Future Notre Dame Football Schedules

[GoshenGipper]

Just in case anyone is interested I found this nice site that has ND's upcomming schedules though 2016, and it's sorted by year, or by oppenent. I firgured it may come in handy for any future scheduling questions.

Future Notre Dame Football Schedules

 

[littlerick77]

Nice find GG!

Good to see some new faces like Oklahoma and AZ State in 2013 - 2015! Rutgers in the next few years could be interesting too - but I don't see them being a consistently strong team - I think they will have another good year and schiano will take another job and the program will go back down by the time they hit ND's schedule. What do you guys think?

 

[kjones]

Anyone else notice that that guys' email button was the Star Trek symbol? Apparently he loves some things more than the Irish.

 

[Win4Gipper]

Sept 1, 2012................ND vs Navy in Dublin................. I already have the budget started for this trip!!!!

 

[Fbolt]

I have a good feeling about November....

 

[GoshenGipper]

Here's the 2007 schedule with game times, and TV stations

Here's the 2007 schedule with game times, and TV stations

2 Sat., Sep 1 Georgia Tech 3:30 PM ET NBC
3 Sat., Sep 8 @Penn State 6:00 PM ET ESPN
4 Sat., Sep 15 @Michigan 12:00 PM ET ABC
5 Sat., Sep 22 Michigan State 3:30 PM ET NBC
6 Sat., Sep 29 @Purdue 12:00 PM ET ABC
7 Sat., Oct 6 @UCLA 8:00 PM ET ABC
8 Sat., Oct 13 Boston College 3:30 PM ET NBC
9 Sat., Oct 20 USC 3:30 PM ET NBC
11 Sat., Nov 3 Navy 2:30 PM ET NBC
12 Sat., Nov 10 Air Force 2:30 PM ET NBC
13 Sat., Nov 17 Duke 2:30 PM ET NBC
14 Sat., Nov 24 @Stanford 3:00 PM ET Probably ABC or Foxsports Channel

 

[Irishknight1023]

Good all the games I can see. Last year I couldn't watch the f'n Air Force game because it was on some channel nobody has.

 

[ACamp1900]

Good all the games I can see. Last year I couldn't watch the f'n Air Force game because it was on some channel nobody has.

same here... first Irish game I didn't at least watch the majority of in YEARS... maybe over a decade...

 

[GoshenGipper]

It's called satalite TV, or going to a sports restaurant. I am happy that I won't have to deal with it again though.

 

[Irishknight1023]

I have comcast (which sucks) and under 21 so theres nothing by me that would have that random channel on. I heard ND wasn't happy about it though and that it wasn't going to happen again.

 

[shark83]

Sept 1, 2012................ND vs Navy in Dublin................. I already have the budget started for this trip!!!!

WOOOOHOOOOO ROLL ON 2012

 

[ACamp1900]

We will be in the middle of a six straight national title run in 2012

 

[irish4ever]

Sucks to see that overall losing record to the Skunkbears!

 

[Irishknight1023]

Rivals ranks ND's schedule the 13th toughest in all of D1 football....

Combined record of Division I-A opponents: 83-71 (.539)
Bowl teams: Eight
Home games: Seven
Division I-AA opponents: None
AP Top 25 teams: Four (two at home)
Why they're No. 13: The start of Notre Dame's schedule couldn't be much tougher. The end couldn't be much easier. The Irish face eight bowl teams in their first nine games and go on the road for four of their first six contests. Then they finish up with three teams (Air Force, Duke and Stanford) that combined to win five games last year. If Air Force becomes a .500 team and Stanford shows marked improvement in its first season under Jim Harbaugh, this schedule could rank among the nation's five toughest by the end of the year. The schedule is set up horribly for a team as inexperienced as this year's Notre Dame squad. The Irish would benefit from playing poor teams at the start of the season as their first-year starters get the hang of big-time college football. They instead will get thrown into the fire by traveling to Penn State and Michigan the first three weeks of the season.

This is what scheduling 3 (if you include PSU) all time top ten programs and 5(?) top 25 teams will bring. Of course, at the end of the year this ranking could go up or down 13 spots, depending on how everyone pans out.

 

[OCIrish]

Future Schedules

Future Schedules

Can someone please tell me why in the hell we have such a crappy schedule in the future? We keep playing teams like Stanford, Pitt, BYU, some teams I understand why they're on there, but why in God's name did we put mid-majors on our schedule? Why do we have 2 teams from the Pac-10 who are irrelevant, a BE team that is horrible, and BGI has us playing Army in the future. Oh, and Syracuse is on the schedule again in the future, maybe next year, but NC St. is there, why? Is this the best that Dr. White can possibly do? We have LSU in 09', but no Michigan? What, 2 tough games a year is too much for us or what. While Dr. White did the right thing in hiring CW, his scheduling has been downright piss poor. If he wants to schedule cupcakes, then he needs to go to some other school that is fine with playing Directional St. University, and the BE. I don't for one second care for it, and I damn for sure don't find some of those games the least bit interesting. Is this what we're going to be reduced to?

