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Aug. 28 at Western Kentucky
Sept. 6 VMI
Sept. 13 INDIANA (Family Weekend)
Sept. 20 at Wisconsin
Sept. 27 at UMass
Oct. 4 BUFFALO (Homecoming)
Oct. 11 at Ohio
Oct. 18 WESTERN MICHIGAN
Nov. 4 at Akron (8:00 p.m.)
Nov. 12 KENT STATE (8:00 p.m.)
Nov. 19 at Toledo (8:00 p.m.)
Nov. 28 BALL STATE

There might be 200 plays run in the Indiana game!

I don't like the late Toledo date. Also why put Family Weekend on the Indiana game?

That is one heck of a break between western and Akron.

mmisbg wrote:That is one heck of a break between western and Akron.

I don't like that at all. And I don't like that our last two games are against teams from the West.

This is weird. From WMU on, the number of days between each game ... 17, 8, 7, 9. Can we just have a consistent schedule?

At least that is better than having a "short" week game.

The break before the Akron game worries me. That game will have east division implications and there is a long break to get rested but also lose some pace. Our only home loss in 2013 is too fresh. Heck the 2008 UB game is still too fresh. Both of those disasters were following bye weeks. So that game has a big red circle around it.

daspollak wrote:I don't like the late Toledo date. Also why put Family Weekend on the Indiana game?

I HATED having the Toledo game early the past few years. It drove me nuts. Why on earth would you have one of your big money games and your biggest rival on an early weekend when you'll probably draw well regardless? I understand the one year it had to be early because the MAC was going to move us back to the West and the schedule was released very late, but I never would've expected that we would've continued to play that game before November. No great rivalries are played before the last weeks. OSU-Michigan isn't played in October. Auburn-Alabama isn't played in September. Neither should BG-UT.

"No great rivalries are played before the last weeks. OSU-Michigan isn't played in October. Auburn-Alabama isn't played in September. Neither should BG-UT."

Texas v. Oklahoma -- October 11, 2014

http://www.soonersports.com/ViewArticle ... =209299475" target="_blank

Georgia v. Florida -- November 1, 2014

http://www.sicemdawgs.com/uga-football/2014-schedule/" target="_blank


The key to a rivalry game is a consistent date, not necessarily a late season date. Moving the Toledo game around doesn't help anyone. Set a date in Mid-October and keep it there.

I am, and will always be, a fan of playing the UT game to end the season. I know it hasn't traditionally been that way, and I know that it has moved around a lot over the years. I just like it best at the end of the season...preferably the last game.

Lord_Byron wrote:"No great rivalries are played before the last weeks. OSU-Michigan isn't played in October. Auburn-Alabama isn't played in September. Neither should BG-UT."

Texas v. Oklahoma -- October 11, 2014

http://www.soonersports.com/ViewArticle ... =209299475" target="_blank

Georgia v. Florida -- November 1, 2014

http://www.sicemdawgs.com/uga-football/2014-schedule/" target="_blank


The key to a rivalry game is a consistent date, not necessarily a late season date. Moving the Toledo game around doesn't help anyone. Set a date in Mid-October and keep it there.

Georgia isn't even Florida's primary rival...that would be Florida State, and they play the final week of the season.

Ditto for Oklahoma as they play a little contest called the Bedlam Game against Oklahoma State, also the last week of the season. Now historically Oklahoma vs Texas is the bigger matchup, but more recently with Texas being very mediocre, OK vs OKST has been more often than not the game of the year in the Big XII, as it was in 2013.

hammb wrote:I am, and will always be, a fan of playing the UT game to end the season. I know it hasn't traditionally been that way, and I know that it has moved around a lot over the years. I just like it best at the end of the season...preferably the last game.

Agreed. I thought the whole idea of moving this game away from the last game of the year and playing it in October was to boost attendance and have a full stadium. The rationale being that many of the students are away for Thanksgiving break, we didn't want to compete with Michigan/OSU and it was just too darn cold in late November. To me, taking it away from that final weekend took bit of the intensity out of the rivaly and it was a bad idea.

Now we have them in late November again, but it's NOT the last game of the year AND it's in the middle of the week, so people like me who live on the other side of the state can't attend without using vacation days, whereas, out of towners would be able to attend if it were on a saturday. As we know, stadiums are generally empty on these mid week games, so what happened to wanting a full stadium for this matchup? Terrible. Pure hogwash.

Beaker wrote:Now we have them in late November again, but it's NOT the last game of the year AND it's in the middle of the week, so people like me who live on the other side of the state can't attend without using vacation days, whereas, out of towners would be able to attend if it were on a saturday. As we know, stadiums are generally empty on these mid week games, so what happened to wanting a full stadium for this matchup? Terrible. Pure hogwash.

Quite simply, ESPN cares about none of this.

MarkL wrote:This is weird. From WMU on, the number of days between each game ... 17, 8, 7, 9. Can we just have a consistent schedule?

MAC has really gotten away form set times; TBA appears yearly. Pay close attention or you will need to change plans at the last minute.