October 29th, 2019 at 2:46 PM ^
Alabama typically schedules extremely aggressively out of conference, it didn't work out that way this year due to some politics around the ACC/SEC Chick Fil A kick off, but Alabama is usually very willing to do marquee early season matchups (as long as you'll do them in a neutral site game located close to where they want to recruit).
Ohio State got markedly less frisky about OOC scheduling when Tressell left.
October 29th, 2019 at 3:52 PM ^
Yeah as long as they dont have to leave the South
October 29th, 2019 at 12:29 PM ^
Why would you want to schedule anyone good when all the committee cares about is how many games you lose?
October 29th, 2019 at 1:41 PM ^
that is not all the committee cares about.
October 29th, 2019 at 2:11 PM ^
Yes, it is. Unless you're Alabama.
October 29th, 2019 at 2:43 PM ^
You get extra points for being in the SEC or being Clemson.
October 29th, 2019 at 12:34 PM ^
SOS doesn't really help you at all when it comes to playoffs. Everyone says they want to make the playoffs but complain if we schedule ooc games like schools that make the playoffs ?♂️
October 29th, 2019 at 2:06 PM ^
The only benefit strength of schedule serves is as a tie breaker. Like if there are three teams with undefeated records and two conference champs with 1 loss. So its not completely useless, but its clear the committee adheres more to the old BCS model where the best win loss records get first priority. Therefore, its better to have an easy schedule with 1 or 2 big wins mixed in over having a murderers row schedule.
October 29th, 2019 at 2:08 PM ^
The home schedule that year is absolute butt:
Colorado State
Hawaii
Maryland
Penn State
Nebraska
Illinois
Indiana
No rivalry games. Basically it's Penn State and a bunch of teams that go 5-7 in an average year. It would be nice to get another P5 home game, but it will be hard to get a team with some prestige without giving up a road game. Maybe he could swing a 2-for-1 deal like we had with Colorado in the 90s.
October 29th, 2019 at 5:09 PM ^
Nebraska might have their act together by then.
October 29th, 2019 at 10:38 AM ^
M already has 7 home games in 2022.. I'd guess 9/17/22 will be the road half of a home-and-home with 9/9/23 being the home half.
October 29th, 2019 at 10:42 AM ^
I mean if we’re having 8 home games I don’t think that’s a deterrent. He’s just said a minimum of 7.
If we scheduled a P5 team we’d have 2022 road games at said-P5 team, Iowa, MSU and OSU.
October 29th, 2019 at 10:47 AM ^
It could also be the international game. International game 2022, home game 2023
October 29th, 2019 at 10:50 AM ^
Michigan-Rutger 2022 will be played in Moscow with Hotel Putingrad doing the coin toss.
October 29th, 2019 at 11:07 AM ^
Or he might arm wrestle a bear
October 29th, 2019 at 11:05 AM ^
Came here to make sure someone posted this.
Well done.
October 29th, 2019 at 10:38 AM ^
Kent State or Troy if we have brain in our collective head.
If we schedule another service academy I will go from mildly disliking Warde to being convinced he's been compromised and is actually an OSU asset.
October 29th, 2019 at 11:59 AM ^
Didn't Troy beat LSU last year?
I'd go with Kent St. No way they are a risk.
October 29th, 2019 at 12:21 PM ^
Didn't Troy beat LSU last year?
Two years ago, but yeah, Troy is usually a very solid G5 program.
October 29th, 2019 at 10:41 AM ^
October 29th, 2019 at 10:42 AM ^
Schedule THE Citadel if it has to be a military school.
October 29th, 2019 at 10:48 AM ^
Too tough. Let's schedule Archbishop Moeller and sell some t-shirts there.
October 29th, 2019 at 11:14 AM ^
Is The Citadel better or worse than VMI? Hell, Let’s schedule the US Coast Guard Academy Bears.
October 30th, 2019 at 2:47 AM ^
I was also going to suggest VMI; the Citadel was leading Alabama in the 2Q last year. We can't take a chance with them.
October 29th, 2019 at 12:47 PM ^
But can The Citadel bring the epic flyover that The Air Force Falcons can?
October 29th, 2019 at 10:42 AM ^
Commence the collective freaking out about playing a Service Academy....
October 29th, 2019 at 11:00 AM ^
There’s a legitimate reason for that....
Just because people are paranoid, it doesn’t mean they’re wrong.
October 29th, 2019 at 12:16 PM ^
Paranoia, they destroy ya. - Ray Davies
October 29th, 2019 at 11:50 AM ^
I mean...we almost lost to a bad Army team like a month ago, remember?
October 29th, 2019 at 12:19 PM ^
That was our fault, not theirs.
See TrustBlue's post below for why we don't want another service academy...
October 29th, 2019 at 11:53 AM ^
Sure lets keep scheduling triple option teams that force you to spend half the offseason preparing to defend them, so we can turn around and get trucked by Wisconsion.
October 29th, 2019 at 12:24 PM ^
I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that Don Brown didn't spend half of his time in the offseason preparing for Army, a team that his defense held to 14 points in regulation....on two TD's that came after Michigan turnovers (drives of 40 and 60 yards).
In fact, I'd suggest that he would have been better served preparing for Wisconsin in the offseason so he didn't have to line Jordan Glasgow up against OG's.
October 29th, 2019 at 12:32 PM ^
Agreed... they passed a total of 3 times the entire game correct?
October 29th, 2019 at 1:49 PM ^
Maybe not “half his time”, but I’m not sure it’s the limb you want to stand on.
This is something that has been on our mind a long time,” Harbaugh said of Army. “We’ve been preparing for it, as I said before, all Don’s extra time, he’s created time and now it’s almost every day going back to spring practice. Not taking away time preparing for league games and the opener, but creating extra time. And now fulltime this week preparing for Army.
October 29th, 2019 at 10:43 AM ^
None of those are going to happen. It will be a Power 5 opponent, maybe not a home and home but I can't see it not being a Power 5, a low level Power 5 at that. Hell, going through 3 teams, Duke has 9/17/22 open and I only had to go 3 deep to find them. I'm sure there are others.
Edit: Just went one team further, Florida State has both the 2022 and 2023 dates Michigan has to fill open.
Edit 2: Just bouncing around now and LSU has both dates open too. It can literally be a dozen teams or so at this point.
October 29th, 2019 at 10:46 AM ^
But Duke isn’t going to play 3 straight road games at P5 teams. They’ve got 9/10 at Northwestern and 9/24 at Kansas with only one home non conf home game.
October 29th, 2019 at 10:43 AM ^
So we're posting this as news? Because both schools have an opening on that date? With no other evidence other than the fact that there isn't a scheduling conflict preventing them? Really?