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Why is Michigan playing 8 home games
Jul 21, 2016, 8:56 PM
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no neutral site games... 8 actual home games. I don't think ive ever seen that before.
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Re: Why is Michigan playing 8 home games
Jul 21, 2016, 9:12 PM
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ND has three (3) road games. One true test at USC
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Re: Why is Michigan playing 8 home games
Jul 21, 2016, 9:15 PM
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But they only play 6 actual home games. They have some neutral site games...
ive never seen a team with 8 home games..ever
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Re: Why is Michigan playing 8 home games
Jul 21, 2016, 10:52 PM
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Auburn has 8 home games this year
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Re: Why is Michigan playing 8 home games
Jul 21, 2016, 9:13 PM
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Yea that's really strange...but I think that's going to start to become kind of normal with the conferences which play 9 conference games. There's always going to either be an unbalanced number of road/home conference games, and if you're like Michigan and play absolutely no one out of conference, those are all going to be home games.
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Re: Why is Michigan playing 8 home games
Jul 21, 2016, 9:15 PM
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Ive never seen it it before
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Re: Why is Michigan playing 8 home games
Jul 21, 2016, 10:25 PM
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It may have happened in the past but we just didn't notice. This the first year the B1G will have played 9 conference games. The PAC-12 and Big XII both play 9 conference games, but I think they tend to get overlooked, especially by those East of the Mississippi.
Regardless, all it takes is a weak out of conference schedule--which Michigan definitely has--to end up with 8 home games.
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I think they had cut one of their OOC games
Jul 21, 2016, 9:20 PM
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in order to move to 9 conference games. They cut their return trip to Colorado and the B1G gave them 5 home conference games.
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Re: Why is Michigan playing 8 home games
Jul 21, 2016, 9:25 PM
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CU had 8 home games in '87
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Yep, and in an 11-game season***
Jul 21, 2016, 9:27 PM
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Re: Yep, and in an 11-game season***
Jul 21, 2016, 9:51 PM
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When you play mostly home games, you generally do not do that well in road games. Look at coot baseball. They rarely play a road game in the first part of the season and when the road games in conference come around, they don't do so well.
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I can remember back in the day that
Jul 21, 2016, 9:54 PM
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Clemson played 8 home games and 3 road games in 1987. Duke sold out their right to the home game because they could make more money as a visiting team in Clemson than by hosting us there. Went to Blacksburg, Chapel Hill, and Cootlumbia for the infamous Rooooodney game as some may recall.
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TRUMP can splain this....***
Jul 21, 2016, 9:55 PM
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Dude, they've been gone all summer................***
Jul 21, 2016, 10:17 PM
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My first thought Spud. Travel money long gone.***
Jul 21, 2016, 11:42 PM
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Their road game schedule seems pretty brutal though
Jul 21, 2016, 10:32 PM
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@ Mich St, @ Ohio St, @ Iowa. They likely drop at least 2 of those IMO.
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Take a look at Auburn's schedule..........
Jul 21, 2016, 10:42 PM
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They have 8 with their FIRST 5 at home. Interesting.......
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They travel to Mississippi twice, Georgia once and in state
Jul 21, 2016, 10:49 PM
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To Bama. They must have a tiny traveling budget...........given that they barely even leave their home state. I guess it is great for their fans!
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