Michigan Football - 2025 Season.

[Tom W]

I thought Cottage Inn was the most recent provider. Could be wrong.

You are correct. Cottage Inn is an A2 icon.

As great as Buddy's is, it's just not "right" for stadium concessions. Yet another attempt at "enhancing the gameday experience"- as if the games and the social aspects weren't enough. Look, when all I want is comfort, good beer and good pizza when I watch Michigan football, I'll save time and money by staying home and watching the game on TV.

[WingsFan]

It's almost time for Michigan football still waiting to see what the NCAA suspensions are going to be for Burgergate. Interestingly Sam Webb said they (NCAA) really wants 6 games for Harbaugh, who is still saying FU to them and Michigan wants only 2, so that's where the 4 game rumor came from.

Sam also said Harbaugh will quit (not going to happen) before he ever says he lied to the NCCA and that's what they want. Brain Cook lost his mind on air about all the realignment, and all the pageantry rivals etc are now done after this year in CFB.

I don't like it, but do ride in the same boat as Mike and get pleasure from seeing the Pac-12 go down.

[Hannibal]

The B1G has gone down too. As of 2024, it exists in name only. College Football as we once knew it is gone. A Megaconference with USC, UCLA, Oregon, UDub, Rutgers, and Maryland is not the Big Ten. Period.

The clowns in charge have probably spent less than five minutes contemplating how scheduling is going to work and what this is going to do to the budgets of the non revenue sports, now that the swimmers and wrestlers will be routinely travelling to the West Coast. How does an 18 team conference play football? By splitting East/West? Okay, that gives you 8 conference games. Nine if you add in one cross-divisional game. One. What the hell is the point of being in a coference with teams that you only play once every nine years?

It's a clown show, and getting clownier by the minute.

[Mike]

I would go to a 10 game conference schedule. If the TV execs are running things, seems like they'd want fewer UM-Bowling Green primetime matchups and more brand names in the mix. With the playoff expanding to 12 games, 2 tomato can games are plenty.

And Re: expansion killing rivalries. Why? Georgia-Georgia Tech, Clemson - SoCar, Iowa-Iowa St. are all in difference conferences and still play annually. If UW and Oregon want to play the Apple Cup and Civil War, it will just have to be in Sept. or work a deal with the Big Ten to play it in November or whatever.

[lineygoblue]

Fact of the matter is, that if the B1G would have just stood by, and did nothing, the SEC would have eventually gobbled up all the good teams from the PAC 12. They believe they are "the" conference in college football, and along with grabbing Texas and Oklahoma, getting the good teams out of the PAC 12 would have strengthened that claim. Instead, the B1G got active, and along with the big bucks in TV revenue, made the moves to get the PAC 12 teams before the SEC could move in. Overall, I don't think the B1G had a choice. It was either expand, or sit and watch the SEC become the big boss of CFB.

At least now, the B1G, along with what came along with the PAC 12, still has some bargaining power.

And BTW ... F Notre Dame. I don't want them. Let them go to whatever remains of the ACC or Big XII. They won't go to the SEC because they'd get their snooty butts kicked weekly.

[Hannibal]

I would go to a 10 game conference schedule. If the TV execs are running things, seems like they'd want fewer UM-Bowling Green primetime matchups and more brand names in the mix. With the playoff expanding to 12 games, 2 tomato can games are plenty.

And Re: expansion killing rivalries. Why? Georgia-Georgia Tech, Clemson - SoCar, Iowa-Iowa St. are all in difference conferences and still play annually. If UW and Oregon want to play the Apple Cup and Civil War, it will just have to be in Sept. or work a deal with the Big Ten to play it in November or whatever.

The more conference games that you play though, the tougher those OOC rivalries are going to get to schedule. If you only get two OOC games and your schedule is a murderer's row of ten games, you probably aren't going to want to schedule one of those OOC games against a team that could be ranked. The tougher and longer those in-conference schedules get, the more teams are going to want to schedule tomato cans for their OOC games.

[Mike]

That's a fair point but I think with the expansion of the playoff (and lets be honest, it will go to 16 in short order), You won't need to go 12-1 to get in. 9-3 against a good schedule should be good enough in most years and if you can't pull that off, you shouldn't be in the playoff anyway. But that's a question for the schools who are facing this situation. We'll find out how important that rivalry game is if they prioritize it over playing a tomato can.

[Hannibal]

The playoffs would have to expand to a minimum of 16 teams to move the needle scheuling-wise. Even then, I'm not sure.

[Tom W]

The big downside of adding premium competition to your conference is that you have a higher probability of LOSING more games. The SEC's key to success is that, in any given year, there's only a couple of great teams mixed in with a bunch of "only decent" teams, so a Bama or UGA only needs to bring their A-Game a couple of times a year.

[AlabamAlum]

The big downside of adding premium competition to your conference is that you have a higher probability of LOSING more games. The SEC's key to success is that, in any given year, there's only a couple of great teams mixed in with a bunch of "only decent" teams, so a Bama or UGA only needs to bring their A-Game a couple of times a year.

Usually, the SEC has at least one or two great teams and then two to four very good teams, THEN an assortment of “only decent” teams.

-This past year, the final AP poll had three SEC teams in the top 6 (including the national champion).

-The year before that, the final AP poll had three SEC teams in the top 11 (including the national champion).

-The year before that, the final AP poll had four SEC teams in the top 11 (including the national champion).

-The year before that, the final AP poll had four SEC teams in the top 8 (including the national champion).

-The year before that, the final AP poll had four SEC teams in the top 7 (no national champion! down year!).

-The year before that, well, not going any further even if this year was a Bama NC.

[Tom W]

Well, yeah,. Four SEC teams can go no worse than 9-3 if they just win the games that they are supposed to win. - provided they don't slip up in the Non-conference games (can't blame you for tomato canning it). Odds are those top 4 teams don't all play each other, so you can end up having the 4th best team having a 10-2 record. Not too shabby.

There's no "magic" behind it- that's just really a smart arrangement. Nobody (well, almost) doubts the SEC is unique in having the skill and talent to consistently pulled that off, Only the BG10+? comes close- but well, the west sucks.

Now, it remains to be seen whether or not this holds when adding more apples to the respective conference's carts. And, does it really matter in the extended playoff format?

[WingsFan]

ND still calling the shots lol

And BTW ... F Notre Dame. I don't want them. Let them go to whatever remains of the ACC or Big XII. They won't go to the SEC because they'd get their snooty butts kicked weekly.

Brett McMurphy
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Notre Dame pushing ACC to add Stanford & Cal, while SMU would join w/no revenue the 1st 5-7 years in ACC, sources told @ActionNetworkHQ. "Notre Dame continues to push, yet won’t join as a full-time member,” a source said. "That makes no sense to us."

[Tom W]

Wasn't there unwritten agreement between the BG10+8 schools (especially Michigan) and ND that they would go their separate ways until it was convenient to meet? IOW, "booty calls"

[Da Geezer]

I read an article this morning that said the Conferences should promote a rule that says all Playoff teams must belong to a conference.

F Notre Dame. Make them play a schedule.

[edindetroit]

Jim Harbaugh suspension deal with NCAA falls through, expected to drag into 2024

https://www.on3.com/teams/michigan-wolverines/news/michigan-football-jim-harbaugh-suspension-deal-with-ncaa-falls-through-expected-to-drag-into-2024/