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Calling it right now - Gophers beat Ohio State Sept. 4, 2021.
http://www.bigten.org/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/091217aab.html
Will be interesting opening the 2021 season at Home against Ohio State!
Will also be nice to play Wisconsin in October rather than Thanksgiving Weekend.
Calling it right now - Gophers beat Ohio State Sept. 4, 2021.
If you are going to beat Ohio State, no better opportunity than week 1 at home. Rematch of the 2020 Big Ten Championship game?!?
No Thursday night opener in 2021?
I don't think that is confirmed. They list all of the week 1 games on 9-4-21, which surely will not be the case.
Very good bet there will be a Thursday night and Friday night kick that week.
As a 33 year old with the mentality of a 65 year old curmudgeon, I really dislike all the strange scheduling decisions being made in the league office (between both football and basketball).
Why all the early season conference games? Why disrupt all the season ending rivalry games? Playing both Iowa and Wisconsin in the first half of the 2020 season, PUKE!!
I guess ending with Nebraska isn't too bad as it will give us to a chance to continue to develop that rivalry.
As a 33 year old with the mentality of a 65 year old curmudgeon, I really dislike all the strange scheduling decisions being made in the league office (between both football and basketball).
Why all the early season conference games? Why disrupt all the season ending rivalry games? Playing both Iowa and Wisconsin in the first half of the 2020 season, PUKE!!
I guess ending with Nebraska isn't too bad as it will give us to a chance to continue to develop that rivalry.
Interesting this just came out, but I was just thinking the other day that we should be rotating WI, IA, and NE the last weekend of the season. I like what they are doing here. 2022 and 2023 will probably be Iowa.
That sucks Wisconsin isn't the last game, always nice to finish with a big rivalry
Do they just throw darts when deciding crossover games? This will make it six years in a row that Maryland is on the schedule...
Thought the same thing. We haven't played in Bloomington since 2013, and won't until 2021. Indiana comes here next season so we'll play them 1 damn time in 9 years, but play Maryland every season? Makes zero sense.
There's supposed to be a formula that group matches the historically top teams of each division against the top teams of the other division and lower vs lower. So, over the course of a decade, the schedule is weighted to more evenly matched opponents. I don't know how they define "historical" b/c I don't think anything other than the last 20-30 years is relevant, but it's a good idea. I just don't have a lot of faith in it's implementation.Do they just throw darts when deciding crossover games? This will make it six years in a row that Maryland is on the schedule...
That sucks Wisconsin isn't the last game, always nice to finish with a big rivalry
I wonder if the 2021 Ohio state game means the end of the Thursday night openers? I thought we had some state fair rule we have to follow??
I wonder if the 2021 Ohio state game means the end of the Thursday night openers? I thought we had some state fair rule we have to follow??
I wonder if the Gophers and Badgers pushed to move it up because it gives the game a better chance of matching undefeateds and getting on College Gameday??
Seems odd that that's the only rivalry matchup that they'd move off the last weekend (Indiana/Purdue, Michigan/OSU, even Illinois/Northwestern are staying put).