Ohio

They sold tickets for the Temple game on Black Friday 2009 for only $5, so maybe they might drop it down to 5 for UMass.

Arkley's latest Tweets show chance to keep winning more games, plus no "3 games in 12 days" scenario.

I haven't had time to analyze it for every team yet (though perhaps this evening after work), but it looks like we aren't getting shafted this year. Actually, the MAC office must have felt bad for us because we seem to benefit from having as much as or more rest as all of our conference opponents. In short:
We and our opponents have equal rest 5 times (CMU, EMU, Miami, Buffalo, BGSU)
We have marginally more rest (1 day) once (Kent)
We have much more rest (4 days, 7 days) twice (UMASS and Akron, respectively)

	OHIO's Rest (Days)	Opponent's Rest (Days)
Akron	14	7
CMU	7	7
EMU	7	7
Miami	7	7
Buffalo	10	10
BGSU	7	7
Kent	7	6
UMASS	10	6

All in all, I'd say that thats fairly favorable, with the caveat I haven't looks at the rest of the pair-wise comparisons to see just how favorable our favorable-looking schedule actually is, if they were ranked most-to-least favorable.


EDIT: After some further research, we owe somebody in the MAC offices a fruit basket or a Shuffle or something along those lines. We have the best schedule in the MAC. As I noted above, we have 12 more days of rest between games than our opponents. The next closest team in those terms is CMU (+10), and Kent State (+3) is the closest to us in the East. The cherry on top: Miami has the least favorable breakdown, having 11 fewer days rest than their opponents.

Team	Score
OHIO	12
CMU	10
WMU	9
Kent St	3
UMASS	3
EMU	3
NIU	-1
Akron	-3
Ball State	-5
Buffalo	-5
BGSU	-7
Toledo	-8
Miami	-11

Exactly!  Great Schedule with none too close together.  In fact, we get 10 days off before the switch to the 3 Tuesday games, then 10 days off before the Black Friday game.

13 days off from Non-Con to our 1st MAC game.

The schedule sets up pretty well to rest and recover during the season!

get by L'ville and Fiami might be playing an undefeated, ranked Ohio for the 2nd year in a row.

I started a thread about a Halloween Home Game back when we were undefeated and life was good.

I maintain my stance, it is a bad idea if we are not undefeated.  However, if we are undefeated, that is a very special game.  Very special.  Ohio University and Athens are known for Halloween.  The potential is there to have Ohio football complement that, it just can't be seen as competing against it...  If we are undefeated, it will not be seen that way.

I like where are bye weeks are a lot.

I like this schedule. My only complaint is that I would have liked Can't and BUGS in October, but I'll take being better rested than every conference opponent over that every single time.

it would be nice if the eastern game was a 700 start. Of course it won't be that late in the year . My son and I however were looking to go the Indiana-Michigan game that same day and it would make a great end to drive the 5 miles over too watch us play.

I see we are Akron's homecoming opponent.