 

[notredomer23]

we are starting a cycle with the big east where we play one team each year, and some times more than once(not same year) idk about teh pac ten.

 

[irish4ever]

Notre Dame games planned for Orlando in 2011, 2014

Notre Dame games planned for Orlando in 2011, 2014

I wonder if they plan to schedule a top-tier team for these games. Since these would more than likely be near the end of the season (get in a warm weather game late in the year), I doubt that it will be a "powerhouse" team.


Notre Dame games planned for Orlando in 2011, 2014
Associated Press

Updated: July 19, 2007, 6:21 PM ET
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SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- Notre Dame will play football games at the Citrus Bowl in Orlando, Fla., in 2011 and 2014.

No opponent has been announced for the games. Notre Dame previously announced it planned to schedule a football game each season at neutral sites starting in 2009. It is an attempt to return the school to its independent roots.

Athletic director Kevin White has said the goal is to travel to different parts of the country and ensure that the school remains a nationwide program.


Copyright 2007 by The Associated Press

 

[ND FANATIC]

Can someone please tell me why in the hell we have such a crappy schedule in the future? We keep playing teams like Stanford, Pitt, BYU, some teams I understand why they're on there, but why in God's name did we put mid-majors on our schedule? Why do we have 2 teams from the Pac-10 who are irrelevant, a BE team that is horrible, and BGI has us playing Army in the future. Oh, and Syracuse is on the schedule again in the future, maybe next year, but NC St. is there, why? Is this the best that Dr. White can possibly do? We have LSU in 09', but no Michigan? What, 2 tough games a year is too much for us or what. While Dr. White did the right thing in hiring CW, his scheduling has been downright piss poor. If he wants to schedule cupcakes, then he needs to go to some other school that is fine with playing Directional St. University, and the BE. I don't for one second care for it, and I damn for sure don't find some of those games the least bit interesting. Is this what we're going to be reduced to?

My guess is that because White has said on several occasions that he is no longer going to schedule us out of national championship contention. For quite a while I felt the same way as you, but not so much anymore. I happen to live in NW Ohio and have to put up with alot of O$U fans. They are in NC contention every year because of their out-of-conference schedule and the relative weakness of the Big10, and no one seems to notice - not the media, not the polls, not most of the college football watching world. ND on the other hand may play the hardest schedule in the country, finish 9-3, 10-2 get a nice bowl and go home. Us hanging our hats on playing the hardest schedule in the country doesn't matter to anyone anymore, no one cares. As much as I hate to say it, if we want to win a NC anytime soon, White is doing the right thing.
I'm pretty sure that if a ND coach played the hardest schedule every year and went 7-5 the ND media nd fans would be calling for his head. The media and fans only count how many national championships a team has, not how many times you've played the hardest schedule.

 

[goldandblue]

Yeah I agree with OCIRISH, ND has always been known for having one of the toughest schedules in NCAA and I think it should stay that way!!! You know the irish are working on scheduling a game in the future with the BAYLOR BEARS?? Think i read it on CBS. sportsline or somewhere. That is tradition for the IRISH to have a hard schedule and I think it should stay that way, it shows that were are not afraid of going out and competing with the best of the best!!

 

[notredomer23]

we play san diego st next year and Nevada(they can be dangerous) the year after in our1st game

 

[KAPLAN]

So will we lose a homegame or are we looking for someone else to drop one?

 

[irish4ever]

So will we lose a homegame or are we looking for someone else to drop one?

I don't know, but based on the current status of the 2011 schedule I would say this Orlando game would be looked at as their 5th "away" game (though it's a neutral site) and then have 7 true home games (fill 2 more home game spots) ....

2011 schedule:

9-24 @ Pittsburgh
TBA Southern California
TBA Navy
TBA Boston College
TBA Michigan State
TBA @ Michigan
TBA @ Purdue
TBA @ Brigham Young
TBA Rutgers

 

[Newc]

It has to be our home games that we give up. No way is another contender or rival going to give up their home field advantage over Notre Dame.

Not quite sure how I feel about this one.

 

[GoshenGipper]

It has to be our home games that we give up. No way is another contender or rival going to give up their home field advantage over Notre Dame.

Not quite sure how I feel about this one.

They might play USF there as part of the new contract they have where they must play three Big East teams a year. This would also give ND more exposure to potential recruits in central and southern Florida.

