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about time!! i'm excited for hockey season and to see what kind of year we'll have. im curious though, why is it that with michigan and michigan state we always have home and homes for the weekend series' when we play them twice anyway...why not just do two games in one place

by setting up that way neither school has that added expense of hotels and meals. But I agree that it was better when it was a weekend home stand at each location.

MACMAN wrote:by setting up that way neither school has that added expense of hotels and meals. But I agree that it was better when it was a weekend home stand at each location.

What I don't get is how come we play Notre Dame, Michigan, and Michigan State home & away each series, but Ohio State is either home/home or road/road. That makes no sense. Columbus is just over 2 hours from BG, certainly not any farther than South Bend.

Edit: I see they changed the ND series this year to home/home and away/away as well. Weird.

Looksl like a tough but exciting schedule!

bgsufalcon24 wrote:What I don't get is how come we play Notre Dame, Michigan, and Michigan State home & away each series, but Ohio State is either home/home or road/road. That makes no sense. Columbus is just over 2 hours from BG, certainly not any farther than South Bend.

Edit: I see they changed the ND series this year to home/home and away/away as well. Weird.

We are cluster mates with Notre Dame, meaning we play them 4 times each year. Our cluster matchups THIS season are Michigan and Michigan State, which means we play them 4 times. We will play all other teams two times, rotating the home/aways series....except for UNO...which seems like we play AT Omaha about 3 times for every time they play here... We change cluster match ups each season, but our cluster mates are always ND.

Falcon Fanatic wrote:

bgsufalcon24 wrote:What I don't get is how come we play Notre Dame, Michigan, and Michigan State home & away each series, but Ohio State is either home/home or road/road. That makes no sense. Columbus is just over 2 hours from BG, certainly not any farther than South Bend.

Edit: I see they changed the ND series this year to home/home and away/away as well. Weird.

We are cluster mates with Notre Dame, meaning we play them 4 times each year. Our cluster matchups THIS season are Michigan and Michigan State, which means we play them 4 times. We will play all other teams two times, rotating the home/aways series....except for UNO...which seems like we play AT Omaha about 3 times for every time they play here... We change cluster match ups each season, but our cluster mates are always ND.

Well I knew that. In the past, we'd play them twice every year, but it'd be 1 at BG, 1 at ND in the same weekend twice yearly. Now they've changed it to 2 at BG one weekend and 2 at ND another. My freshman year, we played MSU, Mich, OSU, WMU, and ND all with home-and-home on the same weekend. Now it's just Mich and MSU.

And yeah, it does seem like we play Nebraska-Omaha a lot out there. But I think we've played UNO in the CCHA playoffs 1st round 2 of the past 4 years.