2015 MAC Schedule

[jpfalcon09]

Some games are leaking out. BG does not play Miami again this year.

Home

Ohio
Akron
UMass
Toledo

Away

Kent State
Buffalo
2 MAC West opponents

[TG1996]

Some games are leaking out. BG does not play Miami again this year.

I'm pretty sure that BS was expected, right?

Next year's slate is about as tough as we've seen, especially if the West road games are against anyone not named EMU.

[Falconfreak90]

Tired of playing UMass and not Miami. Get them out of the MAC already. lol

[Statmanmatt]

If we're playing 2 MAC West teams on the road this year, it will almost certainly come from the group NIU, Central Michigan and Ball State.

BGSU hasn't played in DeKalb since 2008, in Muncie since 2009 or in Mt. Pleasant since 2010. In fact, the Falcons haven't played the Chips at all since that meeting in 2010.

[AyZiggy97]

The most interesting part will be whether they end up with 7 road games and 5 home games. Memphis is the only non conference home game, unless someone arranges some sort of swap that replaces Maryland or Purdue.

[Falcon137]

I would assume BG would return the WMU and Ball State home games from this past year.

One of the toughest and also most appetizing schedules in a long time. AAC Champ, Memphis ; MAC rivals, OU, Akron, and Toledo, a improving UMass team at home.

Fun destination road game against Tennessee in Nashville, easy trip to West Lafayette for Purdue, easy trip to my favorite MAC town outside of BG, Kent. Even Maryland isn't a bad trip. Non stop flight into Dulles or National, 30-45 minute drive to College Park.

I'm looking forward to next year.

[footballguy51]

Yes, we will have 7 road games next year. Considering this isn't going to happen every year, I'm okay with it. It wasn't too long ago that we had 7 road games every year for 3 or 4 straight years it seemed. Then it was a problem.

[MarkL]

We live half an hour from College Park. I will be buying tickets as soon as they are on sale.

And I did my MS at Purdue. While I was a student Purdue went 2-2 against the MAC and have lost to a MAC team the last two years. Tempting to go to that one also. It would be a bit of a homecoming for me.

[Falcon137]

Unless something unexpected happens, expect 2 midweek home MACtion games (Toledo and either Akron or OU?). And probably 1 more weeknight road game + a road Black Friday game.

Likely only 3 Saturday home games and only 1 in September. That does suck. I've had season tickets since I graduated, but, I may opt to go the single game rout this year.

[BGSU33]

I think at CMU will be one of the MAC West games.

[BGSU33]

I believe the schedule was released last year on February 28 so I would expect a similar time for release this year again too.

[jpfalcon09]

WMU and Ball State on the road this year, confirmed by the Sent-Trib.

[mscarn]

7 away games compared to 5 home games is unacceptable and doesn't put the program in the best chance to win.

Losing that opening home game is devastating. The weather is warm, the optimism is high, the crowd is usually the largest of the year and we almost always win. I hope $1.2 million is worth depriving the community and program of that experience.

You don't schedule that game when you're already playing two Big 10 teams on the road and the MAC slate is primed to be as difficult as it is.

[MarkL]

Let's recap the schedule:
At Tennessee. Hot off a big bowl win and a team returning starters all over the place, considered the "trendy" SEC East pick next year
At Purdue. Two down years with Coach Hazell, but the 2015 team will return a huge amount of 2014 starters. This is a young team
At Maryland. Decent Big Ten debut, solid defense, will be breaking in a new QB, and will be replacing future NFL star WR (if he can stay healthy) Stefon Diggs. Lots of good young talent in place.
Home vs Memphis. Defending AAC champs. Finished 10-3, including a nice bowl win over a good BYU team
MAC East schedule includes no game against what may be one of the weaker teams and one of our biggest rivals, MU
MAC West schedule includes two of the four bowl eligible West teams and a team that had been bowl eligible from 2011 - 2013. Teams we went 0-3 against in 2014.
4 home conference games, only 1 home non conference game. No FCS team for fine tuning. Only 5 of 12 games are at home.

Wow. Talk about a schedule! I cannot imagine any team in the country playing a rougher OOC schedule than what we've got. It is quite telling that our weakest OOC opponent is a Big 10 team. Our lovely conference imbalance means we miss out on a weak division opponent and play an extra game against the west. This is one rough, rough schedule. I do hope that the team and the coaching staff view the schedule not as rough or unfair, but as full of opportunities to shine.

Assuming Matt Johnson is back and healthy and he stays that way, and assuming our offense makes good strides, I do think we've got the kind of offense in 2015 that can successfully navigate this schedule and come up with some nice, solid wins. Defense will be replacing much of the front 7, but we know there are lots of very talented young defensive players that will be playing next year.

[mscarn]

Let's recap the schedule:
At Tennessee. Hot off a big bowl win and a team returning starters all over the place, considered the "trendy" SEC East pick next year
At Purdue. Two down years with Coach Hazell, but the 2015 team will return a huge amount of 2014 starters. This is a young team
At Maryland. Decent Big Ten debut, solid defense, will be breaking in a new QB, and will be replacing future NFL star WR (if he can stay healthy) Stefon Diggs. Lots of good young talent in place.
Home vs Memphis. Defending AAC champs. Finished 10-3, including a nice bowl win over a good BYU team
MAC East schedule includes no game against what may be one of the weaker teams and one of our biggest rivals, MU
MAC West schedule includes two of the four bowl eligible West teams and a team that had been bowl eligible from 2011 - 2013. Teams we went 0-3 against in 2014.
4 home conference games, only 1 home non conference game. No FCS team for fine tuning. Only 5 of 12 games are at home.

Wow. Talk about a schedule! I cannot imagine any team in the country playing a rougher OOC schedule than what we've got. It is quite telling that our weakest OOC opponent is a Big 10 team. Our lovely conference imbalance means we miss out on a weak division opponent and play an extra game against the west. This is one rough, rough schedule.

Assuming Matt Johnson is back and healthy and he stays that way, and assuming our offense makes good strides, I do think we've got the kind of offense in 2015 that can successfully navigate this schedule and come up with some nice, solid wins.

I think we'll be a much better team overall next year and end up with fewer wins because of the schedule. The league schedule (as you mentioned) breaks against us significantly and the OOC gauntlet could very well cost us a bowl game. Babers will be put to the test to have this team in the right frame of mind.