 

[GoshenGipper]

Can someone please tell me why in the hell we have such a crappy schedule in the future? We keep playing teams like Stanford, Pitt, BYU, some teams I understand why they're on there, but why in God's name did we put mid-majors on our schedule? Why do we have 2 teams from the Pac-10 who are irrelevant, a BE team that is horrible, and BGI has us playing Army in the future. Oh, and Syracuse is on the schedule again in the future, maybe next year, but NC St. is there, why? Is this the best that Dr. White can possibly do? We have LSU in 09', but no Michigan? What, 2 tough games a year is too much for us or what. While Dr. White did the right thing in hiring CW, his scheduling has been downright piss poor. If he wants to schedule cupcakes, then he needs to go to some other school that is fine with playing Directional St. University, and the BE. I don't for one second care for it, and I damn for sure don't find some of those games the least bit interesting. Is this what we're going to be reduced to?

A lot of it is getting exposure to potential recuits in different areas of the country, like in Texas by playing Baylor at the Cotton Bowl, or in N.Carolina by playing UNC, Duke, or NC State.

As far as the mid-majors go, ND had to schedule games against Nevada, and San Diego St. because they adjusted their schedule for ND so ND could open the season against BYU one year.

If you want to contend for NCs just about every year in todays college football worl you need to set up your schedule to do so. Now I don't think they need to be playing anyone in a conference below BCS conferences, the Mountain West, or the military academies, but you can't play a hard emotional draining game every week, and you certainly can't be scheduling those games in back to back weeks or front loading your schedule.

 

[Sureal]

Yeah I agree with OCIRISH, ND has always been known for having one of the toughest schedules in NCAA and I think it should stay that way!!! You know the irish are working on scheduling a game in the future with the BAYLOR BEARS?? Think i read it on CBS. sportsline or somewhere. That is tradition for the IRISH to have a hard schedule and I think it should stay that way, it shows that were are not afraid of going out and competing with the best of the best!!

Let me start by saying I agree with you on what you are saying. There was a time when people said we should lighten up with scheduling SC, Michigan, Tennesee, Purdue and whoever else back to back to back to back. I remember the year Miami won the NC over us and they had the worse and I mean worse schedule possibly in the history of College Football. That was our argument. I would like to keep that bullet in my gun every year. But...

We have been playing generally the same teams for a long time. It's ebb and flow. You never know who might be good in the next couple of years. I remember Charlie's first year. Everyone looked at the schedule in the beginning of the season and said it was a beast. By the end of the season the teams that were on that schedule did not play up to expectations. So you never know who might be good in the coming years...

 

[bayernarsch]

the neutral site game is an excellent idea...and that comes from a season ticket holder getting a potential game at the stadium removed. it takes notre dame back to its early roots and helps the program truly establish itself to a national base. with the advent of super conferences and television saturation combined with self-anointed scouting gurus hyping talent the rules of the game have changed. notre dame remains unique in independent status and home games on nbc. this could be an awesome recruiting tool to guarantee kids that they could play a game near home during their 4 years. numerous college basketball coaches have tried to do this for seniors by scheduling early season games near kids' hometowns. i think the neutral site games could be a real boon for the program.

as for strength of schedule, it is too difficult to predict the strength of teams from year to year, much less down the road. five years ago if we had scheduled tcu, how many would have bemoaned a weak opponent. yet, if one looks at the horned frogs for the last several seasons, they are a tough game for anyone. what's more, they don't have the conference pedigree of other teams, but who would argue that they are a worse team than miss. state or iowa state? i hope no one, yet both aforementioned teams are in 'power' conferences. let the scheduling play out...it could end up better than you think.

 

[goldandblue]

Sureal you have a good point I just don't want the Irish to be on the opposite end of the criticism when they win a NC. We already get enough of people saying that the Irish are overrated and only get BCS bowl because we are ND. And it is true that some of these teams scheduled for the future may be good teams by the time we play them. I'm not really familiar with the future schedules but if you drop a couple service academies and pick up some teams like Baylor or San Diego St. I think the exposure in those areas will be great! On the other hand If you drop your Michigan game to go play some easier program that just doesn't look like ND in my book.

 

[bayernarsch]

everyone should also bear in mind that while we may have a rivalry with michigan, notre dame can't negotiate a series directly with them. all series are negotiated through the big ten. it is not always a matter of nd dropping an opponent or even the opponent dropping the irish, but sometimes boils down to contracts we have with the conference and the conference's choice of opponent for notre dame. there have been numerous occasions where we haven't played michigan for just this reason. in fact, msu and purdue have been more common opponents for us in big ten play. think back to the late 80's and early 90's when notre dame was taking every big ten opponent to the woodshed and ruined michigan's national title hopes early in the season. as a result, the big ten pulled michigan from our schedule in the mid 90's and substituted ohio state. sometimes the control over such situations lies not with notre dame.

 

[GoshenGipper]

Irish Alamo Bound For Regular Season "Home" Game vs. WSU

Here's article from B&G about this same suject. The game is set for '09.