NIU gets Ohio off their schedule. I favor Ohio in 9 of the 12, picking Ohio to upset BGSU and grudgingly becoming a believer in the one that gets away, CMU. So 9-3.

Great schedule from a potential win/loss record and a legitimate chance to play in Detroit. An absolutely horrible home schedule from a fan standpoint. Only Eastern and BG at home on October Saturdays (I bet Eastern is HC) and then not another home Saturday game after October 15 and really only one other home game after that at all. The Akron game and senior night is a Tuesday night after the dorms close. That said, a legitimate chance to make Monroe's ultimate dream come true is worth it, I guess.

The Toledo game will be a challenge since we have not won there for a very long time. I did not check, but I believe that our last win in Toledo was 1967. Time for that to change!! I do like the schedule and I hope BGSU is the Homecoming game.

Homecoming officially set for October 8 against BGSU. I booked the Days Inn on Columbus Road for $142 total for October 7-9.

http://www.ohiobobcats.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/02221...

I have to agree with Alan that the home schedule doesn't have much excitement. First 4 home games are lame. TSU and G-W yawners. EMU is terrible and BG is decimated by coach and player defections.
By the time the last two mid week home games are played, most will opt to watch on TV or ignore.
Which of these home games deserves 7 hours of round trip windshield time to watch in person?

Man, are all the decent hotels already gone? Just got in at the Holiday Inn Express for the two October games at a rate of more than $200 (after taxes). Can't believe the OU Inn, Hampton Inn and Fairfield Inn are already booked.

Or perhaps they hold back rooms until they see the football schedule has been released?

BTW...looks like @Miami is Family Weekend in Oxford. Hotels (I think) are already sold out.

It sucks that we play at Kent and at Toledo just five days apart, and that Toledo has two home games during that stretch. Usually a team will play one home and one road in a short turnaround week. Gives Toledo a decided edge.

I expect the best we can hope for is 6-2 in the MAC and 9-3 overall (losses to Tenn, BG and Toledo), which is pretty good. I'll take that most any year. Realistically, I think it'll be more like 8-4, 5-3 (with maybe CMU being a loss). Having our three toughest East opponents (BG, Buff and Akron) at home helps.

How are people complaining about this schedule? This schedule was tailor made for a great season and a MACC appearance. I don't think another team in the MAC wouldn't want this schedule. Three very winnable home games in the non conference, the top MAC East teams in BG, Akron and UB have to come to Athens with cakewalks to Miami and Kent State. If Ohio doesn't get to Detroit with this schedule then people have reason to complain. Otherwise, shut up and sit back and enjoy the ride to the MACC.

While the rest of the schedule is fine, it's easy to complain about playing 3 games in 12 days, and especially about playing 2 games in 5 days, both on the road. That's just not right for a number of reasons. It takes time to recover from the stresses of a game, and playing too soon puts players at risk of injury. Toledo was going to be the hardest game anyway, and playing it on the short week, on the road makes a win all that much more difficult. It just means that the Bobcats can't afford to stumble anywhere else. Hopefully they can get up on Kent early, and go deep into the roster, but unfortunately Kent usually seems to be a close game.

I will say this, because everything else has essentially been said:


For a person buying season tickets, albeit, just a family pack, it's another year where in a lot of ways, my football season ends about the time basketball starts. I don't get to see a single weekend game after mid October. Home basketball games start up on the second Saturday of November. Once the hoops exhibition comes, I tune football out to a certain degree.

Just my two cents, but the MAC really needs a better solution to this mid-week MACtion so that schools get at least one Saturday home game after October 15th.

For me, first and foremost, football season has become Tailgating Season, and a reason to come to Athens for a nice fall day. The game is just an extra way to spend the time. Part of my opinion is fueled by being a bigger basketball fan, than football fan, and I acknowledge that. The other parts include my annoyance of this scheduling, followed by my general disdain for how college football is run in terms of the championship and bowl games. All that said, the MAC would get more of my interest if I was able to have a decent Saturday in November to go see a game.

At least getting out of the Peden lots on those mid-week nights is no trouble at all.

#bringbacksaturdayfootball

I'm sure all of the aforementioned hotel proprietors would support that, too.